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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.

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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...

Club Laga was a popular venue for punk hardcore, punk, and hip-hop acts from 1996 until 2004. One floor below was the Upstage Lounge a popular dance club in the '80s and 90s.

The Louisville Fire were members of af2 the second tier of arena football and played from 2001 to 2008. Their home field was Brown-Forman Field in Freedom Hall.??Their owner was former??Pro Bowl??lineman and Louisville native??Will Wolford, who played for Buffalo, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh in...

WCPO TV was the station first signed on the air at noon on July 26, 1949, and first face seen was Big Jim Stacey.??Originally operating on VHF channel 7; it was Cincinnati's third television station.

Before he was a the host of a crazy talk show, Jerry Springer was a Cincinnati councilman, mayor, newscaster, and attorney.

If you grew up in Cincinnati, chances are great that you were on the Uncle Al Show. Uncle Al and Captain Wendy entertained children of the midwest for over 35 years, and had one of the longest running kids TV shows in the history...

If you grew up in Cincinnati, chances are pretty good you were on the??Uncle Al Show. Uncle Al and Captain Wendy entertained children of the Midwest for over 35 years, and had one of the longest running kids TV shows in the history of...

The??Cincinnati Swarm??were a professional??arena football??franchise in??the Midwest Division of the National Conference of the second tier??af2.??In 2003, the Swarm went 7 and 9, good for second in the Midwest Division but failed to make the playoffs. Attendance lacked at??the Swarm's games and the team...

The Cincinnati Slammers began as the Ohio Mixers in 1982. Originally based in Lima, Ohio, the team played its home games at Lima Senior High School. In 1984, the team moved to Cincinnati and was renamed the Slammers. Following the 1986-87 season, the team...

The Cincinnati Commandos were an indoor football team that played in the Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL) in 2010 and 2011. Their home field was the??Cincinnati Gardens. In 2012 they moved to the United Indoor Football League (UIFL). They suspended operations in 2013.

The Cincinnati Comets were a soccer team, the city's first pro club, that played in the American Soccer League from 1972 to 1975.

After the Central Hockey League (CHL) version of the Stingers folded 33 games into the 1979/80 season, Cincinnati was left without a pro hockey team for the first time since 1974, when the American Hockey League's Swords folded. The Tigers hit the ice in...

After the Central Hockey League (CHL) version of the Stingers folded 33 games into the 1979/80 season, Cincinnati was left without a pro hockey team for the first time since 1974, when the American Hockey League's Swords folded. The Tigers hit the ice in...

Before the Cincinnati??Swords,??Stingers, Cyclones, and??Mighty Ducks, Cincinnati had the Mohawks. They were a member of the American Hockey League (AHL) from 1949 to 1952, before moving to the International Hockey League (IHL), where they won 5 straight championships. Their home ice was the??Cincinnati Gardens.

Before the Cincinnati??Swords,??Stingers, Cyclones, and??Mighty Ducks, Cincinnati had the Mohawks. They were a member of the American Hockey League (AHL) from 1949 to 1952, before moving to the International Hockey League (IHL), where they won 5 straight championships. Their home ice was the??Cincinnati Gardens.

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