{"id":171922,"date":"2017-10-13T14:24:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=171922"},"modified":"2017-10-13T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:30:15","slug":"bobs-photo-closing-owner-retiring-after-38-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/171922\/bobs-photo-closing-owner-retiring-after-38-years","title":{"rendered":"Bob&#8217;s Photo closing, owner retiring after 38 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wiki\/bobs-photo\">Bob&#8217;s Photo<\/a> &#8211; a local retail icon since 1979 &#8211; is closing by the end of the year as its owner plans to retire. The store&#8217;s closure was confirmed in a post to the company&#8217;s Facebook Page on October 11, with a &#8220;Store-Wide Retirement Sale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At present, Bob&#8217;s is only liquidating its inventory and will continue offering photo lab services and eCommerce purchases through year-end.<\/p>\n<p>Bob\u2019s Photo was first established in 1979 by Robert Dolajak at the newly constructed\u00a0<a title=\"Gateway Fashion Mall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wiki\/gateway-fashion-mall\">Gateway Mall<\/a>, just outside the\u00a0<a title=\"Thrifty White Drug \/ White Mart Department Store\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wiki\/thrifty-white-drug-white-mart-department-store\">White Mart<\/a>\u00a0department store.<\/p>\n<p>Bob&#8217;s Photo has been long associated with its &#8220;Take a shot. It&#8217;s a snap!&#8221; tagline and jingle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob&#8217;s Photo &#8211; a local retail icon since 1979 &#8211; is closing by the end of the year as its owner plans to retire. The store&#8217;s closure was confirmed in a post to the company&#8217;s Facebook Page on October 11, with a &#8220;Store-Wide Retirement Sale.&#8221; At present, Bob&#8217;s is only liquidating its inventory and will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,216,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bismarck-news","category-featured","category-home-page"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}