{"id":461,"date":"2009-07-11T01:25:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T06:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=461"},"modified":"2009-07-11T01:25:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T06:25:49","slug":"so-was-this-a-drive-in-sumter-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"So, was this a Drive-In? (Sumter Highway)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sh_drivein01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sh_drivein01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sh_drivein03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sh_drivein03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sh_drivein04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sh_drivein04_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sh_drivein05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sh_drivein05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sh_drivein06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sh_drivein06_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can't find the web page right now, but at one time when I was googling around for Columbia Drive-Ins, I found a site claiming that one had been out on the Sumter Highway.  A few weeks ago, I went looking for it, driving down the Sumter Highway from I-77 to US-601.<\/p>\n<p>As we used to drive that way to the beach all the time, I was not surprised to find no definitely identifiable drive-in (since that's the kind of thing that sticks in a kids memory), but I saw several spots that I felt <i>could<\/i> have housed a drive-in at one time.  This one struck me as the most likely.  It's on the right side of the road if you are headed towards Sumter, and I believe it is closer to US-601 than I-77.<\/p>\n<p>The reason it looked most likely to me was that I could almost see the remaining building on the lot as some sort of ticket booth, with the burned down building behind it as a concession stand, and the vacant swath as the parking area, with the screen being back by the woods.<\/p>\n<p>Am I completely off base here?  Is anyone familiar with this lot?<\/p>\n<p>(If it turns out it <i>was<\/i> a drive-in, I'll adjust the post title later).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can't find the web page right now, but at one time when I was googling around for Columbia Drive-Ins, I found a site claiming that one had been out on the Sumter Highway. A few weeks ago, I went looking for it, driving down the Sumter Highway from I-77 to US-601. As we used [&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":[13,5],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-historic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}