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If you didn't have MTV in the early to mid '80s, or even if you did, you were parked in front of the TV to watch??Friday Night Videos??on NBC after??The Tonight Show.

In the 1980s, it was the battle cry of the British Phonograph Industry (BPI), later championed by similar organizations around the world. Little did they know that a much scarier beast was lurking on the horizon.

The Seattle SeaDogs played in the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) from 1995 to 1997.

The Chargers were charter members of the American Football League in 1960. They originally called Los Angeles home, but moved to San Diego after one season where they remained until 2016, when they moved back north to L.A.

Founded in 1972, the Los Angeles Sharks were charter members of the World Hockey Association (WHA). The team was originally going to be called the Aces, but when the San Francisco Sharks were transferred to Quebec to become the Nordiques before the start of...

Frederick & Nelson??was a department store??chain based in Seattle. Founded in 1891 as a furniture store, it soon expanded into selling general merchandise. At its peak in the 1980s, it boasted 10 locations in Washington State and Oregon but closed in 1992.

The Seattle Metropolitans played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1915 to 1924. In 1917 they became the first American team to win the Stanley Cup before that trophy became exclusively associated with the National Hockey League in 1926.

Steeped in '70s, and a little '80s, nostalgia, the Have a Nice Day Cafe was a chain of restaurants that operated from the mid-90s to the early 2000s. At its peak, the chain had over 20 locations across the U.S.

The Oakland Oaks were a basketball team co-owned by singer Pat Boone. They began in 1967 as charter members of the American Basketball Association. They went from worst to first in 1969, capturing the second-ever ABA title. In 1970, the team moved east to...

On November 24, Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper walked up to the Northwest Airlines ticket counter at the Portland International airport and purchased a one-way ticket to Seattle. Hours later he would leap into aviation history as the only...

The Whistl'n Pig opened in 1947 at??818 S.W. Broadway in Portland. In 1954, it became Bruer's Coffee Shop.??Whistl'n Pig moved to 8640 S.W. Canyon Rd. and became the Whistl'n Pig Bar-B-Q Restaurant.

A. Sabella's was a popular destination on Fisherman's Wharf in??San Francisco for nearly 90 years.

Pup 'n' Taco was a popular fast food chain in Los Angeles. It served featured hot dogs (thus the "pup" tacos, tostadas, pastrami sandwiches, burgers, and fries. Russell Wendell started in the restaurant business in 1956 with Big Donut. He introduced Pup 'n' Taco in 1965. In 1984, most of...

A mall staple in the 1970s and 1980s, Chess King was founded in 1968 in Boston. At its peak it had over 500 stores. However, it was so closely identified with those two decades, soon into the 1990s it was no longer considered hip.

The original Flying Saucer restaurant operated in the 1960s at 27th Avenue and Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Open 24 hours a day, it featured??an all-day breakfast service and three-hour lunch service. Dinner was served until 11:00 p.m. In between, customers could purchase sandwiches,...

Burger Chef was a fast-food hamburger chain that started in Indianapolis in 1958. At its peak in the mid 1970s, it was second only to McDonald's in the number of nationwide locations. The chain even made inroads into Canada. In 1982, the chain was...

The Fog began as the Detroit Lightning, an expansion team in the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) for the 1979-80 season. They moved to Northern California in the summer of 1980. In 1981, the team moved again, this time to Kansas City, where they...

Not to be confused with comic actor with the same name, Pat McCormick was a T.V. personality in San Francisco best known for hosting the Charley and Humphrey kids show. The program started in Fresno in 1959 and moved with McCormick to?? KGO-TV in...

KICU, Channel 36, first went on the air in 1967 as KGSC. In 1979 it became KICU after an ownership change. Though it officially retains its official KICU call letters, the station is today known as KTVU Plus, reflecting its relationship to its sibling...

After a few seasons in the West Coast Hockey League, the Fresno Falcons opted for a new logo and color scheme in 1998, before changing logos again in 2003.