Near my house, on the frontage property of a strip shopping center is a building with 2 store fronts. Currently occupying the left side is a Jewish Temple. On the right is a BBQ pork restaurant.
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When I was in Dubuque, I used to drive by a strip mall where they had a Bike Shack, a Quilt Shack, a Mattress Shack, and a Verizon Wireless store where they obviously have no sense of humor.
I went to college in a very small town that had a McDonald’s on its outskirts. There was a fenced cattle pasture right next to the edge of the McDonald’s property, and it was not at all unusual to see beef on the hoof just a few feet away as one pulled through the drive-through.
No Radio Shack?
I’ve related this on here before, but my husband used to pass a strip mall on his commute to work that had this on the marquee out front…
DONUTS
GUNS
DAY CARE
One stop shopping for all your family needs.
The guy in this article wanted to run a funeral home and a barbecue restaurant out of the same building.
Up in New Rochelle, Mr. & Mrs. Mariano Rivera recently reopened their Refugio de Esperanza, a Pentecostal congregation, in a century old, official historical landmark, originally Presbyterian church. Directly across the street is El Faro Apostólico de New Rochelle, another Pentecostal congregation, whose home is a storefront church.
You just reminded me of another - a cajun restaurant next door to a taxidermy shop. The red building to the rightis the taxidermist.
I guess at least the meat is fresh…
Thread f***ing over! We’re done here.
Seriously, congrats. That find is a thing of beauty.
There was a church next to a BBQ supply store that I liked to say was mixing the sacred and the propane.
I would almost accuse this of being an edited photo except that I live a mile from a shopping center with a very similar mix. Catholic bookstore, check. Mexican food and pizza, check. Bar, check (with a casino to boot). Indoor gun range, check.
The smoke shop and bail bonds are across the street, though. There’s also another bar across the street and a bilingual church too.
By the way, we can tell this isn’t from Washington state because there’s nowhere to buy fancy, sugared, coffee-flavored milk.
I did the research on it. The photo is real but a few years old so some of the businesses aren’t the same now. It was taken at a strip mall in Santee, California near San Diego.
Paso Robles, Ca. has, I think, very small Jewish and Muslim populations. Last I looked (about 10 years ago), the Jewish and Muslim congregations shared a smallish nondescript-looking space in a smallish shopping center for their temple/mosque.
For customers who want their burgers double-plus-Xtra-rare.
There used to be a place near my grandmother’s house called Minuteman. It was a combination print shop and used car dealer.
There’s a odd place close to me. Building supplies and beauty parlour. Probably a husband and wife team - each gets half the building, but you know what building supplies places look like - piles of sand and stone and stacks of metal … with ladies popping in to get their nails done!
Near us is a laundromat/beauty salon (formerly a laundromat/beauty salon/pool parlor/video arcade/check casher).
Sun Belt cities often have VERY lax zoning laws, so it’s not unusual to see all kinds of odd juxtapositions. In many Texas cities, you’ll find churches not far from strip clubs. Nowadays, porn is mostly sold online, but I used to see strip malls containing both Christian book stores and porn dealers, both kids’ clothing stores and naughty lingerie shops.
Along I-44 between St. Louis and Rolla, Missouri there is an exit with a gas station right next to a fireworks store.
On US-521, just over the state line in South Carolina a fireworks superstore shares the parking lot with a huge discount liquor store.
My wife and I would refer to it as “Tijuana”. - The land of cheap booze, smokes and fireworks.