Visit our Facebook Application, Brands to Bring Back from BrandlandUSA.com; there you can vote on brands you miss, from F.W. Woolworth five and 10 cent stores to Tickle deodorant.
Tee Hee. Tons of fun.
If you like-ee, please visit us at BrandlandUSA.com
So this morning the Twitter site was flooded with folk saying that the Google search had been hijacked. Then, in about 10 minutes or so, the site was back up again.
A few of the posts from twitter, from around 10:15 to 10:30
Yes, we found him at Dollar General, and we are sure he is a few more places. Read about it, and other former Ascendia Brands, at our main website, BrandlandUSA.com
This is some great marmalade. Tart and sweet. Visit kensingtonmarmalade.com/
BrandlandUSA.com is the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard.
Above, some Cascara pills from A.H. Robins, one of the predecessor companies to Pfizer. Read about the history of Robins in our story on Branding tips from E. Claiborne Robins.
We also criticized Pfizer a few months ago, from moving the company from innocent Hai Karate cologne commercials in the 196os to sexual enhancement drugs.
BrandlandUSA.com is the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard. Contact him about freelance writing and editing; his personal website is at GarlandPollard.com
We are trying out a new part of our BrandlandUSA site. It is the BrandlandUSA Forum, where readers can log under a pseudonym (or their own name, of course) and comment on brand names that they love.
Share questions, promote ideas and even post employment ads. Companies can create links to their products, and consumers can talk about whatever they please.
Register (think of a great pen name if you like) and post some stuff.
A great Brooklyn brand, and a cool package from Graphic Explosions.
Zetov is King of the Kosher Snacks, and Matamin is one of their brands.
BrandlandUSA.com is the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard. Contact him about freelance writing and editing; his personal website is at GarlandPollard.com
Read about the shirt Randy Jackson wore on American Idol this week; the Zappa-inspired Radio Clyde 261 shirt. It's on our main BrandlandUSA website.
We've got advice on what to do with Wedgwood now that the company appears to have a saviour. See our post at Next Steps and Solutions for Wedgwood.
BrandlandUSA.com is the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard.
Our latest demographics from Quantcast. We're not the most readers on the web, but we are the RIGHT ones if you want to reach opinion leaders in branding.
BrandlandUSA.com is the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard. Contact him about freelance writing and editing; his personal website is at GarlandPollard.com
Great slide show in Business Week on GM selling off its archives.
A year ago, we wrote a piece on the need to restore the World's Fair site in Queens. It needs work, and needs an identity that takes advantage of the history, but does not try to re-create what was.
Amazingly, pieces of the 1964 New York World’s Fair are still around, and draw interest. Not only is the park there, with all its pieces (museum, marina) but pieces of the fair are scattered about the United States, still drawing attendance. This is proof that the idea of the park still has legs.
* It’s a Small World lives at Walt Disney World and Disneyland.
* Carousel of Progress is at Walt Disney World’s Tomorrowland.
* The Sinclair Dinosaur Uncle Beazley is displayed at the National Zoo, lovingly restored by Smithsonian officials who recognized how much these dino-gas figures are loved.
* Dinosaur Valley State Park preserves other Sinclair dinosaurs.
* The Uniroyal World’s Largest Tire lives in Michigan.
So have some fun. Go back and read our 2008 post on bringing back the World's Fair site in Queens.
The brands of Havana, Cuba are detailed at BrandlandUSA. See Great Cuban Pre-Castro Brands.
BrandlandUSA.com is the website of business and travel writer and editor Garland Pollard. Contact him about freelance writing and editing; his personal website is at GarlandPollard.com
The venerable menswear retailer Anderson-Little has returned. Above, a 1980s WRAL television news clip from Raleigh, N.C. with an old advertisement.
