Defunct brands that we grew up with

[DubiousDan]

Mitchntx beat me to Datsun. Had a B210, yellow. Could get hit just parked.

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Had one in brown. Loved that car.

 

[DubiousDan]

And this is strictly Houston based.

Pig Stand

There's still a Pig Stand in San Antonio.

San Antonio's Pig Stand

 

[jordanmills]

Anderson Consulting chose not to be a part of AA. It's the Big 4 now. The group I joined at one Big 4 firm came from AA so AA also lives on at the other Big 4 firms.

Eh looks like you're mostly right. Accenture split off from Andersen consulting, not AA. I worked for a division that split off from Accenture and is in the middle of being rolled back in. Blah.

 

[txinvestigator]

Do we count defunct products? TI made one of the first PDA's, called the Avigo.

 

[diveRN]

The ORIGINAL Tonka Toys.

Not technically defunct, but now as a subsidiary of Hasbro, all they make is cheapo plastic crap.

 

[winchster]

Brittany restaurant in Lubbock. Best hamburger ever made.

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[Stukaman]

Hanks Super Center Cornelius Oregon catering to my ammo needs since I was 15yrs old.


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[Edwarethered]

Do we count defunct products? TI made one of the first PDA's, called the Avigo.

Oh PDAs.. I still have a dell Axim somewhere. Wonder if I still have the disk with the games on it. lol

 

[Bozz10mm]

Whatever happened to Earl Pitts-American? You know what makes me angry? You know what makes me so mad, I could just etc. etc.

 

[no2gates]

The ORIGINAL Tonka Toys.

Not technically defunct, but now as a subsidiary of Hasbro, all they make is cheapo plastic crap.

YES!!! My favorite toys were Tonka Trucks. Those were metal and indistructable. I still use the phrase "Tonka Tough"!

 

[jrbfishn]

Paul Harvey, damn i miss the rest of the story


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[Anger]

'mericua

 

[F350-6]

Ever been addicted to Orion?

No. Was supposed to, but we ended up getting diverted to some mountains to "advise" some friends against the Russians. Nasty place to visit. Russians had about as much luck there as we did recently. Coming back home they closed our old place up and sent us to 29 palms instead. So I have been friendly with warm beer.

Edit: I guess most folks don't have any clue what we're talking about. Wonder if a certain moderator cares to chime in with his experience?

 

[TXDARKHORSE361]

No. Was supposed to, but we ended up getting diverted to some mountains to "advise" some friends against the Russians. Nasty place to visit. Russians had about as much luck there as we did recently. Coming back home they closed our old place up and sent us to 29 palms instead. So I have been friendly with warm beer.

Edit: I guess most folks don't have any clue what we're talking about. Wonder if a certain moderator cares to chime in with his experience?

Guess you're talking about me, when I was on the 31st MEU I got to try a lot of different beers to include Orion. I wasn't impressed with it in the bottle but cruising around Gate 2 street one night there was a bar that had a sign outside advertising cheap Orion and free jello shots so guess which bar we decided to go to, whole different animal on tap it went down very smooth. Drank a lot of Heineken in Thailand since that was about the only beer I recognized and wasn't feeling many of the others but there was one (something with Tiger in the name I believe) that tasted like Budweiser. Drank a lot of Red Horse and San Miguel in the Philippines and Toohey's Extra Dry and XXXX Gold in Australia, asked for a Fosters there thinking it would be like Corona in Mexico and got looked at like I had a male appendage growing outta my forehead. Foster's is definitely not Australian for beer lmao.

 

[F350-6]

Red Horse sounds familiar, but the most memorable part of that trip was listening to a guy get his bore snaked out after what turned out to be a not so friendly encounter with one of the locals.

 

[TXDARKHORSE361]

Red Horse sounds familiar, but the most memorable part of that trip was listening to a guy get his bore snaked out after what turned out to be a not so friendly encounter with one of the locals.

Lmao I'm glad I was already married and stayed faithful through the temptations, had a few buddies in that same position.


*edit, Redhorse was real popular for two reasons, the BN's nickname was Darkhorse and it was like 8% alcohol.

 

[Vaquero]

Mack Eplen's
Abilene restaurant empire back in the day.