Legendary Charity Brands: Remembering Community Chest
The excellent blog The Agitator, for non-profits, had a great post on bringing old charity brands back to life. Fascinating. Here at BrandlandUSA, we always MISSED... Read more.
Missing CBS TV’s In the News
In the 1960s and 70s, television provided hours of entertaining but educational fare for kids. Things like ABC’s Schoolhouse Rock. The best of the best was... Read more.
Ten Brands With Nine Lives: Fox News to Mini
The idea of a brand-life cycle is (mostly) flat-out wrong. Certainly, brands have phases and iterations, but the wholesale jettisoning of old brands by large conglomerates... Read more.
Pneumatic Airline Music, Greatly Missed
Miss those pneumatic airline audio programs? There was a time not so long ago when airline music and audio came from what were basically stethoscopes. It was the... Read more.
Great Products: Zenith Trans-Oceanic. Oh, and Bring Back the Zenith Man
We are gloomy and cry when thinking about American manufacturing and electronics. But it is always instructive to look back. One top product electronics product... Read more.
Whidden’s Sea Food Market In Boca Grande, Florida
A great brand can be a regional brand.And it does not have to be fancy or sophisticated. Ice. Beverages. Gas. What else do you need? It can be a ship’s store... Read more.
Food City Brings Back Regional Bread Brand Kern’s
BrandlandUSA reader and freelance writer Lee Gimpel informs us that the Abingdon, Virginia grocery chain Food City has brought back some regional grocery brands... Read more.
Hummer? Good Riddance. Sort of. But Not Actually.
GM is going to get rid of the Hummer. Good riddance! Pretty much. Here’s why BrandlandUSA thinks it isn’t such a bad idea for GM jettison the brand.... Read more.
Delta’s Historic WorldPort, Terminal 3
What’s one of the most historic airport buildings in the world? There are many, including the former Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia, now the home of the... Read more.
CBS TV’s Password Returns Tonight, from New York
While there is no Allen Ludden, there is still Password. Tonight, a new version of the classic game show premieres. It’s a one-hour version called Million... Read more.