This is too hilarious. I was going to make a cheap joke about the unfortunate name on this sign on 2nd Avenue in Gallipolis, Ohio but Google has one-upped me. Google's prissy Street View blurs out the offending name. See:
Come on, Google, the name is Luckoffs, not what your rude mind thought it was.
Downtown Gallipolis was quite pleasant, if rather quiet, in the evening. There's a New England-style town green that slopes down to the river, an old movie theater that looks nice but didn't appear to be open anymore, and a small store window shrine to Bob Evans, who opened the first Bob Evans restaurant in nearby Rio Grande.
Are you wondering how to pronounce Gallipolis? Wonder no further! Back in the 1950s the Journalism School at Ohio University produced a pronunciation guide to places in Ohio. According to them it is Guh-li-POLICE.
Interesting. There was a Luckoff's Department Store in Columbus at 60 E. Main downtown years ago. I took a picture of a commemorative plaque in Columbus's Southern Theatre that's all about Luckoff's - it says there was a chain of 17 stores in the central Ohio area eventually. Obviously, I wouldn't call Gallipolis central, but maybe this was one of them. I can send you the picture of the plaque if you want.
Posted by: Dane | 10 March 2009 at 12:52 AM
Gallipolis isn't central to anywhere! I looked around this evening and couldn't find much about Luckoff's, other than a mention of the Columbus store as well as one in Nelsonville.
Posted by: Joe | 10 March 2009 at 09:40 PM
There was also a Luckoff's in Jackson, Ohio where I'm from.
Posted by: Susan | 17 January 2010 at 07:18 PM
We had one in Athens Ohio..first store to have air conditioning .....
Posted by: Charles Hoisington | 18 May 2011 at 06:33 AM