Crazy Jim's Widow Sells, Blimpy's Must Move.

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December 6th, 2012 at 4:30 PM
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Crazy Jim's Widow Sells, Blimpy's Must Move.

Ann Arbor.com, HT Andrew Fine.

"Krazy" Jim Shafer was the longtime owner of Blimpy's. Today it's owned and operated by Rich Magner but Jim's widow sold the property (including my mother's house in college) to the university.

They're not going to close but they have to move:

“I don’t know what the plans are,” Magner said. “But basically, in a nutshell, we will be able to operate in this location into summer 2013 and we will be trying to put a deal together and look for a new location.” Magner worked at Blimpy Burger in 1969 when he was a student. After working in other restaurants, he returned to Blimpy Burger and purchased the business in 1993.

Finding a place on campus is gonna be tough. For anyone who ever lived on the south side of campus, having the answer to your hangover just a few blocks away was the most important thing.

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December 6th, 2012 at 4:33 PM | DISASTER (Score:5 Normal)
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December 6th, 2012 at 4:35 PM | How did you get a picture of (Score:5 Normal)
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How did you get a picture of the inside of my intestines after eating Blimpy?

The swag is back. 

December 6th, 2012 at 10:47 PM | Well (Score:2 Normal)
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then, that is a beautiful picture of a stomach orgasm.

December 6th, 2012 at 4:39 PM | Edit: Curse you, Butterfield, and your quick-typing fingers! (Score:5 Normal)
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Here is the number of combinations you can make there.

The number of possible Blimpy Burger combinations is:
2,147,483,648

 



 


 

How did we figure this out? There are four burger sizes, six cheeses (you can order all of them, some of them, or no cheese at all), four different bun types, nine different grilled items (you can get all, some, or none of them) and twelve different condiments (again you can get all, some, or none). So, according to noted Blimpy Addict Will G. -- roommate of former Blimpy staff -- the number of combinations is equal to:
6 9 12  

(

  

)

  

(

  

)

  

(

  

)
∑ ∑ ∑

4 x

 6

x 4 x

 9

x

 12
c g n
c=0 g=0 n=0            
("c" is for cheese, "g" is for grilled items, and "n" is for condiments) 
Using Matlab the following code will evaluate the expression:
>> v=0
>> for c=0:6
      for g=0:9
        for n=0:12
           s=4*(factorial(6)/factorial(6-c)*factorial(c)));
           t=4*(factorial(9)/factorial(9-g)*factorial(g)));
           u=(factorial(12)/factorial(12-n)*factorial(n)));
           v=v+(s*t*u);
         end
       end
     end
>>sym(v,'d')
ans=2,147,483,648

 

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December 6th, 2012 at 5:04 PM | My fast fingers truly (Score:5 Normal)
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My fast fingers truly apologize.  I'll let you have a crack at another "caption that disaster" that could relate to post-Blimpy digestive processes. 

 

 

The swag is back. 

December 6th, 2012 at 5:18 PM | "Commuters on County Road 6 (Score:5 Normal)
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December 6th, 2012 at 9:38 PM | Yeah, that one writes itself. (Score:2)
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Yeah, that one writes itself.

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December 6th, 2012 at 5:23 PM | The Michigan Difference. (Score:4 Normal)
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The Michigan Difference. Not only are the burgers good and cheap, but we we can do math with them.

December 6th, 2012 at 4:34 PM | Snorlax I chose you! (Score:3 Normal)
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Snorlax I chose you!

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December 6th, 2012 at 4:35 PM | BLAME EVERYTHING (Score:5 Normal)
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I BLAME THIS ON DAVE BRANDON, AL BORGES, MANBAWL, ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING!

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December 6th, 2012 at 9:33 PM | I'm guessing that Borges.... (Score:2 Normal)
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...does everything he can to support Blimpy.

All right Lemmings. Bring the heat.

December 6th, 2012 at 4:36 PM | (No subject) (Score:1 Normal)
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December 6th, 2012 at 4:37 PM | (No subject) (Score:5 Normal)
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HEY! You there!

December 6th, 2012 at 4:40 PM | I think it deserved to be on the front page where it started. (Score:3 Normal)
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What in the hell does the University need to put on THAT corner? The health system is making 10% cuts across the board because they've bungled the finances, and the school is buying like there's no tomorrow.

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December 6th, 2012 at 5:30 PM | Health System (Score:5 Normal)
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The health system is one of the most inefficient medical systems in the country in terms of fundraising, which is why those folks need those kinds of cuts.  The University kind of lets them operate on their own turf, which has its downsides.  Those folks need to clean house and learn how to raise money properly.  They have the facilties, they have the experts- now they need to learn how to pay for them.

 

I hate the need to buy up all the property in Ann Arbor- when I was a student and a few years after I could see the need, but at this point it is feeling a bit sprawling.  The best thing about Ann Arbor is the city/university interplay.  If it becomes all university it takes away what made my experience unique, and what I think makes Ann Arbor such a wonderful place to live.

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December 6th, 2012 at 6:46 PM | That was just me using WLive. (Score:1)
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That was just me using WLive. How the hell did you see it there in 20 seconds?

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December 6th, 2012 at 10:22 PM | The internet (Score:4 Normal)
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It is faster than you are, and it is forever.

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December 8th, 2012 at 7:37 PM | Who are you talking to? (Score:3 Normal)
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Do you think 20 seconds goes by here and I don't see it?

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December 6th, 2012 at 6:46 PM | Moar parking... (Score:1)
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Moar parking...

/°>

 

December 6th, 2012 at 8:51 PM | PSDs in action! (Score:3 Normal)
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What's the bet that it's athletic related, and my past exorbitant donations have funded the destruction of my favorite restaurant on the planet?



Double fuck.



Just...not...cool.

December 7th, 2012 at 1:32 AM | Doubt it's athletic. The (Score:1)
Seth
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Doubt it's athletic. The administration building is really close to there so I expect something associated with that. I think one of the tenants of the (Chris) Perry building has wanted out for a long time.

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December 6th, 2012 at 4:41 PM | (No subject) (Score:3 Normal)
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Michigan's offensive style requires more players that have greater interactions with the Higgs field.

December 6th, 2012 at 4:42 PM | (No subject) (Score:3 Normal)
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Edit:  beaten to the punch.

December 6th, 2012 at 5:13 PM | There's never too many Darth Vader gifs for this news (Score:4 Normal)
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December 6th, 2012 at 4:46 PM | It will be one of two things going up there (Score:5 Normal)
Don
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Either another ugly, bland, banal UM office building, or a parking lot. Or maybe first a parking lot, then a building.


December 6th, 2012 at 4:47 PM | Or a 10-story luxury (Score:5 Normal)
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Or a 10-story luxury apartment complex. 

December 6th, 2012 at 5:48 PM | Now That You Mention It... (Score:3 Normal)
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It's likely going to be office space. First Martin owns most of the property around it - one of the last designs I did before I moved to management was an estimate to relocate some of the facilities right around Crazy Jim's, and the folks I talked to had plans to make this part of the ISR improvements potentially, but perhaps build an independent structure. They weren't sure at that time, but they were definitely interested in the property. 

I also designed the steel poles at the intersection there - I put those there because they would last, (and the city wanted a gateway type look to our lines), as I thought Blimpy Burger would last. This is a shame to hear. 

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December 6th, 2012 at 9:16 PM | Are you complicit in this travesty? (Score:2)
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How could you? What were you thinking? You sold out to the man? Is nothing sacred?

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December 7th, 2012 at 2:03 AM | Both (Score:2)
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It's a building for parking lot administration

December 6th, 2012 at 4:48 PM | This is a traveshamockery. (Score:4 Normal)
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This is a traveshamockery.

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December 6th, 2012 at 4:48 PM | Guy Fieri should buy that (Score:1 Normal)
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Guy Fieri should buy that place. They're a match made in grease-pit heaven.

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December 6th, 2012 at 4:54 PM | We know he likes it (Score:2)
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December 6th, 2012 at 5:35 PM |           (Score:3 Normal)
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December 6th, 2012 at 8:49 PM | I'll miss the chicken sandwich as well (Score:0 Flamebait)
December 6th, 2012 at 5:56 PM | Anyone know, did she make it (Score:2)
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Anyone know, did she make it to 21?

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December 6th, 2012 at 6:44 PM | She in fact does. (Score:2)
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Never understood why someone didn't upload the rest of the segment.

Or uploads the Hamburger Paradise 2 segment.

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December 6th, 2012 at 4:49 PM | New Locations? (Score:2)
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Were can they move?

Any openings on South U?

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December 6th, 2012 at 6:55 PM | Stucchi's (Score:1)
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Stucchi's

/°>

 

December 6th, 2012 at 4:50 PM | But... But... No... They (Score:4 Normal)
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But... But... No... They can't do that... :(

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December 6th, 2012 at 4:50 PM | The university is going to own all of Ann Arbor (Score:3 Normal)
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in a matter of years if this keeps happening.

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December 6th, 2012 at 6:46 PM | Agree. (Score:5 Normal)
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And it's going to totally ruin Ann Arbor.

If the U (and some state leaders) really had some vision say 10-15 years ago, they could've done a 2nd campus in Detroit.  And maybe that could've spurred a high-speed rail connection between the two with a stop at metro airport.

Instead we get A2 slowly being squeezed as everything unique & quirky gets crushed by the U. and it's related interests.  Really kind of a shame what might have been.

December 6th, 2012 at 8:07 PM | Love this idea, not only for (Score:1)
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Love this idea, not only for the rail, but for a meaningful campus in Detroit. 

December 6th, 2012 at 9:06 PM | This has been the refrain in (Score:1)
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This has been the refrain in A2 for years; the fact is, a lot of these unique places just don't make enough money for their location. Anyone remember the old Not Another Cafe establishment next to the Maize N Blue Deli? Nice idea, except it made no money. Now it's leased office space because no business could make the space work.



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December 8th, 2012 at 7:39 PM | Well part of it is outrageous rents. (Score:2)
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People can't afford them, but they can afford to overprice the property because if they lay empty they write it off till the University is willing to pay way over value and they make a killing on their investment.

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December 6th, 2012 at 4:57 PM | Anybody remember Mikes Deli (Score:1)
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in Ypsi? That place had the BEST sandwiches, I hear they still have a store open somewhere in MI

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December 6th, 2012 at 4:59 PM | They've been in Chelsea, MI (Score:1)
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They've been in Chelsea, MI for years.

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December 6th, 2012 at 5:00 PM | God damn bitch. (Score:1 Normal)
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God damn bitch.

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December 6th, 2012 at 5:01 PM | (No subject) (Score:2 Normal)
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December 6th, 2012 at 5:03 PM | I feel like Blimpy has been (Score:2 Normal)
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I feel like Blimpy has been struggling post Crazy Jim.  I remember in the early 2000s when I lived in SQuad, I practically lived on Blimpy for awhile.  Ever since Magner took over though it seems like their business has fallen off.  I remember during lunch hours in the warm weather you got there early or you stood for half an hour, now there is less of a line.  One Friday in June there was no line, which was just plain surreal.  

I also have to say it seems like sometime over the past two or three years, quality has also fallen off slightly.  Either that or I've just been going at times when there are bad line cooks.  The past few times I've gone the food has been inferior to Five Guys.  Hopefully they can cut a deal to move in somewhere and recover.    

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