Early Americana

On January 10, 1947, the first commercial flight landed at what was then called the Greater Cincinnati Airport in the Boone County, Kentucky hamlet of Hebron. Officials in Cincinnati saw this as a temporary situation and continued their ultimately unsuccessful efforts to bring the...

The??Sabios de Vargas??baseball club became a founding member of the??Venezuelan Professional Baseball League??in its inaugural season of??1946. The team represented the city of??La Guaira, Vargas??and played its home games at the now-extinct Estadio Cerveza Caracas. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball...

Pro football in Miami dates back to 1946 and the Miami Seahawks who were charter members of the All-America Football Conference. They only lasted one season. Miami's then small population, combined with underfunded ownership doomed the team's stay in South Florida. In 1947 they moved...

Pro football in Miami dates back to 1946 and the Miami Seahawks who were charter members of the All-America Football Conference. They only lasted one season. Miami's then small population, combined with underfunded ownership doomed the team's stay in South Florida. In 1947 they moved...

The original Bills football team was established in 1946 as the Bisons in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). In 1947, after a name-the-team contest, the new name was selected. In 1949, the NFL absorbed several AAFC teams but, oddly, the Bills were not one...

If you grew up in the Cleveland area, you remember Lockie-Lee Dairy. Founded in 1946 it was an integral part of school & family life for generations.

The All-America Football Conference, or AAFC, was founded in 1945 by Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward in 1944 to challenge the established National Football League. Ward's new circuit debuted in 1946 with eight teams and played for three seasons before the NFL absorbed...

Established in 1931, the St. Louis Gunners were an independent football team that played the final three games of the 1934 NFL season after the collapse of the Cincinnati Reds football club. They beat Pittsburgh in their first league meeting but lost to Detroit...

Pizza Haven was founded in Seattle in 1958. It??was one of the first pizza places to make deliveries. Restaurant employees used radio phones to relay orders to roving drivers who carried stacks of pizzas in a warming oven in the back of their vehicles....

Located four miles south of Myrtle Beach on Old Highway 17. Magic Harbor was established in the early 1954 as a Pirate Land. In the 1960s it was re-themed as a Wild West amusement park. It was later bought by the company that owned...

Before the Cincinnati??Swords,??Stingers, Cyclones, and??Mighty Ducks, Cincinnati had the Mohawks. They were a member of the American Hockey League (AHL) from 1949 to 1952, before moving to the International Hockey League (IHL), where they won 5 straight championships. Their home ice was the??Cincinnati Gardens.

The Indianapolis Capitals played in the American Hockey League from 1939 to 1952. They won the league championship, the Calder Cup, in 1942 and 1950.

The Elite Giants were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1920 to 1950, both independently and as part of several different leagues. The team called several cities home over the years, including Baltimore, Cleveland, Columbus, and Washington. The played in Nashville from...

Kenny King's was a sit-down, fast-casual family restaurant chain that operated in Northeast Ohio from the 1950s until the mid 1990s. It was best known as a franchisee of Kentucky Fried Chicken as well as for offering its own Big King steakburger.

These flame resistant masks were a staple for every kid's Halloween costume from the 1950's through the 1980's. Did you have one?

The Grande Ballroom opened in 1929 and was at first a venue for jazz and big band music. It later gained fame as a rock & roll club featuring national acts as well as home-grown legends such as The Stooges and MC5. The venue's...

The Grande Ballroom opened in 1929 and was at first a venue for jazz and big band music. It later gained fame as a rock & roll club featuring national acts as well as home-grown legends such as The Stooges and MC5. The venue's...

In 1920, the Dayton Triangles were founding members of the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The team played in the very first game between two league teams when they met the Columbus Panhandles on October 3, 1920 in Dayton's Triangle Park. They played their...

240 Latinos participated in the Negro Leagues during the league's history. The Negro Leagues in the US welcomed all Latinos, regardless of color, during the era when a color line ruled in MLB. Even before a formal Negro League was established in 1920, Cuban...

Waxie Maxie's was a chain of record stores in the DC area founded in 1938 by Max Silverman. At its peak in the 90s, it had nearly 40 stores. The end came at the turn of the century as the end of the CD...

Royal Castle Hamburgers??was founded in 1938 by William Singer in Miami. The chain grew to over 175 locations in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio, and Michigan.??

This shirt features the main logo of the Cleveland Barons, who played in the American Hockey League and called the city home from 1937 until 1973.

Christian's Hut was a tiki bar located in Newport Beach, California. It opened in 1935 and closed in 1963.

The Calgary Tigers, often nicknamed the Bengals, were an ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada from 1920 until 1927 as members of the Big-4 League, Western Canada Hockey League and Prairie Hockey League. The Tigers were revived in 1932, playing for a short-lived four years in the North Western Hockey League and...

The Negro National League (NNL) was established in 1920 and was one of several Negro circuits established during the period in the United States in which organized baseball was segregated. It dissolved in 1931. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum...

The??Negro National League??(NNL) was established in 1920 and was one of several Negro circuits established during the period in the United States in which organized baseball was segregated. It dissolved in 1931. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum ??

Known as "The Wonderland of the Pacific Northwest" Lotus Isle amusement park opened in the summer of 1930 on Hayden Island. After a roller coaster accident and the suicide of the park's owner, it closed in 1932.

The Cincinnati Gardens opened in 1949 and was the home arena for multiple hockey, soccer, basketball, football and roller derby teams. The Gardens was also a top venue for wrestling, boxing, monster truck jams, motorcycle racing, and concerts.

Honest Ed's was a landmark discount store in Toronto that was named for its proprietor, Ed Mirvish. The store opened in 1948 and continued to operate until it permanently closed on December 31, 2016. OS16097

Forest City Beer and Ale brewed beers at their plant on the corner of Union Avenue and E. 69th Street from 1904 until 1948. The brewery was known for producing??a whole slew of pre and post prohibition brews including Select Pilsner Beer, Waldorf, and...