Barns are popular; around here you can get Dairy in one, and Beverages are common nationwide.
Would Wall Drug count as a structure?
It makes perfect sense to me. Where else would you go to buy attire?
Please put down the tomatoes! I’ll leave quietly.
In the mid-Atlantic you can get a mattress in a barn. And furniture.
And while it’s not a man-made structure, we find our pizza in grottos. [sic]
Ah, that reminds me of the old Paperback Grotto in DeKalb, IL, just steps from the NIU campus. I’d assumed it was long-gone, but to my delighted surprise it appears to be thriving.
“Grotto” is quite appropriate given the nature of the business.
I just now noticed how that was spelled.
I would not be overly enthusiastic about eating anything that comes from a grotto.
I can go up the street to the butcher’s house - La maison du rôti.
I only noticed a couple of months ago. I imagine many people don’t realize it just because it one wouldn’t expect such a straight-laced retailer would have a pun for a name.
While in college, I used to buy my pizza from apit.
You can eat at a Corral if you’re desperate.
And in CA also, one buys western wear at the Boot Barn
Deptford, NJ has “Boot Village”; an entire frickin’ village worth of boots!
…or go to yet a different Hut and buy fingers?
There used to be a knockoff of White Castle, called White Tower.
There is still Filene’s Basement.
I’m afraid the last ones closed at the end of last year.
We like to eat at Buca di Beppo That’s Joe’s Basement in Italian.
Tires too, around here (central Indiana) - tho getting the two confused is a bit embarassing… (I speak from experience)