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DuMont Television
The DuMont Television Network began broadcasting on June 28, 1942, the nation's third TV network behind NBC and CBS. Regular network service began on August 15, 1946. It was started by DuMont Laboratories, a maker of TVs. Financial strains and fierce competition from NBC,... -
Discover Greatness Negro Leagues EST 1920
The Negro leagues were professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the... -
Wellbee Polio Vaccine Mascot
In the early 1950s, between 20,000-60,000 people a year were becoming afflicted with polio. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh developed a polio vaccine in 1952. By 1955 a campaign to vaccinate children in the U.S. was launched. ALbert Sabin... -
Laika First Dog in Space
Laika was the first living creature to orbit the Earth. A stray dog from the streets of Moscow, she made her historic flight on November 3, 1957 aboard Sputnik 2. Unfortunately she did not survive the mission. In 2008, a monument was erected to... -
Gray Drug Stores
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. -
Chico's Bail Bonds
Chico's Bail Bonds lets freedom ring! They also sponsor a winning little league team. -
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin was a??Soviet Air Forces??pilot and??cosmonaut??who became the first human to journey into??outer space. Aboard his space capsule Vostok 1, he achieved this Space Race milestone on April 12, 1961.???? -
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970. It was supposed to be the third mission to land men on the moon. However, two days into the mission, an oxygen module in the command module failed, cancelling the moon landing... -
Fresh Up Freddie
Before Spot, there was Fresh Freddie who first introduced kids to 7-Up back in the 1950's. -
Friday Night Videos
If you didn't have MTV in the early to mid '80s, or even if you did, you were parked in front of the TV to watch??Friday Night Videos??on NBC after??The Tonight Show. -
It's a Dilly
It's one of the world's most famous ice cream bars. -
Soccer Bowl '83
Soccer Bowl '83 was the penultimate championship game played by the original North American Soccer League (NASL). The NASL was??formed in 1967 when the competing United Soccer Association and the National Professional Soccer League decided to join forces. For the next 12 seasons, it... -
Burger Chef and Jeff
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. In the late '70s, animated spokespersons Burger Chef and Jeff were introduced.... -
Freedom Rock!
"Hey Man, is that Freedom Rock?" "Yeah, Man." "Well, turn it up, Man!!!" -
Cosmonaut Astronaut
Spacefarers from the U.S. were dubbed Astronauts. Those from the former Soviet Union (now Russia), became known as Cosmonauts. The root "naut" derives from "nautes", Greek for "sailor."?? -
In The Name of Peace
With the heated Space Race cooling off in the mid-70s, a new era of cooperation between the US and the USSR was ushered in. This was first demonstrated with the Apollo-Soyuz mission of 1975 in which spacecraft from each nation linked up in Earth... -
Kelly Leak Baseball Card
Former neighborhood troublemaker, and some time loan shark, Kelly Leak became a star outfielder for the Bears. -
MicroMagic French Fries
Crispy golden fries in two minutes was the promise made by MicroMagic, a line of frozen foods that appeared in the late '80s. "Give 'em MicroMagic now," went the jingle. -
Smoking Stinks
Who knows better than a skunk that smoking stinks? -
ShowBiz Pizza Characters
ShowBiz Pizza Place was a pizza restaurant and video game arcade chain??in the '80s and early '90s. It was founded by Robert L. Brock, a Holiday Inn franchisee, who had ended his partnership with the owners of Chuck E. Cheese. In addition to pizza, ShowBiz featured...

