Name Brands that disappeared

[PTINS 3485]

Rylanders (grocery)

Minimax (grocery)

Nickerson Farms (hiway food)

Ritters (gas stations)

Saigon eggrolls (food cart on the drag)

Schlitz

Screaming Yellow Zonkers (Glazed popcorn)

 

[83Horn 1648]

Anybody remember Baby Giant convenience stores?  I bought my first six pack of Coors in one when I was 14.  That was a big deal at the time not only because is was my first beer purchase AND I was underage, but Coors had only recently been made available east of the Rockies at that time.  Good times.

[shadow_operative2.0 16030]

7 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

Camelot Music 

Great first ‘real’ job at 17. High school girls & moms everywhere. 

 

4 hours ago, dimyh said:

Is there still an Oshmans Sports around? 

This was going to be my post. Highlight of a mall trip as a youngster, then they had the big stores later where you could shoot hoops/hit in a cage/putt/etc. 

[PRONG HORN 3159]

“Save On” at the corner of dairy ashFord and memorial.

 A pic of the logo would be pretty cool 

[burntorangebongos 10752]

5 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

Merry-Go-Round where I bought a rad pair of Panno D'or parachute pants to wear with my OP shirt and Kaepas. I worked over the summer before my freshman year of high school at K-Bob's for money to buy such fine attire. You bet your ass young Jerry was slaying it.

Holy Fuck! Where you sporting a mullet as well?

[RPM 26356]

11 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Sears was first knocked to the ground by Wal-Mart, and then was knocked out of the ring by Amazon.

It's always hindsight but too many big brands refuse to adapt because they see the adaption as hurting their traditional brand. Then you're Sears with only a handful (15?) full-sized stores left.

That was a self inflicted death by CEO. Sears started as a mail order company. Internet should have been a no brainer.

[Rimbo 26135]

4 hours ago, PTINS said:

Saigon eggrolls (food cart on the drag)

Wasn't that the one that was a fencing operation?

[Deej 76936]

I'm sure a lot of you were disappointed when you found out it was a clothing store. 

 

[Post Oak 20277]

38 minutes ago, Deej said:

I'm sure a lot of you were disappointed when you found out it was a clothing store. 

 

Still one location open at South Austins moms house.

[MontereyMX 869]

Fastbacks and Rustlers

[MrBig 5442]

Handy Andy 

Paragon Cable

Eckerd Drugs

NationsBank

Solo Serve 

Wynn’s

[DigglerontheHoof 21254]

This likely won't register w/ most of you, but my contribution is Godchaux's.  They were the Dillards of Louisiana, when I was growing up in Baton Rouge in the 70s.  It's where we went to see Santa every year.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11821]

1 minute ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

This likely won't register w/ most of you, but my contribution is Godchaux's.  They were the Dillards of Louisiana, when I was growing up in Baton Rouge in the 70s.  It's where we went to see Santa every year.

Mervyn’s was another department store like that.

We used to grocery shop at A&P in El Campo before they got a Stanley’s, then later an HEB.  Only HEB is still standing. 

[Nivek 16987]

WAGS

Bennigans

[Judge Roybeanbag 11821]

2 minutes ago, Nivek said:

WAGS

Bennigans

Bombay Bicycle Club, Fotomat.

[Parliament 14325]

[deadshank 24653]

As a HS summer job, I drilled many a hole in these helmets while they were being built.  Working for the man himself.  His boys are hometown friends of mine.  

[atomheartbevo 89809]

13 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Nice,  but I dumped a ton of money into The Sierra Network.

 

[luke duke 6414]

Too soon?

[TexPx 2324]

Playboy Club?

[MAUFRAIS 6638]

This was going to be my post. Highlight of a mall trip as a youngster, then they had the big stores later where you could shoot hoops/hit in a cage/putt/etc. 

And the carpet treadmill ski mountain that never worked.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Best (the store)

Children’s Palace (if Toys r Us didn’t have the sega master system game we wanted, Children’s Palace across FM 1960 usually did)

Sports Town USA

Oshmann’s

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['stache 21882]

17 hours ago, EuroHorn said:

 

Holy shit, lol! Is this where the South Park guys got the idea for the Jared from Subway episode?

['stache 21882]

2 hours ago, Deej said:

I'm sure a lot of you were disappointed when you found out it was a clothing store. 

 

One of these was near my aunts house growing up. I remember laughing every time I saw it  thinking “so everyone just accepts that this is just the name of the store?”

[utee94 15865]

2 minutes ago, 'stache said:

One of these was near my aunts house growing up. I remember laughing every time I saw it  thinking “so everyone just accepts that this is just the name of the store?”

My first real job in high school, was selling in the Men's Department at the Weiner's on Research.  A couple years later I had moved on up to the Bealls in Northcross Mall.  So, this thread hits close to home.

[Vanderpool 23]

10 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Best (the store)

Children’s Palace (if Toys r Us didn’t have the sega master system game we wanted, Children’s Palace across FM 1960 usually did)

Sports Town USA

Oshmann’s

If we didn’t whine for toys at Children’s Palace, sometimes we stopped at that Two Peso’s in the same parking lot afterwards. Good times. 

 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

If we didn’t whine for toys at Children’s Palace, sometimes we stopped at that Two Peso’s in the same parking lot afterwards. Good times. 
 

Where did you go to high school? There a few 1960 folks on here.

[utee94 15865]

Has anyone mentioned Winns?

 

[Vanderpool 23]

1 minute ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Where did you go to high school? There a few 1960 folks on here.

Tomball High School, but all of my extended family was and still is in the Champions area. 

[Francisco 2.0 32430]

 

 

[YGIFS 19452]

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10 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

Speaking of Beaumont, there are not one but two Stuckey's there: they are pretty much across I-10 from each other.

First time I visited my wife's small town in Western Kansas, she warned me there was only one restaurant in town and one tiny 4-aisle grocery store.  There was an abandoned restaurant with no signage at her interstate turnoff.  I asked what it was.  She said, "Well that was our second restaurant.  It was a Stuckey's.  But it closed down because the customers got too shady."  And I laughed and laughed for miles.  She didn't understand why and I could never properly explain it.  But somewhere out there in middle America is apparently a Stuckey's with just the absolute best people.  

OP is still around, I got a pair of their sunglasses about a year ago on a bargain rack.  I like 'em a lot.  

We're also conflating brands that are completely gone/outta business (like Oldsmobile) versus ones that just got renamed or absorbed into other companies.  Or something like Woolworth, once as ubiquitous as K-Mart...now only a handful survive in Europe and Southern Africa.  And some live on via the interwebs, like Tower Records.  

Not worthy of another thread probably, but would be curious what national brands y'all think will be the next to die.  Not some regional bank or grocery store that most people haven't heard of...but a national label/store that is next to go.  Aside from previously discussed Sears, I'd go with Kenmore appliances and iHOP restaurants.  

[utee94 15865]

28 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

i was wondering who'd be the first to post this...

 

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25 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

I'd go with Kenmore appliances and iHOP restaurants.  

Not sure I agree with you. Kenmore will be sold off, if it hasn't been already. It's a legacy brand name like Craftsman. Of course the quality won't be the same.

IHOP has a lot of small town restaurants that stay busy. They are an upscale DQ.

[Not that Bob 739]

A stroll down Congress Avenue: 

Reynolds Penland.

J.R. Reed Music Company. 

The Austin National Bank

The Avenue Cafe

Yaring's Fashion Window

Capitol Theatre, actually on 6th. 

Piccadilly Cafeteria

Gordon selling The Austin American about 3rd or 4th and Congress. The closest thing Austin had to a news stand. 

Step around the corner to 6th Street, Joe Koen Jewelers 

Help me out here, AB.

I guess these were more local than "Name Brands", but they seemed like a big deal when I was a kid.

Edited December 1, 2022 by Not that Bob
D'oh!

[Francisco 2.0 32430]

 

 

[Francisco 2.0 32430]

 

 

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['stache 21882]

5 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

My first bike with gears was from here. They never seemed to work right but I didn’t really know the difference. We had a brick and mortar Montgomery Ward too.

Edited December 1, 2022 by 'stache

['stache 21882]

There was a Woolworths at the mall growing up. I remember being surprised when I learned that it had been a big deal way back. I remember it as a weird place in the mall tht sold trinkets.

[66BUFF 2565]

14 hours ago, deadshank said:

Happy Days raspberry 

Happy Days mint

 

[smuggs 9353]

12 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

Fuckin A.

 

 

[deadshank 24653]

Had a location 2 miles from our house.  Didn’t last long. 

[MrBig 5442]

[Nice Guy Eddie 13523]

2 hours ago, Parliament said:

As a double disappearance, Prodigy was started a joint venture by Sears and IBM.

Sears was into everything. I recall when they rebranded the Atari game system and games in the late 70s. While I considered that I had an Atari, almost all of my games were the duplicate Sears version. 

[orange dream 1256]

Sanger Harris

Edited December 1, 2022 by orange dream

[utee94 15865]

1 hour ago, Not that Bob said:

 

Step around the corner to 6th Street, Joe Koen Jewelers 

 

Joe Koen and Sons, is still around.  As is Kruger's a block up the street.

[atomheartbevo 89809]

I’m glad this didn’t turn into a thread about what catalogs we stole from our moms to uhhh…

[YGIFS 19452]

29 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

JC Penney technically is out of bankruptcy, but I don’t see it and retail stores like it surviving long.  You either need to be legitimately upscale or really cheap in retail now, not occupying that in between area like a bunch of the defunct stores named on this thread (Sears, Mervyns, Service Merchandise, etc.).

My (probably erroneous) hot take is Kentucky Fried Chicken would be dead already if they didn’t cheat and combine them with Taco Bell locations.  There are tons of better chicken chains now.  

Actually, on a more realistic fast food chain angle, how is Long John Silver’s still a thing?

Apparently, both KFC and Taco Bell are both on life support and shedding legacy pad leases left and right.  I expect more of them will combine together for a stoner/diabetic panacea.  Long John Silver's is shit, but their stores are small and they at least are pretty much alone in the fast-food seafood niche.  Which may beg another question.  

JC Penney is fucking baffling to me.  It's a "Department Store" that doesn't really have any departments.  It's no different in quality or selection to a TJMaxx/Ross/Marshall's product.  But those have an inherent advantage.  JCP "needs" 100-150k square foot, multi-level footprint.  Most discount clothiers need a 1/5th of that space and be shoved into almost any B-class strip center in the nation.  I sometimes think Simon is propping up J.C. Penney to avoid more screaming reminders about the deaths of most malls.  

[Jerry Callo 8731]

9 hours ago, burntorangebongos said:

Holy Fuck! Where you sporting a mullet as well?

No, not when I started high school.