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dana
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response 50 of 81:
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Nov 16 23:12 UTC 1993 |
When is Drake's closing?
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scg
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response 51 of 81:
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Nov 17 22:29 UTC 1993 |
From what I read in the Ann Arbor News, I got the impression it was already
closed.
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polygon
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response 52 of 81:
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Nov 19 01:15 UTC 1993 |
They've stopped serving food, but they have a big candy inventory to
get rid of.
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mjs
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response 53 of 81:
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Nov 21 03:32 UTC 1993 |
Another piece of our culture and history dies. It's too bad America ties
up so much of its development of tradition in places of business, because
then all it takes to end it is an economic decision made by someone who
has better things to do.
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pegasus
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response 54 of 81:
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Jan 10 05:02 UTC 1994 |
I really like the Barnes & Nobles store! Beats Borders cause it's got
convenient parking! I've never had trouble parking at Barnes & Nobles, while
the Borders in downtown doesn't offer any parking at all. Apparently,
Borders is moving their headquarters from the big office building on State
Street, past the airport on your way to Saline, into the old Jacobson's
building on Maynard. Yeck. I won't be shopping there ever.
Another thing I really like about Barnes & Nobles, they carry CONNECT! And
a goodly number of them too!
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kaplan
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response 55 of 81:
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Jan 10 20:29 UTC 1994 |
Anyone know what's going on with the sites of the former 'downtown
holes in the ground' on Main near Packard? I thought I saw some new
construction going on there.
On Friday getting off I-94 west at AA-Saline road I was pleased to see
that poles are going up that seem to be ready to become traffic lights.
I was hoping not to be the person to cause an accident waiting to get
off the ramp while the AA-Saline road traffic is flying by....
Now if we can just get rid of the useless traffic light at Hewitt and
Michigan, I'll be all set.
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chelsea
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response 56 of 81:
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Jan 10 22:12 UTC 1994 |
That's one tough intersection. Sunday I went to Best Buy for a
long awaitied piece of software that had come in. Traffic was
all backed up because of an accident involving three cars. By
the time I was on my way home, maybe an hour later, there was
another accident at the same intersection, this time it was
a car and a pickup waiting for the police to arrive. It's criminal
that it has taken so long to do something about that site.
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mjs
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response 57 of 81:
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Jan 14 07:55 UTC 1994 |
It's criminal that development took place in that area in such
a poorly planned way that such an intersection ever happened
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danr
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response 58 of 81:
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Mar 18 12:15 UTC 1994 |
The Manikas Steak House is about to turn into the Shalimar Indian
restaurant. That will make three Indian restaurants downtown.
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remmers
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response 59 of 81:
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Mar 18 13:39 UTC 1994 |
Manikas Steak House is gone??? Oh no! Not that I ate there much, but
Manikas was just about the only restaurant left that was here when I
moved to Ann Arbor in 1963. It didn't change much in all that time
except for the acquisition of a liquor license. One more link to the
past bites the dust.
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rcurl
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response 60 of 81:
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Mar 18 15:11 UTC 1994 |
Ohmigosh. The Manikas Steak House is gone before I even heard of it!
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kami
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response 61 of 81:
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Mar 18 20:53 UTC 1994 |
The Diamond Head Cafe in Kerry town has been replaced by Exotic Bakeries (their
second store- the one in North Campus Plaza is still there), a very good
middle eastern resteraunt that also sells homemade french pastries.
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remmers
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response 62 of 81:
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Mar 18 21:59 UTC 1994 |
How multicultural-sounding. I'll miss Diamond Head though -- nice place
to stop for lunch when Kerrytowning.
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kami
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response 63 of 81:
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Mar 19 00:10 UTC 1994 |
indeed. much as I like EB, I was surprised to see Diamond Head gone.
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scg
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response 64 of 81:
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Mar 19 03:16 UTC 1994 |
Despite going to school accross the street from it, I've never been to
Diamond Head. I have gone to EB a couple of times, abnd it's quite good.
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danr
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response 65 of 81:
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Apr 9 18:53 UTC 1994 |
While walking from Kerrytown to the library this afternoon I notice
that a rubber stamp shop is due to open soon on Fourth between
Washtenaw and Washington.
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kaplan
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response 66 of 81:
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Apr 10 05:15 UTC 1994 |
<He probably meant Huron rather than Washtenaw>
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danr
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response 67 of 81:
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Apr 10 17:09 UTC 1994 |
I did!
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polygon
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response 68 of 81:
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May 3 17:54 UTC 1994 |
I understood that Toomuchfun Rubberstamps in East Lansing was about to
open a badly needed branch office in Ann Arbor. This must be it!
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danr
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response 69 of 81:
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Jul 3 22:56 UTC 1994 |
I dropped by Tower Records today, and was surprised at how much they've
expanded. They now occupy the whole top floor of the Galleria, and now
carry books, video, and a have a great selection of magazines. They're
not going to challenge the new Border's for books, but the newstand is
pretty nice.
Unfortunately, I also noticed that Cafe Fino, the coffeehouse in the
rear of the Galleria has closed. Of all the capuccinos in AA, I
thought theirs was the best. I guess the location was just too out of
the way and the competition too fierce.
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scg
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response 70 of 81:
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Nov 1 05:24 UTC 1994 |
The UGLi construction is almost finsihed, and it has been renamed the
Harold and Vivian Shapiro Library. I wonder it the new name will ever
stick, or if the best the University can hope for will be the Harold and
Vivian Shapiro UGLi.
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mwarner
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response 71 of 81:
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Nov 1 05:38 UTC 1994 |
HarVi
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cwb
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response 72 of 81:
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Jul 31 05:12 UTC 2000 |
Reading through this was rather interesting, a sort of time capsule. In
the last six years, much has changed, including, but not limited to:
Crazy Wisdom leaving 4th Ave for fancy new digs on Main st, The advent
of A2's second Borders Books and Music, The slow decay of the Chamber
arts series from the University Musical Society About 5 billion
different failed restaurants in the old Howard Johnson's space on
Carpenter near Washtenaw, The rise and fall of the halo from hell, And
the feeling that Ann Arbor is losing the character of a Midwestern
college town and becoming just another overcrowded place to live,
commute and otherwise deal with being too close to too many other
people.
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rcurl
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response 73 of 81:
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Jul 31 05:58 UTC 2000 |
Interesting observation - I've noticed that the Chamber Arts series
is getting poorer (it is the only series we subscribe to), but didn't
know others were noticing this - nor why.
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cwb
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response 74 of 81:
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Jul 31 19:26 UTC 2000 |
I have been attending the Chamber Arts series since about 1979. Through
the decade of the eighties, you could count on at least two concerts a
month from September through May, with several top-tier concerts each
year. The Guarneri, Tokyo and Borodin string quartets were fixtures,
along with others.
As the nineties came in, the fare began disappearing, to where I think
there were about ten concerts in the series last year. There are still
top performers, the Emerson Quartet and Beaux Artes trio etc, but it's
awfully slim pickings anymore.
In particular the reign of Ken fisher, while it has perhaps resulted in
revitalization of other parts of the Musical Society's programming has
meant a slow and inexorable withering of the content of this formerly
formidable series. It's a matter of demographics. The people I went to
chamber music concerts with twenty years ago are still the ones that I
co-attend with now, except for the ones who've died or moved away. Even
now I'm still under the median age of attendees. Sad, but inevitable I
suppose.
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