{"id":22912,"date":"2024-02-22T23:43:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22912"},"modified":"2024-11-15T00:06:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T05:06:42","slug":"dems-fine-jewelers-1068-lake-murray-boulevard-april-ish-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22912","title":{"rendered":"Dems Fine Jewelers: 1068 Lake Murray Boulevard:  April-ish 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930704.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930704_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1930704_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1930704_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930705.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930705_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1930705_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1930705_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930706.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930706_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1930706_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1930706_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930707.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930707_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1930707_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1930707_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930708.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930708_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1930708_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1930708_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930709.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/02\/p1930709_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1930709_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1930709_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Dems<\/i> on <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=lake-murray-boulevard\">Lake Murray Boulevard<\/a> is closing on the retirement of the owners.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coladaily.com\/business\/owners-of-dems-jewelers-in-irmo-announce-retirement\/article_b5452d64-cc2f-11ee-bceb-8f2dda1dffd8.html\">ColaDaily<\/a>, they have been in business for 54 years, and that's certainly a very good run.  The owners also state they are open to the building continuing as a jewelers with another name and owners, but apparently there is nothing definite on tap.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the place as <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=4333\">Dems House Of Diamonds<\/a> from radio ads growing up, and they were still operating under that name in their <i>Boozer Shopping Center<\/i> storefront.  They moved from that location to the current one in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>There is no definite closing date as it all depends on the inventory, but the <i>ColaDaily<\/i> piece suggests the closing sale could last into April.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter JohnR)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 15 November 2024<\/b> -- Now <i>Carolina Fine Jewelry<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000158.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000158_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2000158_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2000158_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000159.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/11\/p2000159_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2000159_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2000159_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1068+Lake+Murray+Blvd,+Irmo,+SC+29063\/\" 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>Dems on Lake Murray Boulevard is closing on the retirement of the owners. According to ColaDaily, they have been in business for 54 years, and that's certainly a very good run. The owners also state they are open to the building continuing as a jewelers with another name and owners, but apparently there is nothing [&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":[3939,198,3602,225,334],"class_list":["post-22912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1068-lake-murray-boulevard","tag-irmo","tag-jewelers","tag-jewelry","tag-lake-murray-boulevard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22912","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=22912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}