I did not see this one personally, but it was related to me by a usually reliable source. During a stay in Caracas, Venezuela, he worked in a building just down the street from a porn theater. One Sunday, he passed by on the way to work and did a double-take–the building was suddenly a church, with Bible quotes on the marquee.
Monday, it was a porn theater again.
He asked his local coworkers about it, and learned that the church and the theater had a time-share arrangement.
Hidden in the back of this strip mall is a lingere/sex toy shop. There used to be a pool supply store on the corner and a Toys “R” Us in the next block.
At a Stratford, CT back in 2010, there was a Dunkin’ Donuts store cheek-to-jowl with a Dentist Office.
Good placement, that…
Srsly? 23 posts and no one’s mentioned Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles?
1.) In Inman Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, side by side you had
Jae’s Diner – Motto – “Eat Here and Live Forever”
next door was
East Coast Grill – Motto – “Eat Here and Die Happy”
I don’t know who was there first. Jae’s is apparently gone now, though.
2.) When I lived in Salt Lake City on Fourth South near 7th East there were two Mexican fast food places literally next door to each other – a Taco Bell and a Taco Time.
I figured that whoever put up his restaurant second was bragging – “Oh, YEAH? Well, I’ll put one up next door to you and still do a brisk business!”
Well, both sides involve nails…
Here in Pittsburgh, there’s a shopping center with a Dunkin’ Donuts and a Dean Ornish diet center.
This isn’t “Odd” – it sort of makes more sense than any other mall I’ve seen, in a way
Eaton Place in Seabrook, NH is the Ultimate Guy Mall. It has:
– A Comic Book Store
– A Smoke Shop
– A Fireworks Store
– A Leather Goods store
– A Pawn Shop
and
– A Porno Store
http://listings.findthecompany.com/l/24175434/Eaton-Plaza-in-Seabrook-NH
Makes complete sense.
There’s no point in preaching to the saved. If you want converts, you’ve got to preach to the damned. 
It’s missing a sex shop.
Houston definitely has lax zoning, in that it has none whatsoever. Years back, the Rice Village shopping center proudly offered a porn movie theater next to a toy store.
These days things in the Village are totally upscale and boutique-y. It’s a damn shame what’s happened to the place.
All in one store- Electric Ladyland on Bardstown Road in Louisville, Kentucky -
Used record & music memorabilia store
Hippie-esque Head shop
Messianic Jewish Anti-Romanist book store
Check the photo section to see the little hand-made religious cartoons that decorate the store.
There’s a place on the main street in Waconia, Minnesota, that’s a TV store/tanning salon. I’m not sure if it’s still around; last time I was in Waconia I didn’t see it.
One of the banks in Pittsburgh used to have some shops in the basement. One was run by this little old lady who sold antiques and assault weapons. OK, picking up some Civil War era linens AND an Uzi at the same place was strange enough but doing it in a bank building just added to the strangeness.
Beaver, Arkansas: There used to be a business that did taxidermy and pet boarding. "I’m here to pick up my…OHMYGOD!!!
Thirty odd years ago, my hometown had a fish & chip shop next to an aquarium shop. It even got featured in Private Eye, the British satirical magazine.
A few years back (can’t remember the town) I noticed a spiritualist church next to a funeral directors, which rather tickled me.
Near my old office, we had a strip mall with a pet store next to fast food Mexican restaurant.
The signs out front proudly proclaimed:
“PUPPY TACOS”
Durand Illinois used to have a combination funeral parlor/furniture store. Don’t know if it’s still there as I haven’t been in almost a decade, but I always got a chuckle out of the imagined conversations.
“We’re so sorry for your loss . . . have you considered a new sofa?”
Near where I live in Toronto there used to be a strip mall with a Quizno’s sub shop, a Mr. Sub sub shop, a sushi joint, and a Subway sub shop. I guess the sushi guy didn’t get the memo.
Out of the three sub shops, only the Subway is left. There can be only one…