{"id":9692,"date":"2014-06-10T00:19:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T05:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=9692"},"modified":"2014-06-10T23:16:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T04:16:51","slug":"thrifty-mart-food-town-food-lion-52-spherion-ups-call-center-1313-bush-river-road-1990s-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=9692","title":{"rendered":"Thrifty Mart \/ Food Town \/ Food Lion #52 \/ Book Warehouse \/ Spherion \/ UPS Call Center, 1313 Bush River Road: 1980s etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/05\/key06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/05\/key06_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/05\/key01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/05\/key01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/05\/key05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/05\/key05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/05\/key04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/05\/key04_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/06\/p1140403.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/06\/p1140403_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140403_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140403_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/06\/p1140404.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/06\/p1140404_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140404_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140404_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/06\/p1140405.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/06\/p1140405_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140405_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140405_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/06\/p1140406.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/06\/p1140406_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140406_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140406_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/06\/p1140407.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/06\/p1140407_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140407_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140407_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I've featured this building on Bush River Road across from the new(ish) <i>Wal-Mart<\/i>, before, but erroneously in a post I still have to sit down and clean up and correct eventually.  Hopefully  this post will be more correct.<\/p>\n<p>This building was a <i>Food Lion<\/i> grocery until the 1990s.  I'm not sure when it closed, but it is not listed in the February 1997 phonebook, so I'm guessing the mid-1990s.  According to commenter Saturday's Child, it was built as a <i>Thrifty Mart<\/i> around 1969 and then became a <i>Food Town<\/i>, staying with that chain when they switched their name to <i>Food Lion<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>After <i>Food Lion<\/i> left, it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.showcase.com\/property\/1313-Bush-River-Road\/Columbia\/South-Carolina\/5859859\">UPS call center<\/a> and an operation called <i>Spherion<\/i>, possibly not in that order.<\/p>\n<p>For the last several years it has been vacant, but as commenter William points out, the building is now being rehabilitated to become an <i>AutoZone<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter William)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've featured this building on Bush River Road across from the new(ish) Wal-Mart, before, but erroneously in a post I still have to sit down and clean up and correct eventually. Hopefully this post will be more correct. This building was a Food Lion grocery until the 1990s. I'm not sure when it closed, but [&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":[1503,210,13,1504,104,143,4],"class_list":["post-9692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1313-bush-river-road","tag-bush-river-road","tag-business","tag-call-center","tag-cars","tag-groceries","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692","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=9692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}