{"id":9872,"date":"2014-08-04T22:59:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=9872"},"modified":"2019-02-05T14:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T19:58:29","slug":"maze-mania-3013-us-17-business-garden-city-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=9872","title":{"rendered":"Maze Mania, 3013 US 17 Business Garden City: 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"p1160783_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The concept of Maze Mania<\/i> was simple: You go into the maze, find the cheese, and get out of the maze. Best time wins.<\/p>\n

It was a little more complicated in execution. The \"cheese\" was actually a box size wooden mock-up wedge with an electric rubber stamp device embedded inside it. Every day, the cheese would be moved to a different part of the maze, where it would be put on a special stand near an outlet. When you started the maze, you would be given a timecard with your start time, and when you found the cheese, you would stick the timecard into the block, which would stamp a picture of a piece of cheese on the card (proving that you completed the task), then you would try to find the exit, where your final time would be recorded. Assuming you were a kid, your parents would probably be on the observation deck overlooking the maze shouting down more (or less) helpful hints. Presumably, if you were a college student, it would be a bunch of drunk friends instead.<\/p>\n

I only ran the maze, officially, once, probably about 20 years ago. I thought it was a lot of fun, and always wanted to take some younger cousins or other relatives there, but somehow never made it happen. I noticed earlier in the year that the place didn't seem to be open in what should be a viable, if not peak, time, and so made a point of looking in on it this summer as I would drive by at various times which led me to the conclusion that it was closed.<\/p>\n

I finally made the time to stop and have a look at it. The big mouse billboard was in obvious need of cleaning, and the door sign said \"closed for the season\" without specifying what season that was. I have concluded it was probably fall 2013.<\/p>\n

Finding my way back into the maze itself, I saw lots of signs of neglect and general decrepitude. The worse bit was a whole section of maze wall that had fallen down (or been knocked over) but overall there were a number of loose boards, and vegetation encroachment. Still, I think a good handyman with some lumber and paint could make the place runnable again with no more than one or two days work.<\/p>\n

As you can tell from the pictures, it was a rather gray day, and started raining when I was out in the maze, and yes, I did get lost. (You can always find your way out of a maze by following the right wall if all else fails, but it may not be the shortest route by any means!)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"p1160778_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160779_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160780_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160781_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160782_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160784_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160785_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160786_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160788_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160789_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160790_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160791_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160792_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160794_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160795_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160796_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160797_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160798_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160799_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160800_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160805_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160807_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160808_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160809_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160811_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160815_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160818_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160819_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"p1160822_tn.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE 5 February 2019<\/b> -- The building and all maze partitions are gone now. Simply an open lot is left:<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The concept of Maze Mania was simple: You go into the maze, find the cheese, and get out of the maze. Best time wins. It was a little more complicated in execution. The \"cheese\" was actually a box size wooden mock-up wedge with an electric rubber stamp device embedded inside it. Every day, the cheese […]<\/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":[8,568,6,1550,16,58],"class_list":["post-9872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-attraction","tag-garden-city","tag-grand-strand","tag-maze","tag-out-of-area","tag-us-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9872","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=9872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}