Going to the thrift store, looking over the fifty year old "Harper's Bazaar" and collier's magazines, looking at the old ads and dead product lines, one of the things you learn from old ads is the astonishing number of companies that came and went, leaving expired trademarks, logos, company history and the like.
All lost now, done in by foreign competition, changing tastes, leaving only some memories in old ad-guys, like me, guys in nursing homes and a few third-generation kids squandering whatever was left over from the liquidation.
Oh well.
