{"id":24883,"date":"2025-10-03T22:36:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=24883"},"modified":"2025-10-07T22:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:33:23","slug":"flapjacks-pancake-cabin-2851-us-17-business-murrells-inlet-30-november2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=24883","title":{"rendered":"Flapjacks Pancake Cabin, 2851 US-17 Business, Murrells Inlet: 30 November2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/10\/p2010716.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/10\/p2010716_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2010716_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2010716_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/10\/p2040192.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/10\/p2040192_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2040192_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2040192_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/10\/p2040194.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/10\/p2040194_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2040194_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2040194_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I mentioned that <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=23907\">Old Chicago<\/a> in this plaza had closed, I neglected to say that the across-the-parking-lot neighbor, <i>Flapjacks Pancake Cabin<\/i> had also closed.  You will remember that this location was a former <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3599\">Western Steer which then became a strip-club<\/a>.  At the time there was speculation that the (then) new Wal-Mart was pressuring the city to de-zone the club to make the area a bit more family friendly, and it appears that <i>Flapjacks<\/i> didn't exactly leave under their own steam either.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/murrellsinlet\/posts\/2170250076749658\/\">This Facebook<\/a> is all rumors, but it appears that the plaza owners have non-restaurant plans for that wing of the property.<\/p>\n<p>In the event, <i>Flapjacks<\/i> was there for about ten years.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myrtlebeachonline.com\/news\/local\/article43255557.html\">Here<\/a> is the <i>Sun News<\/i> on the place moving in.  (Notice that the original plan for the <i>Old Chicago<\/i> spot was a <i>Quaker Steak & Lube<\/i>, which never happened).<\/p>\n<p>The chain <a href=\"https:\/\/flapjacks.com\/\">still exists<\/a>, and now appears to be restricted to Tennesse.  For now, you can still see their <i>Garden City<\/i> page <a href=\"https:\/\/flapjacks.com\/locations\/garden-city-beach\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That does beg the question on the location.  Google & the street address say this is <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=murrells-inlet\">Murrells Inlet<\/a>, but to me it is pretty clearly <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=garden-city\">Garden City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 7 October 2025<\/b>: Found a picture of the lighted sign and added it up top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2851+US-17+BUS,+Murrells+Inlet,+SC+29576\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I mentioned that Old Chicago in this plaza had closed, I neglected to say that the across-the-parking-lot neighbor, Flapjacks Pancake Cabin had also closed. You will remember that this location was a former Western Steer which then became a strip-club. At the time there was speculation that the (then) new Wal-Mart was pressuring the [&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":[4292,568,6,283,16,1125,3,58],"class_list":["post-24883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2851-us-17-business","tag-garden-city","tag-grand-strand","tag-murrells-inlet","tag-out-of-area","tag-pancakes","tag-restaurants","tag-us-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883","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=24883"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24898,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions\/24898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}