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Large
Defunct Businesses
(United States as
of 7-20-2010)
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Airlines
Amusement Parks
Automobile Manufacturers
Department Stores
Investment Banks
Magazines
Major Law Firms
Manufacturing Companies
Media Companies
Newspapers
Oil Companies
Retailers
Airlines
Air America Air Atlanta Airborne Express Air California
Air Colorado Air Florida Air Hawaii Air Idaho
Air Illinois Air Iowa Air Kentucky Air Michigan Air
Mid – America Air Midwest Air Missouri Air Nebraska
Air Nevada Air Oregon Air Pennsylvania Air Texas Air
Utah Air Vermont Air Virginia Air West Aloha Airlines
America West Airlines American Overseas Airlines Arizona
Airways Atlantic Coast Airlines Bonanza Airlines Braniff
Braniff International Airways Catalina Airlines Chicago Air
Delta Express Eastern Airlines Emery Worldwide Airlines
Flying Tiger Line Frontier Airlines Golden West Airlines
Hughes Airwest Island Pacific Air Jet Express Jet West
Las Vegas Airlines Mid – Continent Airlines Midway Airlines
National Airlines New York Air New York Airways Pan
American Airways People Express Piedmont Airlines Pioneer
Airlines Republic Airlines Rocky Mountain Airways
Southeast Airlines Southern Airways Tennessee Airways
Texas Air Texas International Airlines Transamerica Airlines
Trans International Airlines ValuJet Airlines West Coast
Airlines Western Airlines
Amusement Parks
Bush Gardens, Van Nuys, California
Japanese Village and Deer Park, Buena Park, California
Jungleland USA, Thousand Oaks, California Marineland of the
Pacific, Rancho Palos Verdes, California The Pike, Long Beach,
California Venice Amusement Pier, Venice, Los Angeles,
California
Automobile Manufacturers
Albatross (1939) Allstate (
1952-1953) American Motors aka AMC (1966-1987) Checker
(1922-1982) Citicar (1974-1976) Continental (1933-1934)
Continental (1956-1957) Cord (1929-1932, 1936-1937)
Cunningham (1900-1907) Cunningham (1907-1936) Cunningham
(1951-1955) DeSoto (1913-1914) DeSoto (1928-1961) Dodge
(1914-1915) Duesenberg (1913-1937) Eshelman (1953-1961)
Franklin (1902-1934) Henney (1921-1931) Henney (1960-1964)
Hudson (1901-1902) Hudson (1909-1957) Kaiser (1947-1955)
Kurtis (1949-1950, 1954-1955) Lincoln (see also Sears Roebuck)
(1912-1913) Maxwell - Briscoe (1904-1913; Maxwell 1913-1325)
Meteor (1915-1930) Nash (1917-1957) Nash – Healey
(1951-1954) Oakland (1907-1931) Oldsmobile (1897-2004)
Overland (1903-1926, 1939) Packard (1899-1958) Peerless
(1900-1933) Pierce – Arrow (1900-1938) Plymouth (1928-2001)
Pontiac (1907-1908) Powell (1930s-1960s) Rambler (1900-1914)
Rambler (1958-1969) Rolls Royce (1921-1935) Sears
(1905-1915) Stanley Steamer (1897-1927) Studebaker
(1902-1966) Tucker (1946-1949) Willys (1916-1918, 1930-1942,
1953-1963) Willys – Knight (1914-1933) Willys – Overland
(1912-1953)
Department Stores
Atlantic Department Stores The Bon Marche Bonwit Teller
The Broadway Buffum’s Bullock’s Butler Brothers Carter
Hawley Hale Stores Dayton Co. Dayton’s
E.J. Korvette Fedco Fedmart Fedway Foley Brothers
Gemco Gertz’s Department Stores Gimbel’s Goldwater’s
Gottschalks Grant’s Department Store Henshey’s Hilson’s
Hinshaw’s I. Magnin
J.J. Newberry Kresge Marshall Field’s & Co. May Company
Mervyn’s Montgomery
Ward Ohrbach’s Robinsons – May
Sakowitz Sanger Brothers Sanger – Harris
S.H. Kress & Co. S.S. Kresge’s Wienstein’s
Weinstock’s White
Front Woolco W.T. Grant Zayre Zody’s
Investment Banks
Barings Bear Stearns A.G. Becker & Co. A.G. Edwards
Blyth, Eastman Dillon & Co. Dean Witter Reynolds Dillon,
Read & Co. Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Drexel Burnham
Lambert E.F. Hutton & Co. First Boston Hayden, Stone &
Co. Hornblower & Weeks Kidder, Peabody & Co. Kuhn, Loeb &
Co. L.F. Rothschild Loeb, Rhoades & Co. Merrill Lynch
Paine Webber Prudential Securities S.G. Warburg & Co.
Salomon Brothers Shearson / American Express Shearson,
Hammill & Co. Shearson Lehman Hutton Wachovia Securities
White Weld & Co.
Magazines
Collier’s Weekly
Confidential Disney Magazine Life Literary Digest Look
(American magazine) National Lampoon (magazine) Popular
Electronics
Major Law Firms
Arter & Hadden Dewey Ballantine
Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey
Jenkens & Gilchrist LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRay Lord Day
& Lord Shea & Gould
Manufacturing Companies
American Bicycle Company Brown Shipbuilding Continental Can
Company International Steel Group Lockheed Shipbuilding and
Construction Company Maytag National Steel Corporation
Northwestern Steel and Wire North Carolina Shipbuilding Company
Shinola Sterling Bicycle Company TRW United States Rubber
Company Westinghouse Electric
Media Companies
Adelpia Communications Corporation
Castle Films Desilu Productions Lorimar Productions MCA
Inc. Multimedia Multimedia Entertainment Viacom Warner
Bros. – Seven Arts Warner Communications
Newspapers
Albuquerque Tribune Arlington Daily Arlington Sun The
Atlanta Time Austin Tribune Baltimore Evening Sun
Baltimore Morning Herald Boston Chronicle Boston Gazette
Chicago Daily News Chicago Times Cincinnati Herald
Cleveland Press Columbia Record Dallas Herald Dallas
Journal Dallas Times Herald The Dearborn Independent De
Moines Tribune Detroit Times El Paso Herald – Post Fort
Worth Press Fort Worth Record Green Bay News - Chronicle
Hatford Times Hollywood Star Houston Post Houston Press
Indianapolis News Indianapolis Times Jacksonville Journal
Kansas City Times Los Angeles Evening Express Los Angeles
Herald Los Angeles Herald Examiner The Louisville Leader
The Louisville Times Miami News Milwaukee Sentinel
Nashville American Newark Evening News New York Daily Mirror
New York Evening Journal New York Herald
New York Herald Tribune The New York Star The New York Sun
New York Tribune Oklahoma City Times Philadelphia Journal
Philadelphia Press Portland News Portland Telegram The
Richmond Newsleader Rocky Mountain News (Denver) Sacramento
Union Salt Lake Herald Salt Lake Telegram
Salt Lake Observer San Francisco Herald Toledo Times
Tulsa Tribune The Washington Daily News Washington Herald
Washington Star Washington Times - Herald
Oil Companies
Amoco Atlantic Petroleum Conoco
Inc. Humble Oil Paragon Oil Rockefeller, Andrews &
Flagler Standard Oil Standard Oil of Colorado Standard
Oil of Ohio Standard Oil of Iowa Standard Oil of Kentucky
Superior Oil Company Texaco The Coastal Corporation
Tidewater Petroleum Tosco Corporation Unocal Corporation
Retailers
Adray Alpha Beta Best Products Big A Auto Parts
Blockbuster Music Bombay Co. Boys Markets Bugle Boy
Builders Emporium Cal Stereo
Casual Corner Chandlers Circuit City Cloth World Cole
Drug Copeland Sports Cornet Crafts & More Crown Auto
Parts Crown Books Drug Emporium Eckerd Egghead
Software E.J. Korvette El Rancho Fayva Fedco
Federated Group Flagg Bros. Shoes Food Fair Food Giant
Food Mart F.W. Woolworth Company Gallenkamp Gemco
Giant Discount Stores The Good Guys Gottschalks Handy Dan
Hanover Shoes I Manin’s
J.J. Newberry Joseph Maginin Judy’s Karl’s Shoes
Kinney Shoes Krauses Sofa Factory Laura Ashley Laura
Ashley Mother & Child Leo’s Stereo Levitz Furniture
Licorice Pizza Little Folk Shops Linens n’ Things Market
Basket McMahan’s Furniture Mervyn’s
Mod O’Day Montgomery Ward Museum Company Music Plus
National Auto Parts Osco Drug Oshman’s Pacific Stereo
Pantry Pantry Pride Parklane Hosiery Peoples Drug
Price Club Revco Rexall Robert Hall Rogersound Labs
Sav-on Drug Save-Rite Drug Sears Homelife Shoe Pavilion
S.H. Kress Skaggs Skaggs Alpha Beta Smith’s Food King
Smitty’s S.S. Kresge Standard Brands Paint Company SupeRx
Susie’s Casuals TG&Y Thom McAn Store Tower Records
Trak Auto Warehouse
Club, Inc. Western Auto Stores Wherehouse Music Wholesale
Club, Inc. Wickes Furniture Woolco Woolworth Woolworht
Express W.T. Grant
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