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Fagan's was one of the most popular destinations in the Flats.

The Kansas City Monarchs were established in 1920 and the longest-running Negro League franchise in professional baseball. Jackie Robinson played for the Monarchs in 1945.They disbanded in 1965. Get the KC Monarchs sticker too! *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum...

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.

Looney T Birds opened in Oxford, Ohio, home of Miami Univeristy, in 1984 and was the premier record shop in Oxford for nearly 20 years. It's convenient downtown location and relationship with WOXY helped cement its place in Tristate music history.??

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...

"Those can't be skydivers..." The most famous episode of WKRP in Cincinnati, and one of the most acclaimed episodes of any sitcom, "Turkeys Away" follows the station's misguided attempt to give away turkeys. The whole promotion ends in disaster and hilarity, with the final...

The Metrodome, officially the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, opened in Minneapolis 1982, replacing Metropolitan Stadium in suburban Bloomington as the home of the city's pro baseball and pro football teams. The baseball team left after the 2009 season and moved into their own place....

Paul Wilcox hosted??the TV show "Polka Varieties," the show aired Sundays on Cleveland's WEWS-TV (and eventually was syndicated on stations across the country) from 1956 to 1983. It??highlighted??both local and national polka acts.

The Cleveland Jaybirds were a men's professional softball team that played in the American Professional Softball League (APSL) starting in 1977. After two seasons, the team was sold to local ad man Ted Stepian, who renamed them the Cleveland Competitors. After one more season...

On November 23, 1973,??The Brady Bunch??episode "The Cincinnati Kid" first aired on ABC-TV. The episode was filmed in August of that year at Kings Island in Mason and remains a favorite of Tristate TV fans.

Opened in 1954 at 10543 Memphis Ave. in Brooklyn, just outside of Cleveland, this drive-in movie theater entertained moviegoers for over 50 years.

The Detroit Falcons were a Colonial Hockey League team founded in 1991 as the Michigan Falcons, and based in Fraser, MI. Starting in 1992 they were known as the Detroit Falcons. The team moved to Port Huron, MI and became the Border Cats before...

The original St. Louis Steamers joined the the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) as an expansion team in 1979 and played until 1988. At its peak of popularity the team was drawing crowds of over 17,000 to the St. Louis Arena. READ MORE ???*Shirt...

The St. Louis Bombers were charter members of the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1946. In 1949 they joined the National Basketball Association when the BAA merged with the National Basketball League. The Bombers left the new league after one season.

Royal Castle Hamburgers??was founded in 1938 by William Singer in Miami. The chain grew to over 175 locations in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio, and Michigan.??

Charter members of the American Professional Football Association (APFA) in 1920, the Akron Pros were also that circuits first champions. Two years later the APFA became the National Football League. The Pros changed their name to the Indians in 1926 and folded at the...

The St. Louis Vipers??played in the now-defunct Roller Hockey International League from 1993 to 1997 and for one season in 1999, winning the league championship right before the league folded.??The team was coached and partly owned by former St. Louis Blues center Bernie Federko.

The Indianapolis Olympians were formed in 1949, the same year the combined Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League became the National Basketball Association or NBA. They folded in 1953. Pro basketball would not return to the city until 1967 when the...

After the original Cleveland Force of the MISL folded in 1988, the city was granted an expansion franchise to begin play the following season. The Crunch played for 3 seasons in the MISL before jumping to the NPSL in 1992. They joined the second...

The Vulcans played in the Continental Football League (CoFL), a tier below the NFL and AFL, for part of the 1967 season. Akron was excited to have a pro football team, but the fun only lasted four games before the team ran out of...