{"id":394,"date":"2009-04-27T23:04:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T04:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=394"},"modified":"2010-05-13T17:10:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T22:10:18","slug":"394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Garcia's Mexican Restaurant \/ Roadhouse Grill, 215 O'Neil Court: 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This real estate report<\/a> says this building was built in 1986 -- I would have guessed a bit earlier than that. I was first aware of it when it was a Garcia's<\/i> Mexican restaurant. I'm pretty sure that this was the spot anyway, though the facade was different (the real estate link says the place was remodelled in 1996..). As I think I've written somewhere, Columbia has a hard time getting and \/ or keeping \"national\" Mexican chains. We never had a Rio Bravo<\/i>, Chevvy's<\/i>, Chi-Chi's<\/i> or On The Border<\/i>, and we lost Garcia's<\/i> and Don Pablo's<\/a>. El Chico<\/a> seems to be the only one that sticks. To be fair though, I think the whole Garcia's<\/i> chain has fallen on hard times, and they closed their Myrtle Beach location several years ago.<\/p>\n

After Garcia's<\/i> the place became Roadhouse Grill<\/i> which was sort of a Western place like (but not as good as) The Texas Roadhouse<\/i> on Two Notch, but that didn't last long either. After that<\/i> I think the building was empty for several years until it's most recent incarnation as a Bingo hall.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 13 May 2010<\/b>: Just for grins, here's the old Garcia's<\/i> building in the Kroger<\/i> plaza off of US-17 in North Myrtle Beach:<\/p>\n

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This real estate report says this building was built in 1986 -- I would have guessed a bit earlier than that. I was first aware of it when it was a Garcia's Mexican restaurant. I'm pretty sure that this was the spot anyway, though the facade was different (the real estate link says the place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,83,121,90,3,58],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-historic","tag-mexican","tag-myrtle-beach","tag-oneil-court","tag-restaurants","tag-us-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","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=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}