{"id":24073,"date":"2025-02-10T23:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T04:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=24073"},"modified":"2025-02-10T23:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T04:36:34","slug":"nevin-broomes-carpet-rug-superstore-2353-broad-river-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=24073","title":{"rendered":"Nevin Broome\u2019s Carpet &#038; Rug Superstore, 2353 Broad River Road: Early 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/p2030305.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/p2030305_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2030305_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2030305_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/p2030306.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/p2030306_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2030306_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2030306_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/p2030307.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/p2030307_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2030307_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2030307_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/p2030308.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/p2030308_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2030308_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2030308_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/p2030309.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/p2030309_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2030309_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2030309_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Save! Save! Save!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I'm surprised google isn't bringing up any media hits for this closing.  For many years Nevin Broome was a ubiquitous presence on local TV, especially in a fondly remembered sequence of commercials with the late Joe Pinner.  My favorite went something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Pinner enters the scene stage left to find Broome trussed in the middle of the room]<\/p>\n<p>Pinner: Nevin, what happened!?<\/p>\n<p>Broome: Joe, my competitors don't want you to to Save! Save! Save! so they tied me up to try and stop me!<\/p>\n<p>Pinner:  That's awful, Nevin!<\/p>\n<p>Broome: Untie me, Joe!<\/p>\n<p>Pinner:  I don't think so, Nevin.<\/p>\n<p>[Takes a cigar from Broome's pocket and exits the scene stage right]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/nevinbroome.com\/\">store's web page<\/a> now, you will see the closing sale touted as the finish to a 35 year run, but that seems low to me and other parts of the site mention 50 years.  Perhaps that's for this particular storefront only.<\/p>\n<p>It's not clear to me how long the sale will run, but they're at 65% off now, so if your floor is bare this might be a good opportunity to fix that.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the pictures, I got there at exactly the right time to have the falling sun directly against me on most of them.  Perhaps I can get some better ones later.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Gypsie)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2353+Broad+River+Rd,+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>Save! Save! Save! I'm surprised google isn't bringing up any media hits for this closing. For many years Nevin Broome was a ubiquitous presence on local TV, especially in a fondly remembered sequence of commercials with the late Joe Pinner. My favorite went something like this: [Pinner enters the scene stage left to find Broome [&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":[4142,45,3881,2081],"class_list":["post-24073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2353-broad-river-road","tag-broad-river-road","tag-carpets","tag-rugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24073","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=24073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}