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RiverFrogs Hockey
The Louisville RiverFrogs were a ice hockey team competing in Louisville, Kentucky in the East Coast Hockey League. The team played from 1995 to 1998 at Broadbent Arena, which was nicknamed "The Swamp" at the Kentucky Exposition Center. The team's mascot was Rowdy River... -
Louisville Thunder
The Louisville Thunder were charter members of the American Indoor Soccer Association, and played from 1984 to 1987. The reached the finals in each of their three seasons, capturing the championship in 1987. Their home pitch was the Broadbent Arena at the Kentucky Exposition... -
Burger Queen
Burger Queen was a popular fast food chain in the Louisville area. It was founded in 1963 and its mascot was Queenie Bee,??? with it's roots going back to 1956 in Winter Haven, FL.??In 1981 it became Druther's Restaurant to reflect a broader menu... -
Louisville Colonels
The Louisville Colonels were a minor league baseball that played from 1901 to 1962 in the American Association and 1968 to 1972 in the International League. -
Electricity Kills
Remember kids, Electricity is your friend, but he can kill you. Check out the sticker! -
Druther's Restaurant
Druther's Restaurant was a fast food chain in Louisville that began as Burger Queen??in 1963, with its roots going back to 1956 in Winter Haven, FL. The name change came in 1981 to better reflect the restaurant's offerings which came to include chicken and... -
Wild and Woolly Video
Wild and Woolly Video opened in 1997 renting and selling over 20,000 titles on DVD, Blu-Ray, and VHS. It specialized in hard-to-find classics, obscurities, and titles too weird for the mainstream. One of the last video rental businesses in the region, it closed in... -
Lightning Soccer
Louisville Lightning were an indoor soccer team based in Louisville, Kentucky and joined the Professional Arena Soccer League in 2009. The Lightning played three full seasons in the PASL before going on hiatus after the 2011 12 season. In a March 2013 interview, team... -
Louisville Brecks Football
The Louisville Breckenridges, or Brecks for short, were members of the National Football League from 1921 to 1924. -
Burger Queen's Queenie Bee
Queenie Bee was the the beloved mascot of the Burger Queen fast food chain. She retired in 1981 when the chain changed its name to Druther's. -
I Survived The Blizzard of '78 Kentucky
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,... -
ABA American Basketball Association
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... -
Louisville Fire
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 Neon Sign
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 Mall
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. -
Louisville Black Caps
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 "The Walrus" 102 FM
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... -
Kentucky Bourbons Softball
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
Old Sport Bourbon was a bourbon brand manufactured in Louisville. -
Lazzie Bear Since 1986
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.