How about some fun with naming of industries?

I am working on a rib restaurant with a smoke unit and chimney called Adam's Ribs!

That's a great name.

 

Art

I have a small little bar that was in Hazleton, Pa. in the 60s-70s that was called The Elbow Room.  It only had enough space for about 6 or 7 people, hence the name.

Some one here had Salvatore Manella's Fish Market on their layout.  I borrowed that for my grandkid's layout.  

Real signs can be funny too. Here are three of my favorites:

 

 

 

 

I have the MT Box Manufacturing Company.

 

 

 

Some years ago, an immigrant family came to town.  The patriarch, Izadore Wrolouda, opened a barrel manufacturing company.  He purchased a fancy automated barrel loader and ships almost everything by rail.  The company has prospered and grown to include a large outdoor storage area.  A prominent sign identifies the facility as "I. Wrolouda Barrels, Inc."

Joe S.

There is an attorney in phillipsburg, NJ that advertises Earnest F. DuH, Attorney at Law.

I used to have a factory called Pandora Packaging. Their motto was, "You'd be surprised at what you find in a Pandora Box!"

 

Then there's Auntie's Freezer Ice Cream Shoppe. It's run by a sweet old lady named Etheleen Glikohl. LOL

Like Joe S., I had a barrel loader with a sign that read: "Jack A. Napes, Cooper. Mr. Morfun, Proprietor".

More fun than a barrel of monkeys. Get it?

Yeah, nobody else did, either.

I've named some of my businesses and buildings after relatives.

Bloom and Son, Florists is named after my great aunt and uncle. I had another great aunt named Rose Flower so that one could have been fun too.

W. F. Jaymes Fine Jewelry is named after my wife's great uncle who was a jeweler.

I have an Ameritowne building I painted white so that might become White's Hardware. Or maybe Black's Hardware?

I'm also doing a building that will be
F W Woolworths 5 & 10, and if there's room I may put in a Western Auto store.

I agree it is fun to name business after friends and relatives who have been in or had some connection with that type of business.

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Dennis

 

I always wanted to name one: Lox, Stock & Barrel Kosher Foods. Fish, cattle and pickles. It would be a good way to have a destination for some of the novelty cars and operating accessories.

How about an Hawaiian fish restaurant called the 'Haole Mackerel'?

At my train club, we mix serious names with names that are fun. for example:

 

Wayout Widgets was named because there is a siding hidden behind the buildings in the town and the Wayout Widgets building if the Way out.

  Captain Sparrow's Fish and Lobster is named after the lead character in Pirates of the Caribbean. The sign on the van is "Country Joe's Fish"

 

 We also have "Regis Radiator Repair - The best place to take a leak"

Some of the businesses are named after my kids: "Pasta Denise Restaurant" "Danny Boy's Bar and Grill". 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are some very creative names here! 

How about Myramains Funeral Home.

I have a very compressed mine scene where the business name is "Bucket a Day Coal Company"  The town's welcome sign says "Population 1"

My wife suggested the name for the pipe organ factory on my layout.

A book store featuring a window display by I.P. Daly

I compiled a list of businesses for my layout a couple of years ago. 

 

Eetinbarph Resturant

C. Ment & Wood Construction Company

Makaronian Cheese Company

Shoemm & Barium Funeral Home

Orange Manufacturing - Makers of Barrels and Cones

B. S. Fertilizer Co.

Warpt Lumber Co.

Dr. Peter Hertz - Urologist

Dr. Seymour Butz - Proctologist

E. Gadds - Tax Service

Chittee Diaper Service

 

It is amazing (or sad) what an idle mind can come up with.

 

Tom

I was in a local Chinese restaurant which offered the services of local businesses and had a card for an accountant named Frank Rong. A CPA named Frank Rong MUST have Lee for a middle name and will have an office on my layout. 

P.N. Moore Septic Service

 

Don't forget the staple of all funny signs...

 

 

A tunnel on my layout is named "Carpal"

R.U. Knutz Lumber Company

 

Legend Dairy

 

W.E. Blow, Refrigeration Company

 

 

Real ones spotted:

 

Crummy Funeral Services

Swift Funeral Services

 

Keep 'em coming folks.  I base on my layout on real people and places but this is a lot more fun.

I love the responses! 

 

I'm still laughing over the Thai Tanic and that's a real one too.  Adam's Rib's is another great one.

 

We have a lot of creative talent on this forum.

 

Art

 Windell Uric Reinhurst-Ubberbans

European Performance garage.

 

 Home of the record setting

VW Beetle 

CAGED SQUIR-RAIL

 

BUILDER/DRIVER  

Windy U R-Ubberbans

 

Stray thoughts...

How about Teds Station Shuttle.... its broke down....something must be "BUS-TED".

 

If there are any candy canes still in your gondola, put it at the power company, you can say that they have their "fill o mints" shipped by rail.

 (FYI even in the 70s, cheapest place to get bulbs was power companies offices)

 

Sign in the window of Ronda's Armenian Inn "early close".

And next door..

 William Irving Mendatall orthopedic surgeon "available for evening appointments".

 

(Um...Ronda Rousey wins early, known to break arms with "arm bars")

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who was the track-plan guy in Model Railroader years ago that had cute industry names for everything? Ed somebody?

 

The one that sticks with me is Goza-Gainsta Grain Co.

 

I don't have a name per se, but there are two slogans I actually saw on municipal

garbage trucks in Florida:  "we cater"  and  "we service what we smell"

 

Another sign I saw on a roadside church bulletin board sometime in August:  "YOU
THINK IT'S HOT HERE??"

 

Yet another sign in front of a church on Super Bowl Sunday:  "How about you stop

by my house before the game"

 

One of the best company names I've seen on a model railroad came from an OGR

feature quite some time ago.  Had to do with a milk canning concern named,

"Supreme Quart".  Sorry, I can't name the issue or the 'inventor'.

 

     Hoppy

 

 

Prod Cattle Company.

Will A. Buttfitt Fine Furniture

ON RT8 North of Akron is the DUNRITE Construction Company, real business.

 

I remember Adam's Ribs from a long ago MASH episode.

 

Has to be a use for Pied Piper.

 

Crapper Plumbing?

I like to name my business and signs after family and friends. However, there are allot of funny named stores in real life!

 

 

My layout is full of fun names most taken from the original Delta Lines Layout of the 1940's done by the late O scale modeler Frank C. Ellison.

There is

Gargle Oil Co. owned by Knutz Tousir

Richmond Meat Packing "Our famous line of Bull"

Hamm & Berger Sausage Works  "Try our  Line of Balony"

Hap Hazard Packing "From farm to table as fast as we're able".

Brrrr Ice Company

The large mountain was going to be named "Mount Paula" but my wife found it inappropriate so instead there is "Little Paula's General Store" (my wife is 6' tall), Lafayette Drugs (went to Lafayette High School) Dilberts Supermarket (was around the corner from where I grew up), the towns of Dennisdale, Douglaston and Danielson named after my sons.

I was also planning a justice of the peace location with a sign that read Hon. Judge I.P. Daly but it never materialized.

 

 

 

 

My new Layout will have businesses named after Family and Friends.

One uncle owned the Meat Packing Plant. (Still need the building, Have a possible but want a better one)

One owned a sawmill and lumber yard. (Have it - K-Line)

Family friend owned the land the local coal mine is on. (Have the Building, will model the mine)

All these will be on the layout along with some of MTH's funny name businesses in town.

Isn't Adam's Ribs the one kit by Walthers or whoever?

In the television program MASH, Adam's Ribs was the rib place in Toledo from which Clinger arranged to get ribs sent to Korea on one episode. 

No that was Trapper John who "knew a girl" and it was in Chicago down from the Dearborn street station.......and they forgot the sauce! 

 

I think Klingers place was "Pacos" in Toledo.

I much prefer real names rather than funny ones, choosing to reference locations that have historical significance to the area (upstate NY, one of many areas with a rich RR background). 

Buildings / areas I have on the layout include:

Highland Station (after Highland Park in Rochester NY)

Despatch Yards (after the old late 1800s / early 1900s Despatch Car Shops in what is now East Rochester, NY)

Goodman Street Yards (from the railroad yard near Goodman St and University Ave in Rochester, NY)

The Pole [my Ameritown barber shop building, complete with Miller Engineering barber pole (after a real barber shop of the same name currently operating in Penfield, NY)

Cobbs Hill (after a 100 or so acre park in Rochester NY, which just happens to be located a couple of good throws with a hardball from where I grew up as a kid)

Grandkids and visitors as well enjoy seeing the ties to the history of the area.