Northeast

Wetson's, like many hamburger joints founded in the 1960s, was inspired by the rapid success of McDonald's. At it's peak, it had over 70 locations in the New York Metropolitan area, as well as a few in California.

The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair was held on 646 acres of land in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the borough of Queens. It featured 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, from 80 nations (hosted by 37), as well as 24 U.S. states, with over 45 corporations...

Pipers was the original nickname of Pittsburgh's American Basketball Association team. They began play in 1967, the league's inaugural season. After winning the league's first-ever championship, they moved to Minnesota, then moved back to Pittsburgh the following year. A year later they were the...

They'll be buzzin' around the bases and the ball park this spring! Cicadas are winged insects, known for the songs sung by most, but not all, males of the species. They are better known for their swarming behavior which occurs every 13 to 17...

The Checker Motors Corporation was a Kalamazoo-based vehicle manufacture best known for making taxi cabs. The iconic, boxy sedans, roamed the streets of America's cities for most of the 20th century, before ceasing production in 1982. Though widely used by cab companies, Checker cars...

Camp Crystal Lake is not the place you want to spend your summer. In real life, it's??Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco in Hardwick, New Jersey, which is actually much more pleasant, and has been used by generations of summer campers.

Three Rivers Stadium opened in 1970 as the new home of the city's pro football and pro baseball teams. Similar to other so-called cookie-cutter stadiums of the era (The Vet in Philadelphia, Riverfront in Cincinnati, etc.), Three Rivers closed in 2000. Mired in mediocrity,...

The Pittsburgh Crawfords, also known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team that played from 1931-1940. They were named after the Crawford Bath House, a recreation center in the Crawford neighborhood of Pittsburgh's Hill District. After playing in several different leagues,...

The Buffalo Braves joined the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1970 as an expansion team. A dispute over the availability of dates at Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium caused the team to start looking for a new home outside of Western New York. At first a...

The Newark Eagles were a professional Negro league baseball team which played in the Negro National League from 1936 to 1948. *Product is official licensed by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The??Newark Eagles??were a professional??Negro league baseball??team which played in the??Negro National League??from??1936??to??1948.?? *Product is official licensed by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum??

The??New York Gothams were established in 1883 in the NL. They replaced the??Troy Trojans. The Gothams played their home games at the original Polo Grounds. In 1885 they became the Giants.

The??Pittsburgh Keystones??was the name of two historic professional??Negro league baseball??teams that operated in 1887 and again in 1921 and 1922. The first team was a member of the first black baseball league in 1887, the??League of Colored Baseball Clubs. In 1921 and 1922, the...

The Homestead Grays were one of the longest-running Negro league baseball teams in history, playing from 1900 to 1950.??They were Negro Leagues Champions in 1943, 1944, and 1948. *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Home to hockey's Penguins from 1967 to 2010, the Civic Arena was nicknamed "The Igloo." It was also home to the ABA's??Pipers??and??Condors??in the late '60s and early '70s, as well as the indoor soccer??Spirit??in the '80s and the??Gladiators??of the Arena Football League. The Penguins...

He is inarguably the greatest ball player in Pittsburgh history and one of the best in the big leagues period.

The original Bills football team was established in 1946 in Buffalo as the Bisons in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). In 1947, after a name-the-team contest, the new name was selected. In 1949, the NFL absorbed several AAFC teams but, oddly, the Bills were...

The Hawaiian Cottage was a popular tiki bar and restaurant located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. It opened in 1938 and welcomed visitors from all over the Northeast until a fire destroyed the building in 1978.

The Bisons were Buffalo's American Hockey League (AHL) team from 1940 to 1970 and the formation of the city's major league club. The new squad placed it's farm team in Cincinnati.

Hilldale Club was a Negro league baseball team based in the Philadelphia suburb of Darby. They played in three different leagues as well as independently and won three league titles as well a step 1925 Negro League World Series. *Produce is officially licensed by...