It’s easy to remember the ones that still exist. It’s hard to remember all the ones that failed in the past 50 or 100 years. Some of these excelled over the past 50-100 years. Some are still around but a shadow of their former self. Some are completely gone.

Here’s DOW 30 in 1959

Allied Chemical
Aluminum Company of America
American Can
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
American Tobacco B
Anaconda Copper
Bethlehem Steel
Chrysler
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
Eastman Kodak Company
General Electric Company
General Foods
General Motors Corporation
Goodyear
International Harvester
International Nickel
International Paper Company
Johns-Manville
Owens-Illinois Glass
Procter & Gamble Company
Sears Roebuck & Company
Standard Oil of California
Standard Oil (NJ)
Swift & Company
Texaco Incorporated (formerly Texas Company)
Union Carbide
United Aircraft
U.S. Steel
Westinghouse Electric
Woolworth

DOW 30 from 1928 when it first became and index of 30 names.

Allied Chemical
American Can
American Smelting
American Sugar
American Tobacco B
Atlantic Refining *
Bethlehem Steel *
Chrysler *
General Electric Company
General Motors Corporation
General Railway Signal *
Goodrich *
International Harvester
International Nickel *
Mack Truck
Nash Motors *
North American *
Paramount Publix (formerly Paramount Famous Lasky)
Postum Incorporated *
Radio Corporation *
Sears Roebuck & Company
Standard Oil (NJ) *
Texas Company
Texas Gulf Sulphur *
Union Carbide *
U.S. Steel
Victor Talking Machine *
Westinghouse Electric *
Woolworth
Wright Aeronautical *