PolishGuy

A few that came to my mind: J. J. Newbury stores; Flying A gasoline; Richfield gasoline; now known as only Chevron, in the past there was Chevron and Standard stations; Blue Chip Stamps and their related redemption stores; Gold Stamps; Best catalog stores; KnightKit, very much like Heathkit; Buffums dept store; stand-alone A&W shops, I know the brand still exists but it isn't quite the same as what the stores would serve; Kinney shoe stores.....geez I feel old. PG.

k7baixo

A modern, better designed version of Heathkit.

Cougrrcj

My old man built a HH Scott kit stereo back in 1960-ish.

Found a eBay auction of the amp here

The Tuner was similar to this one, but also brownface/gold trim like the above amp.

And as I mentioned in another 50+ thread, I helped him build a color TV in 68/69. That was a Heathkit.

B. Carfree

SR Suntour isn't really the Suntour we all knew and loved. From that source-of-sources, wikipedia:
It's sort of like Sturmey Archer. Sure, there's a company that bought that name and still makes products branded as such, but it's not really the same company. In this case, that's probably a good thing as the Japanese purchasers have improved the product.

skilsaw

GWG Redstrap Jeans.

CraigB

Red Goose Shoes (sing along with me, "Half the fun of having feet is Red Goose Shoes.")

And speaking of shoes, how about running faster and jumping higher with PF Flyers?

John_V 

And let's not forget Keds and Buster Brown shoes.

Zinger

Hudson



Studebaker

vtc12ip

Worked at these:
Air North dba Mohawk Commuter
Air North dba Alleghany Commuter
Air North (standalone)
Brockway Air (standalone)
Brockway Air dba Peidmont Commuter
Metro Air Northeast dba Trans World Express
Business Express (standalone)
Business Express dba Delta Connection / Northwest Airlink

Confusing. Until I went to Business Express, it was the same people and airplanes. We had a white Saab 340 delivered new from the factory. The mechanics put a bar code on it.

Gravity Aided

Rock Island- Kept on running passenger trains after Amtrak, because they claimed they didn't have the money to join Amtrak. Kept running trains from Peoria and the Quad Cities until 1980. Stopped almost anywhere for the regular riders, and wound up at LaSalle Street Station in Chicago. Not a grand operation but eminently friendly.

roccobike

Wyeth,
Ayerst,
Pharmacia
CIBA
Geigy
AH Robins
Whitehall Labs
Madison Labs
Even pharmaceuticals have felt the sting of takeover.

tcs

Indian Motocycle, and Indian Motorcycle and Indian Motorcycle and then Indian Motorcycle followed by Indian Motorcycle. But now Indian is back again.

FormerFF

We still have Chevron gasoline, on the other hand Texaco has left the building. What's also almost completely gone are service stations, those places that sold gasoline and did car repairs. There were a couple of Chevron ones up until last year, but of the remaining ones, one was turned into a food mart and the other closed. I understand the the marketplace changes, but for a long while the gas station was an opportunity for small businesspeople to get started without too much capital, and now that's gone.

Bikey Mikey

There are several gas stations with service centers in my area.

Gravity Aided

I've still got a Shell with garage and full Service, limited hours. I always go to Kroger, though. Because I get money off gas price for grocery and gas dollars spent.

Flying Merkel

I wish Schwinn bicycles and Indian motorcycles would disappear finally & completely.

trackhub

Don't forget the tube testers, always located near the door to the store, and the store manager, always an old, sort of grouchy, but very knowledgable guy.
Today's Radio Shack store is nothing more than a toy and cell phone store. The components they sell for hobbyists continue to dwindle, but I guess that is simply
the way it is now.

A store that many local New Englanders truly miss: Spags!

Spags was truly unique. The place was huge, and occupied more buildings that what you see in the picture. Always stocked to the ceiling with
stuff, at prices that even the walmart of today could not match. (Not an exaggeration!) This because of the incredible management skill of the founder
and owner, Anthony Borgatti. (Nicknamed Spag, because it was his favorite meal) Oh yeah, for most of their years in business, there were "no bags at spags".
shoppers were well advised to bring along their own bags or boxes. They also did not accept any payment means, besides cash. Imagine that today.
Oh yeah,,, Spags, like most retailers, didn't pay a heck of a lot, but they had a reputation for being very good to their employees, offering good benefits
and treating everyone like a family. He had some employees who worked for him for decades. Never see that again.

qcpmsame 

+1 for the old, true Radio Shack stores and Heathkit. I used to go to RS for electronic circuit items when I took Electronic Circuits and Theory in high school. the old knowledgeable guy worked at ours too. Must have been a big family. You could get resistors, potentiometers, wire in the various gauges, blank circuit boards, etc., I could stay in there all day just taking in all the components and listening to the men talk about the stereos, radios, televisions and such they were building or repairing. Learned the basics of using an o-scope there, even.

Heathkit catalogs were like Sears toy catalogs for me. They worked with the schools on pricing for projects. Not anymore, it is all plug that board or device in and throw away anything that smokes. Sheesh, I am getting old and grouchy . Seems like even the corner stores, mom and pop types as well as drugstores had RCA tube tester-stocking displays in them. My dad would send me up to the neighbourhood store with tubes for our TV to test and replace.

Bill

Gravity Aided

You can't even replace or reset your electron guns in the picture tube anymore. My father-in -law was an E.E. and showed me how to do that and synch them up and now all the mounts are plastic and the Tv is a throwaway. You're not getting old and grouchy, Bill. This current throw-away appliance theory lacks common sense. Innovation should not be predicated by a need to replace most of your material possessions on an annual basis.

Biker395 

Happy holidays! https://www.ae5x.com/blog/2011/09/12/three-old-heathkit-catalogs-now-online/

https://www.nostalgickitscentral.com/index.html

Mobile 155

Richfield is still here, it is just now called ARCO. They also have AM/PM markets.

Garfield Cat

The City of Detroit

and the implosion of the J.L. Hudson Building

pursuance

True, the last real Indian was assembled in 1953.
I had an Indian Enfield twin back in the day. Eye-tie frame, Brit engine?

Like it or not Polaris has the capital to make Indian stay afloat.
And I do not like the new motor trying to look flat-headed either!

This thread makes me feel my age with a touch of melancholy. *sigh*

I do remember the learning fun Heathkit offered this youngster. My first automotive test meters!

Biker395 

Lol. Just seeing this. My Dad used to fly out to the East Coast, and one day I asked him how the flight was.

"Not so good ... it was on Allegheny Air."

Not being perhaps as good with geography as I should have been, I had to ask:

"Why do they call it that?"

"Because when they're not crashing, they fly over the Allegheny Mountains."

Flying Merkel

Saw an Indian Enfield a few years back. Good looking bike. The silly overstyled pseudo-Indian engine makes me cry. Few motorcycles are as pretty as a real Indian Chief. American Baroque at it's finest.

My dad put together a Heathkit "Hi-Fi" back in the early 60's. We had it for years. Have no idea what happened to it.