{"id":477,"date":"2009-07-23T01:23:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T06:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=477"},"modified":"2012-01-05T00:02:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T05:02:52","slug":"the-market-restaurant-1205-assembly-street-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"The Market Restaurant, 1205 Assembly Street: 11 January 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Market Restaurant<\/i>
\nColumbia, S.C.
\nOpposite State Capitol
\nAt Intersections of:
\nU.S. Hwy's 1, 21, 321, 176 and 378
\n\"Famous for Food\"
\nFeaturing Maine Lobsters
\nU.S. Prime Western Steaks and Dinners.
\nOPEN FROM 11 A.M. TIL 11:45 P.M.
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I should<\/i> remember this place, but for some reason I don't. From the 1970 Southern Bell Yellow Pages ad, it looks much too fancy for anything that our parents might have taken us to, and when I was picking restaurants on my own, the lobster and fish would have scared me off.<\/p>\n

As you can see from these shots, the building is long gone, and the area is now an annoying parking lot (always half empty, but zealously patrolled) at the corner of Gervais and Assembly streets bordered on the bottom by The Mellow Mushroom<\/i> and on the right by the former John Paul\u2019s Armadillo Oil Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Notice also on the ad another common feature from restaurants of this era: Late hours. I really wish this had continued and that there were decent places open until \"11:15\" on week-nights nowdays.<\/p>\n

Anyone know what happened to this place?<\/p>\n

UPDATE 13 October 2009<\/b>: Added a postcard of The Market<\/i> and the text from the back of it.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 4 January 2012<\/b>: Updated the closing date in the post title from \"1970s\" to \"11 January 1985\" based on the comments. I was only off by 10 years or so..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Market Restaurant Columbia, S.C. Opposite State Capitol At Intersections of: U.S. Hwy's 1, 21, 321, 176 and 378 \"Famous for Food\" Featuring Maine Lobsters U.S. Prime Western Steaks and Dinners. OPEN FROM 11 A.M. TIL 11:45 P.M. I should remember this place, but for some reason I don't. From the 1970 Southern Bell Yellow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[144,256,67,5,3,195],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-assembly-street","tag-congaree-vista","tag-gervais-street","tag-historic","tag-restaurants","tag-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}