{"id":5984,"date":"2012-06-09T00:29:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T05:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2012-06-20T23:04:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T04:04:56","slug":"varns-drug-store-thai-on-gervais-926-gervais-street-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5984","title":{"rendered":"Varn's Drug Store \/ Safran's Antique Galleries \/ Arcade Auction \/ I. Pickney Simons Gallery \/ Thai On Gervais, 926 Gervais Street: 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060515.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060515_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060515_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060515_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060516.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060516_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060516_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060516_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060517.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060517_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060517_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060517_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060518.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060518_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060518_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060518_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don't know anything about <i>Varns Drug Store<\/i> other than it was listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5869\">Walsh's Columbia South Carolina City Directory for 1907-08<\/a>, had \"E H Varn\" listed as the proprietor and is not there now.<\/p>\n<p><i>Thai On Gervais<\/i> was obviously many iterations after <i>Varns<\/i>.  I know they listed in the phonebook from (at least) February 2007 through February 2011, but not in Feburary 2012.  Given that, and the current state of the space, I think they must have closed sometime in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was heavy enough that I could not step into Gervais Street to get a good frontal shot of this place, but you can see from the sidewalk and side views that it has sort of a \"work is being done\" look.  I did not see any permits or indications as to what is next here however.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 11 June 2012<\/b>:  Commenter Larry casts doubt on this actually being <i>Thai On Gervais<\/i>, at least within the time period suggested by the phonebook.  I will try to check the city directories next time I am at the library, but for now I am leaving it.  (<i>Varn's<\/i> I am more confident about).<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 20 June 2012<\/b>:  After consulting city directories at the RCPL, I can say that from (at least) 1960 through 1970, this space (actually 926-930) was <i>Safran's Antique Galleries<\/i>.  After that, it was apparently vacant for a good while.  In 1995, it was listed as <i>Arcade Auction (Charlton Hall Overflow)<\/i> and from 1995 to (at least) 2000, it was <i>I. Pickney Simons Gallery<\/i>.  That seems to have been the last tenant.  No city directory lists <i>Thai On Gervais<\/i>, but that is definitely in phonebooks..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don't know anything about Varns Drug Store other than it was listed in Walsh's Columbia South Carolina City Directory for 1907-08, had \"E H Varn\" listed as the proprietor and is not there now. Thai On Gervais was obviously many iterations after Varns. I know they listed in the phonebook from (at least) February [&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":[130,340,256,67,29,3,4,904,195],"class_list":["post-5984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiques","tag-art","tag-congaree-vista","tag-gervais-street","tag-pharmacy","tag-restaurants","tag-stores","tag-thai","tag-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984","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=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}