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There are so many great old soda brands that are no longer around. One of the more clever, graphic wise, is Like, which was a diet version of 7Up. Here, a bottle in the Morattico Waterfront Museum in Morattico, Virginia. The museum is the old Morattico Country Store, which also now includes exhibits of life [...]

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WARSAW, Virginia – On display in the window of this Northern Neck town at The Daily coffee shop is a snazzy Martin “40″ outboard motor. Once, there were many American outboard brands. While Evinrude, Johnson and Mercury survive, Martin did not. Martin Motors was from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. This motor was made when the brand [...]

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Recently, Coleman brought back its original steel cooler. It’s sold as an exclusive for the 50th anniversary of the sporting goods supply company Cabela’s. It’s part of a trend of retro products, reintroduced as specialty products for particular retailers, similar to Fisher-Price toys sold at Cracker Barrel and vintage Tide sold at Target. The cooler [...]

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In the 1970s PBS television series Crockett’s Victory Garden, James Underwood Crockett details popular bug-killing brands he uses. Today, some are gone and some still around. Poison brands are interesting. We still remember some of them like chlordane and DDT, even though they are no longer used. We have listed the 1970s brands mentioned by [...]

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NEW YORK – Sapolin was once a great decorative paint brand; like Rustoleum they specialized in unique colors for metals anduses other than walls. Here, a can that’s about 20 years old. It’s main ingredients are listed as xylene and toluene, toxic AND flammable but certainly able to make great gold leaf. Sarah Chiffriller of [...]

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