Brands that were once popular....

[auntiehill]

Oh, GOD, I loved Waldenbooks. There was one in every mall.

 

[Pondwater]

I miss KB Toys.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

Anyone remember Wang Computers? anyone...anyone?

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Commodore with their affordable home computers.
good times with the c64 and Amiga consoles.

 

[Misfit Toy]

I miss Babbages...

 

[Taylirious]

When I was a kid I loved going to Ames. Did anyone have an Ames? I am surprised Kmart is still around.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

My all time favorite place to shop was Two Guys, we had them around New Jersey growing up. The Two Guys in Wayne NJ was awesome, there was a guy selling Sabrett hot dogs from a cart in the entry way. The store was huge and had everything, including a lunch counter where you could get soda made by a soda jerk. They also had skee-ball and other arcade games.

 

[wulfio]

Starter sports apparel was the cool thing I remember in the 80s/90s. Hats, jackets, etc. I don't even know if the brand exists anymore.

 

[Taylirious]

Starter was a big deal when I was a teen and was only sold at the mall but now Walmart has Starter products. The Starter jackets were suppose to be the coolest in team sports apparel.

Starter sports apparel was the cool thing I remember in the 80s/90s. Hats, jackets, etc. I don't even know if the brand exists anymore.

At Walmart.

 

[Pondwater]

When I was a kid I loved going to Ames. Did anyone have an Ames? I am surprised Kmart is still around.

Yeppers! I miss that store.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Montgomery Ward

Villager: proto-preppie clothing for girls and women

Pond's Cold Cream: It still exists, but does anyone under age 90 use it?

Hard Rock Cafe. Still have the menu I swiped from the Honolulu one in the 80s.

No idea how popular (or not) they are, but there are still some around.

 

[tomalak301]

What are popular restaurants now? I didn't know Hard Rock was so popular back in the day (Actually, I think a better example would be Planet Hollywood) but I do know there are still some around. I guess when I think popular resturants, fast food like In n Out come to mind, and then you have your various chains like Dennys.

 

[Taylirious]

My first actual car which I never drove legally was a Pontiac and I used it as a down payment on a Mazda. No more Pontiac cars.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Saturn

 

[Warped9]

Saturn

Saturn cars? They were sold up here, but I don't think they were ever popular. Same with Isuzu--they were available, but hardly popular.

 

[Kestra]

Not exactly.

That looks pretty damned close to owning fifty percent of the market so I don't see how that invalidates what I said.

Canon has roughly 40 percent market share with Nikon holding 34 percent according to recent earnings. That's hardly Nikon as a "distant second."

Indeed. Nikon is still very popular, and a strong contender against Canon.

Pond's Cold Cream: It still exists, but does anyone under age 90 use it?

Me! I recently started using their cold cream cleanser. The first time I used it, I was like oh gosh, I'm my mom. I have all these memories of her smelling like Ponds when I was younger. I really like it though, and it does an amazing job of removing makeup.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

That looks pretty damned close to owning fifty percent of the market so I don't see how that invalidates what I said.

Canon has roughly 40 percent market share with Nikon holding 34 percent according to recent earnings. That's hardly Nikon as a "distant second."

Indeed. Nikon is still very popular, and a strong contender against Canon.

And for good reason. Nikon makes really excellent cameras (and lenses) - I say as someone who owns two Canon DSLR bodies and a half-dozen Canon lenses.

 

[Melakon]

When I lived near St. Louis in the 1960s, our high school senior pictures were done by the Vincent Price Portrait Studios. Yes, that Vincent Price, who was originally from St. Louis, I think he either owned the studio or licensed his name to it.

 

[wulfio]

Also Vuarnet. Though I don't know if it was a popular brand. Or because I'm French and was around a lot of skiers.

 

[Amaris]

I don't believe Admiral, Zenith or Philco exist anymore.

Admiral appliances are sold at Home Depot, Zenith exists as one of LG's brands and both Electrolux and Philips sell some Philco-branded consumer electronics.

Yep, and AOC is the Admiral Overseas Corporation. My old HDTV was an AOC, and when I found that out, I thought it was pretty cool.

It may have been mentioned, as I haven't read the whole thread yet, but Commodore. I used to have a Commodore 64, learned how to type and how to program in BASIC. Had a pamphlet for Quantum-Link/Q-Link Online, which of course later became AOL.