{"id":402,"date":"2009-05-07T01:17:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T06:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=402"},"modified":"2010-06-19T23:55:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T04:55:04","slug":"quonset-hut-b-avenue-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Quonset Hut, B Avenue: 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/05\/quonset_hut06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/05\/quonset_hut06_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, this one is <i>very<\/i> vague.  Hopefully someone will recall more details than this, but at one time this lot (now housing an ATM drive-through) on \"B\" Avenue in Triangle City West Columbia (up the hill from <i>Zesto<\/i>) had a WWII-surplus <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quonset_Hut\">Quonset Hut<\/a> standing on it.<\/p>\n<p>We only went there a couple of times that I can recall since few of my mother's shopping destinations were in the area (perhaps we had gone to <i>The Factory Outlet<\/i> on 12th Street..), but the place was some sort of surplus store with all kinds of junk.  It was sort of a combination of <i>Big Lots<\/i> and <i>The Dollar Store<\/i>, but it was definitely a local, one-off, operation.  I have the feeling that it may have been un-airconditioned, with noisy fans running in the rear, but I might be mixing that up with some of the used-furniture stores we used to go to.  To the best of my recollection, we never bought anything there, but it was definitely an interesting experience to go through the stock.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody else remember this place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this one is very vague. Hopefully someone will recall more details than this, but at one time this lot (now housing an ATM drive-through) on \"B\" Avenue in Triangle City West Columbia (up the hill from Zesto) had a WWII-surplus Quonset Hut standing on it. We only went there a couple of times that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[221,220,5,4,56,57],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-b-avenue","tag-cayce","tag-historic","tag-stores","tag-triangle-city","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","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=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}