OT: Forgotten Companies / Brands

My wife was telling me today that Macy's is almost dead.

^^^ not as dead as Sears and KMart, but they may not be far behind. They are trying to focus more on on-line shopping.

Playboy

Atari.......supposed to be the company of the future

Kodak.

Monkey Wards

I wouldn't quite put JC Penney on the list. The only reason it is still around is probably due to the Sephora store inside of them.

Blackberry
MySpace.com
Polaroid
L.A. Gears
British Knights

Fubu

Sambo's

Blockbuster Video
Revco
Sam Goody
Tower Records

Blockbuster and Circuit City +100

Delorean Motor Company

Westinghouse light bulbs, appliances, motors, switching equipment, etc.

Curtis-Mathes TVs

Studebaker and AMC

I think Damon's rebranded to Seasons because of the perceived racial overtones of the name. I'm not sure if they are still in business or not.

Jeez. I typed Sambo's and it got changed to Damon's by autocorrect! Go figure!

RCA, Radio Shack, Venture, Panasonic

You mentioned a number of car brands that bit the dust and forgot Saturn. I admit I was a big Saturn guy, and in retrospect, I have no idea why.

What, no Hammer pants? Z Cavaricci...

Aiwa
I.O.U. Shirts
Slinkies
Texas Instruments
Commodore 64

LA Gear
Champion
Girbaud

I still have a Nokia phone and Champion shirts.

Two Sheds
http://twosheds.com/

and Hallmark greeting cards

UPN (United Paramount Network)
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

^^* don't forget the Trump Ties


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?

Geo was a joint venture of GM and Toyota

Lotus 1-2-3
Borland Quattro
Lotus Symphony
DOS
Digits Equipment Corporation
Avondale Shipyards

Chi Chi's --once a very popular Mexican restaurant.

@ ATACdawg: I'll see you Avondale and raise you one J Ray McDermott. Although neither of those were really brands.

Cross Colors clothing

Alico gas stations

There was a time I wouldn't buy anything but a Nokia mobile (sorry, cell) but now I wouldn't have one if I was given one free.

Haha I walked into a convince store the other day and they had a tub full of "Crystal Pepsi." Remember that clear garbage? I was thinking, it was shitty the first time around, why bring it back?

I never have tried it but I'll just assume it was and still is "shitty."

Wells Fargo is a target candidate for this list after their latest debacle.

Don't forget YUGO.

There a few banks that ceased to exist eight years ago... Can't hardly remember their names.

Commodore
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.)

RCA/Victor
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)

National Airlines
Eastern Airlines
Zenith
Enron
MCI WorldCom
Lehman Brothers
EF Hutton
Woolworths
Montgomery Wards
Arthur Andersen

Compaq
Gateway

^^^^^ Compaq, I knew that one was lost when it merged with Hewlett Packard.

SJG

Airborne Express

Enron!

Wordperfect

WordStar

Peachtree ( software for wordprocessing, spread sheets, database, spell check, Peactree Ln Atlanta GA. )

SJG

This is fun . . . Brands that no longer exist for which major stadiums were named:

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 . . .