Bizarre store name...

This struck me as being so odd, I just had to bring it up. I commute to work via public transportation, anywhere from 30-45 minutes by bus depending on traffic. Partway along the route, near a major intersection, is a dingy storefront with a big sign reading, 'The Lord's House of Caskets.' To make it even better, right next door is a meat market, with an equally big sign that says 'our meat tastes better.' I find it to be funny and creepy at the same time. Has anybody else seen wierdly-named places like this?

I was working on a sign called "Bugs N Suds".....

It was for a restaurant that serves crawfish and beer.

I thought by the title it would be a laundro-mat...

There is a beauty parlor near my house called "Curl Up & Dye", it always makes me think of cockroaches....

curl up and dye is a popular name for beauty parlors ever since it was the name of the beauty salon geena davis worked at in earth girls are easy

Not exactly the same, but this happened near where I live. There was a Christian Book Store, selling spiritual enlightenment, that went out of business. The next owner was a liquor store, selling spirits. I always found that amusing.

There used to be a Chinese restaurant here called China Garden, and they had a HUGE elaborate sign out front with those letters you could change (like gas station prices), and for years and years the sign read "Food to go in rear".

LOL, HoseQueen, yours reminds me of another one. I used to live in this run down neighborhood and the grocery store was a Mexican place named, Danals. Well, long story short, it took them over six months to fix the burned out D on thier sign.

That psycho girlfriend played by Carrie Fisher in the Blues Brothers worked at Curl Up'n'Dye too!

Reminds me of Back Door Pottery.

In the city where my boyfriend goes to college, there is a buisness called Kildea Kar Kare.

K-K-K

To quote Krusty, on seeing the sign for the Krusty Komedy Klassic, "KKK? Oh, that ain't good.".

Haha I remember last weekend on my trip to Houston, I drove past a Chinese Restaurant in the city.

It was named "Fook De Restaurant".

Fo' real.

And I thought that only existed in jokes

I remember driving south out Miami many years ago, heading down to Key West along US-1, and seeing a sign for a store that advertised "Guns | Office Supplies".

I imagined going in and saying, "I need a stapler, some ballpoint pens, and a .38 revolver".

- Ace

A place called "Concrete Vibrators" in Denver

There is a Master Baiters and Tackle in Breckenridge, CO (or some other mountain town, I forget) I think they get more t-shirt sales than bait and tackle.

Tee shirt:
"Western Fasteners
....we screw the world!"

--v

There was a place in a town nearby that was called "Roadkill Cafe" I never ate there myself, but I was told they had good food. I just couldn't get myself to go to a place called that.

LMAO.... oh my god, these are hilarious!

There's a little Chinese restaurant in my area that has a big sign stating, 'chop suey to take home,' which I've always thought funny... as if they were emphasizing that you MUST take it home, you can't eat there. Maybe that's more quirky than bizarre, though.

These are great, keep 'em coming!

There's one of those in Redondo Beach on Catalina.

I wonder if it's a chain, or if more than one person has come up with that name?



D'oh!
I should read the entire thread before shooting off my trap...


Now then...
In Santa Monica there's a fast food joint called "Fast Taco", but they chose a terrible, stylized typeface where the "s" in fast looks more like an "r"....


But my all time favorite funny name was a terrific Vietnamese resturaunt called "A Dong".
Once my car broke down there and the AutoClub dispatcher cracked up laughing when I told him where I was stranded. I'm lucky they didn't think I was a crank and hang up on me!

I'm from Portland Or. In the chinatown part of downtown there is a restaurant called Hung Far Lo. They have a neon sign outside saying Cocktail Lounge except the tail part has been burned out or painted over forever. I asked one of the waitresses what Hung Far Lo meant in Chinese. She said it literally meant yellow flower (or something) but it didn't really mean anything

On a recent road trip through Blythe, California, I saw a sign for a hair salon called "Friendz". I thought that kind of spelling was only in SL!

A restaurant near where i used to work had a large sign advertising both their entertainment and heir menu for passers-by. The sign read "Live Cricket Lunch Special".

Ummmmm...I'll just have the soup, thanks.

I pass a really tiny carryout every morning on the way to work. It has two signs. One has the name of the carryout, the other reads "Sub Chicken Fish". Is it three different items, or some bizzare lesser fish/chicken hybrid? Maybe they sell fish and really low grade chicken.

I'll one up that. In a mall near me, there's a "K & K Kollectibles" (which i've filed a complaint about)

Not only is the acronym "KKK", but the three letters are right next to each other on the sign.

The last time we passed through Walla Walla, Washington on the way to visit my family in the southeastern part of the state, I spied a store called Hot Poop. They even have a web site.