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It's the Toy Tiger Christmas Party of '92! Toy Tiger was a famous night spot in Louisville that hosted rock concerts as well as wet T-shirt contests, banana eating competitions, and other such spectacles.??READ MORE

Introduced two years after rival Sony put the Betamax video recording system on the market in 1975, VHS became the accepted format for consumers by the mid-1980s.

Captain Penny entertained children weekdays at noon on Channel 5 in Cleveland from 1955 to 1971, showing cartoons and talking to the occasional in-studio guest. Around the holidays, Mr. Jingeling would stop by frequently. Captain Penny was portrayed by Ron Penfound who originally had...

The Indianapolis Ice played in the IHL from 1988 to 1999 before joining the CHL in 1999. In 2004, the team moved to Topeaka, KS. The Ice were established after the Indianapolis Checkers, also of the IHL, moved to Denver following the 1988 season....

Daddy's Junky Music store was the premier destination for Boston-area musicians. Staffed by musicians, the store served the scene from 1972 to 2011.

The original El Paso Diablos were established in 1892 as the Browns. They were later known as the Mavericks, Texans, and Sun Kings. In 1974, they became the Diablos. The team moved to Springfield, MO in 2005 but were replaced by a new Diablos...

The Providence Steam Rollers played in the NFL from 1925 to 1931. In 1928, they became the first football team from New England to win a league title. They remain the last defunct team to win an NFL championship.

Encouraged by the initial success of his American Basketball Association (ABA), which challenged the National Basketball Association (NBA), Gary Davidson and his cohorts turned their attention to hockey. On November 1, 1971, Davidson announced the formation of the World Hockey Association (WHA) to challenge...

The Stars were a Negro league baseball team that called Detroit home from 1919 to 1931. Starting as an independent team, they played in the Negro National League from 1920 to 1931. CHECK OUT OUR ENTIRE NEGRO LEAGUES COLLECTION, AS WELL AS MORE SHIRTS...

Based in Knoxville,??Smoky Mountain Wrestling??was a??pro wrestling outfit that held events in Eastern Tennessee, as well as surrounding states, from October 1991 to December 1995. It was based in Knoxville.??

The??Birmingham Black Barons??played??Negro League Baseball from 1920 to 1960. They alternated home stands with the??Birmingham Barons??in Birmingham's??Rickwood Field, usually drawing larger crowds and equal press. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The Chicago Fire were charter members of the World Football League in 1974. The team started off well, posting a 7-2 record in the first half of the season and drawing an average of 34,000 fans to Soldier Field. However, after a 10-game losing...

The Salt Palace was an arena in Salt Lake City, Utah that was home to the Utah Stars of the??American Basketball Association (ABA)?? after the team moved to town from Los Angeles. While in Utah. The Stars won the 1971 ABA Championship. The Stars...

The Pittsburgh Rebels played in the??Federal League??from 1914 to 1915. It was a??short-lived rival to the the American and National Leagues. They originated from the Pittsburgh Stogies, who played in the FL in 1913 when it was a minor league. Their homefield was Exposition...

At least it looked that way in the late '70s, as the North American Soccer League (NASL) grew in popularity in North America. Kids all over the continent were playing in youth leagues, while the NASL grew to 24 teams in 1978, a number...

Opened in 1988, The Palace of Auburn Hills was a multi-purpose arena that hosted concerts and other events and was home to several sports teams including the basketball's Detroit Pistons and hockey's Detroit Vipers. The Pistons left in 2017 and though the building was...

Federal Records was founded in 1950 as a subsidiary of??King Records. It was home to, among others, the Dominoes and Johnny "Guitar" Watson. The most famous act on its roster, though, was the "Godfather of Soul" himself, James Brown.

Look! It's Billy, the Sho Nuff Cherry Ice Cream Soda delivery boy!

The Federal League was established in 1913 as a third major league in competition with the American and National Leagues. It played for three seasons. Teams included the Baltimore Terrapins, Brooklyn Tip-Tops, Chicago Whales, Indianapolis Hoosiers, Kansas City Packers, Buffalo Blues, Cleveland Green Sox,...

Frederick & Nelson??was a department store??chain based in Seattle. Founded in 1891 as a furniture store, it soon expanded into selling general merchandise. At its peak in the 1980s, it boasted 10 locations in Washington State and Oregon but closed in 1992.

Pup 'n' Taco was a popular fast food chain in Los Angeles. It served featured hot dogs (thus the "pup" tacos, tostadas, pastrami sandwiches, burgers, and fries. Russell Wendell started in the restaurant business in 1956 with Big Donut. He introduced Pup 'n' Taco in 1965. In 1984, most of...

Max's Kansas City, located at 213 Park Avenue in Lower Manhattan, was one of the most famous rock clubs in America. It was established in 1965 Mickey Ruskin, a Cornell Law School graduate who went on to become a successful restauranteur. As for Max's,...

If you didn't have MTV in the early to mid '80s, or even if you did, you were parked in front of the TV to watch??Friday Night Videos??on NBC after??The Tonight Show.

The Las Vegas Posse played one season (1994) in the Canadian Football League before packing their bags and heading to South Florida. Renamed the Miami Manatees, they were set to return for the 1996 campaign. However, they never played a down in the Sunshine...

The Havana Sugar Kings were a AAA minor league baseball team based in Cuba's capital from 1946 to 1960. They were members of the International League and their parent club was Cincinnati. Their home field was??El Gran Estadio del Cerro??(also known as Gran Stadium) in Havana....

Live Aid was a benefit concert held in London and Philadelphia on July 13, 1985. The event grew out of the Band Aid single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" released in late 1984. That song featured many of the UK's top pop stars and...

The Dayton Dynamo was an indoor soccer team established in 1987 as an expansion team in the American Indoor Soccer Association (AISA). In 1990, they joined the higher tiered??National Professional Soccer League (NPSL). In 1995, the moved south to become the Cincinnati Silverbacks.??

The Chargers were charter members of the American Football League in 1960. They originally called Los Angeles home, but moved to San Diego after one season where they remained until 2016, when they moved back north to L.A.

Dick the Bruiser was a legendary professional wrestler from Indiana. He was born William Fritz Afflis in Delphi, Indiana and grew up in Lafayette. Before becoming a wrestler in 1955, he was lineman for the Green Bay Packers for 4 seasons beginning in 1951.

In the 1920s, three Swedish immigrants and brothers, Hans and Gunnar Lenell and their friend Aagard Billing, launched Lenell's, a Swedish bakery offering cakes, breads and cookies. The bakery was later renamed Lenell's Cookies, and later Maurice Lenell's Cooky Company, it remained family-run through...