{"id":343,"date":"2009-03-06T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=343"},"modified":"2009-03-06T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T06:29:00","slug":"village-furniture-2931-highway-1-south-elgin-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Village Furniture, 2931 Highway 1 South (Elgin): March 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/village_furn01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/village_furn01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/village_furn02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/village_furn02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/village_furn03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/village_furn03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here's another furnishings store going under.  <i>Village Furniture<\/i> is way out on Two Notch (to the point that its just called <i>Highway 1<\/i>).  It's technically in Elgin, but not what I think of as Elgin -- more like \"Pontiac-plus\".  Anyway it's right past <i>County Line Pottery<\/i> (which looks exactly as it did 35 years ago..) over the county line into Kershaw County.<\/p>\n<p>I don't know anything about the store, but I'll hazard a guess that it's a casualty of the housing bust.  I admire the bang-up job they're doing on their closing signage.  It must have been depressing to do, but its quite eye-catching and effective.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to <i>Have Your Say<\/i> commenter \"Veign\")<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here's another furnishings store going under. Village Furniture is way out on Two Notch (to the point that its just called Highway 1). It's technically in Elgin, but not what I think of as Elgin -- more like \"Pontiac-plus\". Anyway it's right past County Line Pottery (which looks exactly as it did 35 years ago..) [&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":[4],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}