Former chains, Ann Arbor

[TenPoundHammer]

I'm not as up on Ann Arbor as I should be... Anywho, I'm including all of Washtenaw County as well as Brighton, Howell and Belleville.

A & W

2405 Stadium - Muffler shop on site. (Trivia: This particular A&W was the inspiration for Bob Seger's song Night Moves.)

Brighton - torn down for a jewelry store

Howell - Red Apple Bar on site

Bill Knapp's

3501 S. State

2501 Jackson Rd.

2370 Carpenter

Burger Chef

Jackson Rd.

Burger King

520 E. Liberty

1214 S. University

Briarwood Mall - later Aloha Grill, now empty?

Chi-Chi's

3776 S. State

Coffee Beanery

943 Maiden - was combined with Mr. Pita

Briarwood Mall?

Dog & Suds

Platt Rd. - now a Greek restaurant

Domino's

100 Barker, Whitmore Lake

Ann Arbor

3030 Lohr - still open?

Briarwood Mall

62 Ecorse, Ypsi - now the Food Garden

Freshens Yogurt

Briarwood Mall - now CDS Communications?

Hardee's

309 E. Michigan, Ypsi - later Lucas Coney Island, now closed?

Belleville - now Tim Hortons

Howell - now a Chinese restaurant

Howard Johnson's

2380 Carpenter - torn down

Washtenaw @ Stadium - torn down

Belleville - now China King Express

Hot & Now

Ypsi - later Ice Scapes http://www.notfoolinganybody.com/13icescapes

Jack In The Box

1303 Washtenaw, Ypsi - may have been the last JIB in Michigan

KFC

Brighton Mall, Brighton - torn down

Little Caesar's

U of M campus #1 - now Villa Pizza

U of M campus #2 - now McDonald's

Long John Silvers

4896 Washtenaw - now Tuptim Thai

Mancino's

Howell - now Carriage House

McDonald's

337 Maynard - Collegian on site (this was the stained glass McD's, I think)

1220 S. University, Ste. 100 - now Bubble Island

Old Country Buffet

914 Eisenhower - now HomeTown Buffet

Pizza Hut

Dexter - seems to have closed; was located inside one of the Pilot truckstops (the one that has Subway in it)

Ponderosa

2255 Stadium - now Gourmet Garden

3125 Boardwalk - now Seoul Garden

616 E. Michigan, Ypsi

Ruby Tuesday

Briarwood Mall

Schlotzsky's

4800 Huron River Dr.

Stuckey's

Chelsea - now a modular home vendor

Taco Bell

2333 Washtenaw, Ypsi - later Al Noor, now closed?

[wolverine]

Correction on the Little Caesars, when McDonalds moved into their Plymouth road location, they decided to close their North Campus location in Pierpont commons since most North Campus people drove to the Plymouth road location because of free parking. A Panda Express is now in that location, if the Pierpont Commons McDonald's is the one you are talking about.

The Taco Bell built a new building down the street, not sure what the old one is now

The Coffee Beanery was in Briarwood

When did the Old Country Buffet change? I went there with a couple of friends about 2 months ago, it was still the same name.

Don't forget Basken Robbins. They still have their Plymouth road location, but pulled out of their South University location because of competition. They were in that old historic corner building on the edge of the pedestrian mall. A cafe went in shortly after that was there throughout my freshman year of college. Something town cafe, can't remember the name. Now it's an Expresso Royale.

I'm not too sure about some of the ones with question marks. Maybe you can go to Briarwood's Website and download their mall directory to find what is there now.

[TenPoundHammer]

I'm not too sure about some of the ones with question marks. Maybe you can go to Briarwood's Website and download their mall directory to find what is there now.

That wouldn't work because I don't know where specifically the old Briarwood stores were; I got their listings from a 1991 phonebook.