Or make that Dive Bar, downtown. This time, the late, great Missia’s bar, Kalamazoo Michigan. Lost in the name of “progress”
I’m So Kalamazoo
Diver down
This is (no longer) a Burger King Town
Burger King demolished in downtown Kalamazoo; longtime location is no more.
Negotiations to have a long-time Burger King restaurant operator renovate and reopen its familiar downtown Kalamazoo location apparently bore no fruit. Demolition work on the 760 W. Michigan Ave. former Burger King location began on Thursday and the bulk of that work was to be completed by Friday or Saturday, according to workers with a Richland-based demolition crew there.
So, just like that, the evidence is wiped from the face of the earth. Thank god. No more: Read More
ACID FLASHBACK THURSDAY: University Lincoln Mercury
Car of the Week: 1972 Honda Z600 – Old Cars Weekly. A million years ago, there was a car dealer called University Lincoln Mercury. Innocuous building, two doors down from the Minute Market. Used cars were sold out of a trailer on a dirt mound in the middle of the lot. Behind the dirt mound, […]
Read more "ACID FLASHBACK THURSDAY: University Lincoln Mercury"I have this sudden urge
to have my third grade teacher buy me a meal at the Muir’s lunch counter. (OMG phone booth!) and buy some Matchbox cars that actually come in boxes from the D&C. Then run over to Langs for a malted. (OMG Mailbox!) And ride the Hardings conveyor belt from the basement.
Read more "I have this sudden urge"Where to drive
when some dude hollers at you in traffic that “your wheels are on fire!” Drive By Shootings™: Roach Motel: Westnedge and Walnut.
Read more "Where to drive"Jane Says
“Get the FUCK out of my house” most days – at least after that Halloween party.
Read more "Jane Says"Meanwhile, at Police Headquarters…
Does anyone still call it “headquarters”?
Read more "Meanwhile, at Police Headquarters…"Baby Come Back
Engineering open houses at Michigan State are just no fun at all without Budweisers. You can’t always rely on Dad’s stash. If you’re a minor not a welcome customer for some odd, unspecified reason, there is one easy solution. (Be sure to hold the sterno bum’s smokes while events are in motion.)
Read more "Baby Come Back"You Can’t Spell “Scorpion stings all over would be preferable to this POS” without “Scorpio”
This is obviously a photoshop. Seriously. A “Merkur” (nee German Ford) Scorpio that: is not rusted out appears to have arrived under its own “power” has more than the owner looking at it – no one’s laughing and pointing; no one’s barfing has race parts? WTF? What the fuck was 8 Barrel thinking, trading a […]
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