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Cleveland's first independent TV station was WKBF, Channel 61, which began broadcasting on January 19, 1968. Competition from Cleveland's second independent TV station, WUAB Channel 43, combined with a soft economy, set the stage for a merger of the two stations with the channel...

Long before serving in Congress from 1997 to 2013, Dennis Kucinich was mayor of Cleveland from January 1978 to November 1979. His brief but controversial tenure included a battle with one of the area's major utilities as well as the city declaring bankruptcy. He...

The Cleveland Nets were charter members of World Team Tennis in 1974. Their home court was the Richfield Coliseum.??In 1977, they split home matches between Cleveland and Pittsburgh (where the Triangles had just folded) before moving in 1978 to New Orleans where they became...

Following the demise of the Indianapolis Racers in 1978, the Indianapolis Checkers were formed, joining the CHL in 1979. In 1984, they moved to the IHL, moving to Denver after the 1987 season.

Hook's Drug Stores??was an Indianapolis, Indiana-based pharmacy chain founded in 1900 by John A. Hook. In 1994 it was acquired by Revco, who in turn were bought by CVS in 1997. It also ran SupeRX Drug Stores before selling those stores to Kroger in...

Youngstown native Bernie Kosar played for the Browns from 1985 to 1993 and remains one the teams most beloved stars. Beginning with his rookie season in 1985, he led the Browns to five straight play-off appearances including the AFC Conference Championship game in 1986,...

It was Willard Mullin, a noted sports cartoonist, who affectionately dubbed the Brooklyn Dodgers with the nickname "Dem Bums".

Officially known as the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel opened in 1950 and connects Red Hook in Brooklyn with Battery Park City in Manhattan.

The Louisville Bulls??were a semi-pro football team that played from 1988 to 2011. For their first two seasons they played as an independent team. In 1990 they joined the Hearts of Ohio Football League (HFL) leaving that circuit in 1992 to join the Mid...

Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th-most populous city in the U.S.

The Circle City nickname for Indianapolis comes from the original layout of the community by surveyor Alexander Ralson who designed the town around a traffic circle.

Rip City is one of several nicknames for Portland. It was coined in 1971 by Bill "The Schnoz" Schonely who was the play-by-play broadcaster for the city's NBA team, the Portland Trail Blazers in 1971. The term, in only its second season, was close...

The Portland Storm played in the World Football League (WFL) in 1974. Playing their home games at old Civic Stadium, the Storm finished with 7 wins, 12 losses, and 1 tie. The GM was former AFL great Ron Mix, and the head coach was...

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 Cleveland Rebels played in the Basketball Association of America,??forerunner of the NBA, for the 1946/47 season. The city would return to the NBA fold in 1970 with the formation of the Cavaliers.

Legend City opened in Phoenix in 1963. It was conceived as a Disneyland-style, old west theme park by local ad man Louis E. Crandall. Though it faced numerous financial challenges, it remained open until 1983.

The city's almost NFL team in 1995. Abandoned by the Colts in the middle of the night in 1984, Baltimore tried for years to either lure an existing team to town or get an expansion team. In 1993, the city came close to the...

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.

The Tea Men were established in New England in 1978 as an expansion team in the old North American Soccer League (NASL). Stadium issues forced the team to relocate to Northern Florida in 1980. In 1983, they left the for the American Soccer League,...

??Founded as the Washington Darts in 1967, this outdoor soccer team was a originally a member of the original American Soccer League. In 1969 they joined the North American Soccer League. In 1972 they moved to Miami and became the Gatos. The following year...

??The Boston Minutemen played in the original North American Soccer League from 1974 through 1976. After a season with out an outdoor soccer team, the region welcomed the Tea Men in 1978.??

Charter members of the World Hockey Association (WHA), the New York franchise began as the Raiders. Before the start of their second season, they became the Golden Blades. After only 20 games, they were taken over by the league and moved to Cherry Hill,...

???The Olympic Drive-In on St. Charles Rock Road in the County has been the target of frequent raids by police and of a newly formed decent films committee in an attempt to close the theatre for allegedly showing obscene films," said a newspaper report...

Vancouver was the the third stop for the charter member of the World Hockey Association (WHA), who began as the Miami Screaming Eagles. The team never played in South Florida and instead moved to Pennsylvania and became the Philadelphia Blazers before the WHA's inaugural...

Developed in 1986 by Konami, Double Dribble was one of the first video games to successfully resemble a physical sport. It debuted in arcades and was later offered in a home version for various gaming systems.

A downtown favorite, Fat Frank's, located in the U.S. Steel Building, served a big wiener on a nice bun. They served up their last dog in 2003.

You'll never get lost when you follow this map to delicious Camp Washington Chili!

Camp Washington Chili??has been serving up chili to Cincinnati natives 24 hours a day, 6 days a week for over 75 years!

The Pittsburgh Hardhats played in the??American Professional Slo-Pitch League (APSPL) from 1977 to 1980. The league sought to capitalize on the popularity??of softball as recreational??sport by turning it into a professional spectator sport. Several teams featured several Major League Baseball players??on their rosters.

It's considered the greatest bad movie of all time. Written and directed by the infamous Ed Wood in 1959, Plan 9 from Outer Space??focuses on an attempt by extraterrestrials to stop mankind from making a doomsday weapon capable of destroying the entire universe.