EL MONTE – We happened upon the Driftwood Dairy while watching the 2000 comedy movie Ready To Rumble. The California dairy makes a cameo as a place where Gordie Boggs (David Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Scott Caan) stop after hitching a ride with some nuns singing “Running with the Devil.”MORE HERE
Crosley. A company that made cars. And radios! BrandlandUSA.com is the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard. Contact him about freelance writing and editing; his personal website is at GarlandPollard.comMORE HERE
Chevrolet Bel Air. Good Car. Even better steering wheel. BrandlandUSA.com is the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard. Contact him about freelance writing and editing; his personal website is at GarlandPollard.comMORE HERE
At the Taj Gate, the wonderful Taj Mahal Hotel, once of Bombay, now of Mumbai. Check our main site for an upcoming history of the Taj hotel brand at brandlandusa.comMORE HERE
“One of the classic Christmas commercials is the Folgers “Peter” commercial where college student “Peter” comes home for Christmas in a VW Bug, during a snowstorm, and makes Folgers coffee with his little sister. BrandlandUSA has an interview with Peter. Peter is actually Greg Wrangler, and he is still busyMORE HERE
NEW YORK – We have had a number of requests for information on Georgette Klinger, the New York salon brand. It closed down, and we wrote that the family is in the process of rebuilding the company in a post called Georgette Klinger is Back. During this brand hiatus, BrandlandUSAMORE HERE
We think it would be so much more interesting if CBS still used this bumper, which dates from the Lou Dorfsman era. We thought about it because Dorfsman just died, and Charlie Brown Christmas, which used to be a staple on CBS, is now running each December on ABC.MORE HERE
They used to make this sort of stuff in America. Here, the old Shiny Brite brand of glass Christmas Tree ornaments. We are now looking up some history on Max Eckardt & Sons, the company that made these back in the day. Find out more at www.brandlandusa.com for in depthMORE HERE
Back in the day, the Brits knew how to fix the problem of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea. While they didn’t mess around with with places that didn’t bother them on the open seas, they realized that places like Aden were critical. And so they occupiedMORE HERE