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Held on July 12, 1979, Disco Demolition Night was a between-games promotion held during doubleheader featuring the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers at Comiskey Park. Radio station WLUP, The Loop, promoted the invent that involved a crate filled with disco records being blown...

After spending one season in Minnesota, the Muskies of the American Basketball Association moved south to become the Miami Floridians for the 1968-69 season. They were known simply as the Floridians for their final two seasons starting in 1970.

The Carolina Cougars began as the Houston Mavericks, charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. The club relocated to North Carolina in 1969, splitting home games between Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greensboro. The latter is where they played most of their games...

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 home...

The Portsmouth Spartans were established in 1928 and played in pro football's national league starting in 1930. In 1934, the team was bought and relocated to Detroit, where they became the Lions.

Candlestick opened in 1960 was home to the baseball's Giants until 1995. The 49ers moved in at the start of the 1971 football season and stayed until 2013. Oakland's former pro football team played there for their first two seasons.

J & R Music World was a music retailer and electronics store founded in 1970 in New York City. It had two locations, one on Park Row in Lower Manhattan and one on the campus of Columbia University. The company closed its main store...

Soon after opening "the biggest mall in all the world," Randall Park Mall in suburban Cleveland, developer Edward J. DeBartolo set his sites on Pittsburgh. With the paint barely dry on Randall Park, plans were drawn up for Century III Mall located in the...

The Tennessee Rats were a black baseball team formed in 1910 in Holden, MO by W.A. Brown. Primarily a barnstorming team, they played until 1926. They mostly toured Missouri and surrounding states. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Baltimore joined the Eastern Hockey League in 1979 as the Clippers. The team moved to the Atlantic Coast Hockey League in 1981 and changed their name to the Skipjacks. In 1982, they moved up to the American Hockey League. In 1993, they moved to...

The Pittsburgh Triangles were a charter franchise in World Team Tennis formed in 1973. The Triangles won the 1975 WTT championship but folded after the 1976 season. Their home court as the Civic Arena. In 1977, the Cleveland Nets split their home games between...

The Pittsburgh Shamrocks played in the old International Hockey League for the 1935/36 season. After losing $40,000 in their lone season, the team folded. In the fall of 1936, the Detroit Olympics moved to Pittsburgh to become the Hornets.

Chippewa Lake Park was an amusement park in Medina County near the junction of US 224 and I-71. Named for the lake by which it was built, the park was open from 1875 to 1978. Many of the old rides still sit abandoned at...

Sick's Stadium, also known as Sick's Seattle Stadium and later as Sicks' Stadium, was a baseball stadium in Seattle, Washington. It was the longtime home of the Seattle Rainiers??of the Pacific Coast League and it hosted the Seattle Pilots??during their only major league season...

Hot Sam Pretzels was a fast food??franchise that first opened in Detroit's Livonia Mall in 1966. With franchised locations also found mostly in shopping malls, it was bought by Mrs. Fields, off of cookies, in 1995 and merged with Pretzel Time. Hot Sam is...

A Boston basketball legend.

Dog & Duck opened on West 17th Street near the UT campus in 1990. It was known for its expansive beer list, which included several Texas brands as well as its British pub. It relocated to East Austin in 2014 and closed in 2017.

The original Dayton Gems played in the International Hockey League from 1964 to 1977 and 1979 to 1980, winning 3 Turner Cup championships. A second Dayton Gems team played in the IHL in 2009/2010 and the Central Hockey League (CHL) from 2010 to 2012.

Camelot was a chain of mall-based record stores founded in 1956 in Massillon, Ohio. At its peak, it operated over 450 stores in 37 states. In 1998 it was acquired by rival Trans World operators of Record Town among other chains. Most surviving locations...

Generations of Greater Clevelanders remember Mr. Jingeling as the keeper of the keys at Halle's Department store and later Higbee's. *Shirt is officially licensed by Mr. Jingeling,??Mr. Kringle Licensing Group, LLC.

The Ft. Worth Texans hockey team was established in 1967 as the Wings, a farm team of Detroit's top-level team. They played in the Central Hockey League (CHL) at the Will Rogers Coliseum. In 1974, they became the Texans. They defeated their arch rivals...

The original Bills football team was established in 1946 in Buffalo 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...

The first three pro football teams to call Dallas home played in the Cotton Bowl, starting with the 1952 Dallas Texans. The city's surviving gridiron squad, the Cowboys, moved into Texas Stadium in 1971. The facility's most unique feature is the hole in the...

The??New York Gothams were established in 1883 in the NL. They replaced the??Troy Trojans. The Gothams played their home games at the original Polo Grounds. In 1885 they became the Giants.

They'll have to charge you for double, but with the discount it'll even out! The semi-fictitious Braidwood Inn in Wichita (now called the Sun Motel) is actually off Interstate 55 in Braidwood, IL, southwest of Chicago.

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...

In the 1980s, it was the battle cry of the British Phonograph Industry (BPI), later championed by similar organizations around the world. Little did they know that a much scarier beast was lurking on the horizon.

The Diplomats joined the old North American Soccer League (NASL) in 1974 as an expansion team. Though successful on the field and at the gate, the team was never profitable. In 1980, the original team folded. That same year, the Detroit Express moved to...

A drugstore chain founded in New Orleans in 1904, K & B Drugs lasted nearly 100 years until being purchased by Rite Aid in 1997.

Chesty Potato Chips were created by Chesty Foods in??Terre Haute, Indiana. They were available throughout the Midwest. Unable to compete with the giant national brands, the company ceased operations in the mid-'80s. Relive the crunch with this cotton/poly blended tee.