OT: What do you think of Ypsilanti these days?

[Axel Sandy Pelikan]

The Big D*ck!

Yeah I never felt that Ypsi was all that dangerous. Blue collar town with a nice college town wrapped inside. Of course, that was 25 years ago and I was hanging out with a bunch of wannabe-hippies who were forever-students playing hackysack and eating tabs of acid like chicklets.

In that time I went from thinking that if you LOOKED at a tab you'd be naked on top of a telephone pole chewing gravel that night to commenting casually "oh, you got more of the tie-dyed sheets in? You gonna pass that out for free again or are we gonna pay the cable bill for once instead?"

Wannabe Hunter S. Thompson gonzo hippies make TERRIBLE dealers. They give everything away.

Funny thing was when I first showed up everyone wanted to get me high on various things. Once they established all I would touch was some booze, the next time someone new offered me something, they'd get all huffy - "Dale doesn't TOUCH that stuff!" Like I was a D.A.R.E. pet or something. Funny as heck.

Brick Dick, my dude. It's never been called anything but the brick dick.

Ypsi has gotten worse in several areas just due to the taxes and income disparity. A couple neighborhoods are absolute shitshows (and it's well known which ones).

A majority of Ypsi is fine. There are just certain areas that are very no-no places.

 

[Axel Sandy Pelikan]

Awesome! I knew some folks who lived on Pearl for a stretch too.

Abe's would've been right off that map I pasted to the right, right?

Yes, Abes is/was on Hamilton and Michigan across from the former EMU College of Business.

 

[Krigsgaldr]

Damn and all these years I remembered it as Granny's chicken lol . Hey look I don't care those gizzards were good as f*** even now living in Kentucky where fried everything especially chicken is taken very seriously those are still something I remember very fondly . Especially grabbing some on the way back from the heritage festival at the end of every summer . Lol one year a cavalry reenactor damn near clipped me with his sword . Man had to of made a few too many trips to the beer tent . God the good old days lol

 

[dalem177]

Aww, Abe's! Yeah, I had a few meals there. And I never even knew the real name of Family's - everyone I knew called it "the chicken shack" and so I did too.

 

[Stony Curtis]

There used to be a place on Cross St. called the College Dog. It was a coney island, but it got bought by an Asian family and they tweaked the menu. It always made us laugh that you could get a dog with everything along with an order of the best pork-fried rice ever.

 

[dalem177]

There used to be a place on Cross St. called the College Dog. It was a coney island, but it got bought by an Asian family and they tweaked the menu. It always made us laugh that you could get a dog with everything along with an order of the best pork-fried rice ever.

Remember Liquor's Quicker on Cross?

 

[Stony Curtis]

Remember Liquor's Quicker on Cross?

Yup. It was always a tough call choosing between Liquor's Quicker and the other party store (Tom's?) pretty much directly across the street lol.

 

[RabidBadger]

There used to be a place on Cross St. called the College Dog. It was a coney island, but it got bought by an Asian family and they tweaked the menu. It always made us laugh that you could get a dog with everything along with an order of the best pork-fried rice ever.

I mean, if that isn't franchise worthy I don't know what is!