Show Me Puns and Jokes in Businesses/Names on Your Layout

What's funny is the couple with their dog is waiting on the wrong side! They are going to see the taxidermist...

Well, near the end, if you really want Fido to last forever . . . .

Oldie but goodie:

Justin Case Tools.

Rick.

Had one on the old layout. Posted on the barrel loader: Jack Anapes, Cooper. Mr. Morfun, Proprietor. Too clever for the room, though. I had to explain that a cooper made barrels, and jackanapes was a monkey, and morfun... ah well.

Polar Espresso -- Iced Coffee House?

Norwalk Radiator

                       A great place to take a Leak.

Bill

Boris Karloff

A two fer

Mount Meenow in its formative years.

Frank Ellison had some good ones on his renowned Delta Lines.

Munoz Florist is:

Hy Dranger

Train Store is:

Knautz and Bolts Trains

Ball's Bearings

"When you need a bearing get Ball's"

I guess you needed to be there

Jim McClenin

The Southern Crescent Roll Diner.

On one of my modules: Akes and Payne Medical Supply House

It's not their name but their slogan.

Jim

Awaiting the right clipart to accompany it on the side of a woodside reefer:

"Schlechtschmecker Sausage. It's the Wurst!"

You have to speak German to appreciate that one, or at least be from Milwaukee. Schlechtschmecker is a compound of the German words for "bad tasting." I am looking for a clipart piece of the classic traditional German burgher with a big mustache and maybe an Alpine hat with a feather, eating a sausage. 

 I'm planning on using this one on my next layout in front of my Plasticville Hospital:

Jerry

Not a joke or pun.....but rather a building in honor.

A Lionelville building reworked and repainted......

I had a cousin who became a doctor, moved back home here to open a clinic in rural WV. She was a huge help in the area that has trouble keeping good doctors. Her clinic was 'Grace Clinic'. She had to go into the hospital herself for a simple procedure. Things happened and she passed unexpectedly. So in honor I used her clinic name on the drug store. Just a way to remember her and her work. Most places on my layout will be name similarly. 

Miracle Chair Company.   "If it's a good chair it's a Miracle!"

Reflecting real life. I've seen real hair biz name like that....so Frank is just imitating life.

A name I used in real life for side jobs, Blind Flash Welding.  

Sandy Blinks Welding was a pals moniker.

Samples from the real world, seen while riding a tram around Melbourne Victoria.

 Ace 2007

Haze & Mats Chemical Distribution

A Division of Superfund Industries

Speaking of noxious polluting industries, I had a big refinery/chemical plant on my N gauge layout years ago, with smokestacks bulching grey cotton, with a big logo "I.B. Fahrten Industries.  My boys loved it, my wife not so much.

The internet has plenty of inspiration:

most I could not even post...

When touring Ireland many years ago, we came across a restaurant called "Get Stuffed". It will feature on my next layout.

Great Thread, Thanks Lee.

Another from real life, close to "home" for many of us.

The TCA collector's insurance is provided by the J.A. Bash Co. in partnership with the Donald Burns Agency. I wonder if they ever considered looking for a Joe Steele to make the range of hazards complete.

Jim

have a mortuary owned by B.L. Zebub  (only 1/2 of visitors get it)

jerrman

For my dairy, I used two advertising slogans from a local creamer's campaign.

No photos ready, but the back of my control panel was exposed to the trains, engine yard and other scale people that might pass by.  So I used Ameritown building fronts, took a total of seven three story fronts, and enclosed the control panel back.  Well, since it was an electrical installation, I decided to make it an electrical supply distributor.  The two guys that started the business went into partnership, using their own names for the business:  "Schortz and Sparks Electrical Supply Company" and it provides one more business for the railroad to serve.

Also recently bought a warehouse/freight house building.  Two of our prominent citizens own it and named it after themselves:  "Ruff and Tumbel Freight Service".

A recent new business, a factory, is in the process of being completed.  It will specialize in one major and very useful product: post holes.  You see, you won't have to dig post holes to install fences or light poles; you can just purchase ready made post holes to use to install your new fence.  Saves a lot of digging and hard work.  "Acme Post Hole Company", very successful company.

There are a few more "cutzie" named places on the layout, but you'll have to see it yourself in person to learn the other names.

Paul Fischer

The hat in the picture is from a real business, and Whiskey John's does indeed deal in whiskey and guns, along with beer, wine, ammo, bait, and fishing tackle. I've been there. Didn't buy any whiskey or guns, but I did pick up a six-pack of the local brew. Seems like a pretty good business in a rural area. If I have room on my layout, I might just put in a Whiskey John's, or something similar. 

The delivery truck in the middle.

Some years ago I had a political billboard on my layout "Les Newcomb for President"

Why be from Milwaukee to understand German? When German used to be the semi-official lanquage of Lancaster County Pennsylvania. If you broke down on a side street near East Earl PA better know how to speak some German, as that is what PA Dutch mainly is.

Lee Fritz

I'm going to repaint and decal my dairy car for the Korova Milk Company (you need to know Clockwork Orange to get that one). I am also going to print a "HJS Energy Co." sign for my Lionel AEC reactor and I might change the Weyerhauser sign on my sawmill to "Tim Burr Lumber Co." May also include a Soylent Green warehouse.