As The World Turns To New Media
NEW YORK – With the announcement that CBS will cancel As The World Turns, we wonder why this television classic is not finding a new life in the new media... Read more.
Travel With Mothersill’s Travel Remedy
Need to feel better when you travel? The name synonymous with seasickness was Mothersill’s, first registered as a trademark in 1926. Made by the Mothersill... Read more.
Bergdorf Goodman Survives in Era of Closed Department Stores
NEW YORK A few weeks ago, Peggy Noonan wrote in her weekly Wall Street Journal column about the importance of seeing Bergdorf Goodman, and how it cheered her. We... Read more.
Polaroid Reinvented For New Era
MINNEAPOLIS –It may not be the ideal way for a great brand to come back from the dead, but it works. Polaroid, founded in 1937 and one of the great 20th century... Read more.
Some Russell Richards BBQ Sauce
As far as we know it isn’t real (only a poster by the funky Charlottesville artist), but we sure would like some. He’s at the McGuffey Art Center in... Read more.
New Folgers “Peter” Commercial In Heavy Rotation
ORRVILLE, Ohio – Peter is officially home again. In his last Christmas trip home during the Roaring Reagan year of 1986, Peter was dropped off in an old VW... Read more.
The Future of NBC Radio in a Comcast Universe
With GE’s pending sale of NBC Universal to Comcast, we look back at the pieces of NBC and RCA that still survive. GE purchased NBC’s parent company RCA... Read more.
California Artist (and Beverly Hillbillies Director) Richard Whorf
One of the unsung 20th century creators is Richard Whorf (1906-1966), the sometime actor who was director of the Beverly Hillbillies. Whorf was also a dancer, a... Read more.
Cory Doctorow and the Fictional Company Kodacell
Want to read what happens to the merged company Kodak and Duracell, better known as Kodacell? This Thanksgiving, go out and read Cory Doctorow’s Makers, a... Read more.
Quikrete Is the Great D.I.Y. Concrete and Sand Brand
The idea behind a brand is to turn a commodity into a special thing. And what is more commodity than concrete; concrete is cement and sand, right? Such was the genius... Read more.