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Originally Posted by Big Dave
I think the great sign will go the way of the KFC rotating bucket, and the Union 76 ball... the junkyard.
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"KFC"..?? Remember when it was still perfectly acceptable to use the word "Fried" to describe fast-food? ...when it was "Kentucky Fried Chicken" and not "KFC"..? [similar to the rather sudden departure of the word "Sugar" from the names of children's breakfast cereals]
Speaking of gas stations, one brand I hated to see go was Amoco. I don't think many people around here had even heard of BP when they suddenly started tearing down the old Amoco and Standard signs and replacing them with BP signage. It just seemed weird to me. Besides, I kinda liked the old red-white-and-blue (and oftentimes oval-shaped) logos of the former Standard Oil Empire in their own little way. I even missed the SOHIO and Boron stations from their respective areas. Exxon, Mobil, and Chevron still bear their red-white-and-blue logos, but even the former two companies have merged.
As for consumer electronics names, it's kinda funny how even the Japanese companies don't even make many of their own products anymore-- or at least not in Japan. Ten or twenty years from now, perhaps we'll start reminicing about the products of those "old/former" Japanese companies like Sony or Hitachi or Matsushita or Akai or Victor/JVC or Toshiba or ...