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The Ottawa Renegades were a Canadian Football League (CFL) expansion team established in 2002. The city's previous team, the Rough Riders, folded after the 1996 season. The new team only lasted four seasons before being suspended. After two years the franchise was awarded to...

The San Antonio Commanders were charter members of the short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF), a spring football league launched in 2019. It folded halfway through it's inaugural season.

The San Antonio Riders??were charter members of the NFL-run World League of American Football (WLAF) in 1991. After the 1992, the team and league suspended operations. The league was restarted as NFL Europe a few years later with no North American teams. The Riders,...

The Sacramento Mountain Lions were established as the California Redwoods in 2009, charter members of the United Football League (UFL). The Redwoods split home games between San Francisco and San Jose, before relocating to California's capital, and rebranding, in 2010. The team and league...

Green Bay's football team is the second-oldest pro club in America after the Cardinals. They hold the distinction having played the longest in one city than any other pro football team in the U.S. and are one the league's most storied franchises.

The Montreal Olympique played three seasons in the old North American Soccer League starting in 1971. Their home pitch was the Autostade. After three losing seasons, the team folded. In 1981, the city welcomed the Manic.??

Grand Rapids FC was a team that played from 2015 to 2021 in the fourth tier of US soccer. Community owned, the team averaged over 4,000 fans a game but could not overcome the challenges of operating under the COVIC pandemic.

The Hill neighborhood in St. Louis is bounded by Manchester Avenue (Route 100) on the north, Columbia and Southwest Avenues on the south, South Kingshighway Boulevard on the east, and Hampton Avenue on the west. It has a predominantly Italian American population and is...

Gimbel Brothers, better known as Gimbels, was an American department store chain from 1887 until 1987. Though it stared in Indiana it is widely known for creating the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia, the oldest such parade in the country.

The Chicago Bulls played in what is now referred to as the first American Football??League in 1926. They, and the league, lasted only one season despite football legend Red Grange being a partial owner of the Bulls as well as the league's New York...

Cleveland Stadium, commonly known as Municipal Stadium or Lakefront Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium located where the Browns current stadium now stands just off West 3rd Street. Opened in 1931, it was home primarily to MLB's Indians and the NFL's Browns, though it also...

Playland Amusement Park opened in 1930 on Bitter Lake. A popular entertainment spot into the 1950s, it featured a roller coaster, Shute the Shoots, and roller rink among other attractions. It closed in 1961, the land acquired to build a school.

Stewart's was a Baltimore department store chain that was founded in 1901. Its parent company, ADG, converted the chain's locations to sibling brand Caldor stores in 1978.

The Baltimore Tribe was a member of the short-lived American Lacrosse League, a professional lacrosse league in 1988, that was based in Catonsville, Maryland. The Tribe played their home games at the University of Maryland.

The Houston Outlaws were a part of the Regional Football League. The league played one season in the spring of 1999 before folding.??

The Lumberjacks moved to Cleveland in 1992 from Muskegon, MI as the Internationl Hockey League (IHL) sought to place teams in bigger markets. The Jacks, as they were also known, began play in 1960 as the Zephyrs, then became the Mohawks in 1965. From...

Galyan's Trading Company was a beloved American sporting goods chain founded in Plainfield, Indiana that featured rock climbing walls, golf simulators, and archery ranges.

Known for the Tee Pee that sat a top its buildings, this restaurant was an Indianapolis institution for nearly 50 years. All 3 locations of the Tee Pee restaurant closed in 1978.

The Boy Blue chain of soft-serve stands was a Milwaukee institution for many years, from the 1950's until the 1990's.

Secret Stadium Sauce is a condiment found only at Milwaukee Brewers baseball games in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and served on hot dogs and brats at Miller Park.

Rain City Video was a small chain of video rental shops that started in 1988. Its last location, in West Ballard, closed in April of 2017.

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The Guild 45th movie theater opened in 1919 as a Paramount Theatre for about seven years before the Downtown Paramount Theatre opened. A second screen was added to the Guild 45th in 1983, two doors down from the main theatre. In 2017, facing mounting...

The Red and Black Cafe??was a radical safer space??cafe??and worker-managed collective??in Portland from 2000 to 2015. It served an all-vegan??menu and hosted community-based events.

The Louisville Breckenridges, or Brecks for short, were members of the National Football League from 1921 to 1924.

The Front Row Theater opened in July of 1974 on Mayfield Road in Highland Heights, just off I-271. A theater in the round, it featured a rotating stage and seating for 3,200. It closed in 1993.

Rich's was a department store chain headquartered in Atlanta. It opened in 1867 and was absorbed by Federated Department Stores, operators of Macy's, in 2005. One of it's long-standing holiday traditions was the Pink Pig, child-sized monorail. introduced in??1956 as The Snowball Express, its...

The Philadelphia Fever were charter members of the original Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) in 1978. They played their home matches at the old Spectrum before moving to Los Angeles in 1982 to become the Lazers.

When it was completed in 1976 it was "the biggest mall, in all the world." It thrived for years but started to decline at the beginning of the 2000s, finally succumbing to other area shopping centers as well as Internet retailers. The mall was...