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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...

Chico's Bail Bonds lets freedom ring! They also sponsor a winning little league team.

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.

Before Spot, there was Fresh Freddie who first introduced kids to 7-Up back in the 1950's.

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.

Somethings never change.

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...

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

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 first Derby was held in 1875 in Louisville and is the most famous horse racing event in the world.

Tiger Red Cream Soda was popular in the '70s and '80s throughout Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Southern Indiana.

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

Steeped in '70s, and a little '80s, nostalgia, the Have a Nice Day Cafe was a chain of restaurants that operated from the mid-90s to the early 2000s. At its peak, the chain had over 20 locations across the U.S.

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.

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.

Jimmy "Chicken" Wolf was a nineteenth century baseball player who played 11 seasons in the bigs. He played for his hometown Louisville Eclipse (later called the Colonels) as well as the St. Louis Browns.

The Checker Motors Corporation was a Kalamazoo-based vehicle manufacture best known for making taxi cabs. The iconic, boxy sedans, roamed the streets of America's cities for most of the 20th century, before ceasing production in 1982. Though widely used by cab companies, Checker cars...