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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...

In the 1920s, three Swedish immigrants and brothers, Hans and Gunnar Lenell and their friend Aagard Billing, launched Lenell's, a Swedish bakery offering cakes, breads and cookies. The bakery was later renamed Lenell's Cookies, and later Maurice Lenell's Cooky Company, it remained family-run through...

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.

The St. Louis NFL team that nearly was. After losing the football Cardinals to Phoenix in 1987, St. Louis sought an expansion team. In October 1993, Charlotte was awarded a team (the Carolina Panthers) but the announcement of the second team was delayed. Many...

Camelot was a chain of mall-based record stores founded in 1956 in Massillon, Ohio. At its peak, it operated over 450 stores in 37 states. In 1998 it was acquired by rival Trans World operators of Record Town among other chains. Most surviving locations...

The Minnesota Muskies were charter members of the American Basketball Association. 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 Minnesota for the 1968-69 season, before moving...

Hot Sam Pretzels was a fast food??franchise that first opened in Detroit's Livonia Mall in 1966. With franchised locations also found mostly in shopping malls, it was bought by Mrs. Fields, off of cookies, in 1995 and merged with Pretzel Time. Hot Sam is...

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.

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.

The Columbus Red Birds began play in 1902 as the Senators in the AA American Association. In 1931, the team was purchased by, and became a farm team of, the St. Louis Cardinals, changing their nickname to Red Birds. In 1946, the Red Birds...

Founded in Cincinnati in 1943, King Records was one of the most important independent record labels in music history. One of its sibling labels, Federal Records, was the original home of James Brown. King was purchased by Nashville's Gusto Records in 1974.

A well-written sitcom needs a great cast to be successful, and WKRP in Cincinnati definitely had that going for it. It remains one of the all-time most beloved sitcoms in TV history and boasts one of the single funniest episodes ever, "Turkeys Away," which...

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.

The Dayton Dynamo was an indoor soccer team established in 1987 as an expansion team in the American Indoor Soccer Association (AISA). In 1990, they joined the higher tiered??National Professional Soccer League (NPSL). In 1995, the moved south to become the Cincinnati Silverbacks.??

One of Cleveland's all-time most beloved sports franchises, and indeed one of America's most popular soccer teams ever, was the Force. They were a charter member of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) in 1978 and played 10 seasons before folding in 1988. READ...

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...

The St. Louis Eagles played in the National Hockey League during the 1934-35 season. The team had moved from Ottawa where they were known as the Senators. OS3842

The Kansas City Monarchs are probably the best-known Negro league baseball team in history, as well as the longest running. In 1942, they finished their season 27-12-0, and finished 2nd in Negro American League and ended up winning the 1942. Negro World Series. CHECKOUT OUR...

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...

The Kansas City Outlaws played in the United Hockey League (UHL) during the 2004/2005 season. They are so far the last pro hockey team to call the city home.