Lickskillet by Richardphotos
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Description
Lick Skillet is a name that courses through the history of rural East Texas. For more than a hundred years or so, it has been attached to communities, creeks, roads and anything else where people have a sense of humor.
The name supposedly came about when newcomers arrived late for a community dinner and found that all of the food had been consumed, leading someone to admonish them to “lick the skillet.”
You’ll find a road named Lick Skillet running through a couple of East Texas counties and there’s a story that Bethany, which sits on the Texas-Louisiana line southwest of Shreveport, was once called Lick Skillet. In fact, the town still has a “Lick Skillet Store.”
http://www.texasescapes.com/BobBowman/Lick-Skillet.htm
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Comments (73)
great story and wondeful photo!!
A wonderful vintage work, Applause
Ah we had a similar franchise here, once upon a time ... called the "Lick A Chick" was run under by KFC, though ya gotta love the name of it :-) Great Pic :-)
Splendid vintage capture my Friend!!!!!!!!!Bravissimo!:DDD.Huhgsxx Whylma
interesting story, this L-S store seems to be out of bussines quite while
So wonderful Richard!
cool story and building. I love old buildings like that..great shot
Now that's amusing, interesting glimpse of cultural history, too.
interesting story and shot!!!
a fascinating cultural observation. :)
Heard the expression but never knew they had streets and even a store with the name. Great one Richard :)
Great local color in this pic Richard. For some reason, funny names I am sure...this name reminds me of Skullbone, Tennessee.
Really like this old store! Awesome image :)
splendid picture!!! thanks for the info!!!!
Great story and pic
Wonderful shot of the store! do you have any interior shot?
nice work...
Beautiful shot for a wonderful story !!!
We have odd names here in places...just random words somebody threw together to make a new name I think. Interesting history on the name here, great shot of an old store.
many infos and i like this building
lovely capture Richard x
Excellent shot! I always thought you would burn your tung if you lick the skillet. ;D
Ooo, they sold dolls it looks like! Too bad they are closed :( What a great set of textures in this photo!
nice little piece of history...building looks abandoned on first glance, but there looks like a fairly new AC in the back, so i guess someone is living there...too bad all the little stores like this are closed--one of the prices paid for malls...
I am surprised by the concrete steps and porch on this. It strikes me as needing a wooden front. We had a couple old stores - feed store, hardware, etc. in my Texas town that all had the old wooden fronts. but it does show that someone had in mind for this to be around a long time. Wonderful shot and wonderful story.
Nice capture Richard!!
Wonderful capture of a part of the past and a great bit of info!!
Interesting old building! Cool story and shot!
So many of these old buildings through out the South and Southwest..wonder just how old this one is..
Interesting info about this name. Great shot.