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Felix Marcano
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Hi guys. There's a new video store around town who also sells fried chicken. Seems they want to advertise their fast service. Guess what the name of the place is...

SPEED CHICKEN & VIDEO

No, I'm not kidding...

[ December 14, 2004, 02:01 PM: Message edited by: Felix Marcano ]

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Felix Marcano
PuertoRicoSigns.Com
Luquillo, PR

Work hard, party like a tourist!

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Teri Aune
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In my town

Wings & Things

Soup & More (a convenience store)

Both owned by the same people and neither in business any more.

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Teri Aune
Frontier Signs
Huron, SD

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Mike Pipes
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We have a new video store that is about to open, called "mo>ie gallery" .. yeah, they used the ">" character in their name.. what the heck??

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Mike Pipes
stickerpimp.com
Lake Havasu, AZ
mike@stickerpimp.com

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bill riedel
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How about the Chinese place known as Wok and Roll.

Not to forget the delivery truck to the logal chicken and ribs place: Big letters on the side of a straight Job truck---S.Manella Poultry.
Could his first name be Sal?

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Bill Riedel
Riedel Sign Co., Inc.
15 Warren Street
Little Ferry, N.J. 07643
billsr@riedelsignco.com

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Steve Racz
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Piggly Wiggly (grocery store). Sounds funny to us yankees... [Smile]

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Steve Racz
Racz's Handcarved Signs

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Mike Pipes
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Hey Steve, what you ain't been south of the Mason-Dixon line before?? [Smile]

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Mike Pipes
stickerpimp.com
Lake Havasu, AZ
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Mark Yearwood
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Here's some we have or have had around here:

Step-n-Fetchum (C-store)
Hop-n-Sack ( also c-store) guess what their mascot was?
Bee's Hive Salon ( do they do the'70's?)
Country Hair House
Cut'n Hut
Doo or Dye
Pokes-N-Prods

...and this is just the beginning. [Roll Eyes]

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Mark Yearwood
Yearwood Design Works
Tecumseh, OK
www.yearwooddesignworks.com
www.markyearwood.com

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Ed Williams
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"Happy Harry's" It's a "drug" store chain.

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CJ Graffx
Christiana,Pa.
cjgraffx@comcast.net
Just have'n fun....

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Mike Barnes
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Here's one for y'all.......

Rayleene's Fashion Hut.

Now that's puttin' alot of thought into a name.

I probably shouldn't talk since I obviously can't spell [Smile]

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Mike Barnes
Sign Werks
239 Cherry Ave
Corbin, Ky. 40701
sign_werks@yahoo.com

"I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV."

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James Donahue
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Hope I havn't said this before, but...
Years ago I did a window splash for a hair salon called M1 hair salon. My curiosity got the better of me and I just had to ask what the name was about.

They said, I'm not making this up, that they wanted a "more masculine sounding" name, so they named it after the WW2 rifle.

"You WILL like your haircut, you WILL pay for it, and you WILL tell your friends how much you like it right?!?"

"Oh YES, mrs. Brutalski, I'll tell them all." [Eek!]

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James Donahue
Donahue Sign Arts
1851 E. Union Valley Rd.
Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch,
Benjamin Franklin

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Jillbeans
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Déja Vu Felix
Love....Jill

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That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place.
-Russ McMullin

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fayette pivoda
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Up in a ski area here in Colorado is 'Beaver Liquors'

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fayette pivoda
signizmz
Denver Colorado

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Doug Fielder
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Up in North Central Jersey (Near Alan Johnson's place) is Bud's Pub and Grub, also is Wally's Pumpin' Station.

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Doug Fielder
Fallout Grafix
Port St. Lucie, FL

16 years with a brush in my hand...

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David Harding
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There's a Taqueria around here. It sounds like what you get from eating there.

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David Harding
A Sign of Excellence
Carrollton, TX

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Steve Racz
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LOL Mike - heck yes i've be south of the Mason Dixon line - used to live on the eastern shore of MD in a really small town called Goldsboro, near another small town called Marydel which is ON the line (hence Marydel - half in MD, half in DE). In fact when i moved to NJ i used to talk funny. [Wink]

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Steve Racz
Racz's Handcarved Signs

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Terry Baird
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We've got the "House of Poon" Chinese rest. in Rochester, NY. and "The Gigglin' Pig" furniture store in Caledonia, NY. (it's got a big fluorescent pink pig head in the logo)

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Terry Baird
Baird Signs
3484 West Lake Rd.
Canandaigua, NY 14424

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David Harding
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There was a Shan Dong China restaurant here that got nicknamed Shag Dog China.

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David Harding
A Sign of Excellence
Carrollton, TX

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Ricky Jackson
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Speed Chicken & Video. I think I'm gonna do up a logo for that just for the fun of it, LOL. "Beaver Liquors" - now *that* is funny!! I call the C.S.'s "Stop n Rob"s

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Ricky Jackson
Signs Now
614 Russell Parkway
Warner Robins, GA
(478) 923-7722
signpimp50@hotmail.com

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Jerry Starpoli
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Tavern in Highland, NY...."Billy's Slurp and Burp"
No Lie!

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Jerry Starpoli
Starpoli Signs... since 1952

845-795-2438

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Michael Boone
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At the Y Liquor... in Lowville NY

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Michael Boone
Sign Painter
5828 Buerman Rd.Sodus,NY 14551

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Large sign on a chinese restaurant in Winnipeg:

Foody Goody

Foody sounds like the swiss word for butt. My dad who was visiting from Switzerland, just about died laughing when he saw it, he took pictures and showed them to everybody back home.

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Lotti Prokott
Woodland Signs
Pelly, Saskatchewan
woodlandsigns@sasktel.net

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Billie DeBekker
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Fluff-em
Buff-em and Stuff-em
(2 door front.Its at Beauty Shop on One side and a Taxerdermy on the other side)

Likker Store (Liquor)

Gunslingers Fine Furniture. (Im in the process of making their sign right now)

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Billie DeBekker
3rd Dimension Signs
Canon City Colorado 81212
719-276-9338
bill@3dsignco.com
www.3dsignco.com

"Another Fine Graduate of the Ray Charles School of Sign Painting."

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Keith Browning
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While living in New Orleans we occaisionally went to a place called 'Suds & Duds'. It was sheer genius, a laundromat with a bar in it. It sure beat watching talk shows while waiting for your clothes.

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Keith Browning
Artistic Lettering & Design
1106 Washington St.
Vicksburg, MS 39183

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Bruce Bowers
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We have a dog groomer here that goes by "Doggie Styles".

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Bruce Bowers

DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design
Saint Cloud, Minnesota


"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter

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Christy Griffith
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When I was in college I worked part time as a telemarketer. The strangest name I can remember calling was a hair salon by the name of..

Curl up and Dye

Sounded to me like a wounded animal but to each their own:)

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Christy Griffith
C Graphics
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