{"id":2188,"date":"2010-06-14T23:11:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T04:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2010-06-15T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T15:51:30","slug":"flaming-pit-restaurant-1807-bush-river-road-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2188","title":{"rendered":"Flaming Pit Restaurant, I-26 &#038; US-378: 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/06\/flaming_pit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/06\/flaming_pit_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This ad from the 1974 Southern Bell Yellow Pages is similar to other ads for the <i>Flaming Pit<\/i> that I have seen in that it never gives a real street address for the place.  That, and a complete lapse of mind that let me confuse I-20 with I-26 led me to originally post some pictures of what was certainly the wrong building for the place!<\/p>\n<p>We never went to the <i>Flaming Pit<\/i>, though I seem to remember radio commercials that made it sound like a very exotic place.  (I didn't do \"exotic\"..).  I'm not exactly sure what \"Open Hearth Charcoal Cookery\" is, but combing that with the name of the place, I envision a large central grill in the middle of the dining area (hopefully very well ventilated with charcoal involved..) where your orders were cooked as you watched.<\/p>\n<p>I'm a little surprised that the bar was <i>The Wells Fargo Lounge<\/i> given that <i>Wells Fargo<\/i> is, in addition to its evocative history, still around and presumably trademarked..<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 15 June 2010<\/b>:  Removed incorrect pictures, and corrected the text in which I was completely wrong about the location!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ad from the 1974 Southern Bell Yellow Pages is similar to other ads for the Flaming Pit that I have seen in that it never gives a real street address for the place. That, and a complete lapse of mind that let me confuse I-20 with I-26 led me to originally post some pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[210,5,174,3,211],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bush-river-road","tag-historic","tag-i-26","tag-restaurants","tag-rockland-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}