Yeah, that’s just over the pass from me.
We also have a ‘Master Bait and Tackle’
I actually just checked, and they’re not just a general maintenance company, they specialise in schools…
Apparently they really really like being snickered at.
When I lived in Salt Lake City I’d often see signs for Utah Idaho Supply.
I mentally added a business motto: “Where Utah Gets its Idaho”
Actually, it’s a stationery store, as the pencil logo suggests. I assume it gets its name from covering both Utah and Idaho.
I was similarly confused by Ruth’s Chris Steak House, a business title with too many names in it. It was originally Chris Steak House, run by Chris Matulik, and apparently a man who didn’t believe in putting possessives on signs. It was bought by Ruth Fertel, who did, but also believed in leaving the original wording up.
According to Wikipedia:
There used to be a bar in the town I grew up in called The Office. I guess so that men could call home and tell their wives that they were still at The Office.
There’s always French Lick, IN and Back Lick Road just outside of WDC. Here in Portland we have Couch (pronounced ‘cooch’) Street.
There can be a cultural difference between what might be misleading. The Japanese company Yamaha makes both pianos and motorcycles. In America, it is hard to imagine a pianist playing a concerto at Carnegie Hall on a Harley Davidson grand, or a biker showing up in Deadwood on a Steinway chopper.
Cumberland Farms did start as a dairy farm in the late 30s. The opened convenience stores in the 60s in New England selling milk among other things. They have some connection with Gulf Oil which is how I imagine they got into gas stations. But as so many gas stations now have convenience stores attached, that’s only fair, I’d say.
I am always a bit astonished when I see the Payless Shoes sign.
One that annoys me is businesses that advertise geothermal heating, when all they are selling is heat pumps in the ground.
Then there is a local company called (in French) Erection Rapide. (They actually build scaffolds.)
That’s nothing. About 2 1/2 hours south of French Lick is a tiny town call Gnaw Bone, Indiana.
Even more amusing to me is the fact that Indianapolis, Indiana, isn’t the only Indianapolis in the US. There’s one in Iowa, and one in Oklahoma. [/hijack]
Triple Napalm Bomb.
It was a hair salon.
L.S.D.
A stage lighting company (it stood for Lighting System Department)
In PA there’s a Messiah College. I’ve seen Engineering Schools, Medical Schools and such. But is there that much demand for Messiahs?
OTOH, paying off your student loan is just a wave of the hand.
In the same vein, Resurrection Hospital. Modern medicine is not quite that miraculous. 
There’s a place near me called the Lunch Box.
They do bikini waxes.
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That’s nothing. About 2 1/2 hours south of French Lick is a tiny town call Gnaw Bone, Indiana.QUOTE]
I’m stupidly happy that someone else in this great big wide world has heard of little old Gnaw Bone, Indiana.
For those of you who grew up around this store, he’s talking about Cumblin Fahms.
Here in SLC there is a business called Low Book Sales. What do they sell? Cars, of course.
Truth be told, what they actually sell is Auto Loans. The cars are just the enticement to get one of their loans.
In the town where I went to college was the Heritage Bookstore. It was across the street from the history museum. They did not sell books. They sold items of a more ‘adult’ nature.
In the town where I went to college we had The Library and The Zoo bars.
Although Deadwood isn’t that far away, the rally is actually in Sturgis.
From reading Dave Barry’s columns, I know that The French Embassy in Arcola, Illinois is not any kind of diplomatic mission.
It’s a combination Gourmet Restaurant and Bowling Alley.
Really
Actually, it seems to have gone to that Great Diplomatic Mission in the Sky – I don’t see a current listing for it.
Not to mention another from the Simpsons, “Sneeds Feed & Seed (Formerly Chuck’s).”