{"id":823,"date":"2009-10-12T02:42:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T07:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=823"},"modified":"2015-12-03T23:57:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T04:57:41","slug":"decker-billiard-club-1803-decker-boulevard-fall-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"Decker Billiard Club, 1803 Decker Boulevard: fall 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/deckerbill01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/deckerbill01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/deckerbill02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/deckerbill02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/deckerbill03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/deckerbill03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don't play pool (now air-hockey is a game!), so this club has only been on the periphery of my notice over the years, but I was conscious enough of it that it caught my eye when I saw new signs up the last time I drove down Decker to I-77.<\/p>\n<p>Doing a little googling I find that it has something of a tragic history, with the co-owner being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmettocops.com\/forum\/forum_posts.asp?TID=5132\">fatally shot there in 2006<\/a>.  Google also insists that the place has been called <i>Sue's Lounge<\/i> though the Google Streetview for \"Sue's Lounge\" brings up the old Decker Billiard signage on the place.<\/p>\n<p>The new name of the place is <i>La Parranda<\/i> which apparently means \"The Big Party\" in Spanish (and a song of that name was a hit for Gloria Estefan..), so I'm assuming that the ownership has switched from Korean to latin, though the graphic on the sign seems to indicate that pool and alcohol will still be available.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 25 April 2013<\/b> -- Well it's back, sorta.  I hope they didn't pay too much for those signs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/04\/p1000791.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/04\/p1000791_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1000791_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1000791_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/04\/p1000792.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/04\/p1000792_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1000792_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1000792_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/04\/p1000793.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/04\/p1000793_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1000793_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1000793_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don't play pool (now air-hockey is a game!), so this club has only been on the periphery of my notice over the years, but I was conscious enough of it that it caught my eye when I saw new signs up the last time I drove down Decker to I-77. Doing a little googling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1813,965,13,92,78,15,12,296],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1803-decker-boulevard","tag-billiards","tag-business","tag-decker-boulevard","tag-dentsville","tag-entertainment","tag-nightclub","tag-pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}