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Steamboat Willie debuted in 1928 and starred a mouse who went on to great worldwide fame.

The Omaha Mustangs played one season, 1968, in the Continental Football League (CoFL). The team, though, had been around since the early 1960s, having started out as a semi-pro team. They moved up to the Professional Football League of America before joining the CoFL,...

The??Omaha Nighthawks were established in 2010 as an expansion team in the United Football League. Their homefield in 2010 was old??Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium. In 2011 they moved into??TD Ameritrade Park.??They played three seasons before folding along with the rest of the league after the...

The United Football League (UFL) played three seasons and part of a fourth and occupied the second tier of American outdoor football. A total of eight cities were represented, though no more than five teams played at any one time. Unlike many latter day...

Family Video was in founded in 1978 in Springfield, Illinois as the Video Movie Club. The idea came about when??Midstates Appliance and Supply Company, owned by Charles Hoogland, found itself stuck with an excess of video movies as a result of being a distributor...

Family Video was in founded in 1978 in Springfield, Illinois as the Video Movie Club. The idea came about when??Midstates Appliance and Supply Company, owned by Charles Hoogland, found itself stuck with an excess of video movies as a result of being a distributor...

Midwest Airlines was founded as Midwest Express in 1983 in Milwaukee. In 2010, it was acquired by another airline.

PM Magazine was a news and entertainment magazine produced in several markets throughout the United States from 1978 to 1991.

Brewed by Cincinnati's own Schoenling Brewing Co., Little Kings was founded in 1958. Its distinctive 7-ounce green bottle was invented soon after when patrons at Montgomery Inn stated they'd prefer not to buy a full-sized bottle of beer to go with their shots of...

Remember kids, Electricity is your friend, but he can kill you. Check out the sticker!

Hot Sam Pretzels was a fast food??franchise that first opened in Detroit's Livonia Mall in 1966. With franchised locations also found mostly in shopping malls, it was bought by Mrs. Fields, off of cookies, in 1995 and merged with Pretzel Time. Hot Sam is...

In the early 1950s, between 20,000-60,000 people a year were becoming afflicted with polio. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh developed a polio vaccine in 1952. By 1955 a campaign to vaccinate children in the U.S. was launched. ALbert Sabin...

Hot Sam Pretzels was a fast food??franchise that first opened in Detroit's Livonia Mall in 1966. With franchised locations also found mostly in shopping malls, it was bought by Mrs. Fields, off of cookies, in 1995 and merged with Pretzel Time. Hot Sam is...

PB Max appeared in 1989 and featured creamy peanut butter on top of a square-shaped whole grain cookie, enrobed in milk chocolate. Despite robust sales, it was discontinued after only a few years on the market.

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.

Vintage matchbook pizza mascot tee.

This was always one of the best deals in the record store, especially if you catching up on an artist's catalog.

"Hey Man, is that Freedom Rock?" "Yeah, Man." "Well, turn it up, Man!!!"

Introduced in 1973, the Marathon bar was advertised with the slogans, "lasts a good longtime" and "nobody eats a Marathon fast." Indeed, its eight inches of chocolate covered caramel could not be consumed quickly, It went out of production in 1981.

The Big 8 Conference was a college athletic conference formed in 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association and included the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, Washington University in St. Louis. Additionally, and University of Iowa. Membership grew to 10, but in 1928, it...