Boned Chicken In a Jar? Where to Find?
We all have the one food, or one brand, we really want from our childhood that is no longer around. Reader Fred McClennan asks BrandlandUSA about boned chicken that... Read more.
Hydrox Cookies Come Back
Thanks to reader David Milch of the New York licensing and marketing firm Perpetual Licensing for alerting us that the Hydrox cookie is back. Hydrox, and its sister... Read more.
Save Duke Gardens at N.J.’s Duke Farms
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a great piece by Jane Garney on Duke Farms, the 2,740 acre estate of Doris Duke, the American Tobacco heiress, and her father,... Read more.
Minneapolis and Detroit Need to Stick Up for Northwest
The Northwest Airlines brand should not disappear. BrandlandUSA believes that Minneapolis and Detroit (and anyone who loves and values American history) should not... Read more.
Anyone Hear From The Toni Twins?
What happened to home perm maker Toni and those famous Toni twins? Toni was synonymous with home permanents, and their advertising was all over game shows in the... Read more.
Birdwell’s Beach Britches. Learn From Them.
It’s Memorial Day Weekend. A time to celebrate America. And what brand epitomizes the spirit of this country better than Birdwells. Made in Orange County,... Read more.
Goodbye Future Levitttowns? Not So Fast.
One of the great American innovators in homebuilding is and was Levitt & Sons, now bankrupt. The bankruptcy left many homeowners in the lurch. Like all residential... Read more.
A Trip Through Historic Perfume Brands
The May edition of Vogue magazine profiles Osmothéque perfume conservatory in Versailles, where over 1,800 scents are stored, including 400 parfums disparus, or... Read more.
Where is Flair’s el Marko?
Editor’s Note from 2021: The brand was revived in the summer of 2021. More HERE. Apparently, the “bold vivid color” of El Marko (or el Marko) markers,... Read more.
L.S. Ayres at the Indiana State Museum
How about a hopeful story of a brand that came back? Reader Brian Stevens of Indiana writes to us that the L. S. Ayres & Company was a fixture in Indianapolis... Read more.