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It's your move! Look great in this chess and Ohio-inspired design from Old School Shirts!

In 1999, the Arena Football League formed AF2 as a farm league and as well as a way to bring the sport to mostly smaller markets. Cincinnati joined up in 2003 with the??Swarm who??posted a 7 and 9 record in their only season.??They drew...

May all your days be merry and bright, and may all your beer be "Hudy Delight"

Support cycling in the CLE, with this Cleveland Bicycle tee

In 1920, the Dayton Triangles were founding members of the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The team played in the very first game between two league teams when they met the Columbus Panhandles on October 3, 1920 in Dayton's Triangle Park. They played their...

Before major league hockey arrived in Columbus, the city had many minor league teams. None were more popular than the Columbus Chill. In 1991, the team debuted as an expansion franchise in the East Coast Hockey League (now just the ECHL, thank you). Their...

Wizard Records, CDs, and Tapes was located in Corryville on Short Vine in Cincinnati. In 1985, John James became the store manager and eventually the owner. In 2000, James moved the store to Oxford but closed up shop for good about a year later.

Ground was broken for Old Indiana Fun Park in 1973, but the park didn't open for another ten years, first as??Middle Country Renaissance Festival. It ran for six weekends until the end of the first weekend of October 1983. Construction of a ride park...

Lakeside Park on Dayton's West Side was established in 1887 as a picnic grove. By the 1890s, the land at the corner of South Gettysburg Ave. and Lakeside Dr. had developed into an amusement park. It closed in 1967 and in 1996 the US...

Royal Castle Hamburgers??was founded in 1938 by William Singer in Miami. The chain grew to over 175 locations in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio, and Michigan.??

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Kenny King's was a sit-down, fast-casual family restaurant chain that operated in Northeast Ohio from the 1950s until the mid 1990s. It was best known as a franchisee of Kentucky Fried Chicken as well as for offering its own Big King steakburger.

The Cleveland Press??was the city's afternoon and published from 1878 to 1982.

Cleveland's first independent TV station was WKBF, Channel 61, which began broadcasting on January 19, 1968. Competition from Cleveland's second independent TV station, WUAB Channel 43, combined with a soft economy, set the stage for a merger of the two stations with the channel...

The Euclid Beach Band consisted of lead vocalists Richard Reising and Pete Hewlett. In 1978, they released "There's No Surf In Cleveland," both a tribute to and parody of the Beach Boys, which became a local hit.

Long before serving in Congress from 1997 to 2013, Dennis Kucinich was mayor of Cleveland from January 1978 to November 1979. His brief but controversial tenure included a battle with one of the area's major utilities as well as the city declaring bankruptcy. He...

The Cleveland Nets were charter members of World Team Tennis in 1974. Their home court was the Richfield Coliseum.??In 1977, they split home matches between Cleveland and Pittsburgh (where the Triangles had just folded) before moving in 1978 to New Orleans where they became...

Youngstown native Bernie Kosar played for the Browns from 1985 to 1993 and remains one the teams most beloved stars. Beginning with his rookie season in 1985, he led the Browns to five straight play-off appearances including the AFC Conference Championship game in 1986,...

You'll never get lost when you follow this map to delicious Camp Washington Chili!

Camp Washington Chili??has been serving up chili to Cincinnati natives 24 hours a day, 6 days a week for over 75 years!

Vortex operated for 33 years at Kings Island amusement park, located just norh of Cincinnati, beginning in April 1987. When it opened, it set several records including, tallest, full-circuit roller coaster with the longest drop in the world. It was also the first coaster...

The phrase "Best Location in the Nation," seems to have been coined in the 1940s. Still very popular in the 1960s and 1970s, it comes from the fact that Cleveland is 600 miles from 60% of the U.S. (and a good chunk of Canada).

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May all your days be merry and bright, and may all your beer be "Hudy Delight"

Established in 1960, Holtman's is Cincinnati's premiere donut shop, with locations in Over-the-Rhine, Williamsburg, Loveland, and West Chester.

Get in the groove with this great shirt. Perfect for vinyl fans in the Buckeye State.

Opened in 1969, the??Beechmont Mall??in Anderson received a facelift in the 1990s. However, even new design features couldn't reverse its fortunes and it closed in 2002, making way for the outdoor shopping destination known as Anderson Towne Center.

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...

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...

The Skipper Ryle Show was a TV program in Cincinnati on WKRC-TV. Glenn Ryle hosted this show from 1955 to 1972.