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The Sonoma County Crushers were a minor league baseball team located in Rohnert Park, California. They were a member of the Western Baseball League and was one of the founding members of the league, beginning play in 1995 but ended play in 2002 when the league folded.  OS15864

The Force was with soccer fans in Cleveland from 1978 to 1988 as charter members of the Major Indoor Soccer League. The team name was resurrected when the Cleveland Crunch, founded in 1989, changed its name to the Force in 2002.

Northland Mall opened in 1964 as an open-air, plaza-style shopping center. It was enclosed in 1975 and became a proper mall. The subsequent opening of three other large shopping centers close by led to the mall's demise. It closed in 2002 and demolished in...

The Louisville Fire were members of af2 the second tier of arena football and played from 2001 to 2008. Their home field was Brown-Forman Field in Freedom Hall.??Their owner was former??Pro Bowl??lineman and Louisville native??Will Wolford, who played for Buffalo, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh in...

The Polaris Amphitheater opened on June 15, 1994. The facility was part of a larger development effort in the area just north of I-270. Polaris hosted shows through 2007. In 2001, a new, similar facility was opened in the Arena District. That, along with...

Dive was a nautically themed restaurant owned by film director??director Steven??Spielberg. It opened in 1994 in the Marketplace food court of the Century City shopping complex. A second location opened a year later in Las Vegas at Fashion Show Mall on The Strip. The...

The Memphis Pharaohs played in the Arena Football League in 1995 and 1996. In 1997, they moved to Portland to become the Forest Dragons, before moving to Oklahoma in 2000 to become the Wranglers. They folded in 2001.

The Arena Football League was founded in 1986 by Jim Foster, who had gotten the idea from watching a Major Indoor Soccer League game earlier in the decade. After two test games in 1986, the league kicked off in 1987 with four teams travelling...

Kemp Hill Music was a chain of record stores in the Washington, D.C. area. Founded in the 1970s, it grew to over 30 locations. The last one was located on Branch Avenue in Prince George???s County. It closed in 2017.

Rain City Video was a small chain of video rental shops that started in 1988. Its last location, in West Ballard, closed in April of 2017.

The Guild 45th movie theater opened in 1919 as a Paramount Theatre for about seven years before the Downtown Paramount Theatre opened. A second screen was added to the Guild 45th in 1983, two doors down from the main theatre. In 2017, facing mounting...

The San Antonio Commanders were charter members of the short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF), a spring football league launched in 2019. It folded halfway through it's inaugural season.

The short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF) launched in spring 2019. The AAF folded halfway through its inaugural season.

Marvellous Mmmuffins, also known as mmmuffins, was a Canadian restaurant chain that sold coffee and muffins from 1979 until it closed in 2020. OS16094

They say 60 games is better than one. Sit on your porch and listen to Houston baseball in this great design from Old School Shirts!

It's one of the most storied rivals in basketball history, and has gain renewed interest thanks to a 2022 docuseries.

Grand Rapids FC was a team that played from 2015 to 2021 in the fourth tier of US soccer. Community owned, the team averaged over 4,000 fans a game but could not overcome the challenges of operating under the COVIC pandemic.

The Chicago Express played in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) for one season, 2011-12.?? Their home ice was the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates. For that one season, Chicago had three pro hockey teams, which is what led to the demise of the...

The Sacramento Mountain Lions were established as the California Redwoods in 2009, charter members of the United Football League (UFL). The Redwoods split home games between San Francisco and San Jose, before relocating to California's capital, and rebranding, in 2010. The team and league...

Laika was the first living creature to orbit the Earth. A stray dog from the streets of Moscow, she made her historic flight on November 3, 1957 aboard Sputnik 2. Unfortunately she did not survive the mission. In 2008, a monument was erected to...

Rich's was a department store chain headquartered in Atlanta. It opened in 1867 and was absorbed by Federated Department Stores, operators of Macy's, in 2005. One of it's long-standing holiday traditions was the Pink Pig, child-sized monorail. introduced in??1956 as The Snowball Express, its...

Shillito's was Cincinnati's first department store. It was founded by John Shillito and William McLaughlin in 1830 as McLaughlin & Shillito, but that partnership soon split up. In 1878, Shillito's moved to a new building on Race and Seventh streets, which was remodeled in...

WOXY, 97X, was one of the most important alternative rock radio stations in America from 1985 until it went off the air in 2004. Every Memorial Day Weekend, the station ran the Modern Rock 500, a countdown of the top tracks of the post-punk...

The Wranglers were supposed to begin play as an expansion team in the West Coast Hockey League (WCHL) in 1999. However, lack of a suitable arena delayed their debut. By the time they had settled into the Orleans Arena in 2003, the East Coast...

The Dallas Desperados played in the Arena Football League from 2002 until 2008. The city previously had a team in the league from 1990 to 1993 called the Texans.

The Ottawa Renegades were a Canadian Football League (CFL) expansion team established in 2002. The city's previous team, the Rough Riders, folded after the 1996 season. The new team only lasted four seasons before being suspended. After two years the franchise was awarded to...

Ames Department Stores Inc. was a chain of discount stores??founded in 1958??in Rocky Hill, Connecticut and at its peak operated 700 stores in 20 states. Despite some success in its later years, Ames was plagued by debt and a slow decline in sales and...

After the Cleveland Lumberjacks folded in 2001, along with the entire International Hockey League (IHL) in 2001, the city welcomed the third incarnation of the Barons. The new team was an American Hockey League (AHL) team relocated from Lexington where they were known as...

The Gladiators were Cleveland's second foray into the Arena Football League, after the Thunderbolts (1992-1994). The team began in New Jersey as the Red Dogs in 1997. They changed their name to Gladiators in 2001 and moved to Las Vegas in 2003. In 2007,...

The Lumberjacks moved to Cleveland in 1992 from Muskegon, MI as the Internationl Hockey League (IHL) sought to place teams in bigger markets. The Jacks, as they were also known, began play in 1960 as the Zephyrs, then became the Mohawks in 1965. From...