9 Comments

  1. By Rod Johnson
    August 6, 2009 at 3:06 pm | permalink

    What was the name of the fish and chips place that used to be there? Anyone remember?

  2. August 6, 2009 at 4:09 pm | permalink

    Oooh, I don’t know but a fish and chips place that close to my house would be both awesome (for the taste buds) and dangerous (for the butt)

  3. By ColleenM
    August 6, 2009 at 7:25 pm | permalink

    Wasn’t it owned by the ex-wife of some well-known English author?

  4. By ColleenM
    August 6, 2009 at 7:37 pm | permalink

    Jim. something with Jim in the name. Which referred to the title of one of the novels, or a character in the novel.

  5. By Gail Grigsby
    August 6, 2009 at 8:15 pm | permalink

    Lucky Jim’s. She was the ex of Kingsly Amis. Good fish and chips wrapped in newspaper!

  6. By Rod Johnson
    August 6, 2009 at 8:18 pm | permalink

    Yes! Thanks.

  7. By Wystan
    August 7, 2009 at 10:26 am | permalink

    Yes, but the health department quickly made them drop the (authentically English) newspaper wrap and switch to waxed paper.

    Although Lucky Jim’s Fish & Chips didn’t last long, the British novelist Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, spent a chuck of his formative childhood years growing up in Ann Arbor.

  8. August 7, 2009 at 12:13 pm | permalink

    Darn health department ;)
    Nothing seems to last there very long…I hope whatever goes in does well!

  9. By Rod Johnson
    August 8, 2009 at 11:25 am | permalink

    Seems like both China on the Run and Bev’s lasted a pretty long time. I know China on the Run closed because Lisa Parola was moving on to other things, not because the business wasn’t doing well. Do I don’t think it’s totally cursed, but it is in a very odd location.