{"id":4289,"date":"2011-09-19T22:59:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T03:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2011-09-20T10:18:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:18:17","slug":"auto-trim-design-1700-taylor-street-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=4289","title":{"rendered":"Weathersby&#39;s G A Texaco \/ Auto Trim Design, 1700 Taylor Street: 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/09\/p1250927.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/09\/p1250927_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/09\/p1250928.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/09\/p1250928_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/09\/p1250929.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/09\/p1250929_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to their still extant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autotrimsc.com\/About_Us.html\">web site<\/a>, <i>Auto Trim Design<\/i> was founded in 1973 and introduced auto window tinting to Columbia in 1983 (As I recall, there was a legal problem with window tinting before then).  <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=%221700+Taylor%22+columbia&ll=34.009198,-81.02756&spn=0.004047,0.006566&sll=34.008972,-81.027516&layer=c&cbp=13,147.8,,0,-0.19&cbll=34.009201,-81.027558&gl=us&t=m&z=17&vpsrc=0&panoid=QZlTwErUwnGcAZKFE3jAsA\">Google StreetView<\/a> shows them with a different paint job, so the current \"rising sun\" look must be fairly recent.  It's definitely a little more eye-catching.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 20 September 2011<\/b>:  Commenter Tom points out that the building was a Texaco, which I was able to confirm from the 1961 Yellow Pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to their still extant web site, Auto Trim Design was founded in 1973 and introduced auto window tinting to Columbia in 1983 (As I recall, there was a legal problem with window tinting before then). Interestingly, Google StreetView shows them with a different paint job, so the current \"rising sun\" look must be fairly [&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":[13,104,689,53,690],"class_list":["post-4289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-henderson-street","tag-taylor-street","tag-tinting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289","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=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}