At one time, due to Funcoland, EB Games, and Gamestop combining, the satellite shopping area around Northeast Mall in Hurst, TX contained three Gamestop stores. Plus the mall interior had a Gamestop. Plus the Barnes & Noble a half-mile away had a Gamestop.
I guess they wanted to give the stores a quarter or two to see which one had the highest sales, or finish out lease agreements, or something along those lines? Eventually the two extra ones closed, the B&N one closed, and the one satellite and the mall-interior ones survived.
Dave Barry wrote about The French Embassy in Arcola, Illinois – a combination Bowling Alley and Gourmet French Restaurant.
I can find internet references to it, but no current listing. I guess it’s OOB.
I believe one of the Republican presidential candidates is going to use this for his campaign poster. It hits every demographic-- the bottom two blocks being for those who are out of work.
“Tell you what, a terrier makes a lovely fish. I could do that for you now.”
I guess I’m probably the last person in the known universe to see this on Google: Anderson, South Carolina’s Midtowne Park.
There is a Seventh Day Adventist facility of some sort on West 40th Street in Manhattan. A few years ago there was briefly a burger place next door. SDAs, of course, are vegetarians, though I don’t think that’s what killed the burger place.
And it’s not two businesses, but there’s a business near the World Trade Center with a “we will not forget” mural near the door. Not odd, but a bit jarring, since it’s a strip club (I suspect the mural was created around the time of the Park 51 controversy, when supporters noted that the people opposing an Islamic cultural center weren’t raising any objections to a strip club a block closer to the site).
In Moline, Illinois, there’s a Whitey’s Ice cream, which is a local chain, right next door to an independent malt shop that’s only open 6 months of the year.
My guess is that they have very different clienteles, in order to stay open despite being right.next.to.each.other.
The street view is from 2011, but that particular corner doesn’t look any different. Whitey’s is still right next door to Country Style Malts, which does have food other than ice cream.
