I think Porosity Casting must be one of those events you see at Scottish Highland Games festivals. Some people think it’s cruel to the animals involved, so there’s a movement to ban it.
(ETA: I kinda think I remember seeing that sign. Is it in that area just a bit south of the big red brick building that looks like the freeway (the old Route 17) was cut right through the building? ISTM there was an outdoor yard full of ceramic toilets.)
Yeah, the Fag building at the corner of Fag and Fag (West 6th near Cambie). About a half mile east was the Vancouver Iron and Engineering Works, which graced the neighborhood with this huge acronym :
I drove by a sign everyday on the interstate for some land owner who was leasing land with small crude oil pumps on it with a big billboard out front encouraging you to call 1-XXX-DRY-HOLE. My then 20 yr.old mind couldn’t help but think of some very painful intercourse. I couldn’t help but chuckle every time I drove by. I was eventually compelled to stop and take a picture, although I’ve lost it now.
My brother once told me of a liquor store he used to drive by called “Dicks Liquor”
Worst business name in the world has to be a pizza place on the non-gentrified part of Indy’s East side called “D&C pizza.” I realize it probably belongs to some guys named Chuck and Dave, but wow, are they two clueless guys.
In Concordia MO (about an hour east of KC) there used to be a large “MOTEL” sign off the highway with an arrow pointing down to motel just below. Except, at just the right angle heading east, it looked like the sign was pointing to the cemetery just behind the motel. (I used to have a picture of it but can’t find it, and I think the sign is gone now.)
Giant Eagle is also in Columbus, where my family still lives. When I was growing up there, one of the main grocery chains there was locally-headquartered Big Bear. This has led to humorous predictions on the next chain to come to town. Huge Moose? Enormous Eel?
For years there was a day care near my house called Kids Stop Learning Center.
For almost a year, the Time to Learn preschool that I pass on my way to work every day sported a sign missing the “L”, making it the Time to Earn preschool.
It’s even been memorialized in Bill Griffith’s Zippy the Pinhead strip (as has the now sadly defunct Dippin’ Donuts across the street. Dunkin’ finally swallowed it up. Griffy has a soft spot for weird and unique public architecture: