{"id":916,"date":"2009-10-24T21:12:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T02:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=916"},"modified":"2011-03-11T23:29:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T04:29:13","slug":"grocery-store-3230-augusta-road-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Winn-Dixie, 3230 Augusta Road: late June 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/us1biglots02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/10\/us1biglots02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This <i>Big Lots<\/i> store on US-1 in between I-26 and the flea market, was clearly once a grocery store, but I don't know what kind.  The design has that certain late 1970s \"We have lost our collective minds\" look<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/lofoz01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/lofoz01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know that this was a <i>Big Lots<\/i> as early as May 2001 because I stopped there on my way to the airport to pick up a camera I didn't care what happened to.  What I ended up with was worse than the average drugstore disposable of today, and I ended up with a bunch of mostly awful pictures.<\/p>\n<p>I can't pinpoint the date any closer than that -- I used to ride out to the flea market fairly often in the early 1980s, but what always caught my eye in this strip was the <i>Fat Boy<\/i> burger place, and the grocery didn't really register.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 26 October 2009<\/b>:  Consensus is that it was a Winn-Dixie, so I have updated the post title to that from \"Grocery Store\" (and updated the closing date from '1980s' to '1990s').<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 11 March 2011<\/b>:  Updated closing date based on information from commenter Andrew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Big Lots store on US-1 in between I-26 and the flea market, was clearly once a grocery store, but I don't know what kind. The design has that certain late 1970s \"We have lost our collective minds\" look I know that this was a Big Lots as early as May 2001 because I stopped [&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":[249,143,5,174,4,286,57],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-augusta-road","tag-groceries","tag-historic","tag-i-26","tag-stores","tag-us-1","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","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=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}