{"id":1219,"date":"2010-01-05T00:24:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T05:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2020-08-10T23:23:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T03:23:08","slug":"eckerd-drugs-2200-augusta-road-mid-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"Eckerd Drugs, 2200 Augusta Road, April 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/01\/us1eckerd02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/01\/us1eckerd02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here's yet another of Columbia's (or West Columbia's in this case) former <i>Eckerd Drugs<\/i> locations, and like a number of former drugstores in the area, it's been re-purposed as a discount store, a <i>Dollar General<\/i> in this case.  I didn't get any front-on shots because people were in and out constantly while I was parked next door at <i>Walgreens<\/i>, but it's the standard <i>Eckerds<\/i> look.<\/p>\n<p>I'm not sure when the <i>Walgreens<\/i> went in, but its being there may have something to do with why this <i>Eckerds<\/i> did not continue life as a <i>Rite Aid<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 13 May 2011<\/b>:  Changed the closing date in the post title based on commenter Andrew's research.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 10 August 2020<\/b>: Add map icon, update tags.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2200+Augusta+Rd,+West+Columbia,+SC+29169\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1219\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here's yet another of Columbia's (or West Columbia's in this case) former Eckerd Drugs locations, and like a number of former drugstores in the area, it's been re-purposed as a discount store, a Dollar General in this case. I didn't get any front-on shots because people were in and out constantly while I was parked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[3065,249,3060,29,4,286,57],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2200-augusta-road","tag-augusta-road","tag-eckerd-drugs","tag-pharmacy","tag-stores","tag-us-1","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}