{"id":24834,"date":"2025-09-25T23:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=24834"},"modified":"2025-09-25T23:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:40:22","slug":"the-woody-1649-main-street-late-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=24834","title":{"rendered":"The Woody, 1649 Main Street: Late October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070345.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070345_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070345_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070345_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070346.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070346_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070346_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070346_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070347.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070347_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070347_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070347_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070348.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070348_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070348_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070348_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070349.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070349_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070349_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070349_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The Woody<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=15989\">moved from the Vista<\/a> to this <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=main-street\">Main Street<\/a> corner in 2020, and continued in operation after the passing of founder Woody Windham last year.  Unfortunately with the new SC liquor liability laws, the family is unable to keep the doors open past October.<\/p>\n<p>They say they hope to open in a new location as a real restaurant, but there are no firm plans for that yet.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the upstairs neighbor, <i>Hendrix<\/i>, will be taking over the space to open a pizza restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about the closing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coladaily.com\/business\/the-woody-on-main-closing-its-doors\/article_7d9e585c-9d5f-4c00-a5bb-707251a9eee0.html\">ColaDaily<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/free-times\/food\/the-woody-main-street-closing-columbia-sc\/article_65ed6869-e4ce-46b2-9776-297e3b9c206c.html\">The Post & Courier<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article312143482.html\">The State<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/state\/liquor-liability-insurance-woody-columbia-south-carolina\/101-c6dd7493-d84d-407c-a605-55de377b6dfe\">WLTX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that South Carolina's nightlife scene has been greatly altered almost surreptitiously & through the back door.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1649+Main+St,+Columbia,+SC+29201\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Woody moved from the Vista to this Main Street corner in 2020, and continued in operation after the passing of founder Woody Windham last year. Unfortunately with the new SC liquor liability laws, the family is unable to keep the doors open past October. They say they hope to open in a new location [&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":[3192,2076,733,1935,20,2133,3],"class_list":["post-24834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1649-main-street","tag-bars","tag-blanding-street","tag-dancing","tag-main-street","tag-nightclubs","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24834","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=24834"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24857,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24834\/revisions\/24857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}