{"id":4868,"date":"2012-01-09T03:07:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T08:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2012-01-09T03:07:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T08:07:04","slug":"eat-boogies-grill-509-childs-street-2124-gervais-street-1717-zion-avenue-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"(Eat) Boogie's Grill, 509 Childs Street \/ 2124 Gervais Street \/ 1717 Zion Avenue: 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/01\/p1000635.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/01\/p1000635_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/01\/p1000636.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/01\/p1000636_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/01\/p1000638.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/01\/p1000638_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/01\/p1000640.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/01\/p1000640_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/01\/p1000641.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/01\/p1000641_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Eat Boogie's Grill<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That was the memorable exhortation that adorned the west wall of this vanished Gervais Street \"soul food\" restaurant when I was in middle and high school.  <\/p>\n<p>In fact, the place was so well known from that slogan, that I thought I would be able to find out more about it than I did.  Here is the meager information I was able to come up with from old phonebooks:<\/p>\n<p><i>Boogie's Grill<\/i> apparently started in 1966, first showing up in the January 1967 Southern Bell phonebook at 509 Childs Street, a place I had never heard of, but which is in a neighboorhood west of Bluff Road.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime in 1972 they moved to the iconic 2124 Gervais Street location, listing there in the December 1972 phonebook.<\/p>\n<p>By 1977, they were back in the same Bluff Road area, listing at 1717 Zion Avenue in the January 1978 book.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell, they never bought a yellow pages ad, and in fact, dropped out of the yellow pages entirely after leaving Gervais Street.<\/p>\n<p>2124 is on the block of Gervais betwen Harden and Pine Streets.  There is currently no building at that address -- I think it must have been at one of the curb cuts between <i>Holman's Barber Shop<\/i> and the next building up (which looks as though I should probably do a closing on it).  This surprised me a little bit, as I had been sure, before looking it up, that it was further down Gervais towards Millwood.<\/p>\n<p>Surely someone out there has a picture of <i>Boogie's<\/i> and the west wall sign?<\/p>\n<p>And to drift the subject a bit, how about that mural of the <i>USS Enterprise<\/i> blasting phasers down at a planet that adorned the west wall of a nearby building on the other side of Gervais Street?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eat Boogie's Grill That was the memorable exhortation that adorned the west wall of this vanished Gervais Street \"soul food\" restaurant when I was in middle and high school. In fact, the place was so well known from that slogan, that I thought I would be able to find out more about it than I [&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":[67,122,5,9,771,3],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gervais-street","tag-harden-street","tag-historic","tag-landmark","tag-pine-street","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","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=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}