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WOXY, 97X, was one of the most important alternative rock radio stations in America from 1985 until it went off the air in 2004. Every Memorial Day Weekend, the station ran the Modern Rock 500, a countdown of the top tracks of the post-punk...

The Gladiators were Cleveland's second foray into the Arena Football League, after the Thunderbolts (1992-1994). The team began in New Jersey as the Red Dogs in 1997. They changed their name to Gladiators in 2001 and moved to Las Vegas in 2003. In 2007,...

Grand Rapids FC was a team that played from 2015 to 2021 in the fourth tier of US soccer. Community owned, the team averaged over 4,000 fans a game but could not overcome the challenges of operating under the COVIC pandemic.

If you survived Y2K, you can survive anything!

Taking to the airwaves on 1380 AM in 1925, KFVE became KWK in 1927. From 1978 to 1984 it broadcast a rock & roll format with the slogan "the rockin' best." In 1979 it started simulcasting on 106.5 FM.

Uncle Bill's had 5 stores in the Cleveland area in 1961 when it was acquired by Cook's. Ontario stores and 3 other Midwest discount chains were also bought by Cook's. The company also owned Pick-n-Pay stores but sold them in 1972. In 1976 it...

When it was completed in 1976 it was "the biggest mall, in all the world." It thrived for years but started to decline at the beginning of the 2000s, finally succumbing to other area shopping centers as well as Internet retailers. The mall was...

You heard them call games every summer for over 30 years. The sweet sounds of Marty & Joe will forever hold a place in the hearts of Cincinnati baseball fans.

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...

Sandy's was a hamburger chain founded in Peoria, Illinois in 1956 by four businessmen who originally planned to open a McDonald's franchise. After a disagreement with McDonald's head Ray Kroc, the four men struck out on their own, naming their burger joint Sandy's. The...

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.

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.

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers joined the North American Soccer League (NASL) in 1977. Their home was Lockhart Stadium which is considered to be America's first-ever soccer-specific stadium. In 1984, the team moved to Minnesota. Two subsequent, but unrelated, soccer teams have used the Strikers...

On September 27, 1986, a local charity over saw the launch of a world record??one-and-a-half million balloons from Public Square in downtown Cleveland. The results were disastrous as a cold front rolling through the area kept the balloons inflated longer than expected and reeked...

The Cleveland Buckeyes were a Negro league baseball team and were the Negro Leagues Champions of 1945. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

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...

Northland Mall opened in 1964 as an open-air, plaza-style shopping center. It was enclosed in 1975 and became a proper mall. The subsequent opening of three other large shopping centers close by led to the mall's demise. It closed in 2002 and demolished in...

If you grew up in Cincinnati, chances are great that you were on the Uncle Al Show. Uncle Al and Captain Wendy entertained children of the midwest for over 35 years, and had one of the longest running kids TV shows in the history...