Drove past a new store yesterday. It's a place that fixes cell phones. Called "Bad Apple."
We have some other clever business names here. There's a big car lot named "A Lot of Cars" as well as the classic Dew Drop Inn.
Examples from your area?
Titty bar in Detroit called The Booby Trap.
Strip club called "The Oval Office" and they used to show up (probably still do) on the credit card charges as "Green Bay Steakhouse" to help you get them expensed at work.
I’m still trying to find out about the HEB ..
I’m still trying to find out about the HEB ..
IIRC it's the founder's initials. H.E. Butt
Gun/Archery shop here was called the "Lier's Den"
Place down the street called Paddy O'Furniture.
Local bar called “the office”.
A chair store called "The Shack of Sit"
Used to be a bar where I went to college (first time) called "The Library"
Kum & Go - is a convenience store chain primarily located in the Midwestern United States.
I’m still trying to find out about the HEB ..
Henry Earl Butt.
There’s a store in Bailey, Colorado called ‘Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’. They also sell weed.
Hot Springs, SD 2nd hand store called "Junk and Disorderly".
If I had a paving company I'd call it Aggravated Asphalt.
My hometown family's store Swindle Jewelry.
"The Crazy Store" in S.Africa. It's their version of Dollar General (less food).
Vail/Beaver Creek Colorado has
BEAVER LIQUORS
https://beaverliquors.com/
Utah has a Beaver Liquors too......in Beaver Utah off I 15
Couldn't think of others........Google found some
https://www.boredpanda.com/creative..._medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
There's a guy on youtube - does arborist stuff called "Guilty of Treeson"
A local paving company had a commercial that said, If you don't maintain your pavement it was your "Own Assphalt".
There used to be a car dealer up on a hill that had a sign," ON THE HILL BUT ON THE LEVEL ."
I’m still trying to find out about the HEB ..
IIRC it's the founder's initials. H.E. Butt
In 1972, when wandering around the first HEB I'd ever been in, trying to locate the beer coolers, I was informed by a cashier as long as Howard E. Butt was alive, there twernt no beer gonna be sold in any of his stores, period. Fast forward to 1991, one day after they planted Howard Sr. in the ground, the classified ad sections in the Houston Post and the Chronicle had exploded with about 15 pages worth of liquor license application notices for every one of their stores in Houston. Bet old Howard was turning over in his fresh grave.
I’m still trying to find out about the HEB ..
IIRC it's the founder's initials. H.E. Butt
In 1972, when wandering around the first HEB I'd ever been in, trying to locate the beer coolers, I was informed by a cashier as long as Howard E. Butt was alive, there twernt no beer gonna be sold in any of his stores, period. Fast forward to 1991, one day after they planted Howard Sr. in the ground, the classified ad sections in the Houston Post and the Chronicle had exploded with about 15 pages worth of liquor license application notices for every one of their stores in Houston. Bet old Howard was turning over in his fresh grave.
They sold beer here in 1980.
They didn't sell beer and was closed Sundays.
There was a radiator shop in Austin, Texas. Don't remember the name, but their slogan was:
"Best place to take a leak!"
Saw a restaurant/bar called "I don't Care", perfect for when you ask the wife where she wants to eat.
Used care dealer, Fairly Reliable Bob's.
The old standby: Sofa King
Lying Lee's used cars.
In... Morehead, Ky.
They didn't sell beer and was closed Sundays.
maybe I'm remembering Krogers.
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Used to be a bar where I went to college (first time) called "The Library"
In the college town of Greeley CO. there was a bar called "The Library" in the 60's
Butcher shop in Juneau, Jerry’s meats. Bumper sticker read You can’t beat Jerry’s meats. That was in the 80’s , don’t know if it’s still there
About halfway between Nenana and Fairbanks is a little bar called
Skinny Dick’s Halfway Inn.
When I was a student at the Univ. of Arkansas, there was a honky tonk on the edge of town called "The Tea Table." No tea, just beer, set ups, dancing and fighting.
L.W.
Nearby small town has a bar named The Gym. Used to be a headshop (back in the day) that was called Pipefitters.
Bar in the college town where I grew up was named "The Alibi".
The sign for Tasker's Well-drilling company on Route 4 in NH boasts "Our Business Is Going In The Hole!"
Dicks Hotdogs. If you love hotdogs, you'll love Dicks!
Fishing shop called "Liars' Corner".
They should open up a location in Weiner, AR
Used to be a dentist here L L Paine, DDS.
The Great Alaskan Bush Company is well known to a large number of visitors, but do not expect to find a lot of bush...
Was a bar near Winterhaven, CA that had a poker room in the back. Sign said liquor in the front, poker in the rear.
"MasterBaiter" bait and tackle in AR
and in Peabody Ma Bunghole liquors
https://bungholeliquors.com/https://masterbaitersbaitandtackle.com/
There was a 'Store Without A Name' store in Fargo N.D. many decades ago.
Eventually, the store held a contest for a new 'name'. One woman took the first
letter of each word of the previous name, 'S W A N' - and won the contest!
The store was renamed SWAN - but most folks still referred to it as the 'Store Without A Name'.
I remember a strip club in Wildwood, NJ called C.R.Fannies
The plumber that I've used for 35 years has as their motto "At Your Disposal"
Made many deposits into That's Tits National Bank.
Wall Drug, must be pretty good, we've all heard of it.
Yow Chiropractic in Ash Flat, AR
Little ice cream dispensary here is called "The Scream Shack".
I se to be a little roadhouse type bar west of Denver called Kermits.
I remember them advertising the “Necrophiliac Poker Run” with the tag line- Come get a fresh cold one at Kermits. 😂
I remember a strip club in Wildwood, NJ called C.R.Fannies
I remember that!
Very popular place during the annual State Firefighters Convention every September.
Local plumbing business. Crooked River Advanced Plumbing.
C.R.A.P. on there trucks.
Used to be a dentist here L L Paine, DDS.
No lie: The urologist who
neutered me set me up to shoot blanks was Dr. Ural.
Well drilling company in Denver. Can't remember the name of the company but do remember their slogan which was painted on the trucks "Your hole is our goal!"
Big Dick's Halfway InnTrue story - Back in the day when I was a debt collector, a guy on my team was chasing a bartender here. He waited for a shift change when everyone was up and moving about the cube farm to call this place and in his baritone voice ask "Hi, is this Dick's halfway inn?". It was a true E.F Hutton moment as the whole place froze to hear the rest of the conversation.
There used to be a sports bar in Oklahoma City called ‘Emerson Biggins’.
A couple from East Texas
Livingston dam has “The Dam Liquor Store”
I think it’s in Groveton, “Beer, Bait and Beyond”
"Stoner's Drugs" Tabor, Iowa. People stop and take pictures all the time. Legitimate drug store.
Bait, Bolts and Bullets, Solon Maine
Years ago there was a local port o let company who’s motto was .... “ we put up with all your crap “