Companies/brands you remember that no longer exist

[Gritt23]

"90 Minutes" that was a great footie mag.

 

[edna krabappel]

They're still around, but don't do the Premiership, so you'll only spot them every couple of years when the Europeans or World Cups come round.

I remember the Mexico 86 ones very well, they were 12p a packet, and started many a playground fight over swaps

Still not as funny to my nine year old mind as the fact that South Korea featured a player named Cha Bum-Kun.

 

[Bluejuice]

This shithouse channel got replaced by Virgin 1, another shithouse channel

 

[SUIYHP]

if the original company counts

 

[Bluejuice]

Never see these little beauties on the roads anymore

Or these dad boys

 

[edna krabappel]

Garbage Pail Kids stickers

 

[Bluejuice]

 

[SUIYHP]

Garbage Pail Kids stickers

wasnt the reason they got rid of that because of the film?

 

[Spiros]

I'm trying to do a virtual walk along Western Road in the 80's. This is first I can remember that is no more.

I vaguely remember a large shop in Western Road called Wades - I think it was occupied later by Virgin.

On the brand front I remember as a kid buying a disgusting and sticky drink called Cresta which was advertised by some uber-cool polar bear with shades on - "it's frothy man"

 

[edna krabappel]

wasnt the reason they got rid of that because of the film?

Enlighten me?

I know a lot of schools banned the stickers, fearing their kids would be corrupted by them While the company also got sued by the makers of the Cabbage Patch Dolls.

 

[edna krabappel]

Oooh, Global Hypercolor t-shirts.

The only real "hyper colour" being when you accidentally washed them at the wrong temperature and their magical colour changing abilities were lost forever.

 

[Bluejuice]

 

[The Auditor]

Never see these little beauties on the roads anymore

Or these dad boys

saw a H Reg sierra parked in Bristol road St leonards !

 

[Gwylan]

I vaguely remember a large shop in Western Road called Wades - I think it was occupied later by Virgin.

There was - a big department store in the Vokins/Hannington's mould. I think it became C&A.

Anyone remember Meakers the outfitters by the arcade. It was a real "Suits you Sir" type of place.

What I can't remember is what was in Churchill Square before it became Churchill Square.

 

[Bluejuice]

 

[Hunting 784561]

 

[Playing On The Grit]

Does Quattro still exist?

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[BLOCK F]

Bass are still going.

No they are not.I used to work for them and whilst Bass ale is still brewed,the company Bass plc no longer exists!!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Lloyds are still Lloyds TSB aren't they?

ahhh... Don't you remember TSB, the bank that likes to say yes!?

 

[BLOCK F]

Only in Watney's pubs, where it competed with the vile Red Barrel or Special. Bass Charrington's fizzy bitter was Toby, Allied Breweries had Ind Coope and the aforementioned Double Diamond and Courage had "JC". I can't remember what Whitbread's was - it was probably something so foul, that my brain has rejected the memory. And those companies had something like 90 percent of all English pubs between them.

It was very hard to get a decent pint in Brighton in those days: the only places that stocked Harveys that I can recall were the Nelson, the Mitre, Nobles (now Maria Fitzherbert's) and the Swan at Falmer.

Whitbread Tankard.