{"id":8578,"date":"2013-11-27T01:20:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T06:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8578"},"modified":"2013-11-27T01:20:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T06:20:02","slug":"columbia-screen-awning-935-sunset-boulevard-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8578","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Screen &amp; Awning, 935 Sunset Boulevard: 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/11\/p1090327.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/11\/p1090327_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1090327_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1090327_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/11\/p1090328.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/11\/p1090328_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1090328_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1090328_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/11\/p1090330.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/11\/p1090330_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1090330_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1090330_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/11\/p1090331.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/11\/p1090331_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1090331_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1090331_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/11\/p1090332.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/11\/p1090332_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1090332_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1090332_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was surprised when I went looking in old phonebooks and found that 2011 was the last listing for <i>Columbia Screen &amp; Awning<\/i> -- This is a place I remember being advertised on the radio when I was growing up, so I figured somehow that I would hear when it closed.  The marquee on this little West Columbia storefront (next door to <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6916\">Maunz Electronics<\/a>) says they had been in business since 1959, which is a pretty good run.  Archive.org has some of their old site snapshots archived <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020615000000*\/http:\/\/www.csacanvas.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hate this time of year -- not only do I really dislike cold weather, but it gets dark so early that I really can only get daytime pictures on weekends.  And even here, I missed my window for getting over there and ended up having to crank up the ISO or use flash.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter James)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised when I went looking in old phonebooks and found that 2011 was the last listing for Columbia Screen &amp; Awning -- This is a place I remember being advertised on the radio when I was growing up, so I figured somehow that I would hear when it closed. The marquee on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1269,1268,13,1267,374,57],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-935-sunset-boulevard","tag-awnings","tag-business","tag-screens","tag-sunset-boulevard","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","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=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}