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It took some convincing, but in 1935 the Cincinnati Reds convinced Major League Baseball to allow night baseball in order to draw more fans.??President??Franklin D. Roosevelt, sitting in the White House in Washington, D.C., threw the switch??that lit up Crosley Field on May 24,...

Westaland Mall opened in 1969 as an open-air, plaza-style shopping center, much like the Northland Mall five years earlier. Lazuras had a free-standing store on the site beginning in 1962 and became one of the mall's anchors. In the 70s, the mall was the...

The??1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply??Expo 86, was a World's Fair held in Vancouver??from May 2 until October 13, 1986. The fair's theme was "Transportation and Communication: World in Motion ??? World in Touch." It coincided with Vancouver's centennial and was...

Weingarten's was a supermarket chain based in Houston. While most of its locations were in the greater Houston area, it had locations in San Antonio, Austin, Shreveport, Louisiana, and Memphis, Tennessee. The parent company sold the grocery stores to concentrate on its commercial real...

The Longhorn Ballroom opened in Dallas in 1950 and hosted everyone from the Sex Pistols to Merle Haggard.

The Dixie Drive-In Theatre opened in 1955 in Louisville's Shively neighborhood. Located at 4915 Dixie Hwy., it closed in 1967. The site was later a K-Mart and is currently a large grocery store.

The Atlanta Legends were charter members of the short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF), a league that launched in spring 2019. The Legends home field was Georgia State Stadium. The AAF folded halfway through its inaugural season.??

The Metrodome, officially the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, opened in Minneapolis 1982, replacing Metropolitan Stadium in suburban Bloomington as the home of the city's pro baseball and pro football teams. The baseball team left after the 2009 season and moved into their own place....

Howdy says, "have good outdoor manners." He first appeared in 1959 in public service advertisements in Pennsylvania. His primary mission was to encourage folks not to litter, prevent forest fires, and otherwise treat the land well.

The Vancouver Grizzlies first hit the court in 1995 and spent six seasons in Canada's Pacific Northwest before heading to Memphis, TN.

It was pretty much everyone's first web browser.??The company's first product was the web browser??Mosaic Netscape 0.9,??released on October 13, 1994. Within four months of its release, it had taken three-quarters of the browser market. It was further boosted when Vice President Al Gore...

It was the spot where anything goes. Mako's was a bar and restaurant located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta and was known for its wild party atmosphere. It also had a location in downtown Orlando.

In September of 1988, Pittsburgh's alternative music station WXXP, Double X, switched its format to adult contemporary. On April 15, 1989, WXVX 1510 A.M. in suburban Monroeville, which had been playing '50s and '60s oldies, flipped its format to modern rock under new program...

The San Antonio Rampage began as the the Tidewater Wings, members of the American Hockey League (AHL), in 1971. They changed their name in 1972 to the Virginia Wings. In 1979, they moved to Upstate New York and became the Adirondack Wings. In 2002,...

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...

Billed as an expansion team for the second season of the World Football League (WFL) in 1975, the Wings were actually the relocated Florida Blazers. Playing their home games at Alamo Stadium, they went out of business along with the rest of the WFL...

The San Jose Rhinos played in a league known as Roller Hockey International from 1993 to 1999, when the league ceased operations. The Rhinos won the league championship in 1995.

From the Miracle at Richfield to today's team, the Force is strong in Believeland.

The Nebraska Wranglers were a one-year wonder in the Women’s Professional Basketball League, joining in the league's third and final season in the winter of 1980-81. The expansion club would go on to win the league championship in April 1981.  OS16283

The San Jose Lasers were a member of the women's American Basketball League, playing their home games at either the San Jose State Event Center or the San Jose Arena. The team folded along with the rest of the league during the third ABL season in 1998. OS16281

Did you survive the Blizzard of '78? Known throughout the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region as the Great Blizzard of 1978 and the White Hurricane, the storm blasted the area from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. The cities of Milwaukee,...

Much like Jungle Jim's down the road in Fairfield, Ohio, Woody's started as a roadside fruit and vegetable stand. Woodrow “Woody” Bowman started it all in 1944 on a half acre of land on the old Dixie Highway. Woody’s Market closed in 1999, and Bowman died...

Built in 1912 as Redland Field, the Cincinnati Reds home ballpark was renamed Crosley Field, in honor of the team's new owner, in 1934. It was the home of the Reds until 1970 when they moved into Riverfront Stadium. One of the most iconic...

The Macon Whoopee played in the Central Hockey League (CHL) from 1996 to 2001. The team took its name from a previous squad that played in the city for part of the 1973-74 Southern Hockey League season. After the second Whoopee team folded, the??Tallahassee...

The Memphis Pros were originally the New Orleans Buccaneers, a charter member of the American Basketball Association. After three years in New Orleans, they moved to Memphis in 1970 and became the Pros, and made the Mid-South Coliseum their home. They were later known...

The Virginia Squires were an American Basketball Association??team based in Norfolk, VA. Founded as the Oakland Oaks in 1967, the team moved to Washington, D.C., in 1970 and were renamed the Caps. They moved across the Potomac the following year to become the Squires....

Aeros was the name of Akron's minor league baseball team from 1997 until 2013.

The original Minnesota Fighting Saints were charter members of the World Hockey Association in 1972. The team played its home games in St. Paul, while the rival NHL Minnesota North Stars played in suburban Bloomington. The Fighting Saints folded halfway through the 1975-76 season....

SkyDome opened in 1989 as the new home of Toronto's baseball and football teams. The city's basketball team played there from 1995 to 1999 while a new arena was being built downtown. The football team got the boot in 2015, leaving the baseball team...

Big Bear was a supermarket chain that operated in San Diego until 1994, when it was sold to Albertson's. The chain was not related to Big Bear in Columbus.