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
Read our recent post on the Helmsley hotel brand. The home of Trouble ought to keep the master’s name. Visit us at our main website www.brandlandusa.com.MORE HERE
Thinking about dime stores like Kress, Kresge, Murphy and Woolworth. Read our post on F.W. Woolworth at Bring F. W. Woolworth back. In these times when we need dime stores, where are they? Thank goodness for Macon Brock’s Dollar Tree. Visit our main website www.brandlandusa.com.MORE HERE
Regional clothing brands are the best. Here, a logo from the late Nelson & Gwatkin, which was the J. Press of Main Street Richmond, Virginia. If you had a suit from Nelson & Gwatkin, you were not to be messed with. Read about great Northern Neck of Virginia brands onMORE HERE
U.S. automakers got a loan! $25 billion! Guess they will be around for a bit longer, we hope another hundred years. Read our post on General Motors called GM’s Unpopular Models. It tells you that for Buick to survive, it needs the LeSabre, Century, Park Avenue and Electra 225. VisitMORE HERE
BORON, CALIFORNIA – Only a few days until the big celebration in Boron, California! October 4, 2008 is the 51st Annual Twenty Mule Team Days. It’s a salute to the olden times in this mining town that is home to the famous detergent and famous material, Borax. America’s great brandMORE HERE
JERSEY CITY – Twing is grabbing Google’s low hanging fruit. That’s sort of a saucy way to describe the message-board search engine Twing.com. While Google and the rest search up vast amounts of news, web pages and the like, Twing is all about allowing users to search the Internet’s fragmentedMORE HERE
We just thought this was sort of fun. Visit our main website www.brandlandusa.com for longer stories. Questions? E-mail Garland PollardMORE HERE
We found this butter container from 1979 in with some junk. Gotta love the British Rail logo. We are migrating to our main website. Visit our NEWLY updated website www.brandlandusa.com. Questions? E-mail Garland PollardMORE HERE
Thinking about the L.L. Bean Double L Moccasin….. read about them on our main website, www.brandlandusa.com. Questions? E-mail Garland Pollard.MORE HERE