{"id":2710,"date":"2010-10-14T00:30:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T05:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2010-11-07T14:21:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T19:21:26","slug":"putt-putt-golf-1108-knox-abbott-drive-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2710","title":{"rendered":"Putt-Putt Golf & Games; 1108 Knox Abbott Drive: 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1108 Knox Abbott Drive does not seem to exist anymore. I believe that this SCB&T at the corner of Knox Abbott and 11th Street is the successor location, but I could be a bit off on exactly where the demolished Putt-Putt<\/i> center was.<\/p>\n

The last listing for Putt-Putt Golf & Games<\/i> was in the Feb 1985 phonebook, so apparently they closed down sometime in 1985, just about the time I was leaving town for my 20 or so years of sojourning elsewhere. I can vaguely recall seeing the place, but I never got around to visiting it -- In my mind, minature golf was something you did at Bell Camp<\/i> or the beach, and I had enough, or more than enough, video games closer to the University<\/a> or closer to home<\/a> to keep me busy.<\/p>\n

Putt-Putt<\/i> had a number of locations in Columbia for years, including Percival Road<\/a>, Devine Street and Saint Andews Road. Those all closed and then, some years later, one on Sparkleberry<\/a> opened, but didn't last long at all.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 7 Nov 2010<\/b> -- OK, there seems to be a general consensus that the picture above is the wrong location for the former Putt-Putt<\/i>. Some say it was about where Kenny's<\/i> is:<\/p>\n

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Others say as far up as Preciscion Tune<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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1108 Knox Abbott Drive does not seem to exist anymore. I believe that this SCB&T at the corner of Knox Abbott and 11th Street is the successor location, but I could be a bit off on exactly where the demolished Putt-Putt center was. The last listing for Putt-Putt Golf & Games was in the Feb […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[25,8,13,220,344,100,5,63,343,97],"class_list":["post-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-arcade","tag-attraction","tag-business","tag-cayce","tag-go-karts","tag-golf","tag-historic","tag-knox-abbott-drive","tag-miniature-golf","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","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=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}