Midwest

Mother Goose Land was a theme park in Canton, Ohio that opened in 1954. It featured attractions based on storybook characters such as??characters as Humpty Dumpty and the Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe. In the 1980s, the park fell into disrepair and...

The Savoy Grill is part of the historic Savoy Hotel and Grill complex in Kansas City, Missouri and is the oldest continuously operating hotel west of the Mississippi.

A mall staple in the 1970s and 1980s, Chess King was founded in 1968 in Boston. At its peak it had over 500 stores. However, it was so closely identified with those two decades, soon into the 1990s it was no longer considered hip.

The Imperial Brewing Company was founded in Kansas City, Missouri in 1902. It's two main offerings were Mayflower and Imperial Seal which it brewed until the mid 1980s when it closed.??

Milwaukee, Wisconsin's fiercest feline weatherman was Albert the Alley Cat. The man behind the cat was Jack DuBlon, who had a career spanning decades of television on TV6.

The Detroit Wheels were charter members of the World Football League in 1974 but played in only 14 games of the 20 game schedule before folding. Things became so dire toward the end, a home game against the Portland Storm was relocated to London,...

League Park was a baseball stadium built in 1891, and rebuilt in 1910, at the corner of East 66th and Lexington in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland. Besides the Indians, it was home to the Cleveland Spiders, as well as the Negro American League...

Mr. Fables was a chain of cafeteria-style family restaurants. The chain was a successor to the Kewpee Beefburger stands which founder Gerald Boyle had turned over to his son and nephew. Mr. Fables was best known for its olive burgers and secret recipes, as...

Farmer Jack was a supermarket chain based in Detroit from 1924 until 2007. It's iconic radio commercials, heard on stations such as CKLW, announced the store's weekly deals as "Farmer Jack savings time." Popular throughout the second half of the 20th century, the chain...

Sealtest was a regional dairy producer serving the Northeast and Midwest for over 50 years and was noted for it's tasty ice cream. It was acquired by Kraft in 1993.

Venture was a chain of discount department stores headquartered in St. Louis in 1968. It was founded by former executives from Target and May Company and at its height had nearly 50 locations in the Midwest. The chain went out of business in 1998.

Bill Knapp's was an American family restaurant chain founded by Clinton B. Knapp in 1948 in Batttlecreek, MI. At its peak it had 60 locations in Michigan, Ohio, Florida, Indiana, and Illinois. The last location closed in 2002.

With it's popular flagship store on State St. in the Loop, Marshall Field's was a landmark, destination, and a Chicagoland institution. In 2005, the chain was acquired by Macy's with all stores rebranded with the new owner's name.????

Noah's Ark was a restaurant on the banks of the Missouri River in St. Charles, Missouri.??Opening in the late ???60s, this restaurant became a hot spot almost overnight. Most patrons have fond memories of their famous clam chowder.

Minnesota had a team in the inaugural season of the American Basketball Association?? in 1967, called the Muskies. After one season in the Twin Cities, they moved to Miami to become the Floridians. A few months later, the league champion Pittsburgh Pipers moved to...

Based in Cleveland, Millbrook Bread was sold throughout the Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, it's parent brand opted to go with another name nationwide in an apparent attempt to have a more consistent feel in product offerings.

Before the Cincinnati??Swords,??Stingers, Cyclones, and??Mighty Ducks, Cincinnati had the Mohawks. They were a member of the American Hockey League (AHL) from 1949 to 1952, before moving to the International Hockey League (IHL), where they won 5 straight championships. Their home ice was the??Cincinnati Gardens.

The Minnesota Norseman were members of the??American Professional Slo-Pitch League??from 1977-1980. In their first season they were known as the Goofy's. A new owner changed the name to Norsemen for the 1978 season. Their home field was Midway Stadium in St. Paul.

Organized by legendary dis jockey Alan Freed and local record store owner Leo Mintz, the Moondog Coronation Ball was a concert held at the old Cleveland Arena on March 21, 1952. It is generally considered to be the first major rock & roll concert.

KCKN began broadcasting in 1925 (as WLBF) and was one of the oldest commercial radio stations in the United States. Heard on 1340 AM an FM signal at 94.1 was added in 1963. After several ownership changes, it is today known as KDTD.

P.O.C. stood for "Pilsner of Cleveland" not "Pride of Cleveland" as some mistakenly believe today. Pilsner Brewing Company, located at Clark Avenue and West 65th Street, made P.O.C. Bohemian brewer Wenzel Medlin founded the company in 1892. It was bought by Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Brewing...

The Sheboygan Redwings were members of the Central States Football League from 1964 until 1971.

Crispy golden fries in two minutes was the promise made by MicroMagic, a line of frozen foods that appeared in the late '80s. "Give 'em MicroMagic now," went the jingle.

The Berghoff restaurant opened in Chicago in 1898 by Herman Joseph Berghoff and quickly became a city landmark. It remains popular to this day.

The Buckeyes were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1942 to 1950, mostly in Cleveland with League Park as their home field. The team played its first season in Cincinnati, and one season, 1949, in Louisville, before heading back to Cleveland for...

From 1971 to 1982, Swingos, at the corner of Euclid Avenue and east 18th Street in downtown Cleveland, was the place where rock & roll royalty stayed and partied--- hard. Everyone from Elvis and Led Zeppelin to Cher and Kiss stayed there. Even Frank...

The Cleveland Pipers were a pro basketball team founded in the early 1950s and were a company team that played in the Amateur Athletic Union before moving to the National Industrial Basketball League in 1959. In 1961, the team joined the professional American Basketball...

To a certain generation of Cleveland baseball fans, it will ALWAYS be The Jake!

A Des Moines institution for over 50 years, Wimpy's first opened its doors in 1931. After serving generations of Iowans, it closed in 1980.

The Ohio Glory played one season, 1992, in the World League of American Football (WLAF). The team was established to replace the Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks who had gone 0-10 and folded at the end of the 1991 season. After the 1992 campaign, the NFL, who...