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And Where Can We Get a 734 Shirt?

The new Ann Arbor Craigslist is like Christmas six months early for us. “I was the quiet bearded boy in a the yellow ‘734′ shirt who ordered a tempeh reuben and chai latte,” writes one lovestruck People’s Food Co-op customer. It wasn’t a soy chai latte?

11 Responses to “And Where Can We Get a 734 Shirt?”


  1. Sheesh! Martin Bouma was spamming the hell out of the Jun 07 “real estate for sale” page.

    posted by Joe on June 22nd, 2005 at 4:02 pm

  2. does it work here?

    posted by js on June 22nd, 2005 at 4:50 pm

  3. I have a feeling hitting on baristas is a dead-end… but I could be wrong.

    posted by Brandon on June 22nd, 2005 at 4:55 pm

  4. Ah, the voice of experience…

    posted by Dale on June 22nd, 2005 at 5:05 pm

  5. I for one welcome the appearance of Realtors(tm) “spamming” the real estate listings with properties, especially in combination with the housing maps on http://www.housingmaps.com/ — more listings means more data points.

    posted by Edward Vielmetti on June 23rd, 2005 at 10:06 am

  6. Is the “734″ a reference to Ann Arbor’s telephone area code?

    posted by Larry Kestenbaum on June 23rd, 2005 at 5:55 pm

  7. As much as I want to hope not…

    posted by ann arbor is overrated on June 23rd, 2005 at 6:28 pm

  8. So 734 is the new 313 branding?

    Nice.

    posted by Jen on June 23rd, 2005 at 9:15 pm

  9. Of course, Ann Arbor shares 734 with a whole lot of decidedly unhip territory.

    Not so very long ago, 313 encompassed all of southeast Michigan. Now, after all the suburban areas have been peeled away for 810, 248, 734 and so on, what’s left in 313 is the city of Detroit and some parts of its immediate vicinity.

    Given the way the metro area is segregated, 313 today is surely the most African-American telephone area code in the nation.

    posted by Larry Kestenbaum on June 26th, 2005 at 9:55 am

  10. Yeah, I graduated from high school about the time Chelsea went from 734 -> 313. One of my high school friends and I went to see “8 Mile” some years later, and were awfully amused that our little bastion of lily-white yuppie flight hometown had been part of “the 313″, which now apparently had some sort of cred attached to it.

    posted by Murph on June 26th, 2005 at 12:37 pm

  11. In the movie, one character taunts Eminem for being white: “You’re not 313, you’re 810!”

    posted by Larry Kestenbaum on June 26th, 2005 at 9:08 pm

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