{"id":376,"date":"2009-04-08T00:58:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T05:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=376"},"modified":"2022-04-04T23:50:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T03:50:34","slug":"western-auto-advance-auto-parts-7325-two-notch-road-mid-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Western Auto \/ Advance Auto Parts, 7325 Two Notch Road: Mid 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You can still see the empty placard in the K-Mart<\/i> sign showing where the Advance Auto Parts<\/i> sign used to be -- If K-Mart<\/i> were in better shape itself, they probably would have pulled that down, as it looks decrepit and bad for their brand.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the way I recall it, this space which apparently dates from 1970 like the K-Mart<\/a>, was in its first iteration, a Western Auto<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The Western Auto<\/i> that I remember best was the one at Trenholm Plaza, where I used to browse the Western Flyer<\/i> bikes and buy those huge 1-volt carbon-zinc batteries with the screw terminals for hobby projects. I know I went into this store a number of times, but I can't really reall anything specific about it. Wikipedia says<\/a> that Western Auto<\/i> was acquired first by Sears,<\/i> and then later by Advance Auto Parts<\/i>, which phased out the Western Auto<\/i> name (mostly) in 2003 (though many stores had already switch to \"Advance\" by then), and in fact this store was an Advance<\/i> when it closed.<\/p>\n

That history is a bit ironic since K-Mart<\/i> like Western Auto<\/i> was bought by Sears. If Sears<\/i> had held onto the Western Auto<\/i> brand a bit longer (Sears<\/i> dropped Western<\/i> in 1998 and bought K-Mart<\/i> in 2005), they could have had some sort of super-mega store in this building<\/p>\n

UPDATE 4 April 2022<\/b>: Updating tags, adding map icon.<\/p>\n

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You can still see the empty placard in the K-Mart sign showing where the Advance Auto Parts sign used to be -- If K-Mart were in better shape itself, they probably would have pulled that down, as it looks decrepit and bad for their brand. Anyway, the way I recall it, this space which apparently […]<\/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":[1784,3504,104,78,5,323,4,54],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-7325-two-notch-road","tag-advance-auto-parts","tag-cars","tag-dentsville","tag-historic","tag-parts","tag-stores","tag-two-notch-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","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=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}