{"id":711,"date":"2009-09-22T22:54:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T03:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=711"},"modified":"2009-09-22T22:54:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T03:54:12","slug":"h-salt-esq-authentic-english-fish-chips-1212-augusta-street-2529-millwood-avenue-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"H. Salt, esq.  Authentic English Fish &#038; Chips, 1212 Augusta Street \/ 2529 Millwood Avenue: 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/09\/h_salt_esq_english_fish_and_chips01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/09\/h_salt_esq_english_fish_and_chips01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/09\/h_salt03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/09\/h_salt03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wrote about <i>Chappy's<\/i> and <i>Cedric's<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=359\">here<\/a>, and wondered how popular an English fish & chips theme was ever going to be in Columbia South Carolina.  As it turns out, more popular than I expected.  In addition to Cedric's & Chappy's, there was <i>Aurthur Treacher<\/i> and this chain, <i>H. Salt<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The ad from the 1970 <i>Southern Bell<\/i> phonebook lists two Columbia locations for the chain.  As far as I can tell, there is currently no 1212 August Street in West Columbia.  If there were a building there, it would be in the parking lot of the former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loopnet.com\/1210-Augusta-Road-West-Columbia-SC-29169-Property-Record_I9g6PHc9A\/?LID=16019973&CID=&ItemIndex=&NewItemIndex=&SearchResultID=&ResultCount=&FilteredSearchID=&FilteredResultCount=&PageNumber=&PageSize=&RecentlyViewed=&PopupView=&PinProfileView=&NoBrandingView=&ID=&MatchedKeywords=&LinkCode=21740&PgCxtGuid=b299c04a-eadc-4f9b-a114-eb961e9a6f51&PgCxtFLKey=&PgCxtCurFLKey=ProfileSE&PgCxtDir=Down\">Triangle Safe & Lock<\/a> at 1210 Augusta Road.  (And yes the issue of \"Augusta Road\" vs \"Agusta Street\" is fraught at 12th Street!)<\/p>\n<p>2529 Millwood Avenue however, still exists, and I can imagine the building on that lot being a fast food place at one time (though not a modern one as there is no space for a drive-through).  I don't know when the Columbia stores closed, though I don't recall ever noticing them.  I'm guessing the later 1970s.  It <a href=\"http:\/\/hsalt.com\/history.htm\">appears the chain still exists<\/a> though these days, it is confined to California where it started in 1965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about Chappy's and Cedric's here, and wondered how popular an English fish &#038; chips theme was ever going to be in Columbia South Carolina. As it turns out, more popular than I expected. In addition to Cedric's &#038; Chappy's, there was Aurthur Treacher and this chain, H. Salt. The ad from the 1970 [&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":[5,3],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-historic","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","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=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}