{"id":268,"date":"2008-12-16T00:16:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T05:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=268"},"modified":"2020-01-22T23:15:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T04:15:48","slug":"intersection-vacuum-center-intersection-center-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Intersection Vacuum Center, 12 Diamond Lane (Intersection Center): 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/vacuum05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/vacuum05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/vacuum03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/vacuum03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/vacuum04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/vacuum04_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, this one makes me doubt my memories.  (I'm sure more of these closings <i>should<\/i> do that..)<\/p>\n<p>This is the store where I bought my sister a vacuum cleaner back in the 1980s.  I can't remember what kind it was -- some sort of off-brand canister model that seemed fairly solid, I think.  It lasted more than ten years for her, and if that's not <i>Electrolux<\/i> longevity, it's not bad.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is that I was dead certain the place was called <i>Intersection Vacuum Center<\/i>, which made sense because it was located at Intersection Center.  However, clearly at the time this place moved to Lake Murray Boulevard (where it still is), it was called <i>Vacuum Mart<\/i>.  Further, there <i>is<\/i> an <i>Intersection Vacuum Center<\/i> in Columbia, but it's apparently on Two Notch near Columbia Mall.<\/p>\n<p>The only sequence of events that would make my recollection correct is if this building <i>was<\/i> <i>Intersection Vacuum Center<\/i> which at some point moved out and was replaced by <i>another<\/i> vacuum store.  Anyone have a better memory about this?<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 16 May 2010<\/b>:  Added full street address, tags.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 22 January 2020<\/b>: Add map icon, update tags.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/12+Diamond+Lane,+Columbia,+SC+29210\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this one makes me doubt my memories. (I'm sure more of these closings should do that..) This is the store where I bought my sister a vacuum cleaner back in the 1980s. I can't remember what kind it was -- some sort of off-brand canister model that seemed fairly solid, I think. It lasted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2937,45,164,22,5,44,4],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-12-diamond-lane","tag-broad-river-road","tag-diamond-lane","tag-dutch-square","tag-historic","tag-intersection-center","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}