{"id":6712,"date":"2012-10-16T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6712"},"modified":"2012-10-16T01:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T06:00:15","slug":"weco-billiards-750-meeting-street-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6712","title":{"rendered":"WECO Billiards, 750 Meeting Street: 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1200328.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1200328_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1200328_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1200328_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270508.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270508_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1270508_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1270508_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270509.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270509_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1270509_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1270509_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270510.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270510_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1270510_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1270510_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270511.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270511_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1270511_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1270511_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270512.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270512_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1270512_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1270512_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270513.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270513_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1270513_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1270513_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270514.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1270514_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1270514_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1270514_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really like the sign here at the former <i>WECO Billiards<\/i>.  It has a similar aesthetic to <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2545\">Varsity Billiards<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=62\">Red Wing Rollerway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearewe.co\/\">This site for the current owners of the building<\/a> (note the clever URL) says it was built originally as a grocery.  It was still operating as a billiard hall in the February 1997 phonebook, but by the time of the next one I have here at home (February 2007), the listing was gone.  Since then it appears to have been a thrift store, and now houses a number of operations as detailed at the previous link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like the sign here at the former WECO Billiards. It has a similar aesthetic to Varsity Billiards and Red Wing Rollerway. This site for the current owners of the building (note the clever URL) says it was built originally as a grocery. It was still operating as a billiard hall in the 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":[965,13,15,23,5,9,285,296,3,57],"class_list":["post-6712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-billiards","tag-business","tag-entertainment","tag-grocery","tag-historic","tag-landmark","tag-meeting-street","tag-pool","tag-restaurants","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712","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=6712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}