{"id":953,"date":"2009-10-31T00:38:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T05:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=953"},"modified":"2009-10-31T00:40:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T05:40:54","slug":"big-star-old-america-4410-fort-jackson-boulevard-1988-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Big Star \/ Old America, 4410 Fort Jackson Boulevard: 1988 \/ 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At one time, before it became a Big<\/i> K-Mart, the left side of the K-Mart<\/i> on Jackson Boulevard was a separate storefront. Looking at these pictures, there appears to be no trace of the division left, and I can't recall any indication inside the store either, but it was definitely the case. <\/p>\n

There were at least two stores in that location. The first one I recall was Big Star<\/i> grocery. Big Star<\/i> was the discount arm of Colonial<\/i>, and the Big Star<\/i> remained open long after the Forest Drive Colonial<\/a>, where we did most of our grocery shopping, closed. That meant that for certain Colonial items, like Farm-Charm<\/i> cheese, we would drive out to Big Star<\/i> rather than going to the closer Trenholm Plaza<\/i> stores. Actually, I suppose it was mostly my doing as I was (and still am to some extent) a very picky eater, and sometimes my mother would get what I wanted just to make things easier on herself (I'm sure it wasn't above me to complain that a grilled cheese sandwich was made with the wrong kind of cheese..).<\/p>\n

Wikipedia<\/a> says that Big Star<\/i> left the South Carolina market in 1988, selling its stores to Harris Teeter<\/i>. I think this store closed earlier than that, and I don't think it was ever a Harris Teeter<\/i>, but I could be wrong.<\/p>\n

At any rate, some time after Big Star<\/i> left, the storefront became an Old America<\/i> store. I never went in one of these stores, but they were some sort of craft store and seemed to have a policy of co-locating with K-Mart<\/i>, or at least the North Augusta K-Mart also had an Old America<\/i> (though in that case the K-Mart left before Old America folded). In Columbia, K-Mart is still there, and Old America<\/a> folded, probably in 1999<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I'm getting the 4410 street address from an old online listing for Old America<\/i>, apparently that address no longer exists with the K-Mart expansion, and the whole storefront is now 4400. I don't think there was another store after Old America<\/i> and before K-Mart took the whole space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At one time, before it became a Big K-Mart, the left side of the K-Mart on Jackson Boulevard was a separate storefront. Looking at these pictures, there appears to be no trace of the division left, and I can't recall any indication inside the store either, but it was definitely the case. There were at […]<\/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-953","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\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}