I’m wanting to go with a slightly sarcastic theme for my building/business names on the layout I’m building, but having a big mental block coming up with ideas. any help out there?
Got one so far… “I.C. Sparks” for the welding shop
but need something for the bank, gas station, bar, diner, coal dealer, feed mill… ect.
Lou Boyle’s Auto Service
Greasy Joe’s Dinner…
Lumpy Coal & Fuels.
There’s always "Wee, Cheatum & Howe,. Attorneys at Law.
Skinner’s Barber Shop
I think there are some on a City Classics window dressing sheet.
Know there are a bunch of them out there. Having the same problem your with mental block.
Hopefully some other folks can get past the block.
Good luck,
Richard
Ok, since you asked here are names that I found on the web:
Dewey, Cheatem & Howe – Attornies at law.
Hardly Abel Mfg. Co.
Gambol, Waite & Hope Dentistry.
Knot Abe Etter Distributor
Awl - Weys Fined Corp.
The Owen Plentee Tax Service Co.
A Frugal Finance Co. - Money Experts on the Cheap!
Doctor I.M Quack
Doctory Will Barry Hugh.
Blade Runner Express Barbershop - Affordable, Fast, and Minimal Scarring!
Brough-Caan Glass (We’re truly a pane!)
Peed Plumbing
R. U. Dead mortuary
Y.B. Fardy - Gastroenterologist
Seymour Butts - proctologist
I.P. Freely - Commodes and sinks
Hardley - Able Manufacturing Co
I.C. Pyles - Fertilizer Company
Gus’s Gas House BBQ - Try our Chili! It brings your plumbing to life!
UBFleeced Bank
RJ Pennybags, President
Harry Movall, Barber
Last Shot Bar
Losten Foundry
RU Knotts Lumber Company
The Saur Dairy
V.Y. Lowe Savings
Flat’s Tire Service
Dusty’s Coal
Skinney’s Grill
Droppings Feed Mill
HY’s Drugs
U. R. Hung Towing Service
Have fun!
Dave
those are awesome! thanks guys 
Try these on for size, along the main street in my town, there are,
Phartz & Howe Baked Beans
I.P. Dailey Plumbing supplies
Parsons Pickles and Bakery “Makers of world famous Dill Dough”
Sam & Ella’s Diner
Dr Seymour Hynee Proctologist
Ben Dover Accounting & Tax Service
I’ve got a few others, but if I tell ya, then I gotta go to confession this week [;)]
I’m almost afraid to ask lol
There used to be a used car dealer around here doing business as Fairly Honest Joe’s
My favorite example was one of the derivatives of the AHM (IHC? Model Power) wood-frame Aunt Millie’s house - W.E. Snatchum Undertaker. It sadly took too long for the not-quite teenage me to finally get that groaner.
No mention of Walthers’s Hoffa Cement yet?
Karl!
Those are great!
I can understand why you wouldn’t want to have to go to confession. I’m not a Catholic but I believe the main goal of the process is not to get the gentleman on the other side of the screen LHAOROTF. If that were true they would have made his side of the booth big enough to prevent injuries.[}:)][swg][(-D]
Absolutely no attempt to offend anyone meant here!
Dave
monty python
dewey cheetum and howe atty at law
(three stooges), curl up and dye salon (from blues brothers)
murphys bar and baitshop, possum lodge
those are awesome! now i need more buildings. in all honesty i didn’t think that many people went with a humored theme
Take it to the bank.
Nor of their “Lauston Shipping”
A. Bused Used Cars
U. R. Stuck Towing
W. E. Outagas - gas station owner, pick your favorite brand
Justin Case Attorney
I. Ketchum Bail Bonds
Drie Well Drilling Company
Leakey Water Company
Spyies Detective Agency
Law Offices of Noah Contendere
Cheatum Fine Jewelry
Sharpe Cutterly & Kitchen Supply
Ima Hogg Farms - From Wilipedia: " Ima Hogg (July 10, 1882 – August 19, 1975), known as “The First Lady of Texas …” She insisted that her first name be pronounced “I’m a” - the “a” pronounced like the “a” in father.
Dr. Ima Nutter, Psychiatrist, or Ima Nut - Both Nutter and Nut are real last names.
A. Duie Pyle Storage company (real name)
Erection Tool Co. (real name)
Bemis-Epscotti Transport
Brinnel Hard Candy Co.
Moh’s Scale Co.
Joules Energy
Kelvin’s Thermometers
This one is subtle. Drosophila Melanogaster is the Latin name for the common fruit fly.
Others on my layout:
Sal Monella & Sons Ice Company
R. Crumb Trucking Company
Burns Coal and Oil (with cutouts of Burns and Smithers inside the building)
A fishing boat named the Andrea Gail
The Powder Milk Biscuit Company
Mom’s Robot Oil
The Heartbreak Hotel
And, as you’re leaving town,
