Bizarre business combinations

[boyse7en]

Anyone seen a more bizarre combinations of professions in one shop?

This is a barbers, there is a bloke cutting hair behind the window.
Not sure I'd fancy just walking in...

[DavesFlaps]

Not that bizarre, but an Edinburgh institution nonetheless.

[opieoilman]

I once stayed at a backpackers in Ireland that was a funeral home as well, bit odd.

There is a van that is parked on the road near our house that advertises various businesses run by the owner, including trophies (sales and engraving), sewing machine repairs, pet grooming and there were two other things that I can't remember now.

[Vixpy1]

Customer of mine owns a funeral directors and used to run a waste disposel business from the same site ( a farm)

made for an interesting sign

[TwigtheWonderkid]

This used to be a regular feature on one of Danny Baker's radio shows years ago. I seem to recall the winner was an American firm that made land mines and artificial limbs.

I remember thinking at the time they should pack the land mines with confetti style adverts for their limb business. So you'd be lying on the ground in agony when all these bits of paper would flutter down....."Need a new leg....call Acme legs on......."

[dave-the-diver]

I always thought fireworks and mobility scooters was an inspired combination.



David

[eltawater]

boyse7en said:

Anyone seen a more bizarre combinations of professions in one shop?

This is a barbers, there is a bloke cutting hair behind the window.
Not sure I'd fancy just walking in...

It's actually not as bizarre as you might think. Funeral staff need to be able to prepare the recently deceased so that they look presentable for people to pay their final respects before they're laid to rest. This involves, amongst other things, haircuts and make up so they don't look so grey. See "Funeral Cosmetology".

Offering barbershop services is probably a good use of their skills in the dead time between conducting funeral services.

[TwistingMyMelon]

eltawater said:

boyse7en said:

Anyone seen a more bizarre combinations of professions in one shop?

This is a barbers, there is a bloke cutting hair behind the window.
Not sure I'd fancy just walking in...

It's actually not as bizarre as you might think. Funeral staff need to be able to prepare the recently deceased so that they look presentable for people to pay their final respects before they're laid to rest. This involves, amongst other things, haircuts and make up so they don't look so grey. See "Funeral Cosmetology".

Offering barbershop services is probably a good use of their skills in the dead time between conducting funeral services.

Blimey dont let daylight into magic!!

well thought out post, there is method to the madness....

[deckster]

eltawater said:

dead time between conducting funeral services.

Well played!

[toohuge]

My barber shop in South Carolina is half gun shop, half barber.... interestingly, the barber shop is in the back! It's fun waiting for a haircut.

[skip_1]

eltawater said:

boyse7en said:

Anyone seen a more bizarre combinations of professions in one shop?

This is a barbers, there is a bloke cutting hair behind the window.
Not sure I'd fancy just walking in...

It's actually not as bizarre as you might think. Funeral staff need to be able to prepare the recently deceased so that they look presentable for people to pay their final respects before they're laid to rest. This involves, amongst other things, haircuts and make up so they don't look so grey. See "Funeral Cosmetology".

Offering barbershop services is probably a good use of their skills in the dead time between conducting funeral services.

Is it definitely still a funeral directors? The barber hasn't opened up but unable to change the frontage?

[shielsy]

My father once told me about a hardware shop that had a bar in the back. It was in Belfast and probably a very long time ago seeing as the old fella is approaching 80.

"Just popping out for some light bulbs love"

Great idea

[Andyjc86]

eltawater said:

boyse7en said:

Anyone seen a more bizarre combinations of professions in one shop?

This is a barbers, there is a bloke cutting hair behind the window.
Not sure I'd fancy just walking in...

It's actually not as bizarre as you might think. Funeral staff need to be able to prepare the recently deceased so that they look presentable for people to pay their final respects before they're laid to rest. This involves, amongst other things, haircuts and make up so they don't look so grey. See "Funeral Cosmetology".

Offering barbershop services is probably a good use of their skills in the dead time between conducting funeral services.

Very true, my wife was offered a job putting make-up on dead women (or men if their families fancied it I guess). She got as far as the morgue (?) door but couldn't stomach it. Massive money in it!

[Steve vRS]

When I was at Leeds University in the very early '90s, I often walked past a shop in the Merion Centre that sold electric fires and bathing costumes.

I always thought that was a strange mix.

Steve

[silverfoxcc]

shielsy said:

My father once told me about a hardware shop that had a bar in the back. It was in Belfast and probably a very long time ago seeing as the old fella is approaching 80.

"Just popping out for some light bulbs love"

Great idea

Small villages in Eire were like this back in the late 60's. Barbers shop with a small bar serving bottled Guinness!!. also in Rosslare there was a general store that had a bar at the back. First time i was thereI went in one Sunday about 08.30 for a loaf of Bread and mentioned it to the owner that this was very unusual back home in the UK. His reply. 'Oh, Thats the bar it doesdnt open for another hour' I must have looked a bit dissappointed as he then asked. Would you like adrink while you wait!!
Another small bar we went in was the size of a phone box,and we had a bloody awful mornig fishing in the local river we decided to go for a pint. My mate was not averse to using old anglo saxon speech, and while he was going on about the Effing Fishing etc, heard a voice from the barman for his order without looking round and he inserted 'pint of bloody Guinness pleae' and arried on. End of rant he look raround to see the local priest pulling a pint for him!! We had seen all this but didnt want to spoil the moment.

[silverfoxcc]

Oh Forgot
On Castle Hill in Reading there is a pie shop called Sweeny and Todd. it is next door to a barbers!!
Will try for a pic next time i am there

[technodup]

Andyjc86 said:

Very true, my wife was offered a job putting make-up on dead women (or men if their families fancied it I guess). She got as far as the morgue (?) door but couldn't stomach it. Massive money in it!

A regular in a pub I used to work in prepped bodies for coffins. Apparently they used old yellow pages to prop the heads up. That was about as much as I wanted to hear.

[williamp]

Very common, but never made sense to me. We sell two things. One cannot be bought by children. One is most likely to be sold to children. One rots your teeth, the other... etc

[rxtx]

Andyjc86 said:

Very true, my wife was offered a job putting make-up on dead women (or men if their families fancied it I guess). She got as far as the morgue (?) door but couldn't stomach it. Massive money in it!

Men are often made up as well, just not in lipstick and eye shadow.

[bobtail4x4]

toohuge said:

My barber shop in South Carolina is half gun shop, half barber.... interestingly, the barber shop is in the back! It's fun waiting for a haircut.

I was in a gunshop in georgia that was also a home brew beer shop.