{"id":22484,"date":"2023-10-16T22:55:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T02:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22484"},"modified":"2023-10-16T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T02:55:17","slug":"burger-family-restaurant-901-west-dekalb-street-camden-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22484","title":{"rendered":"Burger Family Restaurant, 901 West Dekalb Street (Camden): 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900815.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900815_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1900815_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1900815_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900816.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900816_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1900816_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1900816_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900817.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900817_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1900817_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1900817_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900818.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900818_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1900818_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1900818_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900819.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900819_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1900819_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1900819_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900820.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900820_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1900820_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1900820_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900821.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1900821_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1900821_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1900821_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before I-20 came in, we would take US-1 through Camden whenever we would go to visit relatives in Hartsville.  Often on those trips (or whenever we could nag successfully enough) our parents would let us stop for lunch at the <i>Burger Family<\/i> restaurant.  In retrospect, there was nothing special about it, it was a standard hamburger stand in a town that didn't yet have a <i>McDonald's<\/i>, but it was someplace different, and that's what mattered.  At this point, I can only recall three things about it: The manager had a hearing aide; the burger names were family themed: <i>Papa Burger<\/i> (the largest) , <i>Mama Burger<\/i> (more \"normal\" sized) and some kind of kids burger, the cute name of which I can't recall, and they always got <i>something<\/i> about the order wrong.  It became a running joke with us.<\/p>\n<p>After <i>Burger Family<\/i> closed, we switched to <i>Hermes<\/i>, which was sort of a <i>Hardee's<\/i> knock-off in a town that didn't have one of those either.  Then, of course, I-20 came in, and we started taking that to Bishopville instead.<\/p>\n<p>I am not absolutely sure this is the right building, but I have looked a number of times in Camden over the years, and this is the only one in about the right place, looking like it could have been there then, and have been a restaurant then, and which tickles vague memories.  I could be wrong -- it was a *<i>long<\/i>* time ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/901+W+Dekalb+St,+Camden,+SC+29020\/\" 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>Before I-20 came in, we would take US-1 through Camden whenever we would go to visit relatives in Hartsville. Often on those trips (or whenever we could nag successfully enough) our parents would let us stop for lunch at the Burger Family restaurant. In retrospect, there was nothing special about it, it was a standard [&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":[3873,303,152,3,286,1484,3874],"class_list":["post-22484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-901-west-dekalb-street","tag-camden","tag-hamburgers","tag-restaurants","tag-us-1","tag-us-601","tag-west-dekalb-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22484","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=22484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}