OKAy - May favorite older apple varieties:

Northern Spy - can't go wrong with that one, an all-around great cooking apple
Campfield
Harrison
Baldwin
Jonagolds
Pippins - too many different varieties to mention

Jonagolds are available here in los Angeles and they're a cross between Jonathans and Golden Delicious (I think - sometimes the names don't follow the obvious derivations). Whenever there is a sale on them for 10 pounds for $5 I stock up and store them in a clean cooler just for apples so that no other vegetables or fruits will contaminate them with Ethylene gas and make them rot. These apples keep so well that if you store them properly in a cool and dark place, safely away from ethylene producers, they will keep for months and be just as good as they were the day you bought them.

Folks with nice dark cellars might want to keep this in mind when apples are cheap this fall. Any apple with crisp flesh that doesn't go mealy will store for months if you do it right. Buying a bunch from an orchard at harvest and then using them all winter is a good way to save money. Just be careful to separate out all the apples with even the slightest of bruising and eat or cook those immediately. There's truth to the old saying that one bad apple will spoil the whole barrel.