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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)
bimm3d
great story and wondeful photo!!
doarte
A wonderful vintage work, Applause
mapps
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 :-)
Mondwin
Splendid vintage capture my Friend!!!!!!!!!Bravissimo!:DDD.Huhgsxx Whylma
prutzworks
interesting story, this L-S store seems to be out of bussines quite while
lior
So wonderful Richard!
mistressotdark
cool story and building. I love old buildings like that..great shot
NefariousDrO
Now that's amusing, interesting glimpse of cultural history, too.
flora-crassella
interesting story and shot!!!
sittingblue
a fascinating cultural observation. :)
magnus073
Heard the expression but never knew they had streets and even a store with the name. Great one Richard :)
bmac62
Great local color in this pic Richard. For some reason, funny names I am sure...this name reminds me of Skullbone, Tennessee.
Hubba1
Really like this old store! Awesome image :)
flavia49
splendid picture!!! thanks for the info!!!!
cocker666
Great story and pic
Faemike55
Wonderful shot of the store! do you have any interior shot?
lizzibell
nice work...
claude19
Beautiful shot for a wonderful story !!!
Rainastorm
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.
Umbetro38
many infos and i like this building
3x3
lovely capture Richard x
kbrog
Excellent shot! I always thought you would burn your tung if you lick the skillet. ;D
lwperkins
Ooo, they sold dolls it looks like! Too bad they are closed :( What a great set of textures in this photo!
goldie
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
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.
brycek
Nice capture Richard!!
wjames
Wonderful capture of a part of the past and a great bit of info!!
annie5
Interesting old building! Cool story and shot!
frankie96
So many of these old buildings through out the South and Southwest..wonder just how old this one is..
kansas
Interesting info about this name. Great shot.