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It was the place to party on St. Patrick's Day back in the day.

Gray Drug was founded in 1912. In the 1960s it bought Cincinnati-based Rink's discount department store, later merging it with Cleveland's Bargain City. The drug store chain to over 100 stores by the 1970s. In 1987, Gray Drug was acquired by Rite Aid.

The Tiny Hut tiki bar was a restaurant located in Walnut Hills, California. It was in operation in the 1940s and 1950s.

The San Jose Clash joined the MLS in that league's inaugural 1996 season. After five years, the team changed it's name to Earthquakes after the city's popular original outdoor (and indoor) soccer team that played in the old NASL, the MISL, and the WSA...

The Chicago Cougars were members of the World Hockey Association from 1972 to 1975. They played their home games at the now demolished International Amphitheater on the South Side. Their mascot was a giant cartoon cougar called Clawford.

KXOK St. Louis went on the air on September 19, 1938 at 1250 on the AM dial. It moved to 630 two years later. One of the members of the air staff was Paul Aurandt, who would later become newscaster Paul Harvey. In its...

After the Central Hockey League (CHL) version of the Stingers folded 33 games into the 1979/80 season, Cincinnati was left without a pro hockey team for the first time since 1974, when the American Hockey League's Swords folded. The Tigers hit the ice in...

The Indiana Twisters were a professional indoor soccer team that played in the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) in 1996 and 1997. The team featured the first player owner in modern sports history when co-owner Rodney Goins suited up for the team. The franchise...

The New York Stars played in the World Football League (WFL) in 1974, opening their season against the Jacksonville Sharks. Unable to use Yankee Stadium or Shea Stadium, the Stars were forced to play their home games at Downing Stadium on tiny, hard to...

The original San Jose Earthquakes played in the old North American Soccer League?? (NASL)??beginning in 1974. In 1983 and 1984, they were known as the Golden Bay Earthquakes and played in the Major Indoor Soccer League??(MISL) while still fielding the outdoor team. They left...

Gooding's was a small supermarket chain in Central Florida. It was founded in 1964 in Maitland. The chain introduced several innovations and??is credited with introducing 24-hour shopping, in-store bakeries, and in-store delis to Central Florida. Its most famous location was in the Crossroads of...

The Dallas Desperados played in the Arena Football League from 2002 until 2008. The city previously had a team in the league from 1990 to 1993 called the Texans.

The Islands was a Polynesian bar and restaurant in Phoenix that operated from 1958 through the '70s.??

Robert and?? Peggy Judge opened Judges', Beyond the Reef in Brookfield, Wisconsin in 1964. The couple added an A-frame entrance to the original log cabin building and some full-sized plastic palm trees out front that could handle a midwestern winter and thus created a...

The Indianapolis Clowns a professional baseball team in the Negro American League. They came to Indianapolis in 1946 after stints in Cincinnati, Miami, and as a barnstorming team. They left the Negro American League in 1954 but continued to play exhibition games into the...

Circus World was a theme park in Haines City, FL that opened in 1974. Originally owned by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey, it was intended to be the winter home of that company's circus operations as well as the site of its training...

Beverly Park operated from 1945 to 1974 at the corner of Beverly Blvd. and La Cienega, the present home of the Beverly Center Mall. The Park was apparently inspired Walt Disney to create Disneyland.??

The Chicago Express played in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) for one season, 2011-12.?? Their home ice was the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates. For that one season, Chicago had three pro hockey teams, which is what led to the demise of the...

Established in the 1950's, Tic Tock eventually had four locations in the San Francisco area.

Before the Buccaneers, before the Lightning, Tampa Bay’s first pro sports champions weren’t on the gridiron or the ice—they were on the soccer pitch. In their inaugural season, the Tampa Bay Rowdies shocked the sports world by winning the 1975 NASL title, introducing Florida...