{"id":357,"date":"2009-03-20T00:10:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T05:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=357"},"modified":"2011-02-10T00:32:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T05:32:46","slug":"biddie-banquet-forest-lake-shopping-center-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Biddie Banquet, 20 Forest Lake Shopping Center: 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/biddie_banquet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/biddie_banquet_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, anyone remember this one?  The ad is from the Southern Bell Columbia phonebook for 1963.  Given the lead time for a yellow-pages ad, I was probably one when this was prepared, and two when it ran.  The address seems to match up with the current <i>Sakura Japanese Restaurant<\/i> in the remains of the old Forest Lake Shopping Center, behind <i>Coplon's<\/i> and at the other end of the corridor from the original <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=58\">Forest Lake TV<\/a> location.<\/p>\n<p><i>Sakura<\/i> is the only restaurant that I can ever really recall being there, but I learned from some comments here that at one time the location was <i>Moolah's<\/i>, run by (or licensed by?) a famous female wrestler.  Did <i>Biddie Banquet<\/i> come before or after <i>Moolah's<\/i>?   My mother used to shop at <i>Colonial Grocery<\/i> (now <i>Coplon's<\/i>) all the time so they both must have been gone by the late 60s or I would have noticed them.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that apart from my whole \"I don't like chicken\" thing, the bottom line<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shrimp -- Fish -- Chili<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>sounds particularly unappetizing, and what's the deal with the quotes on <i>\"The\" Original\"<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>I do think the chicken art is very nice!<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 10 Feb 2011<\/b> -- Here's the <i>Biddie Banquet<\/i> location, now occupied by <i>Sakura<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/02\/p1110176.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/02\/p1110176_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, anyone remember this one? The ad is from the Southern Bell Columbia phonebook for 1963. Given the lead time for a yellow-pages ad, I was probably one when this was prepared, and two when it ran. The address seems to match up with the current Sakura Japanese Restaurant in the remains of the old [&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":[499,269,96,106,5,3,98],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-chicken","tag-forest-acres","tag-forest-drive","tag-forest-lake-shopping-center","tag-historic","tag-restaurants","tag-trenholm-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}