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Before major league hockey arrived in Columbus, the city had many minor league teams. None were more popular than the Columbus Chill. In 1991, the team debuted as an expansion franchise in the East Coast Hockey League (now just the ECHL, thank you). Their...

Before major league hockey arrived in Columbus, the city had many minor league teams. None were more popular than the Columbus Chill. In 1991, the team debuted as an expansion franchise in the East Coast Hockey League (now just the ECHL, thank you). Their...

Before major league hockey arrived in Columbus, the city had many minor league teams. None were more popular than the Columbus Chill. In 1991, the team debuted as an expansion franchise in the East Coast Hockey League (now just the ECHL, thank you). Their...

The Columbus Metros were members of the minor league Midwest Football League from 1978 to 1980.

Shortly after cable TV began to expand across the U.S., Warner Communications (later Warner-AMEX), one of the biggest cable providers, introduced QUBE in Columbus, Ohio in 1977.??QUBE??was an experimental, two-way, multi-programmed??system that played a significant role in the development of American??interactive television. It was...

Sisters Chicken & Biscuits was a fast food chain started by Wendy's in the late 70s. In the '80s, it was sold to its largest franchiser but went under shortly after. OS15155

The Columbus Magic played in the old American Soccer league in 1979 and 1980. Their home pitch was Franklin County Stadium which was also used by the Clippers at that time.

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...

Opened in 1972, The Continent was a forerunner of today's lifestyle shopping centers such as Easton Center. Designed to mimic a French village or neighborhood, the complex mixed shopping, dining, and entertainment. The centerpiece was the French Market. By the early '90s, a few...

Night Owl Theatre was a horror movie TV show that ran for 17 years starting in 1974.

The Columbus Red Birds began play in 1902 as the Senators in the AA American Association. In 1931, the team was purchased by, and became a farm team of, the St. Louis Cardinals, changing their nickname to Red Birds. In 1946, the Red Birds...

After the departure of the Red Birds for Omaha in 1955, Columbus welcomed the former Ottawa A's to town. Renamed the Jets, they played in the city through 1970 in the International League. In 1971 they moved to West Virginia and became the Charleston...

The Columbus Bullies football team was established in 1939. They played in the American Professional Football League a semi-pro circuit bases in the Midwest. In 1940, the joined the third iteration of the American Football League.

The Columbus Panhandles football club was established in 1901. In 1904, they joined the Ohio League, before becoming charter members of the American Professional Football Association (later called the National Football League) in 1920. They changed their name to the Tigers in 1922 and...

Buzzard???s Nest Records was a Columbus-based record store chain that operated from 1972 to 1992. At its peak, it had a dozen locations in and around Columbus as well as three in Florida. There was talk of reviving the chain in 1995 but the...

Big Bear was a supermarket chain that operated in Central Ohio and West Virginia. Not to be confused with the chain of the same name in San Diego. The first Big Bear opened in 1933 on West Lane Avenue in Columbus near the campus...

Family Video was in founded in 1978 in Springfield, Illinois as the Video Movie Club. The idea came about when??Midstates Appliance and Supply Company, owned by Charles Hoogland, found itself stuck with an excess of video movies as a result of being a distributor...

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...

Westaland Mall opened in 1969 as an open-air, plaza-style shopping center, much like the Northland Mall five years earlier. Lazuras had a free-standing store on the site beginning in 1962 and became one of the mall's anchors. In the 70s, the mall was the...

Founded in 1967 in Columbus, Gold Circle??was a discount department store chain??that grew to 76 locations in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Western New York State. The chain was dissolved in 1988.