{"id":305,"date":"2009-01-28T01:20:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T06:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=305"},"modified":"2021-10-28T23:38:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T03:38:30","slug":"lulan-wangel-koritalos-portrillos-fort-jackson-boulevard-2008-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Capital Health Club \/ Jesudi's Italian Restaurant \/ Lulan Wang \/ El Korita \/ Los Portrillos, 4405 Fort Jackson Boulevard: 2008 etc"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First of all, can someone give me a definitive name for the road that starts at Fort Jackson, goes under I-77, passes in front of K-Mart and ends where Devine Street meets Garners Ferry? I've called it \"Jackson Boulevard\" all my life, but the I-77 exit signs read \"Fort Jackson Boulevard\", and half of the street signs on the road itself have \"Fort\" and half don't. Likewise, when I googled the address of this storefront, I find both uses.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I became aware of this building when I would drive down (Fort) Jackson Boulevard and cut through to Ruby Tuesday's<\/i>. As far as I could tell, it was a mexican restaurant which seemed to have passed through a protracted coming soon<\/i> stage directly to an out of business<\/i> stage without ever actually opening. Google on the address gives an even more interesting story. Apparently at some point in the not too distant past, it was a Chinese place called Lulan Wang<\/i>. I'm not surprised I don't remember that as I'm not overly fond of Chinese food so those places don't really attract my attention. On the Mexican front however, it was apparently two different places, and must have been both quite recently: El Korita<\/i> and Los Portrillos<\/i>, so I'm apparently conflating and re-arranging two<\/b> coming-soon<\/i> and out-of-business<\/i> progressions in my mind.<\/p>\n

I like that the main available<\/i> sign leaves the palm tree -- that's nicer than just a blank white sign. Also, notice the plaintive writing on the fences to the side of the restaurant urging No Steal Plant<\/i>. Is that a big problem in Columbia? The fact that they felt the need to write it argues it happened at least once..<\/p>\n

UPDATE 28 Jan 09<\/b>: Several people in the comments mention that the place was also (and first) Jesudi's<\/i>, an Italian restaurant that was decorated as a cave inside and out. I had completely forgotten that! I knew I had eaten in a \"cave\" restaurant somewhere in Columbia growing up, but did not connect it with that building at all. I've updated the post title to add Jesudi's<\/i> to the list of tenants.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 31 March 2011<\/b> -- Added full street address to post title. Added 1973 Southern Bell ad for Capital Health Club<\/i> an establishment with a rather different menu than the rest.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 22 July 2011<\/b> -- The place is now being worked on as an \"Upfit for proposed new restaurant\":<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 25 October 2011<\/b> -- Well, it's to be The Diner<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 15 January 2012<\/b> -- The Diner<\/i> is open:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 25 January 2012<\/b> -- Here's the mural on the side. Looks as though they are still working on it:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 28 January 2012<\/b> -- Yep! Definitely still working on it:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 28 October 2021<\/b> -- I have added the first picture, a shot of Jesudi's<\/i> in full Italian Cave mode. Commenter Bill alerted to me of this shot<\/a> at the Library of Congress<\/i> of all places. The accompanying text says that it was taken by photographer John Margolies in 1988, and is part of his John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive<\/i> collection, with no restrictions on use.<\/p>\n

While I am here, I am also updating tags and adding the map icon.<\/p>\n

Also note that several more businesses have come and gone in the building since I first made this post, and that the building was badly hit by the flood of 2015. You can click here<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n

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First of all, can someone give me a definitive name for the road that starts at Fort Jackson, goes under I-77, passes in front of K-Mart and ends where Devine Street meets Garners Ferry? I've called it \"Jackson Boulevard\" all my life, but the I-77 exit signs read \"Fort Jackson Boulevard\", and half of the […]<\/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":[1190,13,141,101,541,3,239],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-4405-fort-jackson-boulevard","tag-business","tag-fort-jackson-boulevard","tag-italian","tag-jackson-boulevard","tag-restaurants","tag-risque-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","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=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}