LSAClassOf2000

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). 

MichiganStudent

February 3rd, 2014 at 7:31 PM ^

NOOOOOOO!!!!! I used to buy there in high school and college underaged. I don't think I even had to use a fake ID.

tbeindit

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.  

andrewG

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...

BlueFordSoftTop

February 3rd, 2014 at 7:41 PM ^

 
 
The Front always came through for us when The Frat needed 20 emergency kegs for After Hours and Blue Blazer parties. I used to bump into my elective history prof there (brilliant man and adored despite being a ball/curve-breaker and apparent alcoholic) when he was collecting Friday's vodka bottle and I was buying for my underage bro's.  Even as a kid visiting far away A^2 I had noted the colorful activities and charades that emanated from The Front.  A part of me has died with this loss. 

andrewG

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.

gwkrlghl

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.

Wendyk5

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. 

tybert

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.

UMQuadz05

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.

SFBlue

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.

WolvinLA2

February 3rd, 2014 at 8:38 PM ^

I was either a Champions or a Campus Corner guy, but this is still a bummer.

My favorite memory about Blue Front is when my buddy Nate and I were walking by as a guy was delivering cases of beer. He left his truck open when he went inside, and when he came out he was down two cases of Miller Lite.

Soulfire21

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!

mGrowOld

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.

 

I dumped the Dope

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.

DeadBlue

February 3rd, 2014 at 9:51 PM ^

Won't miss that place. My second day on campus (I was a transfer student in summer school) I decided to be a big shot and buy a bunch of beer for my new friends in the dorm and spent the night in jail. They let me out in the middle of the night and I didn't even know how to get back to the dorm or find a cab or anything. I guess the unbelievably bad fake ID I had worked in NYC but not VC! I did come home to a sympathetic young lady who I met the first day on campus who eased the pain however. Of course I found out afterwards that VC was not a place to be messed with of you had a bad fake ID.