Nashville

The Nashville Elite Giants were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1920 to 1950, both independently and as part of several different leagues. The team called several cities home over the years, including Baltimore, Cleveland, Columbus, and Washington. The played in Nashville...

Nashville's Sulphur Dell, in 1870, was the area was referred to as Athletic Park, and in 1885 it became the home of Nashville's first professional baseball team, the Americans, in the newly-formed Southern League. Grantland Rice re-named the ballpark "Sulphur Dell" in 1908 while...

The Nashville??Kats played in the Arena Football League from 1997 to 2001 and again from 2005-2007.

The Nashville Dixie Flyers??were a professional minor league ice hockey??team in Nashville, Tennessee, playing??in the Eastern Hockey League??from 1962 until 1971.

The Starwood Ampitheater was an outdoor music venue in Nashville. For a generation it was greater Nashville's outdoor concert hot spot. It opened June 20, 1986 with concert called??One for the Sun, featuring, among others, rock & roll legend Carl Perkins.??Blue Oyster Cult performed...

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The Hippodrome Roller Rink was loacted in Nashville's West End across from Centennial Park. In addition to being roller rink, it served as a venue for music concerts, professional wrestling matches, and more.

Harveys was a department store chain that began in 1942 with a store at the corner of 6th Avenue North and Church Street in Nashville. In the 1960s and 1970s it added locations in the surrounding suburbs as well as other towns across Middle...

The International Record Syndicate, or I.R.S. Records, was a label founded by Miles Copeland (brother of The Police's Stewart Copeland) and Jay Boberg. A division of A&M Records, its roster included some of the most important new wave acts of the '80s including R.E.M.,...

This short-lived chain of restaurants appeared in 1966 and hoped to get an extra boost in popularity by attaching the name of country music legend Minnie Pearl to the effort. After a great start, the whole thing came unraveled when it was revealed the...

A bit of an anomaly in Nashville at the time, Cloud 9 was a disco on Hayes Street that opened in the mid-1970s. It was so popular, it programmed the music for five other clubs in Nashville as well as one in Knoxville.

Burger Chef was a fast-food hamburger chain that started in Indianapolis in 1958. At its peak in the mid 1970s, it was second only to McDonald's in the number of nationwide locations. The chain even made inroads into Canada. In 1982, the chain was...

Zayre and was a chain of discount department stores that operated throughout the U.S. from the 1960s through the 1980s. After selling the Zayre locations to competitor Ames, the company focused on its TJ Maxx storeds as well as sibling retailers Marshalls, Home Goods,...

It was originally called Candyland when it opened in 1928 as a franchise of sorts of the original Candyland on Church Street. It became Vandyand in 1985 to better represent its proximity to Vanderbilt University. For 78 years it was the go-to destination for...

Founded in Howard Brothers Discount Center grew to chain of 110 stores by the late '60s.?? Remember the fun of shopping there with this great design on our super-soft heather gray tee.

The Pub of Love was Nashville favorite located at the corner of 12th and Porter.

The DuMont Television Network began broadcasting on June 28, 1942, the nation's third TV network behind NBC and CBS. Regular network service began on August 15, 1946. It was started by DuMont Laboratories, a maker of TVs. Financial strains and fierce competition from NBC,...

Musicland was founded in Minneapolis in 1955.?? In 1964, it merged with music distributor JL Marsh followed by merger in 1968 with record label and distributor Pickwick International. In 1977, American Can Company bought Pickwick and a year later, famed New York record store...

Media Play was an attempt by The Musicland Group to compete with so-called big box retailers such as electronics stores Best Buy and Circuit City, who sold CDs at near cost to lure customers in. In addition to music, Media Play also carried books,...

In the 1980s, it was the battle cry of the British Phonograph Industry (BPI), later championed by similar organizations around the world. Little did they know that a much scarier beast was lurking on the horizon.