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The Whistl'n Pig opened in 1947 at??818 S.W. Broadway in Portland. In 1954, it became Bruer's Coffee Shop.??Whistl'n Pig moved to 8640 S.W. Canyon Rd. and became the Whistl'n Pig Bar-B-Q Restaurant.

The Detroit Drive was formed in 1988, joining the Arena Football League for that circuit's second season. The team played in the Motor City's Joe Louis Arena through the 1993 season, winning four AFL championships. The team moved to Worcester, MA in 1994 and...

The??Jacksonville Red Caps??were a??Negro league baseball??team based primarily in??Jacksonville, Florida. They played the??Negro American League from 1938 until 1942. ?? *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Not a bar or restaurant like the Kon Tiki locations in other cities, this one was a movie theater complex in the Dayton suburb of Trotwood. It opened on Aug. 23, 1968 with a showing of The Odd Couple. The theater was owned by...

Established in 1965 as the Houston Apollos in the Central Hockey League, the club known today as the Laval Rocket moved to Montreal in 1969 to become the Voyageurs. They also jumped to the American Hockey League that year. In 1971, they moved to...

The Ottawa Rough Riders were established in 1876 and were one of the longest running professional sports teams in North America. They adopted the Rough Riders nickname in 1931, they were charter members of the Canadian Football League (CFL) formed in 1958. The club...

The Chicago Stags were charter members of the Basketball Association of America, forerunner of the NBA, which was founded on June 6, 1946. They played in the BAA Championship in 1947 but folded before the start of the 1950 season.

The Richfield Coliseum opened in 1974 as a replacement for the aging Cleveland Arena. It's location was chosen because it was halfway between Cleveland and Akron at the intersection of Route 303 and I-271. The site of the Cavaliers' Mircacle at Richfield, its other...

The Seattle Metropolitans played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1915 to 1924. In 1917 they became the first American team to win the Stanley Cup before that trophy became exclusively associated with the National Hockey League in 1926.

Euclid Beach Park opened in 1895 on Lake Shore Boulevard and served as the area's primary amusement park for over 70 years. Financial problems, along with competition from the newly expanded Geauga Lake, spelled the end of Euclid Beach Park after the 1969 season.

The New York Arrows were charter members of the original Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) in 1978. They played their home games at the Nassau County Coliseum on Long Island. In the league's first ever game, baseball legend Pete Rose kicked out the first...

Founded in Lexington in 1957, Jerry's Restaurant offered fast-casual dining and through the '70s grew to have locations throughout the Midwest and South.

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...

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...

Winky's was a hamburger chain that at its height had over 42 restaurants in Greater Pittsburgh, as well as stores in West Virginia and Ohio. The company went out of business in 1982.

The Denver Grizzlies were a team in the International Hockey League. They played one season, 1994-95, in Colorado before moving to Utah and later Cleveland, where they now play as members of the American Hockey League.

PB Max appeared in 1989 and featured creamy peanut butter on top of a square-shaped whole grain cookie, enrobed in milk chocolate. Despite robust sales, it was discontinued after only a few years on the market.

The 1980 Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid, NY from??February 13 to 24. One of the many highlights of the games was the US Men's Hockey Team winning the gold medal. Eric Heiden won five gold medals in speedskating for the U.S.

CKLW, 800 on the AM dial, "the Big 8," was one of Detroit's most iconic rock & roll radio stations in the '60s and '70s, even though its studios and transmitter were located across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The station's weekly...

The Flip Side started selling records & tapes in Chicago in 1971. At its peak, it had over 25 locations throughout the Midwest. However, the rapidly changing landscape of the music industry caused The Flip Side to go out of business in 1992.

The Atlanta Black Crackers, originally called the Atlanta Cubs, were a Negro League baseball team that played from 1919 to 1952. They played as both an independent club as well as in various Negro leagues throughout their history. *Design is officially licensed from the...

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

Sin City's first pro football team, the Las Vegas Posse played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) in 1994. Their homefield was Sam Boyd Stadium. The team finished with a 5 and 13 record, folding after just one season. The team was supposed to...

The Lumberjacks moved to Cleveland from Muskegon, Michigan. There was no need to change their nickname, as Cleveland had long been known as the Forest City. This capped lumberjack logo was used by the International Hockey League team from 1992-95 until it was changed...

Fatt Dog had locations on Post Street and Pine Streets in San Francisco. Diners were advised to have napkins at the ready, as they would be soaked with dog juice after just one bite.

Despite drawing some of the biggest crows in the first season of the World Football League (WFL), and winning World Bowl I (and as it turned out, only), the Birmingham Americans were out of business. In 1975, the entire league reorganized, with the remaining...

The Detroit Wolves were a Negro league team and members of the East-West circuit that played in 1932. The league only lasted a few months, but Detroit was clearly the top team, posting the best record. Their home field was??Hamtramck Stadium. *Design is officially...

The 1963 March on Washington, officially the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, took place on August 28, 1963. It was at this march Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his famous and stirring "I Have a Dream Speech" in which he called for...

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...

On November 24, Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper walked up to the Northwest Airlines ticket counter at the Portland International airport and purchased a one-way ticket to Seattle. Hours later he would leap into aviation history as the only...