TAMPA – I always wanted the Islander. Up on stilts, it had two bedrooms, a big living area and a kitchen that backed up to the bathroom, to save on plumbing. The islander was cheap; you could buy it unfinished, and finish out the interior. As Levittowns were to theMORE HERE
How do you position a foreign brand if you are bringing it to the United States? The question came up over comments on LinkedIn.com’s Licensing, Merchandising and Brand Management discussion board. The points discussed the Jack Murphy brand, which is a 1922 heritage brand from Ireland that is eyeing theMORE HERE
Editor’s Note: Since the publication of this story, there has been increased interest in the building site, which was one of the Green Book locations. The Green Book itself was made famous in the 2018 movie. GLOUCESTER – Anyone who has driven Gloucester’s Route 17 knows the W.J. Stokes Tavern.MORE HERE
OKINAWA – Okinawa rarely ventures into the minds of most Americans. The subtropical archipelago – actually closer to Taiwan than the Japanese mainland – comes to most folks in small snippets history and a few snippets of pop culture. The World War II battle scarred the region, destroying the prefecturalMORE HERE
TAMPA – There are a handful of places associated with cigars. The geography of cigars includes the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Cuba, Connecticut and Tampa. Tampa is synonymous with cigars, mostly because of the name Hav-A-Tampa, made by Altadis USA. However, there are real cigar companies still in Tampa. If youMORE HERE
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Can you say Pickle Packers? If you need pickles, the group Pickle Packers International keeps track of all the pickle brands across the world. At right, a children’s coloring project from the site; it has lots of kids items they can print out to color or doMORE HERE
NORFOLK – Radio stations are one of the more important regional brands that define a community. In a geographic region, and through the years, a radio station’s call letters become associated with a set of numbers, namely the station’s frequency. (A great discussion of the history of the Federal CommunicationsMORE HERE
With many newspaper flags are falling these days, there is a great opportunity for folks to pick up the pieces of the brands. We happened upon a great discussion on Metaprinter.com about saving newspapers; one central point of the discussion is that a newspaper brand, however struggling it is, givesMORE HERE
TARBORO – So we had some shrimp. And we needed cocktail sauce. Lucky for us, somehow we found some Billy’s Cocktail sauce in the cupboard. It is made by Billy and Jean Trevathan of Tarboro, N.C. Don’t quite know where it came from, but apparently Billy’s starts with an appleMORE HERE
Shaheen made Hawaii-print shirts famous Just a big mahalo to Alfred Shaheen, the man who not only made Hawaiian shirts famous and in the process helped gave Hawaii an identity after statehoood. He died in December. Shaheen was Lebanese, and started making Hawaiian shirts just after World War II. ItMORE HERE