$35.00 The book of weird, befuddling and just plain embarrassing business names. Here are 600 fabulous head scratchers. Description The roadside is littered with ordinary places bearing odd names — sometimes very odd. Here are 600 fabulous head scratchers, funny names for stores and businesses ranging from Armegeddon Carpet Cleaners to Sam-n-Ella’s River Club. Additional information Weight 9.8 oz Dimensions 10 × 8 × 1 in Publisher interestingideas.com (March 03 2021) Pages 92 Illustrations 149 ISBN-13 978-1034551157
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A new treasury of oddball store names from around the world.
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Weird, Wacky and Just Plain Embarrassing Business Names From the Grog N Groc Hall of Fame Order the book here
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This comment from the business name page deserves featuring since it is an instance of the all-important “things” concept. Tracy Says: July 19th, 2006 at 11:04 am We have “Taste Good” Chinese Restaurant here, and there’s this place that was called “Ying’s” and then he added more and called it “Ying’s Wings”. That wasn’t enough, though, it became “Ying’s Wings and Things”. That was before he built the bar area. The name now? “Ying’s Wings, Things and Bar”.Here’s their website: http://www.yingswingsthings.com/
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S. Tice-Lewis contributed a great name, Cum Park Plaza in Haw River, N.C.
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A new round of names added to the Grog N Groc Hall of Fame: What the Pho Bellevue, Washington (John Carlton) Ave’s Taxidermy and Cheese, River Falls, Wisconsin (Sheryl Kostich) A-Furniture Store, Bakersfield, California (Gwen Barnes) Litteral Photography, Bakersfield, California (Gwen Barnes) Bearable Dentistry, Bakersfield, California (Gwen Barnes) Bender Chiropractic, Bakersfield, California (Gwen Barnes) The Lie-N Den Bar, Bakersfield, California (Gwen Barnes) Judy’s Lounge & Liquor, Stone Park, Illinois (Larry Ostgaard: “My friend John & his girlfriend, Judy and I would drive by and invariably John would ask if we wanted to go to Judy’s lounge and lick her.”) Pastry
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Just added some great names to the Grog N Groc Hall of Fame: Hotel Mr. Bed City, Paris (me) Wok N Go – “It’s only Wok N Go, but I like it,” Lexington, Ky (Karl Lawrence) The Best Way Inn Motel, Carbondale, Ilinois (rl Lawrence) Holy Sheet! Housewares, Paramatta, NSW, Australia (Aaron T. Slater) King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut (Glasgow, Scotland ) K.L. Cox Thai Me Up, San Francisco (Sandra Madrid) Crafty Beaver hardware store, Chicago (Sandra Madrid) Richard Heads bar, Houston (Sandra Madrid) Fluke Transport & Warehousing, Hamilton, Ontario, “If it arrives on time, it’s a Fluke” (Susan Galbraith)
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