Places that never existed
I have 2 places from my childhood that everyone I've asked say never existed. The first one is a local pizza place that I remember being called Casa Luna Pizza. I clearly remember the sign by the road: an outline of a yellow moon in the lower right corner and a caricature of a woman holding a pan of pizza in the upper right. There IS a pizza place at that location (and always has been from what I can tell, albeit under different names), but I seem to be the only one who remembers it being called Casa Luna.
The other one is far more striking to me: there was a Dairy Queen locally as well. It was a brazier store before I think they were even called that. Anyway, I can until this day draw up a floor plan of it. I won't bore you with all the details, but the significant part was the toy & candy store to the right of the main restaurant in the vestibule they sold a wide assortment of penny candy as well as other more expensive items, and they also sold a variety of small toys and marionettes that used to hang from the ceiling.
Again, I seem to be the lone person that remembers it. Both of my parents passed years ago, and even if they didn't I probably wouldn't have received much information from them (they were 87 & 89 at the time). I've tried Googling the location with no mention of a DQ existing there, but just looking at the building itself.. it just screams DQ to me. The only thing I haven't done is check the property records at the courthouse - if the nearest parking lot wasn't a quarter mile away I probably would've done it by now. Well, that's about it.. thanks for your time.