{"id":2340,"date":"2010-07-16T00:52:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T05:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2025-02-14T22:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T03:55:37","slug":"gamestop-dutch-square-27-june-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2340","title":{"rendered":"Gamestop, Dutch Square: 27 June 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/07\/gamestop01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/07\/gamestop01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/07\/gamestop02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/07\/gamestop02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, back to Dutch Square for another closing...<\/p>\n<p><i>Gamestop<\/i> was in Dutch Square on the south side of the main corridor just down the hill from customer service, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=337\">Eckerd's<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2323\">Piccadilly<\/a> side corridor.<\/p>\n<p>I don't know a lot about modern video gaming (give me <i>Galaga<\/i>, <i>Gorf<\/i>, <i>Joust<\/i>,<i>Pengo<\/i> any day..), but this is the third such store that I am aware of closing in the past year (after <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1174\">Game Crazy<\/i> on Garners Ferry, and <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1696\">Play N Trade<\/a> on Forest Drive).  On the other hand, the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2221\">Gamestop on Harbison<\/a> is still going, so it's more likely an artifact of the continuing downward spiral of <i>Dutch Square<\/i> than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Jason.)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 14 February 2025<\/b>: Updating tags and adding map icon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/421+Bush+River+Rd+Unit+80,+Columbia,+SC+29210\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, back to Dutch Square for another closing... Gamestop was in Dutch Square on the south side of the main corridor just down the hill from customer service, and the Eckerd's\/Piccadilly side corridor. I don't know a lot about modern video gaming (give me Galaga, Gorf, Joust,Pengo any day..), but this is the third such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[45,210,22,252,4151,4,4150],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-broad-river-road","tag-bush-river-road","tag-dutch-square","tag-games","tag-gamestop","tag-stores","tag-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","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=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}