{"id":2904,"date":"2010-12-03T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2011-03-29T00:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T05:44:40","slug":"nix39s-olympia-grocery-aka-nixs-grill-grocery-500-bluff-road-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2904","title":{"rendered":"(Nix's) Olympia Grocery (aka Nix's Grill & Grocery): 500 Bluff Road: 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a country store in the city. <\/p>\n

I really have no idea when this place closed. Looking inside the back add-on section, it appears to have been in disrepair for a while. On the other hand, the ice company has not taken the ice lockers back yet. I wish SC would put dates on the \"A\" restaurant ratings stickers! Honestly, if you told me the place had closed in 1953 or that it was still open some days, I would probably believe either.<\/p>\n

This Richland County conservation report PDF<\/a> says the place was built in the 1920s and<\/p>\n

\nThere are nine commercial buildings in the Olympia village. Most of these date from the early twentieth century and are similar to Nix's Olympia Grocery, a one- story, gable-front building with a brick facade and stepped parapet. These small commercial buildings were community-gathering spots and supplied operatives with a place to socialize and purchase needed items.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can see that at some point the Nix's<\/i> appelation was dropped and the place became simply Olympia Grocery<\/i>. The sign itself was apparently supplied by Coke<\/i>, something once exceedingly common (with the Coke advertisement often as big or biger than the store name), but not seen now on new stores.<\/p>\n

The first time I went to take pictures of the place, it was a nice sunny afternoon, but in the event, I couldn't get near Nix's<\/i> since the laundry down the road was burning, and the street was blocked off by fire engines. By the time I got back out that way, it was the rather grey day you see here. (And the laundry looks like it may be salveagable)<\/p>\n

UPDATE 28 March 2011<\/b> -- Well, it's gone:<\/p>\n

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This is a country store in the city. I really have no idea when this place closed. Looking inside the back add-on section, it appears to have been in disrepair for a while. On the other hand, the ice company has not taken the ice lockers back yet. I wish SC would put dates on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[392,423,23,5,420,422,3,4,421],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bluff-road","tag-grill","tag-grocery","tag-historic","tag-olympia","tag-olympia-avenue","tag-restaurants","tag-stores","tag-virginia-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","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=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}