{"id":76,"date":"2008-05-04T22:46:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T03:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=76"},"modified":"2025-06-17T22:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T02:08:54","slug":"po-folks-two-notch-road-arcadia-lakes-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Sonny\u2019s Bar-B-Q \/ Po Folks \/ Sapelo Dock \/ Lizard\u2019s Thicket Fish Camp \/ Capt. John\u2019s Mayflower Restaurant \/ Fran\u2019s \/ Angus Omaha\u2019s Beef Palace \/ The Zone Sports Bar and Restaurant \/ The Gold Club, 6246 Two Notch Road (at Arcadia Lakes Drive): 1980s etc"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I first became aware of this building when it was \"Po Folks\", and I think that was the original tenant. Po Folks was, the name suggested, a sort of fauxy-down-home type of place where they served \"country cookin'\", served the drinks in mason jars and wrote the menus in misspelled \"Southern\" dialect. That's not really a criticism; there's a place for that type of thing, and I remember the food as being pretty good. Certainly my parents liked it a good bit, and we ate there fairly often. I don't know exactly what happened to Po Folks -- they are still around<\/a> as a chain, but apparently they have contracted a great deal and no longer have any locations in South Carolina. I do know that they continued to have a Myrtle Beach location for a while after the Columbia location closed, but it's gone now as well. Today the chain seems to be largely a Florida operation with a few other restaurants in Alabama, Arizona and California.<\/p>\n

After Po Folks left, the building went through a long period of \"musical concepts\". I think next it may have been the original Fran's location (Fran's later opened \"Little Fran's\" on Forest Drive as a smaller second store, which became simply \"Fran's\" when the original Fran's closed and which itself recently closed<\/a>). After Fran's closed, the building was vacant for a while prompting some distruntled former patrons to put up a \"Bring Back Po Folks\" sign on the property. I lose track after that, but at some point it was one or possibly two different night-clubs and then an urban-comedy club. The Jim Moore used car dealership has been there a couple of years now, so possibly the site now has a stable tenant, though it's doubtful they can supply you a Blue Ribbon Chicken Dinner.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 22 June 2009<\/b>: <\/p>\n

Well, not that<\/i> stable! Moore For Less<\/a> is now gone. (Also added the street addres to post title above).<\/p>\n

UPDATE 13 March 2011<\/b>: The building has been knocked down. See the Moore For Less<\/a> link for pictures.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 29 June 2021<\/b>: Updating the post title with more former tenants of this building thanks to commenter Paul's research and adding tags & map icon.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 17 June 2025<\/b>: Updating tags.<\/p>\n

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