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Tape World was a mall-based chain of music stores owned by Trans World Entertainment, operators of Record Town, Coconuts, and FYE among others. While the name suggested emphasis on the one format, it did offer CDs, briefly, before being retired by Trans World.

Musicland was founded in Minneapolis in 1955.?? In 1964, it merged with music distributor JL Marsh followed by merger in 1968 with record label and distributor Pickwick International. In 1977, American Can Company bought Pickwick and a year later, famed New York record store...

M105 was born when WKYC-FM was sold to Nick Mileti and??Jim and Tom Embrescia in 1972. The call letters were changed to WWWM, the station was branded M105, and the format, at first, was syndicated beautiful music.In 1975, the format was flipped to AOR....

WNKU signed on in 1985 from the campus of Northern Kentucky University. For the 31 years the station broadcast a mix of mostly locally-curated adult album alternative music with select programs from National Public Radio as well as other public radio networks. It is...

From the mid '60s to the mid '70s, WIXY, "Wicksy Twelve-Sixty," was Cleveland's preeminent top-40 radio station. Despite having a weaker signal than its competitors it dominated the ratings for a decade.

Originally WERE's FM sibling station, WGCL was born in 1970 after the station was acquired by General Cinema Corporation and was soon branded "G98." For the next 16 years its formats oscillated between top-40 and AOR, and was home to personalities such Bumper Morgan,...

WFNX was one of the nation's first stations to adopt a modern rock format. Flipping from classic rock, and the call letters, WLYN, WFNX not only gained fans in Boston, but became one of the most revered and respected alternative radio stations in the...

On May 12, 1992, WPHR, 107.9, flipped its format from CHR/top-40 to modern rock. It also changed call letters to WENZ, and branded itself "The End." The end of "The End" wasn't far off though, and within a few years new ownership changed the...

Originally WKSZ, this Philadelphia station flipped its format in 1993 from adult contemporary/oldies to a pop-friendly alternative format. Within two years it was full-on modern rock. In 2005, the station changed call letters, and format becoming WPHI, an urban contemporary station.

WRQC was arguably Cleveland's first modern rock radio station. It changed its call letters from WLYT in the spring of 1983 and began playing new wave and alternative rock, exclusively. The big rock station in town played some of this music, but for 92...

It's been called the greatest radio station in the world. Broadcasting a wide range of pop music, BBC Radio 1 has been on the air since September 30, 1967 and entertains fans across the U.K. and around the globe.

Lincoln Mall opened in 1973 at the corner of U.S. Route 30 and Cicero Avenue in Matteson, Illinois. For the next 42 years shoppers to roamed its two levels, four anchor stores, and 250,000 square feet of retail space. In 2015, the inside of...

What is now the Anderson Towne Centre, Old School Shirts remembers the Beechmont Mall. Opened in 1969, it was originally anchored by??Shillito's, Mabley & Carew, and later??Gold Circle.??In 2003 it was redeveloped into an outdoor shopping center with the old Shilito's, now Macy's, the...

Rolling Acres Mall in Akron opened its doors for the first time on August 6, 1975 with 21 stores and Sears as its first anchor.?? Over the years it expanded to 140 stores and five anchors, becoming the top shopping destination in the Akron...

East Towne Mall opened in 1984 as??Knoxville Center in North??Knoxville,??Tennessee.?? Despite being in one of Knoxville's most vibrant and fastest growing areas, the mall succumbed to the changing taste of shoppers and closed for good on January 31, 2020.

The sibling to the Alameda Mall, Northwest Mall opened in 1968 in the??Lazybrook/Timbergrove??neighborhood of??Houston, Texas. While Alameda Mall, opened two weeks earlier, continues to draw shoppers, Northwest Mall closed for good on March 31, 2017.

Soon after opening "the biggest mall in all the world," Randall Park Mall in suburban Cleveland, developer Edward J. DeBartolo set his sites on Pittsburgh. With the paint barely dry on Randall Park, plans were drawn up for Century III Mall located in the...

A shirt for anyone brave enough to sit through this stage show from the 1950s.

Founded in Cincinnati in 1943, King Records was one of the most important independent record labels in music history. One of its sibling labels, Federal Records, was the original home of James Brown. King was purchased by Nashville's Gusto Records in 1974.

The New York Cubans were a Negro league baseball team based in Paterson, NJ that played from 1931 to 1950. The team was unique in that it occasionally had Hispanic players, who were also restricted from Major League Baseball, on it roster. In 1947,...

Los??Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo??was a??Dominican??dream team??formed in 1937 under the direction of then-dictator??Rafael Trujillo.??The team was essentially a merger of??Tigres del Licey??and??Leones del Escogido.??The team represented??Santo Domingo??in the championship series that lasted from March 28 to July 11 of that year, resulting in the...

The??Sabios de Vargas??baseball club became a founding member of the??Venezuelan Professional Baseball League??in its inaugural season of??1946. The team represented the city of??La Guaira, Vargas??and played its home games at the now-extinct Estadio Cerveza Caracas. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball...

The Cincinnati Tigers were a Negro baseball team founded in 1934. They played as an independent team for three years before joining the Negro American League in 1937. They played in that circuit for only one season before disbanding. The team used uniforms donated...

What's the Wolfman's secret? Does he, or doesn't he? Only one person knows.

Tales of man who can shapeshift into a wolf-like creature date back as far as 27 A.D. In modern pop culture, the Wolf Man first appeared in a 1935 film called The Werewolf of London. A more popular film titled simply??The Wolf Man, debuted...

What lurks beneath the surface of the water? As soon as man saw the sea, he saw fantastic, and sometimes terrifying, creatures. From ancient folklore to modern TV and cinema we still find these beasts compelling--- and scary.

He first appeared in 1897 in a book titled????????simply?????Dracula??written by Irish author Bram Stoker.????? Based on the fifteenth century Romanian ruler Wallachia Vlad III Dracula , also known as "Vlad the Impaler," the fictional Dracula has gone on to be one of the most...

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...

WHFS was an alternative rock station serving both Baltimore and Washington D.C. Founded on November 11, 1961, the station, from the start, was quite adventurous in its music programming, settling into a progressive rock format in the late '60s. In 1983, the station switched...

The Pittsburgh Pisces were the fictional basketball team featured in the 1979 film The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh.?????Filmed on location in the Steel City, the movie starred real-life basketball legends Julius "Dr. J." Erving (then of the Philadelphia 76ers), Meadowlark Lemon (of the Harlem...