I'm on the verge of buying the N Scale Woodland Scenics Town & Factory building set with 13 kits. That made me think what I could name each of the buildings when I remembered some of the funny names I thought of years ago. Here are some of my future stores: Sal Monella's Fried Chicken Restaurant Rick O'Shea's Gun Shop Helen Highwater, Attorney at Law Otis Hertz, Dentist Otis Elevator Co. (in a one story building - no elevators) Rusty Nales Hardware Store Any others you care to share?
The old favorite, Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe, Attorneys at Law Les Izmore, Accountant Hugh Jass, Fashion Design Salmonella Bros. Fresh Eggs and Produce (all used one one or another of my layouts over the years)
I have always wanted that kit, and now I am running out of room for those buildings. But I will buy it one day. It's such a good deal, rather than buying them all individually? Thai Tanic - Restaurant Wok This Way - Restaurant Live And Let Dye - Salon Darth Vaper - Tobacco Store Ditcher Quick and Hyde - Divorce Lawyers
Some I had on the layout when I was a kid (mid 70's): A.R. Sennic (division of Widowmaker Chemicals) M.T. Warehouse P. Pottler's Potholes And a few I either can't remember or they were a blur in the background of a photo... Also a slogan for an undertaker: "You stab'em, we slab'em."
Mike's Mortuary "you stab 'em we slab them" Standard answer to 1) winning the Mega-Millions Lottery call 2) My auto warranty is about to expire 3) US CUSTOMS has opened a case against you. 5) To all the other SCAMMERS out there How about Gopher-Broke Slot Machine Company--Pot Hole Road Construction Company--Shaky Chair Company.
I try to keep it less than obvious. The primary one I have is Max Fead's machine shop (a little hole in the wall shop capable of fixing anything not totally destroyed and not entirely hopeless with anything that is.) The other is a window decal in the second floor office window of Royal Payne- Attorney at Law.
Skidmore Tire Co. C.Y. Dairiaire Insurance Agency Coughlin Coffin Company Ditchum Excavating Owen & Broke Credit Union Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I have a mine on the railroad owned by the Sherman Coal Company. Because, if Mr. Peabody can have a coal company (www.peabodyenergy.com), why can't Sherman?
An old favorite that my Dad had on his layout 60 years ago: Tamfino Feed Mill Plus a few actual business names I found online: Amigone Funeral Home Stubb's Prosthetics Tequila Mockingbird (liquor store) Passmore Gas & Propane Spruce Springclean (cleaning service) Curl Up & Dye Salon Master Bait & Tackle A Salt & Battery Fish and Chips Little Hope Cemetery Hindenburger (flame-broiled burgers) S.T.D. Contractors Frying Nemo (fish and chips) Juan in a Million (restaurant) Google makes it so-o-o-o easy! - Jeff
I’ve got a billboard (BLMA?) that came with a sign that always a crowd pleaser. When I’ve got space for it I want to build an office park with signs for companies from TV and movies. I run Metra so the layout will be urban so I’ve got to put things on all the buildings I will want to have. I’ve got a couple of sets of the Bralick building from Walthers. I figure all those evil tech companies were once a startup somewhere…why not along the back drop? Cyberdyne (Terminator) InGen (Jurassic Park) Weyland Corporation (Aliens) Initech (Office Space) Umbrella Corporation (Resident Evil) Callister, Inc (Black Mirror episode) I’ve got a couple of Walthers warehouses on the way-for rail served industries-perhaps the future home of a Chicago branch of Dunder-Mifflin (The Office), a Los Pollos Hermanos (Breaking Bad) distribution facility, or the Paper Street Soap Company (Fight Club)? And still looking for office space are a bunch of medical folks: -Drs. Harold Paratestes and Richard Long (urologists) -Drs Owen Wyder and Ginger Vitis (dentists) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
A couple more- one I already have that will find a place on the new layout is a machine shop backdrop flat I called Disreali Gear and Machine (after the old Cream album) and another, Big John's Septic Tank Cleaning, that may have a rundown building or may only be represented by a ratty CMW '46 Chevy truck.
Ouch, that's harder to pronounce than the Tchoutacabouffa River in coastal Mississippi, or the Tchefuncte River in southeast Louisiana.