{"id":327,"date":"2009-02-18T01:39:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T06:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=327"},"modified":"2009-05-26T22:45:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T03:45:28","slug":"skating-rink-saint-andrews-road-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Red Wing Rollerway, 1215 Saint Andrews Road: 1980s(?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/sa_skate02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/sa_skate02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This building, at the intersection of Broad River & Saint Andrews Roads is apparently <i>Mr. Bingo<\/i> now (it seems to have an attached strip with a number of little businesses as well), but I'm pretty sure it was originally a skating rink, and I believe it was the last place I put on a pair of skates.  This would have been in 1979, when I was a senior in high school.  I distinctly remember going out with a group of friends to a rink somewhere near Irmo.  I had never been before and didn't go again, so I can't absolutely say this was the place, but it seems to fit.<\/p>\n<p>I had never been much of a skater because I never figured out how it was done.  Oh, I could put on the skates, and \"walk\" around in them, but the \"knack\" of it -- actually using leg sweeps to move had always escaped me until this particular night, when I finally figured it out.  Maybe that's why I never went back -- after figuring out the whole \"propulsion\" thing, what else was there to do on skates?<\/p>\n<p>I think the building went through a number of incarnations after the rink closed.  I seem to remember both a strip club and a C&W bar there, and some signage on the corner seeems to indicate it was a \"Smoke House\" restaurant as well.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 18 Feb 09<\/b>:  The post was initially titled \"Skating Rink\".  Tom in the comments identifies it as a Red Wing, and I have chaged the post title to reflect that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This building, at the intersection of Broad River &#038; Saint Andrews Roads is apparently Mr. Bingo now (it seems to have an attached strip with a number of little businesses as well), but I'm pretty sure it was originally a skating rink, and I believe it was the last place I put on a pair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,15,5],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-entertainment","tag-historic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}