Inspired by Chris’ posting “Jumping the Shark,” for more or less fallen campaigns, I thought it only appropriate to remember fallen agencies as well.

After all, I remember years ago laughing out loud at the web film, “Reach and Frequency,” the brilliant comic film created by Elvis Bonaparte, one of the Northwest’s most dynamic new agencies of the internet boom. Now the film and the agency have both disappeared, victums of the internet bubble.

Similarly, the first agency I ever worked for, Long Haymes Carr, has long since been absorbed into another firm – its previous identity all but washed away.

So whether the agency was absorbed, went bankrupt or just disappeared into its own navel and ascended to a higher level, I thought it only appropriate to take a moment to take our collective hats off in silent salute to the once proud names of the agencies who have gone before.

Please feel free to post the names of those you would like remembered.

This isn’t meant to be depressing, but a kind of off-the-wall closure thing. Give it a try. You’ll feel better.

Here are two to start us off:

Long Haymes Car

Elvis Bonaparte

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