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THis evening my wife and I...
This evening my wife and I went down to the laundry room to do do the wash. After putting the clothes in the washing machine we went into the train room and looked at what I was working on. She knew of the buildings I was planning and had built to be named for my daughter's in law and at the one I was working on for her. She then asked me if I was going to do one for her mother.
I told what I was planning but she didn't like my idea for doing a laundry or cleaning store. I have yet to hear about a suggestion for something she would prefer instead. So she is now endorsing the idea of putting a building up for her mother. That's real progress for a woman who was never comfortable having a model railroad as a competitor. 
Irv
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Irv I don't know your mother-in-laws name But using the word Mom for her name I have some Ideas for you, How about Mom's Dinner or Moms Dry goods and ladies wear, or MOM's CAT HOUSE on the Hill "Oh wait" you want points not broken bones well, there is always Moms Saddles and leather goods, or DRESS MAKER Moms Bridal wear. Last of all, off the top of my head. Long before Trains way back to the just horse and Buggy era the world had Mom's Ice Cream Parlor. Well take your pick.an duck if need be
Dan
NARROW gauge MINDED
AND PROUD OF IT
My wife suggested a different name based on what her mother did before she became a mother. It seems she worked as a piece worker in the garment trades before all those jobs were shipped off to Asia and its sweat shops. Her mother made panties so she suggested that her mother's store might be called Eva's Intimates. Now i don't want to even contemplate what the window displays should look like. I don't want to create something that might be of interest to perverts.
Maybe it would be good to have small windows that would be difficult to see anything through in N-scale for ths store.
Irv
I like the name, Eva's Intimates. Perhaps Eva was a conservative lady who did not believe in window displays. Her store might have a frosted window?
If Eva's sold formal dresses as well she might call her little shop Eva's Intimates & Evening Wear and have floor length gowns on display.
Anyway, a really nice idea I thought.
Regards,
blue
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Model Railroading in HO Scale
Near the downtown area of my hometown some 50 years ago, there was a modest "restaurant" known as the "Snack Shack." As a result, my Mom sometimes referred to our home kitchen as "Helen Jean's Snack Shack." Now that I think about it, I intend to install a model of a similarly-styled restaurant to be so named in memory of Mom.
Mark
Mark Pierce
We've actually got a formal corset shop on a major road around here. It even has full window displays - and I'd call them tasteful. But you are defintely on the right track with taking your wife's suggestions.
Philip H.
Chief Everything Officer
Baton Rouge Southern Railroad, Mount Rainier Div.
There is another store on the layout that sells dresses called Judy's Boutique. It's named after one of my daughters in law so I am sure my mother in law wouldn't want to compete with her. In any case my wife likes the name Eva's Foundations better so that is going to be the name of the store, And she was the kind of lady (she was 97) who didn't like seeing the kind of advertising that characterizes stores like Victoria's Secret. So the windows aren't going to have displays.
Irv
Hey, I'll do anything that gets my interested in working on my layout. I don't think she'll be doing that much for the next two to three weeks since Passover is a week from tomorrow and the house has to be cleaned from top to bottom. My layout is already playing host to 16 pounds of matzoh.
This afternoon my wife looked at the matzoh and asked me if I thought a matzoh bakery would be appropriate for the layout to which I replied, "But I can't have a store on the layout that only does business a few weeks of every year." She had no answer for that one.
Irv
Well out here in Calif. we have seasonal shops setup for See's Candy. They look like nothing more than a 5x10ft sloped roof shed with an opening on the tall side for the customers to walk up to and a standard door on one end for the employees to get in.
Very basic structure to make..
Evas Undie Shack don't leave here without them.
Dan
NARROW gauge MINDED
AND PROUD OF IT
Narrow gauge Minded Dan, You could be a talk show M. C.- What a hoot !!