Naming your town businesses...

[MartyE]

After seeing Spankybird's post on naming the town, I was interested to see if the naming of businesses after family members is common.

I have Josh's Hobby Shop, Victoria's Hallmark Store as well as Victoria's Christmas store. I also have billboards for WJES after my daughter Jessica and Jessica's Pizza. So far I have yet to name anything after me thought.

A friend of mine has just about every business named after his family members.

[Anonymous]

Marty,
All of The Rock's businesses say Plasticville on them. Doesn't sound too creative, right?[;)]

[MartyE]

Plasticville is my contractor too along with a few others...after that they get personalized.

[Anonymous]

I always wanted to have a surplus store combined with an office supply store called, "Rank and File."

[Anonymous]

I have been naming the businesses in my town with my kids initials (ex: LEJ Sawmill, LB Recyclers, EAB Oil) and mine and my wifes intials (MSB Pipe). I have also used our last name on 1 of them.

[Big_Boy_4005]

Here's an idea for a whimsical industry. It would need three operating cars, an aquarium car, a cattle pen, and a barrel ramp. "Lox, Stock, and Barrel", makers of fine kosher foods.[swg]

[fjerome]

not only are many of my businesses named for family members, most of those have been customized with photos or trainsformation custom figures of the family members themselves.

[Dave Farquhar]

I'm currently building the Second Amendment Gun Shop, named after an inside joke with a friend. It'll integrate a few more inside jokes as well. A couple of other old inside jokes will also get buildings. I intend to name a few more businesses after relatives. I had a great-grandfather who was a tailor, and a great-great grandfather who owned a store. I'll name some other businesses after real-world personal favorites.

So I suppose I'm chasing the variety pack.

[waltrapp]

I tried to go one step better: I built model's of all of my family's houses. I even built little street signs using their real address. I had 1:48 scale figures made representing each person and when positioned by their house it makes for a great display - modestly speaking and all [:I]

Sorry about pointing you to Tripod but that's where I have the pictures hosted.:

http://pgh_train_man.tripod.com/pghtrainman/id4.html

[MartyE]

Walt

I've seen your work...very impressive!

[Anonymous]

I name everything, even geological features, after 'celebreties' in the 3 rail hobby. I have "Wolf Cut', Cowen Trestle, Vergun Mills, the town of Mattjack, et cetera. I will be adding the Armstrong Mountains, Ellison Junction, Lesser Yards (named after Pete and Joe Lesser of the famous hi-rail layout). Maybe even the "Barret Backshop". Of course there will be a Weaver Bridge and an Atlas Pass.

Nothing for K-line yet; maybe we can add the Town of Klien.

[dk99358]

Awhile back, there was a thread on the OGR forum using music as a theme for businesses. Things like Bob's Premium Guns and Ammo (Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band) or L. Hevy-- Plumbing Supplies (Elton John) I don't know if it's still there but there were some really twisted minds at work producing good stuff.

Dale

[RItrainfan]

I have re-lettered MTH out-of-the box buildings for family members and long-ago girl friends. HARRY'S FABULOUS FROSTINGS is the corner bakery, named for my dad, a life-long baker. GLORIA'S GLITTER AND GO is a boutique (for Gloria S., my high school sweetheart), SUSIE'S SERIOUS SNACKS is a neighborhood mini-restaurant (for Suzy W., a finicky eater who was no fun on a dinner date), and KAREN'S KOOKIE KASTLE (for Karen B., proud owner of a box of great cookie recipes from family and friends).

I'm kitbashing the Plasticville Hospital into a three-times-bigger building and re-lettering it as UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER for the "real" medical center where I work. When finished later this year, it will have three wings for patient care, labeled: CUTTEMUPP Center, STIKITTUUM Institute, and STICHEMUPP Tower. The ER entrance of the hosptial will be labeled the Saturday Night Knife and Gun Club.

Mike

[spankybird]

Hi Rttrainfan,

You wouldn't happen to be working at the Univerity Medical Center in Cleveland, OH would you [?], It sounds like it.

tom

[FJ and G]

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