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
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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 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 . . .
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