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The Griffith Park Zoo opened in 1912 with 15 animals in its collection. It closed in 1966 when the Los Angeles Zoo opened. Griffith Park remains a popular recreational destination and some of the ruins of the old zoo can still be seen around...

The Denver Dynamite??were one of four teams established for the inaugural season of the Arena Football League in 1987.??The franchise suspended operations for the 1988 season but returned in 1989 playing until 1991. Their home field was McNichols Arena.??

The All-America Football Conference, or AAFC, was founded in 1945 by Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward in 1944 to challenge the established National Football League. Ward's new circuit debuted in 1946 with eight teams and played for three seasons before the NFL absorbed...

The San Diego Sails were the renamed San Diego Conquistadors, the American Basketball Association's only expansion franchise, joining the league in 1972. The name change came after original owner, Leonard Bloom, sold the team in 1975 to Frank Goldberg. The team folded a dozen...

The Rojos del guila de Veracruz, or Veracruz Eagle Reds en Ingls, were a Triple-A level baseball team that played in the Mexican Baseball League as part of Minor League Baseball. They played their home games at the Estadio Universitario Beto  vila in Veracruz,...

Rock 'em sock 'em in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

The original Bills football team was established in 1946 as the Bisons in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). In 1947, after a name-the-team contest, the new name was selected. In 1949, the NFL absorbed several AAFC teams but, oddly, the Bills were not one...

Enchanted Voyage was the most expensive ride built for Kings Island when the park opened in 1972. Shaped like a giant television, it took riders??through several rooms featuring animatronic versions of new and old Hanna-Barbera characters. In 1984, it was totally redesigned and became...

The Indianapolis Hoosiers played in the short-lived Federal League (FL), staring in 1913 when the circuit was still considered a minor league. They won the pennant in the FL's first season as a major league. In 1915, the team moved to Newark, NJ and...

The Kentucky Colonels were a professional basketball team that played in the American Basketball Association from 1967 until 1976, first at the Convention Center, now known as the Gardens, and later at Freedom Hall. The team had the highest winning percentage of any franchise...

The Tallahassee Tiger Sharks were a team in the East Coast Hockey League (now the ECHL), that was established in 1981 as the Nashville South Stars in the Central Hockey League. After stops (and corresponding league changes) in Roanoke, VA and Huntsville, AL, the...

The San Diego Friars were an expansion team in World Team Tennis. Established in the league's second season, 1975, their home court was the San Diego Sports Arena, though they did play a few matches up the 5 at the Anaheim Convention Center. The...

Everyone knows about "The Drive," but do you know about the ORIGINAL Drive that took place one week earlier?

The Memphis Express were charter members of the short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF), a league that launched in spring 2019. It folded halfway through its inaugural season.??

The Birmingham Iron were charter members of the short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF), a league that launched in spring 2019. It folded halfway through its inaugural season.??

Charter members of the????????Arena Football League (AFL), the Washington Commandos were established in 1987. They played in the league's inaugural barnstorming season before taking the 1988 season off. They returned in 1989 as the Maryland Commandos and played their home games at the Cap...

Squeezits turned up in the lunchboxes of American kids in the 1990s. Introduced in Denver, they soon went nationwide and even took market share from another famous soft drink, one with a giant pitcher as its mascot. They barely made it into the 21st...

Who knows better than a skunk that smoking stinks?

KDGE first it the airwaves in 1962 as KJIM. After multiple ownership and format changes, 94.5's alternative rock format and call letters (KDGE) were moved to the 102.5 frequency in 2000. In 2017, the station changed it's format to adult contemporary.

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The 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 from...

Holiday Hill amusement park opened in 1955 on Lambert Road, just east of St. Louis Lambert International Airport. It featured a roller coaster, kiddie land, miniature golf course, swimming pool, and arcade. Increased competition, limited space, and other, unforeseen, circumstances, led to the park's...

The Phoenix Mustangs played in the West Coast Hockey League from 1997 to 2001. The Mustangs formed after the IHL Roadrunners folded following the 1996/1997 season.

Cutty's Boxing Gym in Baltimore, Maryland become internationally famous after being a feature in HBO's show The Wire.

The Prize Movie??was a fixture on Cleveland TV for close to two decades. Hosted by popular radio personality John Lanigan, it ran weekday afternoons on Channel 43. During breaks in the afternoon movie, Lanigan would draw a name to find a contestant whom he...

ATA Airlines started as Ambassador travel club in 1973. It later became American Trans Air, then simply ATA.?? It had hubs at Indianapolis International Airport and Chicago's Midway Airport. In 2008, it ceased operations.

The Brooklyn Tip-Tops??were a team that played in the Federal League??of professional baseball from 1914 to 1915. The team was named by Robert Ward who owned the team and the Tip-Top Bakery.

The Brooklyn Tigers football team was established in 1936 and played in the second loop to call itself the American Football League. Before the end of its inaugural season, the team moved to Rochester. It folded, along with the rest of the league, after...

The Louisville Bulls??were a semi-pro football team that played from 1988 to 2011. For their first two seasons they played as an independent team. In 1990 they joined the Hearts of Ohio Football League (HFL) leaving that circuit in 1992 to join the Mid...

If you grew up in the Cleveland area, you remember Lockie-Lee Dairy. Founded in 1946 it was an integral part of school & family life for generations.