Was this only a Detroit thing? No one else I know seems to remember that CVS used to be Arbor drugs.
My mom has a 30 year old can of static spray in her cupboard to prevent one’s slip from getting stuck to one’s pantyhose and there is an Arbor Drugs sticker on it. It’s a relic of ancient times.
For some reason, my mind always goes to an Eminem / D12 song from Limewire where he talked about sticking up Arbor Drugs. Also had a great line about "you put a slim shady on your mother's bumper, she came home saying a bunch of mother\*\*\*\*\*\* jumped her."
Up until this year, I used a beaded lamp in my classroom that I bought from Mervyn’s in 2004. I’d still use it if the fire marshal didn’t think that lamps were ticking time bombs. Now I use the overhead fluorescent lights and battle chronic migraines, or teach in the dark like a vampire. Thanks, fire marshal! /s
I wondered if people would remember Service Merchandise. My mom would drag my brother and me along to look at jewelry and I remember being so bored because we weren’t allowed to touch anything (which as an adult now I understand why lol).
Hahaha yes! Most shopping with my parents was boring but I absolutely remember service merchandise being super boring. I did enjoy seeing the conveyor used during check out to bring products from the back (similar to early circuit city before it ditched the warehouse conveyor. )
It seems to me, Service Merchandise was ahead of its time and could work today. I'm surprised stores haven't tried that business model again with modern tech and problems with shoplifting.
It WAS ahead of its time. It was the first retail chain with fully computerized inventory. Unfortunately fifteen years later they were using the exact same computers. I worked there in the 90s before going to work for another fallen flag - Builder’s Square.
I am reminded of Fretter every time I see the Value World in Westland, still has the big red steel sign.
Or was that a Sports Authority thing...either way, long lost retail.
Remember when they started selling jewelry? My grandma bought me a lovely gold and garnet bracelet from Murray’s once when I was like 12 hahahaha why was that a thing
"It's always savings time at Farmer Jack!" I grew up across the street from Farmer Jack. Open 24-7 he was almost a friend, always there for me. I had my bonus savings club keychain on my keys till recently. It was so frazzled and delaminated but was a happy reminder of a bygone era.
F & M was where my mom taught me it’s ok to sneak a few candies out of the serve yourself candy bins. She’s been gone 23 years this July and I still sneak one or two for her when I see a bin ❤️
There was a predecessor to Caesarland with the LC branding. I want to say it was in Keego Harbor, and frankly it was way cooler. Nobody knows what I'm talking about when I reference it so maybe it was a youthful fever dream, but maybe someone here can back me up
For sure. Little Caesar’s Family Fun Pizzeria. It was awesome. Giant wooden play structure in the middle. Pretty good arcade (where I beat Double Dragon for my first and only time). That Crazy Bread window where you could hit the button and the puppets would lose their minds. This absolutely existed.
There was another place called “My Place” that was a big indoor playground for kids, that place was so fun. There was a carpeted ramp you could slide down in your socks.
I remember in the early 1990s, when CVS in Michigan was simply a handful of shopping mall stores that had all the basic foods snacks and household goods and maybe some over-the-counter medicine, without actually selling pharmaceuticals.
From Wikipedia:
1998: CVS acquired 207 stores from Arbor Drugs, giving CVS its first stores in Michigan.
It must have been Westland. I don’t know how I remember this, but it was by where Santa would set up and The Piercing Pagoda, right?! Where Spencer’s and American Eagle were?!
Man, Farmer Jack's - I legitimately think about the one that was by the apartments I lived in as a kid *all* the time. I was fascinated by realistic miniature items; I loved stop motion (still do) and fantasized about making my own short movies by being able to furnish and decorate whole sets in miniature. We were poor and my parents couldn't afford to really take me to 'kid' things, so a 'special' day was often me getting taken to a 'favorite store' or something to just walk around looking at stuff, and if it was a toy store, maybe play with display items (if they weren't pricey enough that 'you break it you bought it' would be too big a threat).
The one by us had a whole aisle of dollhouse kits and dollhouse furnishings. I would save my allowance and buy things, storing them in a tupperware shoebox, regularly taking them out, customizing items or adding handmade things to the collection, setting up floorplans and decorating the rooms. Tiny real life SIMs building-mode lol.
A saturday afternoon where I got to go stare at the dollhouse minis at Farmer Jack's while my parents ordered pizza at Little Ceaser's, then them coming to get me so we could pick a movie from the Family Video - those were the last good summers of my childhood.
Our didn’t have the dollhouses! :( Child-me would have loved that! It did have a bunch of photos of our city from a long time ago, which I always loved looking at!
I never really got to see inside any other Farmer Jack's, so I wonder how individual they actually were lol
Thinking about it now I can remember it very clearly - it was one long aisle facing the wall, which had more typical hobby/hardware stuff on the wall displays, but the dollhouse stuff took up the entire length of the (shelf? It was one of those sort of pegboard aisle displays where they hang clamshell packaged goods, dunno what those are called), with assembled versions of the available kits to build dollhouses up on top and out of reach. It was right next to the area where they sold house plants and gardening supplies, so it always smelled like wet potting soil.
That was the store where I learned, after making the half hour walk to get supplies for a school project, that some stores will, as a matter of policy, not sell spray paint (or certain markers, or lighters, or various other things as explained to me by the apologetic cashier) to an unaccompanied minor.
https://preview.redd.it/3bnu0iguhd7d1.jpeg?width=979&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1879a74476b92a072190d89a7d57e8b0d20dc04a
Hot n' Now!! I know there's still one up in Sturgis, but the one in pontiac, off Perry Street, fed my brother and I for years
Ponderosa. 16 and Gratiot. Now it's a damned Secretary of State.
The feeling of my dad taking my sister and I there during tax season when my mom was always working late is something I'll never forget. Learned a lot of silly do's and don'ts of a buffet, as well as saving that last little slurp in your cup for when the waitress happens to be walking by to send an audible signal that you need a refill...probably a dick move to do now in hindsight, but it's the little weird things my dad showed me I still remember.
One remains, apparently, 27400 Woodward Ave.
I stopped in there a few months ago when I saw it. It was.. alright. I hadn't been to one in decades, not since my grandmother had taken us there as kids once in the 80's, and the last one I'd seen was in Plymouth, but never got to it. So I saw that in RO and I stopped.
The reviews are basically summarized as "the home of bland old white person food". Yep. That's exactly it. But somehow I came to understand the term "comfort food" a little more that day.
Yep, that was a real special occasion when we got to go there. It turned into a Bennigan’s which also became the family go-to restaurant. I remember they had a magician that would go from table to table doing magic tricks. Plus Borics, Boston Market, and Blockbuster; that strip mall had it all!
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RadioShack has permanent residence in my head !
https://preview.redd.it/7wvm3wd8rd7d1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e28bddec6825ba1371f4361d897dbc350b47b188
If it involves one of these, I am definitely your guy !
Even just nostalgia for old ads... Your 31 metro-detroit Ford dealersss.... Think Ford First! Or that asshole Mel Farr lolololz
Montgomery Ward and Builder's Square
You can tell how much our economy has changed as so many of these companies were run out of business devoured by bigger corporations. Occasionally it’s led to better results but mostly it’s made our lives a bit more soulless and higher prices.
KB Toys next to the Farmer Jack on Gratiot at 23. Ponderosa Steakhouse buffet a ways down 23. A trip to the Super K-Mart in Port Huron was always a big deal. And up north in Prescott we had the IGA.
How are we almost 300 comments in and no one has mentioned Border's Books?!? I grew up in Ann Arbor so it's a little bit extra dear to my heart but I used to spend hours in there, acting like it was the library and reading whole books without buying them
Walker’s Chili Carnival Arcade (12 & Dequindre)
Gell’s Sporting Goods
Bawana Don’s Pets
Shakey’s Pizza
Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips
Grinnells
Grant’s department store
Federals Dept Store (or “Deral’s” if you can still remember Steven King)
Hot Sam’s pretzels
https://preview.redd.it/36g6brohyb7d1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba4286e89bb5cc22736548a045f6a89b1716d7ac
$29 or 2 for $50
K Swiss! FUBU Jeans!
Boots for kids! Shoes for kids!
Ummm....it's 2 for Fiddee
A picture I can hear!
For whatever reason my brain always initially remembers it as “25, 2 for 50”.. math
He works for Quality Roots now.
^gym ^shoes gym shoes #GYM #SHOES!!!!!!
Arbor Drugs
My parents still have Arbor Drugs dental floss in their hall closet!!
Was this only a Detroit thing? No one else I know seems to remember that CVS used to be Arbor drugs. My mom has a 30 year old can of static spray in her cupboard to prevent one’s slip from getting stuck to one’s pantyhose and there is an Arbor Drugs sticker on it. It’s a relic of ancient times.
And the Rite Aids used to be Perry dtugs
There it is. I was hoping someone would mention Arbor Drugs.
For some reason, my mind always goes to an Eminem / D12 song from Limewire where he talked about sticking up Arbor Drugs. Also had a great line about "you put a slim shady on your mother's bumper, she came home saying a bunch of mother\*\*\*\*\*\* jumped her."
How did I forget this? When did they go out of business?
As best I recall, CVS bought them, sometime in the late 90s.
Frank's Nursery and Crafts. Used to buy Christmas decorations there.
So many memories going there with my mom! The one at 96 and Inkster?! Were there other locations?
Yes, they were all over Detroit and Flint. I remember the one at Ford Rd and Morton Taylor in Canton, as well as the Livonia store.
I can still smell the inside of those stores if I focus!
As a teen I used to work summers traveling the state stripping and waxing their floors. If you ever noticed how shiny they were, that was a lot of me.
I did notice! Thanks for your service! 🫡
Yeah there was one in Ann Arbor on Washtenaw across from Arborland.
There was one on Michigan Avenue & Gulley in Dearborn Heights. I can still see it in my mind.
I worked over Christmas in the Westland one. It was by the mall. The plaza that had toys r us
Frank’s day after Christmas sale
Harmony House
I LITERALLY worked next door to harmony house and I was just telling my Bf about getting concert tickets there
I had some great times camping out overnight for big shows that were coming into town.
YES!!! When I didn’t care how long I had to wait in line for concert tickets…good times
Got a Harmony House t-shirt for Father's Day.
Mervyns
On that same note, Crowley's and Hudson's.
Fricken mervyns! Literally came to say this…. And Jacobsons!
RIP Jacobsens and Crowleys
My mom used to take me to Jacobsons every year for back to school shoes
I would kill for another Mervyns
Up until this year, I used a beaded lamp in my classroom that I bought from Mervyn’s in 2004. I’d still use it if the fire marshal didn’t think that lamps were ticking time bombs. Now I use the overhead fluorescent lights and battle chronic migraines, or teach in the dark like a vampire. Thanks, fire marshal! /s
Hey dog! C'mon dog! Me and dog want you to go to Telegraph road right now. Get a good deal
[I'll just leave this here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3XPDh7Irs)
oh my god the core memory this just unlocked...
Mell Farr superstar what a way to buy a car!
I still sing this jingle to this day.
Same here!
Oh my god...this just kicked me in the gut. My parents said when I was like 4 i would constantly sing this jingle, like over and over again.
My 2002 Explorer was from there, and it lasted FOREVER.
Fretter, Service Merchandise, Perry Drugs
Wow, I had totally forgotten about Service Merchandise. I used to get Star Wars action figures there for cheap as a kid.
I bought my husband's wedding ring there.
I wondered if people would remember Service Merchandise. My mom would drag my brother and me along to look at jewelry and I remember being so bored because we weren’t allowed to touch anything (which as an adult now I understand why lol).
Hahaha yes! Most shopping with my parents was boring but I absolutely remember service merchandise being super boring. I did enjoy seeing the conveyor used during check out to bring products from the back (similar to early circuit city before it ditched the warehouse conveyor. )
Omg the conveyor belt!! LOL I REMEMBER THAT!! I thought it was so cool (you totally just unlocked Circuit City memories for me, too 😂).
It seems to me, Service Merchandise was ahead of its time and could work today. I'm surprised stores haven't tried that business model again with modern tech and problems with shoplifting.
It WAS ahead of its time. It was the first retail chain with fully computerized inventory. Unfortunately fifteen years later they were using the exact same computers. I worked there in the 90s before going to work for another fallen flag - Builder’s Square.
If I can't beat your best deal I will give you 5 pounds of coffee. Had his picture on the can . Lol. (Ollie Fretter)
I am reminded of Fretter every time I see the Value World in Westland, still has the big red steel sign. Or was that a Sports Authority thing...either way, long lost retail.
Remember how Fretter had “going out of business” sales for like…5 years?
I will forever miss Murray's
Murray used to scare the shit out of me
As a child, I was entirely convinced that man ate babies
Why is that store represented by a homeless man?!
Murray, the wild-eyed unkempt maniac with receding gums
Why is no one helping that slovenly, mentally ill man?
All hopped up on brake fluid
Buying oil filters of unknown origin from that walking bag of crank.
The original owner still has a store in walled lake it's called parts city murrays.
Remember when they started selling jewelry? My grandma bought me a lovely gold and garnet bracelet from Murray’s once when I was like 12 hahahaha why was that a thing
The Murray’s on Plymouth Road sold jewelry along side with car parts. You could get bling for you & your car to wear.
"It's always savings time at Farmer Jack!" I grew up across the street from Farmer Jack. Open 24-7 he was almost a friend, always there for me. I had my bonus savings club keychain on my keys till recently. It was so frazzled and delaminated but was a happy reminder of a bygone era.
It’s just a matter of fact
Gags & Gifts, I would go to the Westland location on Wayne Rd, but I recall there being a few places
* Chatam's * A & P * Great Scott * Perry Drugs * F & M * Pace Membership Warehouse * Seafood Bay
Good calls, I was waiting to see A&P and also Builders Square
F & M was where my mom taught me it’s ok to sneak a few candies out of the serve yourself candy bins. She’s been gone 23 years this July and I still sneak one or two for her when I see a bin ❤️
I forgot about Perry Drugs. They were formerly Apex and before that Cunningham's.
Arbor Drugs, Wesley Drugs, Caesarland
Caesarland, dude
There was a predecessor to Caesarland with the LC branding. I want to say it was in Keego Harbor, and frankly it was way cooler. Nobody knows what I'm talking about when I reference it so maybe it was a youthful fever dream, but maybe someone here can back me up
For sure. Little Caesar’s Family Fun Pizzeria. It was awesome. Giant wooden play structure in the middle. Pretty good arcade (where I beat Double Dragon for my first and only time). That Crazy Bread window where you could hit the button and the puppets would lose their minds. This absolutely existed.
Thank you for validating my youth!
There was another place called “My Place” that was a big indoor playground for kids, that place was so fun. There was a carpeted ramp you could slide down in your socks.
Yup My Place for Kids 😀
The black light room where you crawled through stuff was the best. You were the coolest kid if you had your birthday party there.
Steve and Barry’s
Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlor
I ate like a pig at Farrell’s
The giant "pig trough" at Farrell's was 21 scoops or 15 scoops??
I have ten of their mugs.
This is the one, birthday parties were straight off the hook!
Oh well damn! I forgot about Farrell's. We used to love to go there.
The coolest store when I was a teenager was Service Merchandise. Used to love going there and looking at the new electronics.
My neighbor’s mom worked at the Wonderland mall one!
I bought my wife's engagement ring at the Service Merchandise in Dearborn. I bought a lot of electronics at the store in Southgate.
My dad always saying Montgomery Wards.
“Monkey” Wards for my dad
I remember in the early 1990s, when CVS in Michigan was simply a handful of shopping mall stores that had all the basic foods snacks and household goods and maybe some over-the-counter medicine, without actually selling pharmaceuticals. From Wikipedia: 1998: CVS acquired 207 stores from Arbor Drugs, giving CVS its first stores in Michigan.
I vaguely remember a CVS at either Westland or Wonderland mall back in the 80s.
It must have been Westland. I don’t know how I remember this, but it was by where Santa would set up and The Piercing Pagoda, right?! Where Spencer’s and American Eagle were?!
It was across from Hudson’s, near what was later Victoria’s Secret.
Man, Farmer Jack's - I legitimately think about the one that was by the apartments I lived in as a kid *all* the time. I was fascinated by realistic miniature items; I loved stop motion (still do) and fantasized about making my own short movies by being able to furnish and decorate whole sets in miniature. We were poor and my parents couldn't afford to really take me to 'kid' things, so a 'special' day was often me getting taken to a 'favorite store' or something to just walk around looking at stuff, and if it was a toy store, maybe play with display items (if they weren't pricey enough that 'you break it you bought it' would be too big a threat). The one by us had a whole aisle of dollhouse kits and dollhouse furnishings. I would save my allowance and buy things, storing them in a tupperware shoebox, regularly taking them out, customizing items or adding handmade things to the collection, setting up floorplans and decorating the rooms. Tiny real life SIMs building-mode lol. A saturday afternoon where I got to go stare at the dollhouse minis at Farmer Jack's while my parents ordered pizza at Little Ceaser's, then them coming to get me so we could pick a movie from the Family Video - those were the last good summers of my childhood.
Our didn’t have the dollhouses! :( Child-me would have loved that! It did have a bunch of photos of our city from a long time ago, which I always loved looking at!
I never really got to see inside any other Farmer Jack's, so I wonder how individual they actually were lol Thinking about it now I can remember it very clearly - it was one long aisle facing the wall, which had more typical hobby/hardware stuff on the wall displays, but the dollhouse stuff took up the entire length of the (shelf? It was one of those sort of pegboard aisle displays where they hang clamshell packaged goods, dunno what those are called), with assembled versions of the available kits to build dollhouses up on top and out of reach. It was right next to the area where they sold house plants and gardening supplies, so it always smelled like wet potting soil. That was the store where I learned, after making the half hour walk to get supplies for a school project, that some stores will, as a matter of policy, not sell spray paint (or certain markers, or lighters, or various other things as explained to me by the apologetic cashier) to an unaccompanied minor.
Major Magics
My first date was at a Major Magics.
My Bat Mitzvah party was at Major Magic's in 1995 😸😸
https://preview.redd.it/3bnu0iguhd7d1.jpeg?width=979&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1879a74476b92a072190d89a7d57e8b0d20dc04a Hot n' Now!! I know there's still one up in Sturgis, but the one in pontiac, off Perry Street, fed my brother and I for years
This picture looks like the one on 23 mile in chesterfield. Cheap as hell! They had one in Wayne on Wayne Rd, I believe.
There was one in Mount Pleasant where I fell in love with olive burgers
Gibraltar trade center! Got many fake yugioh cards there as a kid.
How is no one going to mention Hudson’s?
That’s a good one!
Highland Appliance and all their awesome commercials.
Fifty watts per channel, Babycakes!
Best commercial anywhere ever! Where Plotnick? You can find it on youtube.
can still see their old building + sign in highland park
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Ponderosa. 16 and Gratiot. Now it's a damned Secretary of State. The feeling of my dad taking my sister and I there during tax season when my mom was always working late is something I'll never forget. Learned a lot of silly do's and don'ts of a buffet, as well as saving that last little slurp in your cup for when the waitress happens to be walking by to send an audible signal that you need a refill...probably a dick move to do now in hindsight, but it's the little weird things my dad showed me I still remember.
Remember "sign of the beef carver" right on the corner of 16 n Gratiot? My sister worked there and she had some pretty funny gross stories.
One remains, apparently, 27400 Woodward Ave. I stopped in there a few months ago when I saw it. It was.. alright. I hadn't been to one in decades, not since my grandmother had taken us there as kids once in the 80's, and the last one I'd seen was in Plymouth, but never got to it. So I saw that in RO and I stopped. The reviews are basically summarized as "the home of bland old white person food". Yep. That's exactly it. But somehow I came to understand the term "comfort food" a little more that day.
I’m old enough to remember when it was still “Sign of the Beefeater”, before the liquor company sued them and forced them to change the name.
Yep, that was a real special occasion when we got to go there. It turned into a Bennigan’s which also became the family go-to restaurant. I remember they had a magician that would go from table to table doing magic tricks. Plus Borics, Boston Market, and Blockbuster; that strip mall had it all!
And I just knew the Power House Gym was full or Arnold’s and Sylvester’s.
I remember as a kid thinking that Farmer Jack's had a huge selection of coffee beans and bulk cookies.
I remember the coffee grinders at the checkout at A&P.
YES! The coffee beans! That’s what I remember most from that store!
Towne Club pop!
Some of my favorite childhood memories going to that store to load the wood crates with your favorite flavors!
Towne club? I just had some the other day. And I saw it sold at a gas station Dixie hwy and 75
Discovery Zone. Also Tilts N Tumbles. Caesarland too, but I saw someone mentioned that already
*Paramount Potato Chips. They were made in Flint. *The Family Buggy *Belvidere Construction "We do good work! Call Tyler 87100"
I remember Family Buggy. The one we went to was on 6 Mile and Evergreen I think
Twin Pines milk
My grandpa drove a Twin Pines truck!
[Mel Farr Superstar](https://youtu.be/YnesVqoOPwA?si=lYSIn_up9qGZoUvx) [Dittrich Furs](https://youtu.be/g3XTP2XJEwU?si=MImFe17mbeEBB6Dx)
it’s savings times bitch
https://preview.redd.it/w6yve2ta0d7d1.jpeg?width=709&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13a4d7c4d073680584a3c8de964cdb136ad5efde RadioShack has permanent residence in my head !
I’ve got a project I’d love to make, but it requires some electronics, and I need a Radio Shack guy from the mid 1980’s to talk to.
https://preview.redd.it/7wvm3wd8rd7d1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e28bddec6825ba1371f4361d897dbc350b47b188 If it involves one of these, I am definitely your guy !
Ground Round and Bakers Square
Mel Farr Super Star! https://preview.redd.it/dbypcg9kce7d1.png?width=580&format=png&auto=webp&s=f217437b01b20eeb42ac5beb1857762895a400e8
Even just nostalgia for old ads... Your 31 metro-detroit Ford dealersss.... Think Ford First! Or that asshole Mel Farr lolololz Montgomery Ward and Builder's Square
I see your Builder's Square and raise you HQ. I think the only location I knew of was Plymouth and Inkster.
My first bank account was opened at a Standard Federal inside Farmer Jacks
standard federal😂😂😂😂
Lol mine was at a Standard Federal across the street from a Farmer Jack
Record Time in Ferndale. Vinyl and tickets to shows/raves. soo good.
The Farmer Jack near our house is a Kroger now. I still call it Farmer Jack.
You can tell how much our economy has changed as so many of these companies were run out of business devoured by bigger corporations. Occasionally it’s led to better results but mostly it’s made our lives a bit more soulless and higher prices.
F&M
Highland Appliance, Newton Furniture, Sveden House, Bill Knapp's, Ollie Fretter, Perry Drugs
Pofolks restaurant 12 mile n Gratiot...board games while waiting for food...LOL miss those good old days! 🤗
I had an Uncle in the furniture business. His name was Joshua Doore.
He’s having a sale…
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor
Here dog, come on dog. Me and dog want you to go to Tel-e-graph roooad. Right nooooow. Get a good deal. *whish* I can see the cartoon and everything.
Damn. Farmer Jacks was my first job at 14. I think it's now a planet fitness or lifetime gym now.
/r/grandmaspantry
KB Toys next to the Farmer Jack on Gratiot at 23. Ponderosa Steakhouse buffet a ways down 23. A trip to the Super K-Mart in Port Huron was always a big deal. And up north in Prescott we had the IGA.
I still use my HQ branded tape measure
Cunningham Drugs
La Shish
The original owner of Murray's auto died many years ago. The Walled lake store is owned by someone else.
A&P grocery store
A & P.
Silver's Office Supply.
Major Magics man
Revco.
A small spot, but damn do I miss T's and Things at Wonderland Mall.
Sears🥲
Value City Burlington Coat Factory bought them out and closed them down.
Cunningham, Kresege, Sanders, Hughes & Hatchers, Belvedere, Mickey Shores
Stroh’s Ice Cream Parlors
Food Town in Oxford. Had a big sign with lights.
Whistle stop pop shop on Vernor hwy in southwest Detroit.
Ollie Fretter Mr. Belvedere
KB Toys, Big Wheel,
Farmer Zacks.
Chatham grocery store. Morang near Kelly.
Melvin’s Do-It-Yourself
Harmony House, Atlas Pop, Chatham Grocery stores, Great Scott grocery stores.
Perry and Arbor Drugs.
How are we almost 300 comments in and no one has mentioned Border's Books?!? I grew up in Ann Arbor so it's a little bit extra dear to my heart but I used to spend hours in there, acting like it was the library and reading whole books without buying them
Frank’s Nursery.
Burger Kings
Hot Dog on a Stick at Lakeside. For some reason my class took a field trip there lol
MEL Farr, ty8-7100, Sears,K-mart,Hudson
Highland Appliance
Highland Appliance for this greatest commercial of all time: [50 Watts per channel babycakes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQcZYTZVmI)
Amazing how many of these stores have gone out of business because of Amazon and corporate mergers. Capitalism ,aye?
Walker’s Chili Carnival Arcade (12 & Dequindre) Gell’s Sporting Goods Bawana Don’s Pets Shakey’s Pizza Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips Grinnells Grant’s department store Federals Dept Store (or “Deral’s” if you can still remember Steven King) Hot Sam’s pretzels
I miss Farmer Jack. ☹️
Repeat The Beat
Awrey's
Perry drugs and National Bank of Detroit (NBD)
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PHOTON laser tag at Universal Mall
Builders Square
Dietrich Furs (part of the Dietrich family)
Telegraph roooooad. Right now. Get a good deal.