Arizona

Legend City Family Fun Park in Phoenix entertained a generation of visitors from 1963 to 1983.

The Phoenix Inferno joined the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) in 1980. In 1983 new ownership renamed them the Pride. They folded after that season.

KRIZ, now known as KOY, is the oldest radio station in Arizona. From 1950 through the 1970s, it was the biggest top-40 station in the state along with rival KRUX.

As the cold wind rolls off Lake Erie, Cleveland baseball fans' thoughts turn to Arizona and spring training.??

The Phoenix Giants were a AAA baseball team that played in The Pacific Coast League (PCL) in 1958 and 1959 and then from 1966 to 1997, when the National League Arizona Diamondbacks began play. They were the long-time farm team of the San Francisco...

The Islands was a Polynesian bar and restaurant in Phoenix that operated from 1958 through the '70s.??

Legend City opened in Phoenix in 1963. It was conceived as a Disneyland-style, old west theme park by local ad man Louis E. Crandall. Though it faced numerous financial challenges, it remained open until 1983.

Burger Chef was a fast-food hamburger chain that started in Indianapolis in 1958. At its peak in the mid 1970s, it was second only to McDonald's in the number of nationwide locations. The chain even made inroads into Canada. In 1982, the chain was sold...

Legend City opened in Phoenix in 1963. It was conceived as a Disneyland-style, old west theme park by local ad man Louis E. Crandall. Though it faced numerous financial challenges, it remained open until 1983.

The Phoenix Mustangs played in the West Coast Hockey League from 1997 to 2001. The Mustangs formed after the IHL Roadrunners folded following the 1996/1997 season.

Phoenix is the capital and most populous city in Arizona and fifth largest city in the United States. It was founded in 1867 by Jack Swilling whose friend Lord Darrell Duppa suggested the name.

From the late 1950s through the 1970s, KRUX was the biggest hit radio station in Phoenix along with rival KRIZ. Both stations saw their ratings dwindle as FM radio became more popular in the late '70s and early '80s.

The Arizona Hotshots played in the Alliance of American Football (AAF) which played only part of its inaugural in 2019, before folding up shop. The Hotshots moniker was dervied from the nickname for the area's firefighters.

The Arizona Sandsharks played in the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) from 1992 until 1997 when the league folded. Charter members of the CISL, they were the city's first indoor soccer team since the Phoenix Inferno of the Major Indoor Soccer League. The Sandsharks...

The Bell System was a network of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated telephone service in North America for over a century. It was formed in 1877 and broken up on anti-trust grounds in 1983. Colloquially, the system...