Odd Names For Towns and Businesses

[gatefive]

There was a restaurant in West Los Angeles with the following name:

The Broken Drum - You Can't Beat It.

Gatefive

Sonoma CA

[John Busby]

Anonymous

You can't beat Texas for odd town names. Real examples. Some no longer exist.

Uncertain
Gun Barrel City
Cut and Shoot
Bogus Springs
Looneyville
Dumas (depends on how you pronounce it)

You get the idea.

I don't know

But I though having a town named Texas in far north Queensland was a bit strange has an interesting station track plan.

regards John

[last mountain & eastern hogger]

We have a few cute names for towns in our province as well.........Such as >>

Love

Elbow

Eyebrow

Climax

Eastend ----( west side of Province, but east end of  the Frenchman River Valley)

Bankend

Big Beaver

Turtleford

Fairy Hill

Nut Mountain

Churchbridge

Spy Hill

Forget

Carrot River

Cut Knife

Foam Lake

You do not have to go very far  (just to your map)  to find them, every jurisdiction has some doozies.

Johnboy out......................................

[jfallon]

Hey, the thread still exists! There have been some updates and additions to the Tidewater and Albemarle.

    The area is called O'Verda Hill, and there is a yard nearby at O'Verda River. The Sofa King furniture warehouse  is located at the yard.The railroad has sold the engine house to Bay Area Locomotive Leasing Services (reporting marks BLLX). This company's business office is in an office building, just above them is the Law Firm of Peters, Dix, and Cox. Also in the building will be Fuller-Schmidt Investment Bankers.

       The Fossell Fuel Co. is now Arnold Fuel (There's no fuel like Arnold Fuel!) and their main competition is Bigg Gas Co. The  scrap yard is now owned by Dixie Wreck.

  I have suggested other businesses and industries for other modules in our club. One member is adding a siding by his cement plant for a new customer, I suggested Don Corleone Bootery (When it comes to special shoes, we've got an offer you can't refuse). There is a new passenger terminal under construction and I am making a billboard for the T. Bickle Cab Co. (If you need a ride, come talk to me!)

 

[azrail]

There is a business in Blythe, CA actually called "Passmore Gas"

[dehusman]

[dstarr]

 Cambridge MA  had big moving vans labeled " Deathwish Piano Movers, No Job too Scary"   They had competition from another moving outfit  "Turtle Truckers".  I moved out of Cambridge in the late 1980's so I don't know if either is still in business. 

[Mavryk]

MisterBeasley

On Beaver Creek Blvd in Avon, Colorado there's a liquor store. You can guess the name.

 

There's a small town about 40 miles west of here called Beaverlodge. The local liquor store there answer's their phone, "Hello, ......"

Sure you can figure it out

[jmbjmb]

Well there is a Gore Range in Colorado and Gore Oklahoma and a Defeated Tennessee.  So a Gore & Defeated isn't out of the question.

[dbduck]

pcarrell

Well, it's not a town but if you drive down I65 south of Louisville, KY, there's a billboard up on a hill that advertises tattoo's "while you wait"!!!

That would be the Famous ......" Tattoo Charlie's"

[fec153]

HELL, MICHIGAN,  It froze last year.  NO JOKE!

Flip

 

[bnnrailroad]

Augusta Winn - Sail Manufacturing

[tomikawaTT]

John Armstrong, in his various published layout plans, perpetrated some classics. These are a few samples from JA on Creative Layout Design:

Overjunque - shelf station in a garage.
Gross Fabrications, Inc. - Fake factory in "suggestive omission" sidebar
Clearbottom Bend - station across a narrow aisle from front-loading washer and dryer.
(From a British prototype layout) Blicester (blister), Brewnell (more properly Brunel) and Constable Meadows (for those who remember Simon Templar's nickname.)
Phlatt Yard - club layout freight yard.
Desmaigne Yard - freight yard at a station called Llawn Mawr (inspired by Bryn Mawr?)
(From a modern prototype layout set in the South) Howze Bayou, Jesdown (duh road?)

Last, and probably worst, the short line, Nossuh, Yewall and Shonuff Railroad.

Chuck

[fiatfan]

Speaking of comic books, there is a street in Waterloo, Iowa, called Lois Lane.

Tom

[CascadeBob]

On East St. in Frederick, MD there was a salvage yard called Reliable Junk. They later changed the name of the business to Reliable Recycling. I liked the old name better.

[mtrails]

Just a week ago, looking for the residence of an aquaintance's layout, off of hand written directions, I passed "Yer Lost Lane", and "Turn around Circle". As a result of this distraction, I did in fact get lost, and had to turn around!

[leighant]

I thought of one this morning... using nice Spanish names that ttranslate as something not so poetic...

Sierra Cadena..."Chain Saw Mountains"

Rio Viejo (pronounced vee-AY-hoe) "Old Man River"

[Anonymous]

I'm thinking of having a dentist's office for Phil R. Pullum, D.D.S.,
and an office for Dr. Lester Payne - Friends call me "Les".[:)]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mikesmowers

On my layout I have a small cafe I called "CHOKE & PUKE" Home of the greese burger

That's great.[:D] I always wanted Irma's Diner, from Garfield.

[Anonymous]

I was in Sutton Mass. once, and on one of the signs that shows the name and distance of a town, one of them said, Purgatory 1 mile. I didn't see a heaven or hell though.

[jfallon]

Would you eat at Sam & Ella's Diner?

[twcenterprises]

Seen on a truck yesterday:

Almost Heaven, WV

Yahoo maps couldn't find it, though. Might be a real small town.

Brad

[tomikawaTT]

Reagan and Ryan, Attourneys at Law (specializing in rail damage claims.)

Just a thought, with tongue firmly in cheek.

Chuck [who used to live in Cheatham (pronounced "Cheat 'em") County, TN.]

[Anonymous]

Some fire departments name their stations after people so you could have a Reagan or Ryan Hose, Engine, or Ladder Company.

[leighant]

(see if this one will get me banned....?)

How about a seafood cookbook company named
KLAMBAKE PUBLISHING...

[Anonymous]

those are good names

[BRJN]

There is a street in Dayton OH called "Needmore Road". It might be fun to put this on a bridge over the mainline and a block later it turns into a dirt track.

How about Short Street, a cul-de-sac?

Kennedy School of Driving. (A current events joke.)

[Walter Clot]

It seems like we had a similar forum not long ago. My main industry is the National, Allied, Standard Titanic Yyterbic Chemical Plant. NASTY Chemicals. My main town is "Walton" - stands for Walt's town. I have "Carly's Hardware" (granddaughter). I will have Krista Falls. Granddaughter Krista slipped down the stairs, taking me with her. No one was hurt, but an idea was planted in my mind. "Josie Junction" named for another granddaughter. I also have an law office, "Dewey Cheatem and Howe." I'm still thinking about grandsons Reagan and Ryan.

[reklein]

Say was that seafood place run by a woman who goes by the name of Annette Fortuna?