{"id":22202,"date":"2023-08-24T00:21:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T04:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22202"},"modified":"2023-08-24T00:28:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T04:28:44","slug":"buttercup-ice-cream-aumams-flowers-crafts-204-south-main-street-society-hill-2012-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22202","title":{"rendered":"Buttercup Ice Cream, Auman's Flowers & Crafts, 204 South Main Street (Society Hill): 2012-ish"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This old-style retail storefront is on Society Hill's<\/a> main drag, next to an insurance agency. As far as I can tell from looking at Google Streetview<\/a>, it may have been open as late as 2012. You can check there for a view of the \"Buttercup\" sign, which is no longer present. There is also a nice one taken in 2018 here<\/a>. The flickr link says that Buttercup Ice Cream<\/i> started in Hamlet NC in the 1920s and lasted into the 1960s, surviving as Mello Buttercup<\/i>. Here's<\/a> one of the whole building from the same photoset, and a much better shot than any of mine.<\/p>\n

It's not clear to me if the ice cream operation was part of the flowers, craft & framing business, but it is on that end of the building, and the main sign does call out Coca Cola<\/i>, and the Pepsi<\/i> coolers inside, so beverages were also sold there.<\/p>\n

This stretch of road does the neat trick of being US-401<\/i>, US-52<\/i> & US-15<\/i> all at the same time.<\/p>\n

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This old-style retail storefront is on Society Hill's main drag, next to an insurance agency. As far as I can tell from looking at Google Streetview, it may have been open as late as 2012. You can check there for a view of the \"Buttercup\" sign, which is no longer present. There is also a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[3821,3224,511,34,16,2611,2269,765,2612,191],"class_list":["post-22202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-204-south-main-street","tag-florists","tag-flowers","tag-ice-cream","tag-out-of-area","tag-society-hill","tag-south-main-street","tag-us-15","tag-us-401","tag-us-52"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22202","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=22202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}