Mid century/vintage store names...  

Mmmmmm the ones here should be called "all the ugly shit I don't want in my own house"

Vintage clothier:
"Shaky Jake the Vagabond Vendor."
"Al Bum's" used (phonograph) record store.
Both from the '70's in a gritty New England city.

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Not vintage design stores but there was, I swear this is true, an estate agent near where I used to live 'Çavalier Realty' and a cafe named 'Fiascos'.
What would be hilarious though would be a ladies lingerie shop called Petit Bourgeoisie.

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....'Totally Weird Shit'...& it was too!

not a vintage store...
but had to mention it. there's this hair salon near where i grew up called:
CURL UP AND DYE

Yeah, there are definitely...
Yeah, there are definitely some salons with funny names like that. I saw a Curl Up + Dye in Altoona, PA, the summer I spent there. The real kicker about the place though? It was right across the street from a funeral parlor! I thought it was hilarious, but also...terrible 🙂

Gritty New England City...
Hey tktoo, wasn't Shaky Jake's in Worcester and Al Bum's in Haverhill? The latter is indeed gritty, but Worcester's pretty cool. I grew up just a few miles away from there.
Weirdest name I ever saw was (and it's not that weird): The Junk Closet in Williamstown, MA when I was in college. Probably long gone now...

Space Available
I once saw a store dealing with mostly space age modern and the name of the store is "Space Available". All the store front had was an empty white display window and the sign read "Space Available" with the phone number underneath. It really did look like a vacant spot!

Olive. Worcester's pretty cool???
You must be from Auburn!
Shaky's outfitted me for years. I still have a couple of items I bought there. Same goes for Al Bum's, which was on Shrewsbury St. out towards Spag's and possibly related to one in Haverhill? I don't know.

A taxidermist in London...
A taxidermist in London (circa. 1988 when I saw it) called 'Get Stuffed'
Heath - I ditto your comment

well then
an unadvertised (by choice) hipster hangout in my area is called Hugh Joergan's.
Mostly crusty, but hung?? wanna- be's, and an assortment of strange female "doorbell trade". Great ska music, decent food, and unusually strong highballs. Great mid afternoon non-sense.
ps (as in huge organs)..that means below the bible belt, folks.
oh goodness.

How insulting!
Auburn's definitely an armpit. I'm from Mendon...lots of good Yankee history in that town! And I stand by my conviction that Worcester is pretty cool. I happen to like the place, it has a certain blowsy panache. Good old Spag's...it's just not the same any more, it used to be fabulously weird and weirdly fabulous.

so classy Mark, so classy 🙂
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so classy Mark, so classy 🙂
I went to a bar with some friends once and the young trainee hospitality kids were in charge of the bar, seems they hadn't been taught that a measure of whisky is not a full tumbler with some ice in it, that was fun.

Okay, Olive. Wormtown does have one cool place.
Not mid-century exactly, but certainly modern and nowhere near its namesake: