{"id":7,"date":"2008-01-02T02:41:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T07:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7"},"modified":"2011-05-22T12:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T17:29:47","slug":"bells-drive-thru-corner-of-trenholm-forest-late-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Bell's Drive-In Corner of Trenholm &#038; Forest: late 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/04\/p1200772.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/04\/p1200772_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/05\/gulf11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/05\/gulf11_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bell's was approximately in the location occupied by the Rite-Aid drugstore more or less on the corner of Forest Drive and Trenholm Road.  I recall it as being more beind the Gulf station (now a Union 76 mini-mart).  Certainly it didn't occupy the whole property now siting Rite-Aid.<\/p>\n<p>Until McDonalds came to town (the Garner's Ferry location was the first), Bell's was the only option in the area for white-bag take out burgers.  Both Ligett Rexall in Trenholm Plaza and Campbell's Drugs across the street had lunch counters, but not really take out operations.  As I remember, Bell's had no dining area, though there may have been a couple of picnic tables outside.  I don't recall the burgers much at all, but I really enjoyed the french-fries.  I remember one time thinking that they were so good that I kept taking them into the bathroom to share with my father who was in the shower.  He must have thought I was crazy, but he just kept saying thanks.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, I can't recall specifically noting that Bell's had closed or that the building had been torn down.  I think it had happened by the time I started First Grade.  Since McDonald's was running a promotion (which it did for years) to the effect that it would give a free burger to any kid with only As & Bs on his report card, McDonalds quickly became the focus of all my burger attention, and I had a kid's indifference to Bell's fate.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 22 May 2011<\/b>:  Added a couple of pictures up top to reflect more or less where I recall <i>Bell's<\/i> as being, off to the side and sort of behind the <i>Gulf<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bell's was approximately in the location occupied by the Rite-Aid drugstore more or less on the corner of Forest Drive and Trenholm Road. I recall it as being more beind the Gulf station (now a Union 76 mini-mart). Certainly it didn't occupy the whole property now siting Rite-Aid. Until McDonalds came to town (the Garner's [&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":[96,5,3,585,98],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-forest-drive","tag-historic","tag-restaurants","tag-rorest-acres","tag-trenholm-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}