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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...

Richter's Wieners were a popular brand of hot dog in the 1930s and were available until after World War II.

Nothing is more American than a hot dog party. Get those wieners out and have fun!

The best wieners are big and juicy.

You can always rely on Kingan's hot dogs!

The whole family loves a good hot dog! Maybe a little too much?

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Fatt Dog had locations on Post Street and Pine Streets in San Francisco. Diners were advised to have napkins at the ready, as they would be soaked with dog juice after just one bite.

The Cleveland Jaybirds were a men's professional softball team that played in the American Professional Softball League (APSL) starting in 1977. After two seasons, the team was sold to local ad man Ted Stepian, who renamed them the Cleveland Competitors. After one more season...

The St. Louis Arena opened in 1929 and was home to?? the city's many pro hockey, pro basketball, and pro soccer teams. It also hosted college sports, concerts, conventions, and more. From 1977 to 1983, it was known as the Checkerdome as Ralston Purina...

The Original Hot Dog Shop, better known as simply "The O," opened in 1960. Literally sitting in the shadow of the University of Pittsburgh, it was a popular destination not only for students, but anyone visiting the Oakland neighborhood to see a concert, visit...

Opened in 1988, The Palace of Auburn Hills was a multi-purpose arena that hosted concerts and other events and was home to several sports teams including the basketball's Detroit Pistons and hockey's Detroit Vipers. The Pistons left in 2017 and though the building was...

Established in 1942 as W83C, this legendary Chicago radio station changed its call letters several times before becoming WLUP "The Loop 97.9" in 1977. For the next 41 years it was one of the most popular and influential radio station's in America. It is...

Organized baseball in the African American community dates back to the end of the Civil War. Starting in 1920, with establishment of the Negro National League, there was finally some stability and structure that helped better showcase these extraordinary players. READ MORE ???*Design is...

Schmelzer's All Nations was a barnstorming, baseball team established in 1912 in Kansas City. The was sponsored by Schmelzer's Arms, a manufacturer of firearms. At the time the team was formed, there was no major league baseball west of St. Louis. The nickname reflected...