{"id":22392,"date":"2023-09-29T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22392"},"modified":"2023-10-02T23:02:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T03:02:35","slug":"new-brookland-tavern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22392","title":{"rendered":"New Brookland Tavern, 122 State Street: December 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/09\/p1910024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/09\/p1910024_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910024_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910024_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/09\/p1910025.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/09\/p1910025_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910025_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910025_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/09\/p1910026.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/09\/p1910026_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910026_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910026_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1910094.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1910094_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910094_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910094_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought I had some daytime pictures of this place, but in the event I can't find them.  The nighttime shots are suboptimal because of a big streetlight in the wrong place, but they'll have to do as a placeholder.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>New Brookland Tavern<\/i> has been in this spot seemingly forever, with very few changes over the years.  I Believe the last time I was there was to see <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Explorers_Club_(band)\">The Explorers Club<\/a>, which whould have probably been August 2011.  At the time I recall thinking that the place was pretty ragged, and judging by the stories about the place moving, it doesn't sound like it has gotten any less so.<\/p>\n<p>The building has been sold recently, and the <i>Tavern<\/i>'s lease expires at the end of the year, so they plan to have the final shows in December, and hopefully find a new home in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out upcoming shows for the final season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newbrooklandtavern.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The story has featured several times in local media.  You can read <i>The State<\/i> stories <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article278481804.html\">here<\/a> & <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article279837249.html\">here<\/a>, and the <i>Free Times<\/i> story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/free-times\/news\/new-brookland-tavern-building-sold-move-pending-for-west-columbia-bar-concert-venue\/article_ae22b092-5d71-11ee-b52f-cbf425fdb447.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Tom)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 2 October 2023<\/b>: Added a (still not great) daytime shot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/122+State+St,+West+Columbia,+SC+29169\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I had some daytime pictures of this place, but in the event I can't find them. The nighttime shots are suboptimal because of a big streetlight in the wrong place, but they'll have to do as a placeholder. The New Brookland Tavern has been in this spot seemingly forever, with very few changes [&hellip;]<\/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":[3861,2076,72,2133,109,2237,57],"class_list":["post-22392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-122-state-street","tag-bars","tag-music","tag-nightclubs","tag-state-street","tag-venues","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22392","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=22392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}