{"id":236,"date":"2008-11-11T18:03:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T23:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=236"},"modified":"2011-06-01T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T04:52:10","slug":"stewart-sandwiches-devine-street-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Shealy's Sandwiches \/ not Stewart Sandwiches(?), 530 Devine Street: 1980s(?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My high school didn't have a cafeteria, so you either brown-bagged lunch, ate off campus if you had a car, or ate microwaved Stewart Sandwiches from the canteen. These were universally acknowledged to be awful, but they had a strange fascination<\/a>, and we ate them anyway even as we joked about them. I for one, never could tell the difference between the Stewart \"Steak Sandwich\" and the Stewart \"Hamburger\".<\/p>\n

The company was apparently originally called Stewart In-Fra-Red Commissary of Minnesota<\/a> and their slogan was the dubious \"Sold Almost Everywhere\". After my encounter with them in the 1970s, they bought a couple of other companies, changed their name to Stewart Foods, Inc.<\/i> then merged with Blevins Concession Supply, Co.<\/a> and changed their name to Stewart Blevins, Inc.<\/i>. That was in 1992, and I can't seem to find them after that.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I was driving around off of Huger Street in the 1980s, and came across their local office. It was something of a revelation as in my mind, Stewart Sandwiches more appeared<\/i> than were made and distributed on purpose!<\/i>. The place now appears to be yet another barbecue restaurant: The Palmetto Pig<\/i>. It may well be a great place, but while the location seems reasonable to me for a food distribution operation, I think it would be a bad place for a restaurant.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 1 June 2011<\/b>: Commenter Andy says this was Shealy's Sandwiches<\/i>, not Stewart<\/i>, and that Shealy moved here from the Assembly Street location (now TakoSushi)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, I'll try to verify that it was never a Stewart in old City Directories when I get a chance, but in the meantime, I'm leaving all the Stewart's<\/i> memories here. (Similarly to what I had to do when I screwed up Krystal<\/a>..)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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