SARASOTA – While the queen isn’t around anymore, her name is still standing guard at her castle. We are talking, of course, about Leona Helmsley, who achieved a Paris Hilton-amount of fame in the 1980s for not only her travails, but her role as the woman who wouldn’t let anythingMORE HERE
NEW YORK – Yes, one can still find a bit of glamour flying into or out of New York City, even though the terminals feel like the Port Authority and the runways are backed up at Newark, JFK and LaGuardia. For instance, Delta operates its Delta Shuttle out of PanMORE 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
This week began the beginning of the Model T’s 100th anniversary year. It is of course the worst time ever for the auto industry, even worse than the 1970s. Ford is a sad case, but it’s worse at GM, where major Chevrolet dealerships are closing because they are unsellable. NoneMORE 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
Now that the Delta/Northwest merger has been completed, the work of re-branding the two airlines begins. Rebranding is needed for obvious reasons; you have two very different airlines, with very different traditions. If Northwest has a midwestern and West Coast feel, Delta is all about the South. Like a SouthernMORE HERE