OT: Forgotten Companies / Brands
shailynn
They never tell you what you need to know.
What a cut-throat world. What are some brands that someone mentions that you totally forgot about.
I have some:
Nokia (phones)
Palm (phones and digital planners)
Circuit City (aka the shitty Best Buy)
Plymouth / Mercury / Pontiac / Oldsmobile / Saab / Hummer
What are some brands you think could be next?
Sony (yeah you're laughing, but if it weren't for their TVs and Play Station, this company would be dead)
Sears / KMart (its inevitable)
JC Penney
I have some:
Nokia (phones)
Palm (phones and digital planners)
Circuit City (aka the shitty Best Buy)
Plymouth / Mercury / Pontiac / Oldsmobile / Saab / Hummer
What are some brands you think could be next?
Sony (yeah you're laughing, but if it weren't for their TVs and Play Station, this company would be dead)
Sears / KMart (its inevitable)
JC Penney
Got something to say?
Start your own discussion
43 comments
Blackberry
MySpace.com
Polaroid
L.A. Gears
British Knights
Revco
Sam Goody
Tower Records
Curtis-Mathes TVs
Studebaker and AMC
I.O.U. Shirts
Slinkies
Texas Instruments
Commodore 64
Champion
Girbaud
http://twosheds.com/
and Hallmark greeting cards
WB Network
Gitano /Bugle Boys /B.U.M Equiptment
Gone (but too toxic to forget):
Trump Airlines
Trump Casinos
Trump Vodka
Trump Steaks
TRUMP UNIVERSITY
Arthur Treachors (used to be a ton, now I think there's only 3 or 4 left)
Rax (fast food, did that have 1 or 2 "x's"???
Burger Chef
Geo (auto brand by GM)
Panasonic? Is there anything still made by these guys?
Lotus 1-2-3
Borland Quattro
Lotus Symphony
DOS
Digits Equipment Corporation
Avondale Shipyards
Cross Colors clothing
I never have tried it but I'll just assume it was and still is "shitty."
Atari
Sega
NeoGeo
Sun Microsystems
sgi
Cray
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Hewlett Packard .. er my bad .. they just renamed it 'Agilent' and kept the leftover crap as HP, and HP and HPE.
HP (calculator division, RPN notation entry)
NeXT .. er my bad .. they just renamed it Apple and killed the renants of the leftover crap formerly known as Apple Computer. What we call "Apple" today is essentially NeXT, IMO.
Zayre (Stores)
Sambo's (Restaurants)
Standard Oil Company (now bp)
Union Carbide (now Graftech)
Zenith television
Spirograph (drawing toys)
Kenner (toy company)
Playboy (it got is shit handed to it by Maxim magazine. This is one reason why it is going clothed/non-nude. In Maxim's first year, it ate Playboy for lunch, IMnshO, with clothed models, while being sexier than Playboy at the same time. Did I mention Maxim featured clothed models? Yeah. The sad part of this is Maxim is a shell of its former self, too.)
Pan Am Airlines
TWA
Northwest Airlines
Radio Shack (still exists but very much on its way out)
Sinclair (Gasoline not the TUSCL member)
Gulf Oil
(also remember in Demolition Man "Now all restaurants are Taco Bell LOL)
Eastern Airlines
Zenith
Enron
MCI WorldCom
Lehman Brothers
EF Hutton
Woolworths
Montgomery Wards
Arthur Andersen
Gateway
SJG
Wordperfect
Peachtree ( software for wordprocessing, spread sheets, database, spell check, Peactree Ln Atlanta GA. )
SJG
3Com (Park) in San Francisco
America West (Arena) in Phoenix (followed by)
US Airways (Center) in Phoenix
Bank One (Ballpark) in Phoenix
Continental Airlines (Arena) in New Jersey
Enron (Field) in Houston
TransWorld (Dome) in St. Louis
MCI (Centre) in Washington D.C.
and soon to be . . .
Sports Authority (Field) in Denver
I'm sure there's more . . .