I think that about sums this up. A lighthouse dentist office bad mansard. It is called Lighthouse Dental. This beacon of light is in Washington, Missouri. Their tagline? "We light up your smile."
Was it built to look like a lighthouse, or did it have its origin as another business? Might it have previously been a Kindercare? Or a Long John Silver?
Does it still have a drive-thru window? That could point to it being a LJS.
ReplyDeleteIt was another fish'n'chips franchise. Drawint a blank on it now, as it's been about thirty years since it was operating in that capacity. There is one of these buildings on Manchester in Glendale, across the street--roughly speaking--from Laurie's. It is now a dry cleaners, the last time I looked.
ReplyDeleteMy parents now live in Washington, and I’ve driven past that place many times. I’ve always thought it looked silly.
ReplyDeleteWashington actually has a lot of fine old architecture, at least in the older parts of town.
Samizdat- I too remember the building that is now a dry cleaner near Berry/Manchester. It had nautical roping around the porch and was white. Between my husband who grew up off of Berry Road and me who grew up in Brentwood and WG, we can hopefully figure it out.
ReplyDeleteOne of my first memories is getting purple Nike's at Lauries circa 1982.
Ha, I (and the rest of my sibs, mom & dad) lived on Flower Hill Ct., just off Berry, late 60's, early 70's, then onto another little P-shaped street off of Kirkham, again, about a block from Berry, from about '76 onward. Ah, the memories of being a little hooligan and bothering the shopkeepers in the Warson Woods shopping center. Golde's! Pelvic Squeeze! The sausage shop! O', the things we used to get up to would have curled our parents hair. Oh, yeah, not to mention the GPD coming over to the house to discuss a little vandalism at the new housing being built on the old Flynn farm property. Man, we were idiots!
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I want to say Arthur Treacher's, but I'm just not making the nautical connection. Maybe it was some other fish shop, then an AT's. Oddly enough, he was a fairly successful English actor before this peculiar pairing of his name and an American version of a fish'n'chips shop. Before all that, though, it was the site occupied by a Sandy's, a sort of Scottish-themed burger joint a la McDonald's. Well, the female character on their packaging was wearing a kilt. My oldest sister worked there for a while, then on to the Steak and Shake @ Berry and Manchester.
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