These were the best, with their Peter Max commercial style. And they came with a chocolate mix. There was something very TRUE about Mean Gene. If he didn’t have it, he didn’t want anyone else to have it. Plus, they really made Libby’s vegetables and fruit salad much more enticingMORE HERE
We were fascinated reading about Archeophone Records, a company out of Illinois that has rescued old sound recordings and re-released them. It’s a fascinating niche, especially since they have found old music from wax cylinders and re-issued them. The Wall Street Journal featured their compilation of William Howard Taft andMORE HERE
In this time when the market is down, we wonder what the late Charles Engelhard would have thought? Gold, gold, gold. Oh, and platinum, platinum, platinum. Can’t be sure about that, because he’s gone. But we guess Goldfinger would be sitting happily. Read our posts on why BASF should notMORE HERE
Here, a Coca-Cola soda fountain at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville. It is a copy of the one that went on the Space Shuttle, in the Hall of Fame’s Space Shuttle Gallery. Visit our main website, www.brandlandusa.com Questions? E-mail Garland PollardMORE HERE
The Marcel Rochas fashion brand will return as ready to wear, and not just as a perfume. Read our post on Rochas at our main website at www.brandlandUSA.com. You can also read about other historic perfume brands, like Schiaparelli, at our story Trip through Historic Perfumes.MORE HERE
Who nailed the right market? We have to give the “predicted it” prize to Kool-Aid. We noticed this Parade Magazine ad last April, and hadn’t realized how on target the marketing is. Today, the drink, and its namesake Spokespitcher, are about as well known as any national brand. But withMORE HERE
At BrandlandUSA, we love to look at great American brands. Some of our most popular stories on old American brand names, including Toni, Hydrox, Cub Cadet, Royster Fertilizer, Carroll Reed and H.J. Stotter. What ever happened to the Toni Twins? Hydrox Cookies have returned Goodbye Future Levittowns Saluting the InternationalMORE HERE
We are liking what Dunkin Donuts is doing with their napkins. Funny graphics, that are at once current and at another time classic.For more fun old brands, visit our main website brandlandusa.com. Questions? E-mail Garland PollardMORE HERE
At the Heartstrings kids’ clothing store in Ellenton, Florida, we found an old Ranch Trac kids’ tractor. It was the AMF Ranch Trac brand. Even had a safety “chain drive” that was enclosed. For more fun old brands, main website www.brandlandusa.com.MORE HERE
Citgo is one of the great American gasoline brands. We get a hefty bit of nostalgia everytime we see these any of the old brands, even if they are owned by a certain not-so-friendly country in South America called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Here, a Citgo ad that ranMORE HERE