{"id":531,"date":"2009-08-22T23:19:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T04:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=531"},"modified":"2009-08-22T23:19:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T04:19:25","slug":"devine-street-book-mart-4610-devine-street-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Devine Street Book Mart, 4610 Devine Street: 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/08\/devine_street_book_mart_matchbook_front.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/08\/devine_street_book_mart_matchbook_front_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/08\/devine_street_book_mart_matchbook_back.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/08\/devine_street_book_mart_matchbook_back_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/08\/devine_books01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/08\/devine_books01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/08\/devine_books07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/08\/devine_books07_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Commenter Melanie found these matchbook images from a place I have no memory of.  4610 Devine Street does not currently exist.  <i>Ruby Tuesday<\/i> is at 4600 Devine Street, and <i>Checkmax Payday Advance<\/i> is at 4624 Devine Street.  I know they have done a lot of work in the past on the streets in this area.  I believe 4610 must have been torn down to make the entrance street into the new-ish plaza which houses <i>Ruby Tuesday<\/i>, <i>Staples<\/i> and <i>Bi-Lo<\/i>  (I know <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=295\">the Pizza Hut in that area<\/a> was torn down).  In fact, if that street had been there originally, you would expect <i>Ruby Tuesday<\/i> and <i>Checkmax<\/i> to have different block numbers.  (As an aside, I'm a little surprised to find that these are all Devine addresses -- I had thought that Garners Ferry started here, but in fact it's apparently at Rosewood).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it's obvious from the matchbook that this place was one of the adult book stores which have been in various parts of Columbia since the late 60s, I suppose.  In fact, Fort Jackson Boulevard which runs into Devine in this area used to have a number of racy operations.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hat Tip<\/b>: Melanie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter Melanie found these matchbook images from a place I have no memory of. 4610 Devine Street does not currently exist. Ruby Tuesday is at 4600 Devine Street, and Checkmax Payday Advance is at 4624 Devine Street. I know they have done a lot of work in the past on the streets in this area. [&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":[5,4],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-historic","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","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=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}