{"id":8447,"date":"2013-10-30T23:56:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T04:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8447"},"modified":"2023-06-26T23:01:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T03:01:21","slug":"pizza-hut-columbia-travel-center-7400-wilson-boulevard-mid-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8447","title":{"rendered":"Pizza Hut, Columbia Travel Center 7400 Wilson Boulevard: mid 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1080374.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1080374_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080374_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080374_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1080375.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1080375_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080375_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080375_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1080376.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1080376_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080376_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080376_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1080377.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1080377_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080377_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080377_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1080378.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1080378_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080378_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080378_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1080380.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1080380_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1080380_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1080380_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It's been a few years since I noticed this, but somehow I never got around to mentioning it:  The <i>Pizza Hut<\/i> attached to the <i>Columbia Travel Center<\/i> plaza closed up shop a couple of years ago.  As I recall, it was not a full <i>Pizza Hut<\/i>, but one of the \"express\" type operations.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect it was a highly unpleasant job, but someone apparently climed the sign tower to elide the \"Hut\" portion of the <i>Pizza Hut<\/i> placard!<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 26 June 2023<\/b>: Updating tags and adding map icon.  Also, just noticed I apparently have this <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=pizza-hut\">Pizza Hut<\/a> listed twice, once on the <i>Wilson Boulevard<\/i> address, and once on the <i>Plumbers Road<\/i> address.  Oh well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/99+Plumbers+Rd,+Columbia,+SC+29203\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's been a few years since I noticed this, but somehow I never got around to mentioning it: The Pizza Hut attached to the Columbia Travel Center plaza closed up shop a couple of years ago. As I recall, it was not a full Pizza Hut, but one of the \"express\" type operations. I suspect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1242,229,27,1803,418,3,354],"class_list":["post-8447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-7400-wilson-boulevard","tag-i-20","tag-pizza","tag-pizza-hut","tag-plumbers-road","tag-restaurants","tag-wilson-boulevard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447","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=8447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}