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