{"id":25982,"date":"2026-10-21T22:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25982"},"modified":"2026-10-21T22:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T02:32:29","slug":"immaculate-consumption-933-main-street-20-november-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25982","title":{"rendered":"Immaculate Consumption, 933 Main Street: 20 November 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2140379.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2140379_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2140379_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2140379_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2140380.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2140380_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2140380_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2140380_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2140381.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2140381_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2140381_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2140381_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2140382.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2140382_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2140382_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2140382_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2140383.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2140383_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2140383_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2140383_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2140384.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2140384_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2140384_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2140384_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I'm trying to remember if I was ever in <i>Immaculate Consumption<\/i>, and I really can't.  I kind of doubt it, because if I were in the area, I would probably have ended up at <i>Cool Beans<\/i>, but who knows?  Sometime in the last 25 years?  Perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, that 25 year run is coming to an end this year due to the building being bought by the usual suspects.  I still think the higher-ed crash is coming:  Why send chat-gpt to school teach the classes and write the student papers..., but in the meantime the <i>USC Development Foundation<\/i> has another building.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about it in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article317589553.html\">The State<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/columbia\/business\/immaculate-consumption-close-coffee-shop-columbia\/article_53e2a721-7872-497b-b9c8-11548eaca37f.html\">The Post & Courier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Andrew)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/933+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>I'm trying to remember if I was ever in Immaculate Consumption, and I really can't. I kind of doubt it, because if I were in the area, I would probably have ended up at Cool Beans, but who knows? Sometime in the last 25 years? Perhaps. At any rate, that 25 year run is coming [&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":[4500,114,20,3,21],"class_list":["post-25982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-933-main-street","tag-coffee","tag-main-street","tag-restaurants","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25982","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=25982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25984,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25982\/revisions\/25984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}