{"id":353,"date":"2009-03-15T23:40:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T04:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=353"},"modified":"2011-12-20T01:07:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T06:07:19","slug":"sandys-bj-motors-nationwide-insurance-5201-two-notch-road-1980s-1990s-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Sandy's Escorts \/ BJ Motors, Inc. \/ Nationwide Insurance, 5201 Two Notch Road: March 2009 (moved)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/nation02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/nation02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/nation03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/nation03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/nation05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/nation05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/nation12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/nation12_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I noticed a few months ago that this little building on Two Notch Road, at the bottom of the hill between Pinestraw Road and Pine Belt Road, was now a Nationwide Insurance office.  I see this month that they are moving to another location on Two Notch, leaving the building vacant again.<\/p>\n<p>Insurance is usually a pretty staid business (unless you are AIG..), but this location has a somewhat racier past.  In particular, back in 1987, you might have found the address listed under <i>Escort Services<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/sandys.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/sandys_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next iteration was a perfectly normal used car lot, except I always found the name, still on the shed out behind the main building, just a bit ironic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/nation08.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/nation08_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 20 December 2011<\/b> -- The <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=4787\">Tonya D. Parks Nationwide<\/a> has now moved into this place, following the <i>other<\/i> Nationwide office:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/12\/p1000205.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/12\/p1000205_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/12\/p1000206.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/12\/p1000206_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed a few months ago that this little building on Two Notch Road, at the bottom of the hill between Pinestraw Road and Pine Belt Road, was now a Nationwide Insurance office. I see this month that they are moving to another location on Two Notch, leaving the building vacant again. Insurance is usually [&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":[13,104,15,238,5,64,239,54],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-entertainment","tag-escorts","tag-historic","tag-insurance","tag-risque-columbia","tag-two-notch-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}