{"id":350,"date":"2009-03-13T00:10:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T05:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=350"},"modified":"2016-09-22T23:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T03:52:24","slug":"convenience-store-5608-pinestraw-road-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Young's Convenience Store, 5608 Pinestraw Road: Early 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/pinestraw_conv02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/pinestraw_conv02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/pinestraw_conv03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/pinestraw_conv03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This building, on Pinestraw Road just below Satchelford Road, was a convenience store in the 1970s.  I can't now recall if it were a \"national\" brand or a one-off, but I don't think it lasted very long.  I'm not sure why -- the area is mainly residential, and I would have expected a good bit of foot traffic, especially since kids were still allowed to roam a little at the time.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, after the store closed, the (somewhat remodeled) building was still apparently in use, but never for anything \"public\".  I think I saw service type trucks pulling in and out a few times, but it was always a bit mysterious.  I guess that has ended, as the building is now up for lease.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 22 September 2016<\/b>: add <i>Young's<\/i> to the post title and update the closing date from 1970s to early 1980s based on the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This building, on Pinestraw Road just below Satchelford Road, was a convenience store in the 1970s. I can't now recall if it were a \"national\" brand or a one-off, but I don't think it lasted very long. I'm not sure why -- the area is mainly residential, and I would have expected a good bit [&hellip;]<\/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":[2082,2083,2084,269,5,212,4],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-5608-pinestraw-road","tag-amick-drive","tag-convenience-store","tag-forest-acres","tag-historic","tag-pinestraw-road","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","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=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}