{"id":25950,"date":"2026-10-14T22:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25950"},"modified":"2026-10-14T22:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:46:17","slug":"franks-car-wash-take-5-car-wash-601-bush-river-road-spring-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25950","title":{"rendered":"Frank's Car Wash \/ Take 5 Car Wash, 601 Bush River Road: Spring 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2110696.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2110696_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110696_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110696_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2110697.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2110697_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110697_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110697_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2110698.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2110698_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110698_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110698_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2110699.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2110699_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110699_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110699_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2110700.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2110700_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110700_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110700_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2110701.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2110701_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110701_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110701_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was going to go back and get some better shots of this, but apparently that's not going to happen, so anyway...<\/p>\n<p>This car wash on the corner of <i>Bush River<\/i> & <i>Arrowood<\/i> Roads, was, I believe, built as a <i>Frank's<\/i>, though I could be wrong and it might pre-date that.  At any rate, it was a <i>Frank's<\/i> for many years, becoming a <i>Take 5<\/i> when that firm bought out <i>Frank's<\/i>.  Earlier this year, <i>Take 5<\/i> began closing a number of their locations as mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25533\">here<\/a>, and it apparently became a <i>Whistle Express<\/i> after that, which I believe it still is.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously Google Maps thinks that <i>Arrowood Road<\/i> starts north of Bush River, but once it crosses, it gains a '<b>w<\/b>' and becomes <i>Arrowwood Road<\/i>.  They might even be right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/601+Bush+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>I was going to go back and get some better shots of this, but apparently that's not going to happen, so anyway... This car wash on the corner of Bush River &#038; Arrowood Roads, was, I believe, built as a Frank's, though I could be wrong and it might pre-date that. At any rate, it [&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":[4492,4493,523,210,1002,104,4489,4490,4491],"class_list":["post-25950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-601-bush-river-road","tag-arrowood-road","tag-arrowwood-road","tag-bush-river-road","tag-car-wash","tag-cars","tag-franks-car-wash","tag-take-5-car-wash","tag-washing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25950","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=25950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25952,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25950\/revisions\/25952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}