{"id":2796,"date":"2010-11-03T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T02:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2010-11-03T17:02:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T22:02:22","slug":"edens-food-stores-inc-3718-rosewood-drive-mid-1950s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2796","title":{"rendered":"Edens Food Stores, Inc., 3718 Rosewood Drive: mid 1950s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/11\/p1180146.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/11\/p1180146_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/11\/p1180147.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/11\/p1180147_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Commenter <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2#comment-80686\">Bill Chisolm<\/a> has this to say about <i>Eden's Foods<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnybody old enough to remember the old Edens Food Stores in Columbia and around S.C. They sold out to Winn-Dixie around 1955. I worked for them as did my father.<br \/>\nSeveral of the old buildings are still standing, among these are the ones on Rosewood Drive, North Main Street, Devine St, Harden St. and I am sure there are others. They were the place to shop for groceries in Columbia during their hey day\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being born late in 1960, I had never heard of the place, but the city directory for 1953 does list eight locations for the store, with this building being one of them.  I would say it has been remodeled several times, but it does seem about the right shape and size for an older grocery.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the company was run by a local family as the city directory also lists<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJ. Drake Edens President-Treasurer<br \/>\nJoe Edens, Executive Vice President-Assistant Treasurer<br \/>\nJ. Drake Edens, Jr., Vice President\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if there is any connection there with <i>Edens & Avant<\/i> property management?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter Bill Chisolm has this to say about Eden's Foods: Anybody old enough to remember the old Edens Food Stores in Columbia and around S.C. They sold out to Winn-Dixie around 1955. I worked for them as did my father. Several of the old buildings are still standing, among these are the ones on Rosewood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[143,5,108,4],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-groceries","tag-historic","tag-rosewood-drive","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","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=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}