{"id":7434,"date":"2013-03-05T00:55:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T05:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7434"},"modified":"2017-10-20T18:15:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T22:15:54","slug":"chiva-auto-sales-1040-meeting-street-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7434","title":{"rendered":"Chiva Auto Sales, 1040 Meeting Street: 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160768.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160768_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160768_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160768_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160769.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160769_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160769_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160769_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160770.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160770_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160770_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160770_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160771.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160771_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160771_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160771_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160772.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160772_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160772_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160772_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160773.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160773_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160773_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160773_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160774.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160774_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160774_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160774_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160775.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160775_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160775_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160775_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160776.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160776_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160776_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160776_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160780.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160780_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160780_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160780_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160782.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160782_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160782_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160782_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160784.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160784_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160784_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160784_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160786.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160786_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160786_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160786_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160787.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160787_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160787_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160787_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I already did a closing on this building on Meeting Street in West Columbia near Triangle City for when it was <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2486\">Bell's Hamburger Drive-In<\/a>, but I noticed a while ago that the follow on operation (which was not the immediate follow-on!) <i>Chiva Auto Sales<\/i> is now gone as well.<\/p>\n<p>That gave me a chance to get some more shots of this place, without all the cars parked outside, and the guy wondering what the heck I was doing sitting inside.  However, the place is tightly fenced off now, so I still can't get any close shots through the building windows.  It will be a shame if the next owners tear down the building and marquee which absolutely scream of a certain era, but I can't imagine it being suited to much other than used-car office these days..<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 3 December 2014<\/b> -- This building has now been razed.  See the pictures at the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2486\">Bell's Hamburger Drive-In<\/a> closing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I already did a closing on this building on Meeting Street in West Columbia near Triangle City for when it was Bell's Hamburger Drive-In, but I noticed a while ago that the follow on operation (which was not the immediate follow-on!) Chiva Auto Sales is now gone as well. That gave me a chance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2396,13,104,285,56,286,57],"class_list":["post-7434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1040-meeting-street","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-meeting-street","tag-triangle-city","tag-us-1","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434","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=7434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}