{"id":7477,"date":"2013-03-12T23:46:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T04:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2020-10-05T22:58:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T02:58:19","slug":"blockbuster-509-west-main-street-lexington-march-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7477","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster Video, 509 West Main Street (Lexington): March 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160977.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160977_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160977_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160977_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160975.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160975_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160975_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160975_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160976.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160976_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160976_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160976_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160978.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160978_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160978_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160978_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160979.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160979_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160979_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160979_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160980.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160980_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160980_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160980_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160982.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160982_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160982_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160982_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160983.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160983_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160983_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160983_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, this has already been talked about enough that I'm not sure who the hat-tip goes to, but I finally got over to Lexington last weekend and got some shots of the Main Street <i>Blockbuster<\/i> closing down.  It was already pretty near the end-days, and as I watched, I saw a guy walk out and hoick a set of display racks into his truck.<\/p>\n<p>I was also in Aiken this week, and the Blockbuster there which closed about this time last year is still vacant despite being in a pretty good spot..<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b> -- the place is still vacant:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/08\/p1050419.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/08\/p1050419_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050419_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050419_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/08\/p1050420.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/08\/p1050420_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050420_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050420_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/08\/p1050421.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/08\/p1050421_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050421_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050421_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 4 March 2014<\/b> -- This shot is through a windshield and from too far away, but you can see this building is now a <i>Pet Supermarket<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/03\/p1120295.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/03\/p1120295_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1120295_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1120295_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 5 October 2020<\/b>: Changing name in post title from \"Blockbuster\" to \"Blockbuster Video\", updating tags, adding map icon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/509+W+Main+St,+Lexington,+SC+29072\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this has already been talked about enough that I'm not sure who the hat-tip goes to, but I finally got over to Lexington last weekend and got some shots of the Main Street Blockbuster closing down. It was already pretty near the end-days, and as I watched, I saw a guy walk out and [&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":[3119,3118,389,20,4,286,219,477],"class_list":["post-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-509-west-main-street","tag-blockbuster-video","tag-lexington","tag-main-street","tag-stores","tag-us-1","tag-video","tag-west-main-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477","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=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}