{"id":7566,"date":"2013-03-27T00:14:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T05:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7566"},"modified":"2013-03-27T00:14:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T05:14:07","slug":"exxon-2842-charleston-highway-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7566","title":{"rendered":"Exxon, 2842 Charleston Highway: 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160865.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160865_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160865_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160865_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160866.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160866_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160866_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160866_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160867.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160867_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160867_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160867_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160868.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160868_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160868_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160868_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160869.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160869_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160869_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160869_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160870.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160870_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160870_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160870_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This old service station, now a tire &amp; brake center, is on the Charleston Highway, in that little corner in between I-77 and I-26.<\/p>\n<p>I'm pretty sure it was an <i>Exxon<\/i> at one time (and may even have gone back into the <i>Esso<\/i> era).  The vending machine bay to the left of the station is very typical of the old days -- a station generally would not like you hanging around inside, which was as much or more \"the office\" than a retail area.<\/p>\n<p>I'm just guessing \"1970s\" as a closing date.  It could have been much later, but that's when the classic \"gas station\" started to go into decline..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This old service station, now a tire &amp; brake center, is on the Charleston Highway, in that little corner in between I-77 and I-26. I'm pretty sure it was an Exxon at one time (and may even have gone back into the Esso era). The vending machine bay to the left of the station is [&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":[13,158,267,174,162,4],"class_list":["post-7566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-charleston-highway","tag-gas","tag-i-26","tag-i-77","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566","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=7566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}