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wire chief said:
If you spent time in the NYC area in the early 60', you may know this jingle...and long-gone product

The prettiest girl I ever saw was drinking _______ through a straw.
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Hoffmans.
I remember the jingle but dont know if I ever had the soda,

Dr. Browns Black Cherry I always had.
 
My father made a living for thirty years delivering new International Harvester Trucks manufactured in Bridgeport at the Metropolitan Body Company.


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All these "P" cars: Peerless (last 1931), Pierce-Arrow (last 1938), Packard (last 1956), Plymouth (last 2001) and Pontiac (last 2010). Maybe one shouldn't name their car brand with a name starting with "P"?
 
What about ZaRex? Clearly better than Kool-Aid. My mother hated it so I had to go to a friend's house to get a fix. I checked the web and it looks like someone's trying to bring it back.
 
Ponderosa Steak House is still around, just limited. So is Dr. Brown's soda, although I don't think the poster that mentioned it was saying it wasn't.
 
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meyers7 said:
I know Dairy Queen is still around. I've seen them. Also a friend of mine's family still owns one out in IL (maybe 2).

I still see Carvel ice cream cakes. Not sure about stores/restaurants, but they still make the cakes.
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Never said Dairy Queen wasn't around today, as a matter of fact they are bigger now than they were when they competed with Carvel. It's Carvel that has really hit the skids, maybe after Tom Carvel died? The only one I know of now is the the one on RT 7 in near the Danbury/Ridgefield line, years ago there was one in every town. There were two in Fairfield years ago now there are none, the one near the traffic circle is a donut shop now, I think.
 
Nash, Hudson, Studebaker, Packard, Kaiser, Frazer, Wyllis. SuperSuds. Rexall.
 
huskyrob1 said:
The Ford Falcon and the AMC Rambler (some versions had a small 2 stroke engine IIRC). For banks, City Trust and Mechanics & Farmers. Hermans Sporting Goods. Boppers (Stamford and New Haven). First National, Grand Union, and A&P. Last but not least Carvel, not many left. Back in the 60's & 70's.....MaryAnne or Genie?.Carvel or Dairy Queen?
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Herman's... whoa forgot about that one
 
DaddyChoc said:
Howard Johnson's... Ponderosa Steak House
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I worked the counter at a HoJo's for a couple of years while in high school. Sampled all the 28 flavors. Use to wear a "Dr. Ben Casey" smock while working. Restaurant was always busy and the tips were great.
 
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DaddyChoc said:
Howard Johnson's... Ponderosa Steak House
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I also stayed in a Howard Johnson hotel in Shanghai as recently as 2005. Beautiful high rise with great restaurant. Didn't have an orange roof.
 
Converse canvas All-Stars... the white ones (not all the colorful ones they make today)
 
Fiftyish said:
I also stayed in a Howard Johnson hotel in Shanghai as recently as 2005. Beautiful high rise with great restaurant. Didn't have an orange roof.
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I recall eating there (not in Shanghai) as a teen but cant remember where it was in the Greater Hartford area. Im sure it changed names a few times (the building)
 
Susse Chalet... Im sure some of you guys have stories about this place
 
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DaddyChoc said:
Service Merchandise... Sound Playground, Lechmere's
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Service Merchandise was like Arthurs, I think, and I'm not sure what was special about them - except I bought my wife's engagement ring in an Arthurs.

If you don't mind enlightening me, what was a Lechmere's, besides a name on the Boston Transit System.
 
DaddyChoc said:
Converse canvas All-Stars... the white ones (not all the colorful ones they make today)
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I have white Cons and and red and black pair labeled Icebear.
 
This clearly doesn't fit the original intent of the thread, more of a future discontinued item, but one of the reporters on the NBC morning show this am was talking about google's venture into driverless cars, an electric vehicle, mentioned that the car didn't have a steering wheel, brake pedal, or gas pedal. An electric car with a gas pedal? Mat Lauer has since corrected the gaff calling it an accelerator.
 
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huskyrob1 said:
Never said Dairy Queen wasn't around today, as a matter of fact they are bigger now than they were when they competed with Carvel. It's Carvel that has really hit the skids, maybe after Tom Carvel died? The only one I know of now is the the one on RT 7 in near the Danbury/Ridgefield line, years ago there was one in every town. There were two in Fairfield years ago now there are none, the one near the traffic circle is a donut shop now, I think.
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Oh, well when you put "Carvel or Dairy Queen?" in a thread about discontinued brands.....I just sorta thought that's what you were implying.
 
huskyrob1 said:
My father had a deep blue one, great little car....
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My dad had a black Corvair (and no we didn't die, and Nadar was less than truthful). Similar to this one.

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meyers7 said:
My dad had a black Corvair (and no we didn't die, and Nadar was less than truthful). Similar to this one.

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The Corvair had the engine in the back, didn't it? Was air cooled also, I think? Also had a convertible version too, IIRC.
 
Does anyone remember the Burma Shave signs along the road? We used to see them along the roads in rural upstate New York.

Also a W.T. Grant store? Rockland County NY but I think they were more widespread than that.
 
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