Amusing business names

In Lansing, MI there is a funeral home named “Palmer Bush”. I laugh everytime I go by there and wonder how much business they get. LOL

There’s an eyewear store near my house called Specs Appeal.

Le The`, tea shop.

It reminds me of “The The” band. The “h” throws me. I have to remind myself, it’s pronounced leh Tay.

Oh! In Moorhead, Minnesota and Menomonie, Wisconsin are bars called Someplace Else.
There is a diner called That Mexican Place.

Oh, come on, none of you live in a podunk area that has a Restaurant? Not a restaurant, not just any restaurant, but a Restaurant? There’s several around here. You drive by, and you see a big sign proclaiming, “Restaurant.” You drive up to it, and there across the top of the building, and on the door, is its name, “Restaurant.”

My northern cousins get a kick out of those.

I’ve seen a few pretty good bar names that all run along the line of “can be given to the wife when she asks where I was last night without my actually admitting I was at a bar”. Like The Ly-Brary (Tavern)(I think that’s how they spelled it; they’re gone now), or Noplace (Bar), or “My Brother’s Place”.

There is a restaurant around here called “That place on Bellflower” which is on, if you haven’t guessed, Bellflower street. I just think it’s a dumb but amusing name.

Merla

I swear to Og I am not making any of these up:

~ Douche Queen (somewhere in upstate NY, a toilet manufacturer)
~ Curl Up and Dye / American Hairlines (salons)
~ Tortugas (Mexican restaurant) - who would want to eat at a place called “Turtles”?

Oh, I remembered when I was in Phoenix many years ago there was a chain of restaurants called “The Rusty Nail”. Still doesn’t appeal to me and I don’t think thay’re around anymore.

There’s a Library (A Bar) for Yuppie-types here.

And a Chinese Restaurant called Ho Ho (means “very lucky” or something like that).

And a condom store called The Rubber Tree.

Oh yeah, and the one that always broke us up as kids…Buffalo Sanitary Wipers. Hope I never have to wipe a buffalo. Actually it’s a commercial laundry.

There’s a shopping centre called Longwood Station. Think about it.

I’ve always thought Schlumberger was kinda funny, but not for any particular reason.

The Ridgid Tool Company.

Cite.

(Thanks to John Derbyshire, of all people, for pointing that out.)

When I was in DC last week, I saw a little place called “Thai Tanic”. I thought it was kind of cute.

Oklahoma City is the proud owner of Og’s Food Mart. I think it’s part of a gas station or something.

There’s a gas station a little way down the street from me that proudly proclaims that it is a “CONVENIENCE STORE” in huge light-up letters. It also has a big “CONVENIENCE STORE” sign above the front doors.

If you’re ever in Las Vegas and you want seafood, go to my favorite place in nearby Henderson. Good old “Joe’s Crab Shack”. Best t-shirt - “Your mama got crabs from Joe’s”

I also lived near a pet store named Hare Today, and in the next mini mall there was a salon called Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow. I still wonder how many confused customers went to the wrong one.

Peace-DESK

In Daly City, just south of San Francisco on Mission Street is The Place That Sells Sewing Machines, recently amended to The Place That Sells Sewing Machines & Vacuums.

Sorry to bump this, but I just noticed one today–

Just around the corner from my parents’ house is a brand new UGAS gas station. I wonder if they know what else it stands for (type it into Google).

I did a quadruple take or so.

This just in:

Fuchs Lubricant Inc.

It is pronounced Fe-ewks, but(t) its still funny.

there used to be a compnay called “Kinki Nippon Travel” in Japan but they changed their name

A place in Montreal (Chinatown) called Wah Shing Laundry.

A company called FAG that makes (natch) ballbearings.