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It's all good, clean fun in the Tristate with a little bean bag toss and Cincinnati-style chili!

Shillito's was Cincinnati's first department store. It was founded by John Shillito and William McLaughlin in 1830 as McLaughlin & Shillito, but that partnership soon split up. In 1878, Shillito's moved to a new building on Race and Seventh streets, which was remodeled in...

A Cincinnati Cheese Coney starts with a steamed bun, filled with a grilled hot dog, topped with layers of mustard, Cincinnati-style chili, chopped onions, and shredded cheese.

The phrase "Best Location in the Nation," seems to have been coined in the 1940s. Still very popular in the 1960s and 1970s, it comes from the fact that Cleveland is 600 miles from 60% of the U.S. (and a good chunk of Canada).

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.

Family Video was in founded in 1978 in Springfield, Illinois as the Video Movie Club. The idea came about when??Midstates Appliance and Supply Company, owned by Charles Hoogland, found itself stuck with an excess of video movies as a result of being a distributor...

Robert and?? Peggy Judge opened Judges', Beyond the Reef in Brookfield, Wisconsin in 1964. The couple added an A-frame entrance to the original log cabin building and some full-sized plastic palm trees out front that could handle a midwestern winter and thus created a...

The Pontiac Silverdome, better known as just the Silverdome, opened in 1975 in suburban Detroit. Its primary tenant was Detroit's pro football team. They left for a new downtown stadium in 2001. The city's pro basketball team played there for a decade (1978-1988). Other...

Established in 1960, Holtman's is Cincinnati's premiere donut shop, with locations in Over-the-Rhine, Williamsburg, Loveland, and West Chester.

The Cincinnati Rockers played in the Arena Football League in 1992 and 1993, before suspending operations due to low attendance. The Rockers played their home games at Riverfront Coliseum (now U.S. Bank Arena).

This shirt features an alternate logo for??The Cincinnati Rockers, the Queen City's Arena Football League team that played from 1992 to 1993 at Riverfront Coliseum.

Introduced in the 1950s by Hudepohl Brewing of Cincinnati, Hudy 14-K was an American lager that went on to become one of the most popular brands in Greater Cincinnati area. It has since been reintroduced by??Christian Moerlein??and also sponsors a yearly run. Remember, "don't...

The Cincinnati Silverbacks were a professional indoor soccer club that competed in the National Professional Soccer League from 1995 to 1998. The team originated in Dayton as the Dayton Dynamo in 1987. They played their first two seasons in Cincinnati at the old Cincinnati...

Chester Park was located at the northwest corner of Spring Grove and Mitchell Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio. It opened in 1875, its most famous ride was the Tickler until the park closed in 1932.

Camp Washington??Chili is world famous and has been featured on The Travel Channel's Man v. Food Nation, CBS News, HGTV, and more. Founded in 1940 by Steve Andon and Fred Zannbus, it truly is an area favorite.

An alternate logo for the Indianapolis Ice who played in the IHL from 1988 to 1999 and the CHL from 1999 to 2004.

The Big Six Conference membership grew with the addition of Colorado on December 1, 1947 and making the conference's unofficial name the Big Seven Conference. This conference name lasted from 1948 to 1957. OS15776

You don't have to be from Cincinnati to love WKRP in Cincinnati. Based on Atlanta radio station WQXI, Cincinnati was chosen as the home of the fictitious station at random, as producers sought a more Midwestern location. "Cincinnati" also flowed well with the made-up...

The Chicago Ravens were founding members of the??International Women???s Professional Softball Association??(WPS) in 1976.??The team played at the Windy City Softball Complex, a facility with temporary seating for 4,000 fans in suburban Bridgeview, Illinois.??

This was always one of the best deals in the record store, especially if you catching up on an artist's catalog.

Established in 1931, the St. Louis Gunners were an independent football team that played the final three games of the 1934 NFL season after the collapse of the Cincinnati Reds football club. They beat Pittsburgh in their first league meeting but lost to Detroit...

The St. Louis Stampede played in the Arena Football League in 1995 and 1996. They made the playoffs both years but lost in the first round.

Midwest Airlines was founded as Midwest Express in 1983 in Milwaukee. In 2010, it was acquired by another airline.

The Minneapolis Marines were a professional football team established in 1905. An independent team for most of its existence, it joined the American Professional Football Association in 1921, that league's second season. The team ceased operations after the 1924 season but reformed as the...

Gimbel Brothers, better known as Gimbels, was an American department store chain from 1887 until 1987. Though it stared in Indiana it is widely known for creating the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia, the oldest such parade in the country.

Record Revolution was established in 1967 in the Coventry neighborhood of Cleveland Heights. It was a Greater Cleveland institution for generations of music buyers.

Everyone knows about "The Drive," but do you know about the ORIGINAL Drive that took place one week earlier?

Enchanted Voyage was the most expensive ride built for Kings Island when the park opened in 1972. Shaped like a giant television, it took riders??through several rooms featuring animatronic versions of new and old Hanna-Barbera characters. In 1984, it was totally redesigned and became...

Everyone knows about "The Drive," but do you know about the ORIGINAL Drive that took place one week earlier?

Spartan Mart was a discount department store chain that operated in the 1960s and 1970s.