Description: During the 60s, some of the coolest kid's food items of all time are Zany Zoo Drink-Aid packages. They came after the introduction of Funny Face to try for a piece of the drink mix market. Flavors included Turtle Tangerine, Cheetah Cherry, Cougar Punch, Lion Lime, Ape Grape, Ostrich Orange and Rhino Raspberry. Super cool circus animals in cages graphics.
Description: Invented in 1957, Fizzies were tablets that created a "carbonated" soft drink when added to water. In the 1950s and 1960s Fizzies came in seven flavors: grape, orange, cherry, lemon-lime, strawberry, root beer, and cola. Fizzies' sales grew both nationally and internationally until 1968, achieving more than double the sales volume of Kool-Aid.
Description: During the 60s, some of the coolest kid's food items of all time are Zany Zoo Drink-Aid packages. They came after the introduction of Funny Face to try for a piece of the drink mix market. Flavors included Turtle Tangerine, Cheetah Cherry, Cougar Punch, Lion Lime, Ape Grape, Ostrich Orange and Rhino Raspberry. Super cool circus animals in cages graphics.
Description: Invented in 1957, Fizzies were tablets that created a "carbonated" soft drink when added to water. In the 1950s and 1960s Fizzies came in seven flavors: grape, orange, cherry, lemon-lime, strawberry, root beer, and cola. Fizzies' sales grew both nationally and internationally until 1968, achieving more than double the sales volume of Kool-Aid.
Description: During the 60s, some of the coolest kid's food items of all time are Zany Zoo Drink-Aid packages. They came after the introduction of Funny Face to try for a piece of the drink mix market. Flavors included Turtle Tangerine, Cheetah Cherry, Cougar Punch, Lion Lime, Ape Grape, Ostrich Orange and Rhino Raspberry. Super cool circus animals in cages graphics.
Description: Invented in 1957, Fizzies were tablets that created a "carbonated" soft drink when added to water. In the 1950s and 1960s Fizzies came in seven flavors: grape, orange, cherry, lemon-lime, strawberry, root beer, and cola. Fizzies' sales grew both nationally and internationally until 1968, achieving more than double the sales volume of Kool-Aid.
Description: During the 60s, some of the coolest kid's food items of all time are Zany Zoo Drink-Aid packages. They came after the introduction of Funny Face to try for a piece of the drink mix market. Flavors included Turtle Tangerine, Cheetah Cherry, Cougar Punch, Lion Lime, Ape Grape, Ostrich Orange and Rhino Raspberry. Super cool circus animals in cages graphics.
Description: Invented in 1957, Fizzies were tablets that created a "carbonated" soft drink when added to water. In the 1950s and 1960s Fizzies came in seven flavors: grape, orange, cherry, lemon-lime, strawberry, root beer, and cola. Fizzies' sales grew both nationally and internationally until 1968, achieving more than double the sales volume of Kool-Aid.
Description: During the 60s, some of the coolest kid's food items of all time are Zany Zoo Drink-Aid packages. They came after the introduction of Funny Face to try for a piece of the drink mix market. Flavors included Turtle Tangerine, Cheetah Cherry, Cougar Punch, Lion Lime, Ape Grape, Ostrich Orange and Rhino Raspberry. Super cool circus animals in cages graphics.
Description: Invented in 1957, Fizzies were tablets that created a "carbonated" soft drink when added to water. In the 1950s and 1960s Fizzies came in seven flavors: grape, orange, cherry, lemon-lime, strawberry, root beer, and cola. Fizzies' sales grew both nationally and internationally until 1968, achieving more than double the sales volume of Kool-Aid.
Description: Anchor Blue Inc. (formerly Miller's Outpost) was an American clothing retailer which had over 100 stores in the western United States. It generally sold its own Anchor Blue brand name of youth-oriented denim, graphic T-shirts and casual clothing. Sometimes the company was referred to as the Anchor Blue Inc., but their retail clothing chain of stores was labeled as Anchor Blue. The Anchor Blue and Miller's Outpost brands were acquired by Perry Ellis International in 2012.
Description: Petland Discounts was a privately owned chain of pet stores based in Brentwood, New York. The company was founded in 1965 with a store in Glen Oaks, New York. At its peak, Petland Discounts had expanded up to 100 stores and served the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Petland went out of business in 2019.
Petland T-Shirt
$24
Description: S. S. Kresge, the founder of the company that would become Kmart, met variety-store pioneer Frank Winfield Woolworth while working as a traveling salesman and selling to all 19 of Woolworth's stores at the time. In 1897, Kresge invested $6,700 saved from his job into a five-and-dime store in Memphis, Tennessee.
Description: White Hen Pantry (known as White Hen in the Midwest) was a Lombard, Illinois-based chain of approximately 261 predominantly franchisee-owned convenience stores located in and around Detroit, Boston / southern New Hampshire, southern Wisconsin, northwest Indiana and central Illinois areas of the United States. Went defunct in 2013.
Description: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015.From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest grocery retailer in the United States.
A&P T-Shirt
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Description: Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At its peak, Woolco had hundreds of stores in the US, as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom. While the American stores were closed in 1983, the chain remained active in Canada until it was sold in 1994 to rival Walmart.
Woolco T-Shirt
$24
Description: Minneapolis-based Coast to Coast was, in spite of its name, primarily a midwestern chain. Three brothers, Arthur, Maurice, and Louis Melamed, founded the chain in 1928. It boomed after World War II, and at its peak, it had 1,200 stores in 26 states. Coast to Coast made it as far east as Ohio and as far west as California. In 1983, Coast to Coast started opening large home improvement stores, precursors to the large big-box home improvement centers of today. Modern chains like Lowe’s and Home Depot weren’t on the radar. Coast to Coast’s transition wasn’t successful. By 1990, Coast to Coast had lost 200 of 1,000 stores and was in bankruptcy.
Description: Shopko (stylized as SHOPKO, formerly stylized as ShopKo) was a chain of department stores based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. All locations closed on June 23, 2019
ShopKo T-Shirt
$24
Description: SuperAmerica was a chain of gasoline stations and convenience stores in the Upper Midwest, based in Woodbury, Minnesota. It was owned by Marathon Petroleum. The first convenience store opened in the 1960s. SuperAmerica had 278 stores with 271 in Minnesota, 11 in Wisconsin and 2 in South Dakota from 1960 to 2019
Description: Minneapolis-based Coast to Coast was, in spite of its name, primarily a midwestern chain. Three brothers, Arthur, Maurice, and Louis Melamed, founded the chain in 1928. It boomed after World War II, and at its peak, it had 1,200 stores in 26 states. Coast to Coast made it as far east as Ohio and as far west as California. In 1983, Coast to Coast started opening large home improvement stores, precursors to the large big-box home improvement centers of today. Modern chains like Lowe’s and Home Depot weren’t on the radar. Coast to Coast’s transition wasn’t successful. By 1990, Coast to Coast had lost 200 of 1,000 stores and was in bankruptcy.
Description: Art Van Furniture Inc. was an American furniture retail store chain, with stores across the Midwestern United States. Founded in 1959, the company was headquartered in Warren, Michigan, and was the largest furniture retailer in the Midwest at its peak. In 2020, the company filed for bankruptcy and closed all of its stores.
Description: Hot Sam Pretzels was an American restaurant chain selling soft pretzels. They closed in 1995
Hot Sam T-Shirt
$24
Description: Lum's was an American family restaurant chain based in Florida with additional locations in several states. It was founded in 1956 in Miami Beach, Florida, by Stuart and Clifford S. Perlman. By 1978 they had 273 locations, then filed bankruptcy in 1982.
Lum's T-Shirt
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Description: Mr. Steak was an American steakhouse restaurant chain started in 1962 by James A. Mather in Colorado Springs, Colorado. At its peak, the chain operated 278 restaurants throughout the United States.[1] The chain saw a decline in the 1980s when it attempted to diversify its menu options, drawing focus away from the steak in favor of fish, salads, and chicken. It closed in 2009
Description: Lum's was an American family restaurant chain based in Florida with additional locations in several states. It was founded in 1956 in Miami Beach, Florida, by Stuart and Clifford S. Perlman. By 1978 they had 273 locations, then filed bankruptcy in 1982.
Lums T-Shirt
$24
Description: Geri's Hamburgers was a fast food restaurant chain in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, United States. Geri's started sometime in 1962 and was modeled largely after the early McDonald's style restaurants at the time. One of the original owners of Geri's was a former vice president for McDonald's. Geri's restaurants, at least in the early days, had little or no inside seating, and were geared towards fast take-out service. The last Geri's closed in 1999.
