{"id":801,"date":"2009-10-09T02:41:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T07:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=801"},"modified":"2009-10-18T00:52:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T05:52:38","slug":"grocery-hardware-store-augusta-road-at-hook-avenue-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"Sharpe's Hardware &#038; Grocery Inc, 2100 Augusta Road (at Hook Avenue): late 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/hwgroc04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/hwgroc04_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don't remember what the name of this place was, and I don't think even the building remains now, or at least where I recall it as being is a car lot with a pre-fab looking HQ.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there is an odd little triangular lot where Augusta Road (US-1) and  SC-12 come together.  The join of the two highways makes the point of the lot, and Hook Avenue makes the base.  I recall that for years when I was driving out US-1 towards I-26, I would see this little building with a sign that said (more or less) \"Hardware & Groceries\".  Finally one day I thought to myself, <i>That's rather odd, isn't it?<\/i> and decided to stop.<\/p>\n<p>It was exactly what the sign promised, groceries on one side of the store, and hardware on the other.  I didn't need anything, but I was the only customer in the store, and I felt like I ought to buy something rather than either letting them think I a) was an idiot, or b) had stopped in just to gawk, so I looked around and picked up a package of spaghetti noodles like I had meant to do that.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that the place started when the area was \"the boonies\" and had just carried on as the surroundings developed.  As I said, when I went in, I was the only customer so business even then can't have been good, and with the coming of Kroger, Bi-Lo, Wal-Mart & Lowes, both the grocery side and the hardware side would have taken a fatal hit.  I'm not sure when the place closed, but I don't think it made it into the new millennium.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone know what this place was called?<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 18 October 2009<\/b>:  OK, based on the comments, I was able to identify this from the 1997 phonebook as \"Sharpe's Hardware & Grocery Inc\" and get the street address.  I have updated the post title to reflect that and that the closing date was later than I thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don't remember what the name of this place was, and I don't think even the building remains now, or at least where I recall it as being is a car lot with a pre-fab looking HQ. Anyway, there is an odd little triangular lot where Augusta Road (US-1) and SC-12 come together. The join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-historic","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}