{"id":439,"date":"2009-06-16T23:42:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T04:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=439"},"modified":"2010-10-01T16:49:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T21:49:04","slug":"swains-charcoal-steakhouse-150-knox-abbott-drive-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Swain's Charcoal Steakhouse: 150 Knox Abbott Drive: 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, people have been talking about Swain's<\/i> in the comments recently, so I think I'll move this post forward in the queue, though I don't have a lot to say about it.<\/p>\n

I haven't been able to find out much about Swain's<\/i>. It was a name I heard growing up, but we never went there, and indeed I wasn't quite sure where it actually was at the time, or now. From this 1970 Yellow Pages ad, it appears to have been a Southern based chain, though I get google hits on locations elsewhere in the country now as well.<\/p>\n

You'll notice that the ad doesn't give an actual street address and neither did the white pages listing which simply said \"Knox Abbott Drive\" -- it's like they thought if you didn't know, you shouldn't go. I had to search up into the 1980s before I found a listing that put them at \"150 Knox Abbott Drive\". Just from the 1970 ad, I had at first supposed that Swain's<\/i> was the original tennant in the building now housing Monterrey Mexican<\/i>, but that is \"199 Knox Abbott\", which is on the other side of the street entirely. From the satellite view in google-maps, it appears that \"150 Knox Abbott\" is now vacant (and would be in the vicinity of all the new land clearing on the Guignard Bricks<\/a> property.<\/p>\n

Swain's<\/i> seems to have been an upscale place with a piano bar. I also notice that like a number of places from the 1970 phone book, they were open past what is considered \"normal\" (10pm) now -- I wish places still did that.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 17 June 2009<\/b>: Commenter Badger says the place lasted until 1995, so I have updated the closing date from \"1980s\" to that. <\/p>\n

UPDATE 1 Oct 2010<\/b> -- Southern First<\/i> bank is now approximately in the old Swain's<\/i> location (though the street address for the bank is 190 Knox Abbott Drive vs 150 for the vanished Swain's<\/i> building:<\/p>\n

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