Speaking of street view, an appropriate link (for the thread title, not the theme :))
Thanks, mhendo. I thought about looking for that, but honestly I don’t know how.
Roddy
A day I wish I’d had a camera with me … I drove by a Hooters restaurant whose neon sign was malfunctioning. The letters are lit in three groups: HO|OTE|RS. But the middle section has lost power or burned out. So the sign just reads: HO RS .
It was quite a sight …
There is (or at least used to be) a bait shop in East Haven, CT, called ‘Master Bait & Tackle’. I’m not making this up, I’ve seen it, I’ve been inside it (heh). It’s also the sort of thing you’d expect in East Haven, CT. I have a picture somewhere, but a.) I can’t find it and b.) a lot of people would probably say it’s 'shopped anyway.
You’ve just made that up! 
These are not the books you’re looking for.
Move along.
There was (is?) an electrical contracting company in my town, called Bates Electric. For a while there, one of their trucks had the license plate MSTR.
I have some slides around here somewhere, that I snapped in Munich:
Christ Schmuck
Wormland
Peter Palmer
Wong Fook Hing Book Store is apparently located in Hong Kong, which explains the name. Still funny as all heck.
And we wonder these people had a problem with the Jews.
I can’t do the Google Map link thingy but here’s a screen capture. Master Bait and Tackle.(439 Main St, East Haven, CT 06512)
Years ago, the theater near where I lived had Mission to Mars on the marquee. Underneath was a hand made sign that said, “Now Hiring.”
To this day, I regret not getting a picture of that.
My high school had a sign over a dumpster that read:
Yep, that’s the one! 
Found another one in my archives. I took this in late 2002 near Muir Woods, in Marin County. It was dark and i had to use flash, and the exposure isn’t great, but you’ll get the message:
Payson, Arizona is on the Mogollon Rim. Everything up there is named Rim something-or-other, including the alcoholic beverage store . . . Rim Liquor.
My dad and I stopped in there like some modern day Beavis and Buttheads and talked to the owner for awhile. It’s a very Mormon-dominated area, and it was a headache just to get a liquor store started, and one of the things he did as a concession was give it the blandest name possible, having no idea of any dirty connotations. It’s since been in Maxim magazine, and he sells tshirts now.
I had one I really liked but I can’t find it, but it never got a laugh anyway. It was my local Chinese restaurant Sing Hing in a torrential downpour.
Schmuck means Jewelry in German. And the word does not contain the name of the ethnic group in question. (Is that a coincidence?)
On the other hand, some Germans wonder why there are so many poison shops in English-speaking countries.
Never mind–should have read ahead.
I’ve collected a few…
a) You Live Here Good, Is Cheaper Is Not Having Bed
b) Gee how’d something like THAT happen?
c) The local grocery chain, D’Agostino’s, was apparently having some problems with their online ordering system. Actifed brand split pea soup, anyone? Or how about some of those nice fresh Orajel Green Beans?
d) Your WHAT?
e) Freakin Hell, what’s with Nail Spas and vertical lettering?
