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Tasty on a reuben. Made in the Bronx. Can it get any better?MORE HERE

For lovers of Drake’s, that cake started by Newman E. Drake in 1988, we worried that the name Hostess has attached itself to Drake’s. Devil Dogs, Yodels, Coffee Cake, Yankee Doodles and Ring Dings can only be associated with Drake’s. Brooklynites need to protest! Drake’s is a Brooklyn brand, throughMORE HERE

Here, two Southern Belles at Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven, Florida. We will be coming up with ideas to help reinvent the Cypress Gardens brand. Sunday, November 16, 2008 was the last day the park opened. It is set to re-open in four months with a more focus on itsMORE HERE

We love this British cars. Sunbeam was a car brand started by John Marston Co. Ltd of Wolverhampton, England, in 1888 that made cars, bicycles and motorbikes. The brand was later associated with Chrysler, and shut down in the early 1980s. Visit our main site www.brandlandusa.com/ for in depth stories.MORE HERE

Do you miss Webster’s ketchup? That was a brand of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. How about Huff & Puff Cat Food? It was a Northern Neck brand of cat food, made from menhaden bits from trawlers in Reedville. Read our story on Northern Neck of Virginia brand names. VisitMORE HERE

Check out this clip to see how the kimono has returned to Japan. Visit our main site www.brandlandUSA.com for in depth stories.MORE HERE

It’s the brand Thum. We thought this was a hilarious brand that we found at Walgreens. We didn’t know parents still worried about thumb-sucking, but glad the product is out there. Just paint on fingertips. And it doesn’t cause nausea or stomach upset.MORE HERE

Thinking of J. Arthur Rank, the British entertainment company. Not only did they have a theater chain, but they produced documentary films, presumably to show in the Rank theatre chain. Below is a film on grooving London fashions of the 1960s. One treat? An interior of the original Biba store.MORE HERE

We happened upon this on the Fourth of July in Sarasota. It’s one of the many circus companies still in Circus City U.S.A., Sarasota, Florida. Visit our main site www.brandlandusa.com for in depth stories. Ideas? Leave a comment or email editor Garland PollardMORE HERE

Would you like to buy some meters from this maid? You bet! She is Leah the meter maid from the Hialeah Meter Company in Hialeah, Florida, and boy does she have some light-you-up curves. Have a mascot. It’s fun, and makes your product memorable.MORE HERE