{"id":457,"date":"2009-07-07T01:27:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T06:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=457"},"modified":"2009-07-07T01:27:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T06:27:23","slug":"great-china-chinese-restaurant-river-drive-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Great China Chinese Restaurant, River Drive: 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/great_china06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/great_china06_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/great_china03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/great_china03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/great_china05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/great_china05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/great_china08.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/great_china08_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/great_china09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/great_china09_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant sat at the apex of River Road & Sunset Drive, just across the street from the old <i>A&P<\/i> and <i>Edna's Drive-In<\/i>, sharing a lot with <i>Buck's Sport Shop<\/i>.  I recall the building as being rather small, and parking quite limited (though I never stopped for a first-hand appraisal).<\/p>\n<p>At some point in the 1990s (or possibly the 1980s) the place burned down, and nothing else has ever been built on the lot.  There is currently a <i>Great China<\/i> restaurant in West Columbia on the Charleston Highway -- I don't know if it is related to this one or not.<\/p>\n<p>I find it rather odd that someone cared enough to white over the sign, but not enough to take the sign down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant sat at the apex of River Road &#038; Sunset Drive, just across the street from the old A&#038;P and Edna's Drive-In, sharing a lot with Buck's Sport Shop. I recall the building as being rather small, and parking quite limited (though I never stopped for a first-hand appraisal). At some point [&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":[5,3],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-historic","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}