{"id":4109,"date":"2010-11-08T23:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T04:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2022-12-30T15:44:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T20:44:43","slug":"ann-arbor-icon-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/ann-arbor-icon-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Arbor Icon Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ann Arbor landmark Village Corner market, better known as the VC to UM students has closed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annarbor.com\/business-review\/village-corner-owner-ann-arbor-liquor-store-isnt-closing-but-relocation-for-601-forest-is-closer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-110549\" title=\"The Village Corner store at 601 S. Forest Ave. in Ann Arbor.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/villagecorner.jpg?resize=400%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Village Corner store at 601 S. Forest Ave. in Ann Arbor.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/villagecorner.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/villagecorner.jpg?resize=75%2C42&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/villagecorner.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The store at the corner of South University and South Forest is scheduled to be demolished, along with the Student Campus bike shop and long-closed Bagel Factory (mmmm Fragel) to make room for &#8220;high-rise&#8221; student housing.<\/p>\n<p>During my time on the University of Michigan campus, I made many trips to the VC for coffee, TP, and other necessities of student life.<\/p>\n<p>U of M grad and VC owner Dick Scheer who has run the campus icon for 40 years with his wife, Sally, told the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit News<\/a><\/em> that he plans to find a new spot for his store. Let&#8217;s hope so since much of the character of Ann Arbor is fading in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Arbor landmark Village Corner market, better known as the VC to UM students has closed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3240,276,19,3062,277],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michigan","tag-3240","tag-ann-arbor","tag-michigan","tag-rip","tag-village-corner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117905,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions\/117905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}