End of an Era: Blue Front is Closed
I used to shop there back in the day.
Blue Front party store closes after decades in Ann Arbor (MLive link).
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:21 PM ^
February, 2014. Just killing me.
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:28 PM ^
My memories of campus life are either closing or moving to hitherto undisclosed locations lately, it seems. I did an awful lot of shopping at the Blue Front. I wouldn't have minded picking up a keg one last time, or indeed, a light snack on my way to a meeting (a long time ago, it would have been class).
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:31 PM ^
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February 3rd, 2014 at 7:34 PM ^
This is really depressing. Can't say that the place necessarily had anything great, but I lived up the street in undergrad and I always had good memories of popping in there either before walking to class or on my way back home.
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:36 PM ^
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:42 PM ^
I lived across the street my last year of school and was there so often they always just made me go grab my own keg from the dungeon. I never trusted that jenky conveyor belt, but it always got the job done. I may have switched the caps on occassion and upgraded my keg as well...
February 4th, 2014 at 12:13 AM ^
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February 3rd, 2014 at 9:59 PM ^
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:41 PM ^
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:40 PM ^
What? Next you'll tell me that that Southside Grill is closed!
...
WHAT?!?
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:41 PM ^
Blue Front - so many memories.
RIP
February 3rd, 2014 at 9:13 PM ^
When I see that, the first thing that comes to mind is going to the cash machine out front and getting a receipt back that read:
Balance: $0.00.
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:44 PM ^
I'll have to pour out some natty light in homage. I spent a lot of money there my last year of school. I was usually the first person there when they opened on home game days.
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:46 PM ^
Bummer, that's something of an 'iconic' party store in A2. I never knew many people who went there but football saturdays and hockey weekends its one of the familiar sights of State & Packard.
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:47 PM ^
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:59 PM ^
But maybe not as notorious as Ralph's around the corner.
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:50 PM ^
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:52 PM ^
No! I used to scrounge around for cans and bottles to return there to get myself a pack of cigarettes (back when it was only marginally horrible to smoke). All my old places are fading away with history, like the Fab Five.
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:52 PM ^
Frigid winter 1985, walked by there and could get beer and snacks, in time to catch the news and Three Stooges late night, at my rental house by Yost.
Loved the newspaper selection too. Always cool in those days occasionally buying an out of town paper and reading their big sports stories.
That any Thano's Lamplight (now gone) for deep dish Sicilian pizza and beer.
February 3rd, 2014 at 8:23 PM ^
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:53 PM ^
Team CC.
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:53 PM ^
February 3rd, 2014 at 8:12 PM ^
At least Red Hot Lovers is still around... RIGHT?
Oh goddamnit.
February 3rd, 2014 at 8:29 PM ^
Ah, for the days when I could eat chili dogs and chili cheese fries with impunity.
February 3rd, 2014 at 8:46 PM ^
February 3rd, 2014 at 10:21 PM ^
This is just cruel...Steve's was where I learned that grease cured hangovers...
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:53 PM ^
Been going there since the 70's. This sucks. I can't take any more bad news.
February 3rd, 2014 at 7:54 PM ^
because they also sold liquor and joe is the man, but count me on the list of alums who is sad to hear of it closing
February 3rd, 2014 at 8:16 PM ^
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February 3rd, 2014 at 8:19 PM ^
Clerk there made fun of me for buying milk on a Saturday night once.
February 3rd, 2014 at 9:07 PM ^
I lived up the street for two years in college. A year or two later, I was back in town to watch a football game and stopped in for a beer. The old guy at the counter looked up and said "What happened? I never see you anymore! Are you ok?"
Yeah, I think we went there pretty often.
February 3rd, 2014 at 8:20 PM ^
That place just looks like college.
In my first years on campus, I usually went to Village Corner, and in later years Big 10 party store. Now Blue Front and Big 10 are gone, and VC moved away from campus. Brutal.
February 3rd, 2014 at 9:12 PM ^
That is a correct statement. Ageless ...
I'm tired of Ann Arbor eras ending. Can we continue building a new one, please? I'm looking at you MBB!
February 3rd, 2014 at 8:38 PM ^
February 3rd, 2014 at 8:45 PM ^
I bought precisely 1 keg in my college years (not sure if proud because I managed to only be the purchaser of one, or sad, don't worry we still did plenty of drinking); the keg was from here. I definitely had to go down into the basement and throw it on the janky conveyor myself, fun stuff!
February 4th, 2014 at 12:57 AM ^
Hell, we ended up going through SIX for one party (M defeats ND 1991 Grbac to Desmond). You must have been quite the successful moocher!
February 3rd, 2014 at 8:47 PM ^
what about village corner?
or the bagel factory?
or Bolgo's ice cream?
</boom - old man'd>
February 3rd, 2014 at 8:56 PM ^
Damn -more memories gone by the wayside. I was a Sigma Chi and our house was on State so we definitely did Campus Corner but when it came to cheap, cheap beer the Blue Front more than held it's own for keggers.
BTW - you'll be amazed at home many people have no idea how to properly tap a keg. At least one skill I learned in college has come in handy through the years.
February 3rd, 2014 at 10:52 PM ^
Theta Theta 80-something. That is all. Well, except for phone-scam and 10,000 other quasi-"criminal" acts.
February 3rd, 2014 at 9:15 PM ^
going in that place while attending a summer camp at UM in high school. I think every college town in America has a place like that.
February 3rd, 2014 at 9:22 PM ^
At least for now.
February 3rd, 2014 at 9:26 PM ^
So now The Blue Front, Village Corner, The Bagel Factory, O'Sullivans, the Full Moon, the One Eyed Moose, to name a few places I might have frequented, all live on in memory. The Pretzel Bell closed when I was a kid, that was from a generation earlier.
February 3rd, 2014 at 9:51 PM ^
February 3rd, 2014 at 9:54 PM ^