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The first American Basketball Association (ABA) Slam Dunk contest was held during halftime of the 1976 All-Star game in Denver.?? It was won by Julius Erving.

What could be more convenient? Drive up to the little booth, drop off your film, come back the next day and see your pictures. Mail them to friends and family! Established in the early 1960s in Southern California, Fotomat grew to over 4,000 locations...

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...

Introduced in 1982, the Commodore 64 is the single best selling computer model of all time. Along with the Apple II, it helped usher in the era of home computing for millions.

Sam's Sea Food and Hawaiian Village opened on the??Pacific Coast Highway in the Sunset Beach area of Los Angeles in 1923. It was started as a bait and tackle shop in nearby Seal Beach, it morphed into a tiki bar and moved up the...

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...

In 1976, America's largest fast food chain introduced the character of Phil A. O'Fish to help sell their fish sandwiches. In recent years it has become the opposite of an urban legend with many asserting Phil A. O'Fish never existed. He did, but he...

Have a Grade A day, with a Grade A egg!

While it sounds like a feel good, positive mental health message, the "I'm Thumbody" campaign was, in fact, created for a financial services firm. It was introduced in 1971 and used to market various bank and credit unions across the U.S.

Put it on a T-shirt instead!

Somethings never change.

Howdy says, "have good outdoor manners." He first appeared in 1959 in public service advertisements in Pennsylvania. His primary mission was to encourage folks not to litter, prevent forest fires, and otherwise treat the land well.

It's a classic Valentine's Day image.

Perfume was one of the first consumer products to be marketed to the masses.

It's a classic Valentine's Day image.

It's classic Valentine's Day image.

There was no dad quite like Danny Tanner.?? *A portion of proceeds benefits the Scleroderma Research Foundation.??

Go retro with this mid-century leprechaun.

Belly up to Bob's Juice Bar!

Woodsy Owl first appeared in 1971 and asked Americans to take better care of the environment by disposing of trash properly.??An updated version of Woodsy was developed in the 1990s.

Woodsy Owl first appeared in 1971 and asked Americans to take better care of the environment by disposing of trash properly. An updated version of Woodsy was developed in the 1990s.

Woodsy Owl first appeared in 1971 and asked Americans to take better care of the environment by disposing of trash properly. An??updated version??of Woodsy was developed in the 1990s.

California was admitted to the union on September 9, 1850. Settled over 13,000 by some of the continents first inhabitants, it??one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian America. Today, it's still rich in culture and natural wonders.??

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...

The Long Beach Ice Dogs were established in 1990 as the San Diego Gulls in the International Hockey League. The team moved up the 5 in 1995 and became the Los Angeles Ice Dogs. After one season in the old Los Angeles Memorial Sports...

Hot Sam Pretzels was a fast food??franchise that first opened in Detroit's Livonia Mall in 1966. With franchised locations also found mostly in shopping malls, it was bought by Mrs. Fields, off of cookies, in 1995 and merged with Pretzel Time. Hot Sam is...

Vampira was a horror movie host in the 1950s in Los Angeles. Played by actress Maila Nurmi, Vampira appeared on KABC from April 1954 to April 1955. She later appeared in the infamous Ed Wood sci-fi/horror film??Plan 9 From Outer Space.??

Founded in 1972, the Los Angeles Sharks were charter members of the World Hockey Association (WHA). The team was originally going to be called the Aces, but when the San Francisco Sharks were transferred to Quebec to become the Nordiques before the start of...

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.