{"id":302,"date":"2009-01-25T01:34:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T06:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=302"},"modified":"2020-11-21T01:07:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T06:07:27","slug":"capitol-newsstand-saint-andrews-saint-andrews-road-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Newsstand (Saint Andrews Newsstand), 655 Saint Andrews Road: Late 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I wrote about the closing of Capitol Newsstand<\/a> on Main Street. That was always the flagship and the final store to go, but at one time Capitol had three other branches that I know of. There was another one downtown on the south side of one of the streets parallelling Taylor Street, there was one in Dentsville on O'Neil Court, and this one, now Aladdin<\/i> on Saint Andrews Road. I may have the order wrong, but I think this one closed after the second downtown store and before O'Neil Court.<\/p>\n

I didn't get to Saint Andrews Road that often, but on my few visits to this store, I got the impression that the selection of magazines was smaller, even discounting the foreign language ones the Main Street location had, and that the timely appearance of new paperbacks was less reliable. That could just be an artifact of my irregular observations though. I'm not sure why the store closed, certainly parking and panhandling were not the issues they were on Main Street. I suspect however, that with the opening of Books-A-Million<\/i> and Barnes & Noble<\/i> on Harbison Boulevard, the market this store served dropped markedly.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 21 November 2020<\/b>: Added full street address to post title and put the name Saint Andrews Newsstand<\/i> in parentheses as it seems to have been the name used on the plaza marquee. I changed the closing date from \"1990s\" to \"Late 1990s\" as I found a listing in the 1998 phonebook. Also updated tags and added a map icon.<\/p>\n

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