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It's one of the world's most famous ice cream bars.

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...

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.

A popular discount department store for generations, Woolworth was also famous for its in-store lunch counter.

"Hey Man, is that Freedom Rock?" "Yeah, Man." "Well, turn it up, Man!!!"

Ernst Home Centers was a chain of home improvement stores founded in 1893 in Seattle by brothers Charles and Fred Ernst. At its peak it boasted over 95 stores in nine states. It filed for bankruptcy in 1996 and was liquidated in 1997.

Who knows better than a skunk that smoking stinks?

This mug shot of Elvis is not, in fact, a mug shot. It was taken in Denver on November 17, 1970 for an honorary police badge that was being issued to the King. He had donated a sizeable sum of money?? to the police...

Remember kids, Electricity is your friend, but he can kill you. Even at Christmas!

Are you "reddy" for an electrifying Christmas?

Reddy is ready for Christmas! Are you....?

Midwest Airlines was founded as Midwest Express in 1983 in Milwaukee. In 2010, it was acquired by another airline.

A mall staple in the 1970s and 1980s, Chess King was founded in 1968 in Boston. At its peak it had over 500 stores. However, it was so closely identified with those two decades, soon into the 1990s it was no longer considered hip.

This was always one of the best deals in the record store, especially if you catching up on an artist's catalog.

Have a happy, happy, happy, Hanukkah!

The Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) was established in 1993. It's primary purpose was to fill indoor arena's with dates during the off-peak summer months, As such, most of the clubs were owned by groups that also owned NBA and NHL teams. The league...

The Bell System was a network of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated telephone service in North America for over a century. It was formed in 1877 and broken up on anti-trust grounds in 1983. Colloquially, the system...

You can't go to a fish fry without this shirt!

The first major professional league for inline hockey was the Roller Hockey International and it operated from 1993 to 1999.  OS15778

The Las Vegas Coyotes competed in the Roller Hockey International (RHI) league, originally as the Atlanta Fire Ants and then the Oklahoma Coyotes before moving to Las Vegas. OS15792