{"id":7720,"date":"2013-04-30T01:28:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T06:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7720"},"modified":"2013-06-21T01:36:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T06:36:49","slug":"cokesbury-books-2730-broad-river-road-20-april-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7720","title":{"rendered":"Cokesbury Books, 2730 Broad River Road: 20 April 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We used to visit Cokesbury<\/i> books when it was in the Dutch Center<\/i> office plaza across Dutch Square Boulevard from the mall, and it always used to puzzle me.<\/p>\n

Now, when I say \"we\", I mean basically my mother with my sister and me in tow. As to why it puzzled me -- well, I couldn't ever understand why I couldn't find any books I wanted to read there. On some level, I understood that my mother went there when she was looking for Sunday School or Circle material, but I never really made the connection because on another level -- well, it was a book store wasn't it? There must be a science fiction section in here somewhere<\/i>. And yet time after time I could never find anything that looked interesting that wasn't by C. S. Lewis. And frankly, Out of the Silent Planet<\/a>\"\" didn't look *that<\/i>* interesting..<\/p>\n

At some point they moved from Dutch Square Boulevard to Broad River Road, and I moved out of town. The next time I saw them, I wasn't 13 anymore, and I realized, Duh! It's a devotional bookstore!<\/i>.<\/p>\n

As you can see from the sequence of pictures here, they ran an orderly closeout of the Broad River store, and put up the figurative shutters on 20 April.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to commenter Andrew.)<\/p>\n

UPDATE 21 June<\/b> -- As mentioned by commenter Andrew, this is now King's Beauty Supply<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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Given the name, I'm guessing it must be related somehow to the King's<\/i> package across the road<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We used to visit Cokesbury books when it was in the Dutch Center office plaza across Dutch Square Boulevard from the mall, and it always used to puzzle me. Now, when I say \"we\", I mean basically my mother with my sister and me in tow. As to why it puzzled me -- well, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[26,45,739,1071,4],"class_list":["post-7720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-broad-river-road","tag-christian","tag-devotional","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7720","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=7720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}