Thanks for sharing, that is so kewl... Awesome, love old pictures of places... Everything today in our world is so modern... Made by a machine, not by someone's hands...As a kid we had a huge old time department store in the center of Erie Pa called The Boston Store. It was a city
The building still stands turned into housing and the first floor a brewery. But The Boston Store has been gone for 40 years or more.
People still covet the signs and even reproduce them and have them in their yards. Mostly people my age that remember riding up all them escalators to the top toy floor to see Santa.
With that one I couldn't figure out the joke (I thought "maybe because the exit number is 169?") except that the name had the word @$$ in it. Surely nobody over the age of 9 finds that funny? It's a common way names start in some parts of the world. I knew a kid whose last name was Assar (I think his family was Egyptian), and I believe Assaf is a not-uncommon first name in the Middle East too. Even here in the US there's a pretty well-known company Asplundh, whose (frankly, hilarious) name is German I'm pretty sure.Believe it or not, the Asseff road is not photoshopped (unless you count me enlarging the image so it was visible). I almost hit the brakes while passing that sign. I said "The WHAT road?" Then I googled it to find out it really is a thing in Louisiana. LOL.
That would be because it is the Loo.With that one I couldn't figure out the joke (I thought "maybe because the exit number is 169?") except that the name had the word @$$ in it. Surely nobody over the age of 9 finds that funny? It's a common way names start in some parts of the world. I knew a kid whose last name was Assar (I think his family was Egyptian), and I believe Assaf is a not-uncommon first name in the Middle East too. Even here in the US there's a pretty well-known company Asplundh, whose (frankly, hilarious) name is German I'm pretty sure.
In England instead of signs saying "For Rent" they say "To Let", and I see way fewer of them defaced by adding an "i" in between the two words than I'd expect.
Years back, when working maintenance at Sears Canada, I got caught up with some English words... Once when a Lady was buying a dryer, she asked me if I thought if I took it out of the cardboard box if it would fit in her boot... I said I don't think so, judging the size of your boot and that dryer... We just kinda looked funny at one another...That would be because it is the Loo.
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