In certain sections of Brooklyn NYC, where elevator apt buildings exist, the first floor of those buildings are frequently occupied by professionals. Doctors, Dentists, and Lawyer are the usual occupants. On Ocean Av a pair of business' unrelated, are a Dentist and a Podiatrist. This immediately brings to mind the place to come for treatment of "Hoof and Mouth Disease". Brooklyn is not noted for Cattle raising but if you have a Cow , this is the place to come for a check-up.

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lol...Osman Pies and Optical. I think they just recently got rid of the pies though.

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Odd combination I saw years ago... Carpet and Burgers. One large building that housed a carpet store and on one end had a grill that sold fast food.

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I saw an antiques and bait shop combo in Kentucky once.

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There was a Chinese restaurant in town that was also a mortage broker firm. Sometimes you had to wait for a while for dinner because the chef was closing a deal in the office.
Now they have sold the restaurant and moved their mortage business somewhere else. You still have to wait for dinner because the business is really goo.

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I just saw a good one the other day: Mexican Foods and Construction (written on the same truck!).

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We have a small chain of Video store/tanning where I live

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in my town there was a store called religious items and hair products...like wtf can u find a bible next to the hairspray?

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In CNY there was a famous Pizzeria and Bridal Boutique that did huge business in both offerings for decades.

The dresses were in an adjacent building... so you did not have to worry about smelling like a "pizza with everything" on your special day!

Sadly, the bridal shop closed recently... leaving the owners to take down the huge inflatable gorilla on the roof. Can't tell why that was ever up there in the first place. Pizza is still very good though.

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Al's Welding and Landscape Co.

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In Lewes, DE, on Route 1, there is a business that sells Worms 'N Perms!

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No surprise, just reading it wrong. These are entrepreneurs and that's what they do. Always looking for ways to expand market. If you don't then you are the one out of luck. The stupid thing to do is rely on one thing for your source of income or assume the market will never change. We had plenty of textile jobs in the south, people thought they would be employed forever. Well gone now and they have no other source. Good news is many learned and started their own businesses, doing much better than before.

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in a town near where i live, a music store went out of business, and in its place?

combination porn and smoke shop.

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We have some odd combos in our small city - most notably the Beer Depot/Austin Mortgage. With the recent mortgage crisis, makes me think we're either fortifying ourselves to take the plunge or trying to recover afterward!

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Years ago, I used worked as a tax preparer for an older man who had an income tax service set-up inside one of his laundromats. And ironically, he used to really 'clean' up!!

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We have a business here in Indiana called Tom's Car Care. A combination Car Wash, Rapid Oil Change and Coffee/Sandwich Shop. Their motto is "Where we keep the oil, soap and coffee separate."

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This is too funny. Just today I saw a vehicle body repair shop and a thrift store all in one. I'm thinking folks can't afford to repair their vehicles so the owners aren't making enough money to feed the family. Therefore, they're selling their own property, hence the thrift store.

Good luck in this economy, everyone! We're gonna need it!

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"Junior's Used Shoes & Ice Cream"

Yes, you read that right, and it's not a joke. In the town where I used to live, there was a little run-down store by that name. I used to laugh with my friends as we wondered whether the shoes were used, whether the shoes AND the ice cream were used (ewww), whether "Junior" was meant to extend to the shoes - as though all of them previously belonged to a guy named "Junior" and you had to wear his size in order for the shoes to be a desired purchase... I heard it closed down or burned down or something. I guess we know why... I just wish I could have taken a picture of it because that was absurdly awesome.

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When I lived in Florida, I saw two of my favorite "combo businesses". One was a doctors office that moved into the vacant half of a very large building. The other half ? A funeral home. While across town, a mortician shared part of his building with fast food joint that bragged on their specialty; chicken fingers. Never could talk myself into eating there

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I like the one down the street from me they sell Hardwood floors, carpet, liquor, bait and propane, nice combo of derelicts and retirees, it also doubles as the management office to the trailer park next door. Very classy.

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