Comments on: Ill-Advised Names Part Deux: Businesses

By: Al Robinson

Al Robinson — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:37:03 +0000

There’s a little restaurant on the way to my cottage called “Alice’s Restaurant”. They’ve got something they call an “open menu”. Basically, you tell them what it is and they’ll make it for you. You really can have anything you want. Unfortunately, it’s run by a 65 year old man.

By: Normal

Normal — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:47:18 +0000

I’m not sure if it is there anymore, but several years ago there was a grocery store in a small town close to Shreveport, La. I found it funny because, at the time, the O.J. Simpson trial had only recently concluded. The store’s name was OJ’s Super Foods, but their slogan was “Home of Mr. Meat”.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:42:47 +0000

In Chattanooga TN there was a downtown restaurant called the Country Kitchen that had been here for decades. The name was up in big neon lights that forever had a letter or two burned out. For a week, they had the “o,r,y” burned out, leaving the police to believe it was an act of vandalism.

By: simon

simon — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:22:56 +0000

I live near a shut down shoe store called.

R. Soles – for Shoes

By: Ego, Egoing, Egone

Ego, Egoing, Egone — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:17:49 +0000

In Fresno CA we had the delightful “Jimmy’s Donut” which I imagined to be a business that sold pieces of a very large doughnut. Then someone went and fixed the grammar! But worst of all we still have the wonderfully awful “Uncle Tom’s Liquor.”

By: Lola

Lola — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:46:12 +0000

I used to live in toronto and would walk to an early lifeguarding shift at like 5 in the morning when many businesses were still lit up as it was dark outside. Funny enough on my walk I noticed a part of the primrose hotel sign had burnt out. It read “rimrose hotel”. classic.

By: Susan J

Susan J — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:22:12 +0000

There used to be (pre-Katrina) a series of Chinese places in the New Orleans French Quarter called “Takee Outee”. You had to be really drunk to eat there.
In Siler City NC there’s a car wash named “The Wet Spot” reportedly named to tick off the guy in charge of the sign ordinance.

By: J

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:44:29 +0000

- the ‘3 way’ at sky line is indeed on the menu – i believe its chilli, cheese and spaghetti. no really.

also a chain in louisville that’s noteworthy: Cox’s Smokers Outlet. it’s a chain of discount tobacco stores, but my boyfriend and i have a theory that it’s owned by gay men with a sense of humor.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:23:39 +0000

My favorite store name will always be one I saw in Cardiff, Wales a couple years ago.

“What?? EVERYTHING!!”

It did not have, much to my friend’s dismay, any slippers.

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:22:20 +0000

Great list. We have a lounge/package store right outside of downtown here in Tampa called “The Double Decker Lounge”. It is in a single story building and to the best of my knowledge always has been. That name has baffled me for years.