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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 thanks for viewing and any comments

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bimm3d

5:57AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

great story and wondeful photo!!

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doarte

6:10AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

A wonderful vintage work, Applause

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mapps

6:13AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

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 :-)

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Mondwin

6:36AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Splendid vintage capture my Friend!!!!!!!!!Bravissimo!:DDD.Huhgsxx Whylma

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prutzworks

6:41AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

interesting story, this L-S store seems to be out of bussines quite while

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lior

6:57AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

So wonderful Richard!

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mistressotdark

7:08AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

cool story and building. I love old buildings like that..great shot

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NefariousDrO

7:15AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Now that's amusing, interesting glimpse of cultural history, too.

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flora-crassella

7:21AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

interesting story and shot!!!

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sittingblue

7:27AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

a fascinating cultural observation. :)

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magnus073

7:34AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Heard the expression but never knew they had streets and even a store with the name. Great one Richard :)

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bmac62

7:47AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Great local color in this pic Richard. For some reason, funny names I am sure...this name reminds me of Skullbone, Tennessee.

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Hubba1

8:03AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Really like this old store! Awesome image :)

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flavia49

8:09AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

splendid picture!!! thanks for the info!!!!

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cocker666

9:15AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Great story and pic

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Faemike55

9:37AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Wonderful shot of the store! do you have any interior shot?

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lizzibell

10:02AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

nice work...

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claude19

10:19AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Beautiful shot for a wonderful story !!!

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Rainastorm

10:22AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

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.

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Umbetro38

10:27AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

many infos and i like this building

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3x3

10:45AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

lovely capture Richard x

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kbrog

10:46AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Excellent shot! I always thought you would burn your tung if you lick the skillet. ;D

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lwperkins

11:19AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Ooo, they sold dolls it looks like! Too bad they are closed :( What a great set of textures in this photo!

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goldie

11:31AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

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...

MrsLubner

11:31AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

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.

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brycek

11:32AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Nice capture Richard!!

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wjames

11:44AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Wonderful capture of a part of the past and a great bit of info!!

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annie5

11:55AM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Interesting old building! Cool story and shot!

frankie96

12:12PM | Tue, 01 December 2009

So many of these old buildings through out the South and Southwest..wonder just how old this one is..

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kansas

12:12PM | Tue, 01 December 2009

Interesting info about this name. Great shot.


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