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Mother Goose Land was a theme park in Canton, Ohio that opened in 1954. It featured attractions based on storybook characters such as??characters as Humpty Dumpty and the Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe. In the 1980s, the park fell into disrepair and...

Greezed Lightnin' was a steel coaster at AstroWorld in Houston, Texas that opened in 1978. It closed with the rest of the park at the end of the 2005 operating season. At a height of 137.8 feet, it reached a top speed of 60...

The Ghoster Coaster, officially Scooby-Doo's Ghoster Coaster, was the world's first suspended coaster for kids. Unlike conventional coasters, riders, placed in tandem on a motorcycle-like car, were lifted elevator-style to the top of the ride and released. Opened in 1998 at Kings Island, it...

Whitney's Playland At-The-Beach was the San Francisco Bay area's favorite amusement park from 1913 until it closed at the end of the 1972 operating season.

The Providence Reds (also known as the Rhode Island Reds) started in the Canadian-American Hockey League in 1926. They continued with that circuit when it became the American Hockey League in 1936. In 1976, the became the Rhode Island Reds, before moving to Binghamton,...

WQXI first went on the air in 1948 and played the pop standards of the day. In the 1960s it moved to a top-40/rock & roll format, before switching to oldies in the 1970s. The station is most famous for being the inspiration for...

Beverly Park operated from 1945 to 1974 at the corner of Beverly Blvd. and La Cienega, the present home of the Beverly Center Mall. The Park was apparently inspired Walt Disney to create Disneyland.??

Shooting Star was the signature roller coaster at Old Coney. Opened in 1937 as the Clipper, it became Shooting Star after a redesign in 1947. It climbed to a height of 88n feet and reached a top speed 43 MPH. It gave it's final...

Top Spin was a dizzying bit of fun at Old Coney from 2015 through 2019. Manufactured by Italian amusement park ride maker SBF Visa Group, it left more than few riders woozy but wanting more.

The Storybook Paddle Boats have been plying the waters of Lake Como at Old Coney since 2013 and are one of the few rides kept when the park decided to focus solely on water attractions following the 2019 season.

Python, sponsored by a soft drink company for most of its existence was Zyklon-style coaster at Old Coney in Cincinnati. It opened in 1996 at Splash Zone Water Park in Wildwood, NJ.?? After the 1999 season, it was relocated to Cincinnati where it operated...

Based in Cleveland, Millbrook Bread was sold throughout the Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, it's parent brand opted to go with another name nationwide in an apparent attempt to have a more consistent feel in product offerings.

The person wearing this T-Shirt loves Cleveland.

Paul Wilcox hosted??the TV show "Polka Varieties," the show aired Sundays on Cleveland's WEWS-TV (and eventually was syndicated on stations across the country) from 1956 to 1983. It??highlighted??both local and national polka acts.

The first Derby was held in 1875 in Louisville and is the most famous horse racing event in the world. The entire horseracing world knows its significance.

The first Derby was held in 1875 in Louisville and is the most famous horse racing event in the world. The entire horseracing world knows its significance.

The first Derby was held in 1875 in Louisville and is the most famous horse racing event in the world.

Jackie Robinson best known for breaking the color barrier in the modern era of baseball, but fans of the sport also recognize his extra ordinary talent. After playing for the Negro American League's Kansas City Monarchs in 1945, he was signed by Brooklyn and...

KXOK St. Louis went on the air on September 19, 1938 at 1250 on the AM dial. It moved to 630 two years later. One of the members of the air staff was Paul Aurandt, who would later become newscaster Paul Harvey. In its...

The Summit opened in 1975 and was home to the NBA's Houston Rockers for whom the arena was primarily constructed. However, it was also the home ice of the original Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association from 1975 until 1978, as well as...

The Westlake Drive-in opened in the summer of 1950 on 10th St., near what is today the intersection with I-465. It closed in 1982. Today the site is occupied by a medical building and a home improvement center.

Mississippi River Festival, or MRF, was an outdoor concert series held from 1969 to 1980 on the campus of Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois. Many top performers of the day appeared. The run ended when the university asked the new promoter to bring in classical...

Hills was a discount retail department store that was founded in Youngstown, Ohio in 1957. It started as full-fledged department store before moving into the discount arena some years after its founding. In the late '80s it bought a number of stores out of...

The Providence Reds (also known as the Rhode Island Reds) started in the Canadian-American Hockey League in 1926. They continued with that circuit when it became the American Hockey League in 1936. In 1976, they became the Rhode Island Reds, before moving to Binghamton,...

The Upstage was a dance club and music venue located on the second floor of 3609 Forbes Avenue in Oakland, right in the shadow of Pitt's ABC towers. A generation danced the night away and enjoyed live music there until it closed in 1995.

The Upstage was a dance club and music venue located on the second floor of 3609 Forbes Avenue in Oakland, right in the shadow of Pitt's ABC towers. A generation danced the night away and enjoyed live music there until it closed in 1995.

Hey dudes lighten up!!

Big Town Mall opened in 1959 in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite and was the first enclosed shopping center in the Southwest. The center's exterior was featured in the 1985 film??True Stories by Talking Heads member David Byrne. The mall closed in 2001 and...

Marty Brennaman and Joe "The Ol' Left-Hander" Nuxhall began calling Reds baseball on the radio in 1974. The duo spent 33 seasons together in the broadcast booth.

Downtown malls were all the rage in the late '80s and early '90s, especially in the Buckeye State. Beating fellow Ohio cities Cleveland and Cincinnati by about a year, Columbus opened City Center in 1989. A popular destination at first, it soon lost shoppers...