{"id":6995,"date":"2012-12-01T00:49:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T05:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6995"},"modified":"2013-02-24T03:05:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T08:05:02","slug":"coin-laundry-1932-dunbar-road-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6995","title":{"rendered":"Coin Laundry, 1932 Dunbar Road: mid-2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130588.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130588_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1130588_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1130588_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130589.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130589_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1130589_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1130589_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130590.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130590_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1130590_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1130590_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130591.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130591_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1130591_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1130591_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130592.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130592_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1130592_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1130592_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130593.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130593_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1130593_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1130593_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130594.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130594_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1130594_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1130594_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This old laundromat is across the street (Dunbar Road) from Frink Street's <i>Town &amp; Country<\/i> plaza, and looks to have been vacant for a good while.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityfeet.com\/Commercial\/ForSale\/1932-Dunbar-Road-Cayce-SC-29033-17842516L0L1.aspx\">City Feet<\/a> says it was built in 1970.  To me it looks a little earlier.  These places always had a certain smell, and a certain look, with the soap dispenser machine with its metal levers and slots, the hard plastic bucket chairs welded to a rail, and the plastic high folding tables.  And of course, the whish-whish sounds of the washing machine agitators and the clinks of metal buttons each time the jeans got to the top of the dryer drum and fell down again..<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 14 December 2012<\/b>:  Updated the closing date from \"1980s\" to \"mid-2000s\" based on the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This old laundromat is across the street (Dunbar Road) from Frink Street's Town &amp; Country plaza, and looks to have been vacant for a good while. City Feet says it was built in 1970. To me it looks a little earlier. These places always had a certain smell, and a certain look, with the soap [&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":[13,220,999,590,1000,133],"class_list":["post-6995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-cayce","tag-dunbar-road","tag-frink-street","tag-laundromat","tag-laundry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995","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=6995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}