{"id":299,"date":"2009-01-22T00:39:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T05:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=299"},"modified":"2017-08-09T00:51:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T04:51:24","slug":"piggly-wiggly-2300-marshall-street-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Piggly Wiggly, 2300 Marshall Street: 1960s(?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/kimbrell03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/kimbrell03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/kimbrell05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/kimbrell05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don't ever remember this <i>PIggly Wiggly<\/i>, now a furniture store, being in operation, but then we didn't go down South Beltline much growing up.  The building has a classic 1960s look, and I'm happy to see that <i>Kimbrell & Sons<\/i> have kept the raised marquee letters along the roof-line.<\/p>\n<p>This store is similar in size to the old <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=103\">Trenholm Park Pig<\/a> which also had the roof letters back in the day.  I'm not sure why the store closed, but there's a newer Pig about half a mile up South Beltline, so I'll speculate that this stand-alone operation was axed in favor of locating in what would have been at the time a new strip mall, and which is closer to the Two Notch corridor as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don't ever remember this PIggly Wiggly, now a furniture store, being in operation, but then we didn't go down South Beltline much growing up. The building has a classic 1960s look, and I'm happy to see that Kimbrell &#038; Sons have kept the raised marquee letters along the roof-line. This store is similar in [&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":[2303,143,5,1891,1699,4],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2300-marshall-street","tag-groceries","tag-historic","tag-marshall-street","tag-piggly-wiggly","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}