Here, Bloomingdale’s at Orlando’s Mall of Millenia. Visit our main website, www.brandlandusa.com to find out about some of the department store brands that DIDN’T make it through the consolidations of the former Federated Department Stores. Questions? E-mail the editor, Sarasota freelance writer Garland PollardMORE HERE
We happened upon this Cadillac in Celebration Florida at the Celebration Hotel. The town is just over a decade old, but it already has the feeling of a real place. On our main website, read some of the stories mentioning Cadillac: GM’s Unpopular Models Auto Boards Discuss Future of OldsmobileMORE HERE
We found there is another “brand” that is becoming extinct. It’s the English village church. We read that some in larger cities, Anglican churches have become mosques, and that is sad. Mostly, these churches just get abandoned, and sold off and deconsecrated. For instance, St. Mark’s in Mayfair might beMORE HERE
We wish we were here, RIGHT NOW, having a Big Boy Breakfast or some sort of lunch special at this Richmond, Virginia restaurant. It is on Jefferson Davis Highway south of downtown. This photograph was taken in 1987 or so. Thus it might be logical that there is a PlymouthMORE HERE
Consumers love regional dairy brands, including the Sunny Florida Dairy of Tampa. Regional dairies could be the next microbrews. If they did a few things. Sunny Florida is a great regional milk brand, and the largest independent dairy in Florida, founded by the Guagliardo family in 1911. It has aMORE HERE
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