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GrandPa Pidgeon's, also known as simply GrandPa's, was founded in 1954 by Tom and Mildred Pidgeon.??Over the next decade, several more GrandPa Pidgeon's stores opened in the St. Louis metropolitan area. At its peak in the early 1990s, the chain had a total of...

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??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.

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...

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,...

The Indianapolis ABCs were a Negro League baseball team that played both as an independent club and as a charter member of the first Negro National League from 1913 to 1926.

The??Jacksonville Red Caps??were a??Negro league baseball??team based primarily in??Jacksonville, Florida. They played the??Negro American League from 1938 until 1942. ?? *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The Chicago Fire were a charter member 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...

Jungle Jim's was an iconic Central Florida restaurant with locations in downtown Orlando in the Church Street Station, on 535 near I-4, and Merritt Island on the Space Coast. It opened in the late 1980s and closed in the early 2000s. The restaurant was...

Noah's Ark was a restaurant on the banks of the Missouri River in St. Charles, Missouri.??Opening in the late ???60s, this restaurant became a hot spot almost overnight. Most patrons have fond memories of their famous clam chowder.

Minnesota had a team in the inaugural season of the American Basketball Association?? in 1967, called the Muskies. After one season in the Twin Cities, they moved to Miami to become the Floridians. A few months later, the league champion Pittsburgh Pipers moved to...

Burger Chef was a fast-food hamburger chain that started in Indianapolis in 1958. At its peak in the mid 1970s, it was second only to McDonald's in the number of nationwide locations. The chain even made inroads into Canada. In 1982, the chain was...

Not to be confused with comic actor with the same name, Pat McCormick was a T.V. personality in San Francisco best known for hosting the Charley and Humphrey kids show. The program started in Fresno in 1959 and moved with McCormick to?? KGO-TV in...

Organized by legendary dis jockey Alan Freed and local record store owner Leo Mintz, the Moondog Coronation Ball was a concert held at the old Cleveland Arena on March 21, 1952. It is generally considered to be the first major rock & roll concert.

Arlington Stadium??was the first home of baseball's Rangers after the moved from Washington, D.C. in 1972. In 1993, the team moved into the Ballpark in Arlington.

The Tampa Bay Mutiny were charter members of MLS and took the field for the league's inaugural season in 1996. The team was owned by the league and at first was quiet successful both on the pitch and at the gate. However, onerous lease...

Florida's A1A highway runs from Fernandina Beach at the state's northern tip, all the way down the Atlantic Coast to Key West. The road was designated SR 1 in 1945 when many of Florida's state highways were renumbered. A year later, to avoid confusion...

The Chicago International Amphitheater opened in 1934. It was the home of the Chicago Gears of the National Basketball League from 1944 to 1948, as well as the Chicago Packers of the NBA from 1961 to 1962. The Chicago Cougars??of the World Hockey Association??played...

The Washington Caps were an American Basketball Association??team based in the nation's capital, thus the nickname. Founded as the Oakland Oaks in 1967, the team moved to Washington in 1970. They moved across the Potomac the following year to become the Virginia Squires.

A Des Moines institution for over 50 years, Wimpy's first opened its doors in 1931. After serving generations of Iowans, it closed in 1980.