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The??Kissimmee Cobras played in the Florida State League from 1985 to 2000. For most of their existence, the were a farm team of Houston in the Senior Circuit of the big leagues. Indeed, they used the parent club's nickname until 1995, when they became...

Two Guys from Harrison, better known as the Two Guys department store chain, was founded in New Jersey, was founded in the late 1940s, somewhat by accident. Brothers??Herbert and Sidney Hubschman, who had operated a snack bar at the headquarters of RCA, obtained several...

The St. Louis Stampede played in the Arena Football League in 1995 and 1996. They made the playoffs both years but lost in the first round.

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 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 New Orleans Brass played in the East Coast Hockey League from 1997 to 2002. Their home ice was the Memorial Auditorium, then later the New Orleans Arena. When pro basketball returned to town, the new hoops team became the arena's top tenant and...

French's Ice Cream was located at 79 Georgia Avenue, just south of downtown Atlanta for much of its history. Several generations remember their fleet of trucks delivering sweet treats to neighborhoods all over town.??

The Las Vegas Posse played one season (1994) in the Canadian Football League before packing their bags and heading to South Florida. Renamed the Miami Manatees, they were set to return for the 1996 campaign. However, they never played a down in the Sunshine...

Pizza Haven was founded in Seattle in 1958. It??was one of the first pizza places to make deliveries. Restaurant employees used radio phones to relay orders to roving drivers who carried stacks of pizzas in a warming oven in the back of their vehicles....

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 Oklahoma City Cavalry played in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) starting in 1990. The franchise had high hopes of post-season success and a packed home arena. "I predict this will be one of the top franchises in the league," the CBA's VP of marketing...

Midwest Airlines was founded as Midwest Express in 1983 in Milwaukee. In 2010, it was acquired by another airline.

The Warner Theatre was a movie house located in the nation's capital. It opened in 1924. In the 1950s it began showing movies in Cinerama, the new technology of the day.

Saturday Night Dead was a horror movie TV show that aired on Channel 3 in Philadelphia from from 1984 to 1990.

Kemp Hill Music was a chain of record stores in the Washington, D.C. area. Founded in the 1970s, it grew to over 30 locations. The last one was located on Branch Avenue in Prince George???s County. It closed in 2017.

The Florida Blazers of the World Football League started off as the Washington Ambassadors, though they never played a down in the nation's capital. Unable to secure a stadium there, the team wound up in Central Florida and made it all the way to...

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...

??WPTY, Channel 24, began broadcasting on September 10, 1978. It was the first independent TV station in Memphis. In 2013, the station changed its call letters.????

Lexington Mall opened in 1975. It featured three anchors ad 48 inline stores. For a time it was very popular, even though it wasn't big as the competing Fayette Mall a few malls away. The redevelopment of that shopping center, though, led to the...

Gooding's was a small supermarket chain in Central Florida. It was founded in 1964 in Maitland. The chain introduced several innovations and??is credited with introducing 24-hour shopping, in-store bakeries, and in-store delis to Central Florida. Its most famous location was in the Crossroads of...

KULA began broadcasting on May 14, 1947. In 1967, it changed it's call letters to KKUA and switched its format to Top-40. It has changed call signs several times since, and today is a talk radio station.

The Minneapolis Marines were a professional football team established in 1905. An independent team for most of its existence, it joined the American Professional Football Association in 1921, that league's second season. The team ceased operations after the 1924 season but reformed as the...

Waxie Maxie's was a chain of record stores in the DC area founded in 1938 by Max Silverman. At its peak in the 90s, it had nearly 40 stores. The end came at the turn of the century as the end of the CD...

Waxie Maxie's was a chain of record stores in the DC area founded in 1938 by Max Silverman. At its peak in the 90s, it had nearly 40 stores. The end came at the turn of the century as the end of the CD...

WBUF-TV hit the airwaves on August 17, 1953. Using the then new UHF ban, the station was an affiliate for all for major networks of the day: ABC, NBC, CBS, and DuMont. Unfortunately, most TV sets sold during that time did not have the...

Lazzie Bear was a Christmas plushie sold at Lazarus department stores staring with the 1986 holiday season. He retired in the early 2000s, when the chain, after several mergers and acquisitions, took the Macy's name.

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Gimbel Brothers, better known as Gimbels, was an American department store chain from 1887 until 1987. Though it stared in Indiana it is widely known for creating the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia, the oldest such parade in the country.