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The Vancouver Grizzlies first hit the court in 1995 and spent six seasons in Canada's Pacific Northwest before heading to Memphis, TN.

The??1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply??Expo 86, was a World's Fair held in Vancouver??from May 2 until October 13, 1986. The fair's theme was "Transportation and Communication: World in Motion ??? World in Touch." It coincided with Vancouver's centennial and was...

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...

The Atlanta Legends were charter members of the short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF), a league that launched in spring 2019. The Legends home field was Georgia State Stadium. The AAF folded halfway through its inaugural season.??

It was pretty much everyone's first web browser.??The company's first product was the web browser??Mosaic Netscape 0.9,??released on October 13, 1994. Within four months of its release, it had taken three-quarters of the browser market. It was further boosted when Vice President Al Gore...

Weingarten's was a supermarket chain based in Houston. While most of its locations were in the greater Houston area, it had locations in San Antonio, Austin, Shreveport, Louisiana, and Memphis, Tennessee. The parent company sold the grocery stores to concentrate on its commercial real...

Cicada are winged insects, known for the songs sung by most, but not all, males of the species. They are better known for their swarming behavior which occurs every 13 to 17 years, depending on thee brood, or generation. There are 23 broods in...

It was the spot where anything goes. Mako's was a bar and restaurant located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta and was known for its wild party atmosphere. It also had a location in downtown Orlando.

The Longhorn Ballroom opened in Dallas in 1950 and hosted everyone from the Sex Pistols to Merle Haggard.

It was an ill-fated marketing campaign for the city in the early '80s. While the notion was eventually accurate was, in the early '80s, it was a source of some ridicule both in and outside of Greater Cleveland.

In September of 1988, Pittsburgh's alternative music station WXXP, Double X, switched its format to adult contemporary. On April 15, 1989, WXVX 1510 A.M. in suburban Monroeville, which had been playing '50s and '60s oldies, flipped its format to modern rock under new program...

Richter's Wieners were a popular brand of hot dog in the 1930s and were available until after World War II.

The Cleveland Jaybirds were a men's professional softball team that played in the American Professional Softball League (APSL) starting in 1977. After two seasons, the team was sold to local ad man Ted Stepian, who renamed them the Cleveland Competitors. After one more season...

The San Antonio Rampage began as the the Tidewater Wings, members of the American Hockey League (AHL), in 1971. They changed their name in 1972 to the Virginia Wings. In 1979, they moved to Upstate New York and became the Adirondack Wings. In 2002,...

It took some convincing, but in 1935 the Cincinnati Reds convinced Major League Baseball to allow night baseball in order to draw more fans.??President??Franklin D. Roosevelt, sitting in the White House in Washington, D.C., threw the switch??that lit up Crosley Field on May 24,...

The Starwood Ampitheater was an outdoor music venue in Nashville. For a generation it was greater Nashville's outdoor concert hot spot. It opened June 20, 1986 with concert called??One for the Sun, featuring, among others, rock & roll legend Carl Perkins.??Blue Oyster Cult performed...

Do-Go-Round was a small chain of doughnut shops in the Eastern U.S., mostly in Pennsylvania and Maryland. In the 1950s, they ran an ad campaign using the famous comedy duo Laurel & Hardy. *Names and likenesses of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy used under...

The Dixie Drive-In Theatre opened in 1955 in Louisville's Shively neighborhood. Located at 4915 Dixie Hwy., it closed in 1967. The site was later a K-Mart and is currently a large grocery store.

Billed as an expansion team for the second season of the World Football League (WFL) in 1975, the Wings were actually the relocated Florida Blazers. Playing their home games at Alamo Stadium, they went out of business along with the rest of the WFL...

Fast Track Burgers To Go was a fast food chain that operated in the Greater Baton Rouge area from the late '80s until the mid '90s. Relive those juicy memories with this great T-shirt available our??our super-soft heather red tee or women's V-neck.

The San Jose Rhinos played in a league known as Roller Hockey International from 1993 to 1999, when the league ceased operations. The Rhinos won the league championship in 1995.

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.

From the Miracle at Richfield to today's team, the Force is strong in Believeland.

Electric Park was the name used for two amusement parks in Kansas City. The first opened in 1899 while the second, larger version began welcoming visitors in 1907 and lasted until 1925 when it was destroyed by a late night fire. Young Walt Disney...

In the '80s and '90s, the Animal House was the place in St. Louis for young people to dance and see live music. It was originally located on Chambers Road, later moving to Lewis and Clark Boulevard, and finally to North Hanley.

Fontaine Ferry Park opened in 1905 at the end of West Market Street in Louisville. It closed in 1969 after a riot on opening day left the park heavily damaged. It re-opened in 1972 as Ghost Town on The River. A year later the...

The Rike-Kumler was established in Dayton in 1853. David L. Rike and his associates started their venture near Third Street and Main downtown.??The business started when the firm of Prugh, Joyce & Rike was formed. This organization continued for a short time until the...

The Nebraska Wranglers were a one-year wonder in the Women’s Professional Basketball League, joining in the league's third and final season in the winter of 1980-81. The expansion club would go on to win the league championship in April 1981.  OS16283

The San Jose Lasers were a member of the women's American Basketball League, playing their home games at either the San Jose State Event Center or the San Jose Arena. The team folded along with the rest of the league during the third ABL season in 1998. OS16281

Much like Jungle Jim's down the road in Fairfield, Ohio, Woody's started as a roadside fruit and vegetable stand. Woodrow “Woody” Bowman started it all in 1944 on a half acre of land on the old Dixie Highway. Woody’s Market closed in 1999, and Bowman died...