{"id":292,"date":"2009-01-15T00:47:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T05:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=292"},"modified":"2012-01-20T01:28:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T06:28:58","slug":"wal-mart-warehouse-store-1401-sunset-drive-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Beltline Drive-In \/ Sam's Club, 1401 Sunset Drive: 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now I may be misremembering this, but I think that this vacant storefront on Sunset Drive between SC-277 and North Main Street was Wal-Mart's first attempt at a warehouse-store. Wal-Mart was not really on my radar at the time, and the details are very fuzzy in my mind, but I just recall hearing that this store required you to buy a membership and that they had huge lots of everything. Wal-Mart later refined the concept into Sam's Club<\/i>, but I don't think this building was ever a Sam's Club<\/i> per se. I'm not sure why though I would speculate that the location is not ideal.<\/p>\n

Though they are apparently trying to sell it, Wal-Mart still owns the property. Occasionaly I would see Wal-Mart 18 wheelers idled there, and from the signage, the chain used (or uses) the place to sell used store fixtures. I wonder how recent the DHEC \"A\" rating on the door is?<\/p>\n

UPDATE 15 March 2011<\/b>: It's clear now that this was, in fact (contrary to my recollection), a Sam's Club<\/i>, so I have updated the post title. Also there's some discussion of closing dates in the comments. 1998 seems likely to me.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 20 January 2012<\/b>: Finally added Beltline Drive-In<\/i> to the post title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now I may be misremembering this, but I think that this vacant storefront on Sunset Drive between SC-277 and North Main Street was Wal-Mart's first attempt at a warehouse-store. Wal-Mart was not really on my radar at the time, and the details are very fuzzy in my mind, but I just recall hearing that this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[287,15,5,4,251],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-drive-in","tag-entertainment","tag-historic","tag-stores","tag-sunset-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}