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Did you survive the Blizzard of '78? Known throughout the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region as the Great Blizzard of 1978 and the White Hurricane, the storm blasted the area from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. The cities of Milwaukee,...

The original American Basketball Association (ABA) was founded in 1967 as a challenger to the established NBA. After fierce competition between the two for fans and players, 4 ABA teams were absorbed by the NBA in 1976. The Kentucky Colonels, the league's most successful...

The Louisville Fire were members of af2 the second tier of arena football and played from 2001 to 2008. Their home field was Brown-Forman Field in Freedom Hall.??Their owner was former??Pro Bowl??lineman and Louisville native??Will Wolford, who played for Buffalo, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh in...

The Phoenix Hill Tavern opened in 1976 and quickly became one of the most popular and successful nightclubs in the city, along with sibling property Jim Porter's Good Time Emporium. The Tavern hosted a variety of nationally touring musical acts from Meat Loaf to...

Bashford Manor Mall opened in 1973 and was named for the surrounding neighborhood of Bashford Manor. At its peak it had 85 stores. The mall closed in 2003 and the site is now occupied by a Lowe's and a Walmart.

The??Louisville Black Caps??were a professional baseball??team in the??Negro Southern League??in 1932, that circuit's only year of existence. Only five months into the season, the team relocated and to Columbus, Oho and became the Turfs??for the remaining month and a half of the season before...

WLRS took to the airwaves in 1964 under the auspices of the Louisville Radio School, thus the call letters. It was one of the few stand-alone FM stations in Kentucky, meaning it did not have an AM sibling station. By 1978, it had developed...

The Kentucky Bourbons were a men's softball team that played in several professional leagues from 1977 to 1982 at Bishop David Stadium. The team was part of the first live broadcast on a fledgling cable sports channel called ESPN. The Bourbons played the Milwaukee...

Old Sport Bourbon was a bourbon brand manufactured in Louisville.

Lazzie Bear was a Christmas plushie sold at Lazarus department stores staring with the 1986 holiday season. He retired in the early 2000s, when the chain, after several mergers and acquisitions, took the Macy's name.

Does your heart belong to the Bluegrass State?

The 502 is the place to be!

PM Magazine was a news and entertainment magazine produced in several markets throughout the United States from 1978 to 1991.

Cheer up with glass of a dark, drinkable cream brew and??Louisville classic, Oertels Beer.

Tom & Chee is crafty.

Tom & Chee is not your mama's grilled cheese.

"Kentucky Rain" is a 1970 song written by??Eddie Rabbitt??and Dick Heard. It was recorded and released by??Elvis and went to No. 16 on the popular charts. It went to No. 3 on the Canadian Country Chart.

Baker Boy Donuts was presumably a bakery that operated in the St. Mathews area of Louisville in the 1950s. However, no record exists of such a business. A theory holds that a soda shop that served donuts once stood on the site. In any...

Ever notice how much the shape of Kentucky looks like Jabba the Hutt? Here's the shirt y'all.

The Dixie Drive-In Theatre opened in 1955 in Louisville's Shively neighborhood. Located at 4915 Dixie Hwy., it closed in 1967. The site was later a K-Mart and is currently a large grocery store.

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....

Zantigo was a chain of fast food Mexican restaurants that served fresh and tangy delicacies from 1976 to 1987. It was famous for its chili, taco burritos, taco salads, cheese chilitos, and cheap chips & cheese that were to die for according to former...

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,...

"Hot Dan The Mustard Man" was a cartoon spokesperson for a large, nationally distributed mustard company. He was primarily used in print ads in the 40's and 50's. Hot Dan can be yours on our comfy, tan fleck tee.

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...

It's the Toy Tiger Christmas Party of '92! Toy Tiger was a famous night spot in Louisville that hosted rock concerts as well as wet T-shirt contests, banana eating competitions, and other such spectacles.??READ MORE

Zayre and was a chain of discount department stores that operated throughout the U.S. from the 1960s through the 1980s. After selling the Zayre locations to competitor Ames, the company focused on its TJ Maxx storeds as well as sibling retailers Marshalls, Home Goods,...

Founded in 1912 as Standard Oil of New Jersey after the breakup of the larger Standard Oil corporation, Esso gas stations were found all over the Northeastern United States and parts of the South starting in the 1930s. In 1972, most were re-branded Exxon....

The first Derby was held in 1875 in Louisville and is the most famous horse racing event in the world. The entire horseracing world knows its significance.

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...