{"id":3239,"date":"2011-02-15T23:46:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T04:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2011-03-05T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T23:37:08","slug":"uncle-sams-3300-two-notch-road-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3239","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Sam&#39;s Showplace of Values, 3300 Two Notch Road: 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/02\/p1060635.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/02\/p1060635_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/02\/uncle_sam01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/02\/uncle_sam01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I've held off doing a post on <i>Uncle Sam's<\/i> because I don't remember much about the place.  In fact, I can't say for certain that I ever set foot inside, though it certainly was a longtime fixture on Two Notch while I was growing up.  I have the feeling that it was either a shoe store, or a sort of discount department store like <i>Rose's<\/i>.  Despite the name, I'm not recalling any top-hatted mascot, or red white and blue bunting about the place, but I could well be wrong at this remove.<\/p>\n<p>The current bingo and thrift store operations have been there for at least ten years at this point<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 5 March 2011<\/b>:  Added the \"Showplace of Values\" to the title.  Be sure to see commenter Ronna's thoughts below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've held off doing a post on Uncle Sam's because I don't remember much about the place. In fact, I can't say for certain that I ever set foot inside, though it certainly was a longtime fixture on Two Notch while I was growing up. I have the feeling that it was either a shoe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[503,4,54],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-carter-street","tag-stores","tag-two-notch-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","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=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}