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It’s a French cleat system. I’m planning to hang most of my tools and supplies instead of using up drawer space.
As trite as the comical business names can be, I've made a lifetime collection of real ones in my business travels. There was a time period where pun industry and inside joke names were very common in model railroading, not so much today. You have to be quick, because oddball small business names (or virtually clueless) ones don't always last all that long. There really is/was a restaurant in Cooperstown, NY, that was the "Foo King Chinese Restaurant", I have photos of it.I do like the "Curl up and Dye". My own real all-time favorite was in Webster Springs, WV, which was a hotbed of oddball names for a while.1) Professional Motor Sports Speedway, just south of town, with a big billboard "PMS SPEEDWAY". Yikes. Long gone now.2) "Sent from Above" religious book store, in a place that had been a war surplus store with a 250-lb bomb casing above the entrance. And they painted the store name on the bomb....3) "Burnt Presbyterian Church" on Burnt Road, just over the Virginia state line....4) "Not Nans Plans", which is a well, nobody knows, and still apparently in business...5) "English Muffin Seafood Restaurant", right at the West Virginia state line, very much abandoned, wonder why a seafood restaurant in rural West Virginia named the English Muffin wasn't a great idea......6) Even CSX got into it, because the junction at Hancock, WV (tower now gone) was "HO Tower".Another great one that ya just have to wonder was the "BM Campground" at Pennfield, PA, another one now long gone. Just south of Fredonia, NY, you'll still find "Camp Gross", amazingly enough, which has been there for years.The dumbest, most clueless local railroad name still goes to the now-defunct, "Knox, Kane & Kinzua", later shortened to the "Knox & Kane" when they finally realized that putting " K K K " on the tender was a really bad idea.I have a lifetime collection of these I made into a presentation format for speaking engagements when its necessary to lighten the mood.The very real one that's modeled on my layout, and I think they are still in business, is "Peace Surplus" in Flagstaff.My wife and I both enjoy fishing, and she's a terminal knitter, we've been to about as many knitting shops as hobby shops. She's already named the business she wants to start - "Bait and Stitch".
Boom...looks like the WP 8th Sub. Great work.
Fantastic work @dmidkiff ! Any chance we could persuade you to put together a tutorial (or even better, a step-by-step demo video)?Ed
Doug: Definitely looks "dry Western". Eastern Washington doesn't have that kind of hills, and more vegetation, but we've been quite a few places that look like that. Parts of northeastern Wyoming come to mind, as well as the Southwest.
No "happy little trees..."? I learn my background painting by painting happy little trees. Seriously, great work!
Better than what I can do!
Add to the list Pho King, Phuket Thai Cuisine, and Tokyo Wok Chinese Food
While this is really fodder for the Crew Lounge, I'll break the rule and add to this OT excursion. These "Pho" restaurants with off-color names seem to be sprouting everywhere.mg]
Continuing the drift..... There is 6-1-PHO near me here in Columbus. An obvious play on our area code of 614. Not nearly as off-color as the others, but creative none the less. I keep meaning to try it out. Oh, and I might have decaled some 3 bay open hoppers for PC. I know. Photos or it didn't happen.
I'm just glad to hear from you. I was concerned after hearing about the tornados.
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