Brands You Miss

[SSerian]

Texaco with their Fire Chief and Sky Chief gasoline.

Monkey Wards. ( That’s what we used to call them)

Piggly Wiggly stores. I know they are down south in some places but most around here closed up 30 years ago.


Too many others to remember right now.

There is a Piggly Wiggly about 5 minutes from me. I live outside of Birmingham, AL. The Pig stores are generally in more rural and smaller cities. There is a newcomer though, Publix. Publix supermarkets are generally found in larger cities and in larger shopping centers.

 

[AutoMechanic]

Mick or Mack is one that I miss as well. And Piggly Wiggly and Winn Dixie.

 

[Yah-Tah-Hey]

Panasonic TVs

 

[earlyre]

This post makes me want to watch Fargo.

Why?
Mind you I've never seen any fargo...no movie, no tv series....

 

[Rhymingmechanic]

Why?
Mind you I've never seen any fargo...no movie, no tv series....

The 1996 movie is about the misadventures of an Oldsmobile salesman.

 

[Driz]

Woolworth stores. The last times I’ve seen them in 20+ years has been in Germany.

 

[Fattylocks]

I miss the Craftsman brand. Shopping at Sears. The old fashioned big city department store at Six Corners. The store at North and Harlem ave. had an awesome tire shop with all sorts of automotive stuff. Still have the floor jack that I bought there when I was 18. Refuses to die.
I know lowes carries Craftsmani but it's not quite the same as it was. Especially the country of origin.

 

[levi]

Western Auto
G C Murphy
Montgomery Ward

Not a brand, but when I was a kid, Dad always went to a tiny Mom and Pop furniture store that basically only sold cedar wood furniture. Don't remember it's name.

 

[alarmguy]

Radio Shack/Realistic products, Sears Kenmore Showrooms/Craftsmen, LPs/Record World, Audio Exchange (Long Island), Crazy Eddy, Ed’s Tropical Aquariums ... ohhhh the list goes on vs this new generic world of rebranded products made all in the same factories under multiple old brand names

 

[Starman2112]

Tastee Freeze and Shoneys.

There’s a Shoney’s about 20 minutes down the road from me.

 

[Starman2112]

Panasonic TVs

We have a 50” Panasonic LED TV bought at Best Buy in 2013. It’s been a great TV. Shame they got out of the TV market, at least in the U.S.

 

[AutoMechanic]

Keep thinking of more. I really miss True Value hardware the Ace that replaced it is no good.

 

[miden851]

maybe blaupunkt, polaroid, fisher, grundig or saba;

also mediaplay, tower records...

 

[miden851]

There is a Piggly Wiggly about 5 minutes from me. I live outside of Birmingham, AL. The Pig stores are generally in more rural and smaller cities. There is a newcomer though, Publix. Publix supermarkets are generally found in larger cities and in larger shopping centers.

Publix covers SE about 8 states id say; HQ in FL

 

[Tomioka]

Woolworth stores. The last times I’ve seen them in 20+ years has been in Germany.

Bringing up Woolworth brought up this old relic in our closet. Woolworth HI.

Not really a brand but I miss the old Ala Moana Shopping Center back when Sears, JCPenney and other old school stores still existed. Now it caters to the tourists and rich.

 

[miden851]

long before Amazon, there was Borders

 

[01rangerxl]

long before Amazon, there was Borders

And Barnes & Noble...I remember the Barnes & Noble CD section. Also coffee table books with pictures of old pickup trucks. They also had unusual UK Land Rover magazines.

 

[AutoMechanic]

And Barnes & Noble...I remember the Barnes & Noble CD section.

You don’t have a Barnes & Noble? We have two. I miss Books -A- Million though.

 

[01rangerxl]

I grew up in NC and that's where I remember them, so Barnes & Noble may be more prevalent in the mid Atlantic, but commercial book stores in general seem to be a 90s/early 00s mall novelty.

 

[Blinker]

Assuming we are talking about car nameplates, I miss Pontiac.