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
Looking at a 1950s Pontiac logo, we learned that the Indian theme disappeared in the 1950s. Perhaps it is time to bring it back, at least on some special editions, and honor Chief Pontiac. Visit our main site www.brandlandusa.com for in depth stories.MORE HERE
A great view of a great grille. Cadillac. American icon. Like Jaguar was to British Leyland, Cadillac is to General Motors. Read our stories on the various brands of General Motors. If you don’t want to read, you should, as it appears we taxpayers are going to bail out RickMORE HERE