Places

It's a "wheel" of fun at Brooklyn's favorite bike rental, kayak rental, and bike tour company, Wheel Fun Rentals.

Sambo's was a chain of sit-down restaurants that at its peak had over 1,100 locations in 47 states.

The Red and Black Cafe??was a radical safer space??cafe??and worker-managed collective??in Portland from 2000 to 2015. It served an all-vegan??menu and hosted community-based events.

The Guild 45th movie theater opened in 1919 as a Paramount Theatre for about seven years before the Downtown Paramount Theatre opened. A second screen was added to the Guild 45th in 1983, two doors down from the main theatre. In 2017, facing mounting...

Brooklyn merged with New York City in 1898 to become one of the city's 5 boroughs.

The Brooklyn Tigers football team was established in 1936 and played in the second loop to call itself the American Football League. Before the end of its inaugural season, the team moved to Rochester. It folded, along with the rest of the league, after...

Rain City Video was a small chain of video rental shops that started in 1988. Its last location, in West Ballard, closed in April of 2017.

The Tuxedo Bar was a nightly go-to for the locals, natives and visitors of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

More-Way was Milwaukee, Wisconsin's favorite discount department store.

The Boy Blue chain of soft-serve stands was a Milwaukee institution for many years, from the 1950's until the 1990's.

Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour is an American ice cream parlor chain founded in Portland in 1963 by Bob Farrell??and Ken McCarthy.??The chain grew to 120 locations, but as of 2018 there were only 2 locations remaining, both in California.

Harveys was a department store chain that began in 1942 with a store at the corner of 6th Avenue North and Church Street in Nashville. In the 1960s and 1970s it added locations in the surrounding suburbs as well as other towns across Middle...

Remember chowing down on seafood at Captain Frank's Seafood House This memorable eatery sat at the end of the old East 9th Street pier and served up fish, lobster, salads, shellfish baskets, and more from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Known for the Tee Pee that sat a top its buildings, this restaurant was an Indianapolis institution for nearly 50 years. All 3 locations of the Tee Pee restaurant closed in 1978.

The Coral Court Motel??opened in 1942 on historic U.S. Route 66??in the St. Louis suburb of Marlborough. In 1989, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places??being cited as a valuable example of Art Deco architecture. OS2770

Speedway, Indiana is the home of the ??Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where the Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400 auto races are held. It was established in 1912 as a planned residential community and was incorporated in 1926.

"Positive waves" was a slogan used by the Indianapolis Racers hockey team who played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) from 1974 to 1978. In 1979, the Indianapolis Checkers were granted an expansion franchise in the Central Hockey League.

Tijuana??Yacht Club was a popular spot for young people in Indianapolis to hang out, dance, and play video games.

Proud to be made in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Hook's Drug Stores??was an Indianapolis, Indiana-based pharmacy chain founded in 1900 by John A. Hook. In 1994 it was acquired by Revco, who in turn were bought by CVS in 1997. It also ran SupeRX Drug Stores before selling those stores to Kroger in...

Galyan's Trading Company was a beloved American sporting goods chain founded in Plainfield, Indiana that featured rock climbing walls, golf simulators, and archery ranges.

ATA Airlines started as Ambassador travel club in 1973. It later became American Trans Air, then simply ATA.?? It had hubs at Indianapolis International Airport and Chicago's Midway Airport. In 2008, it ceased operations.

The Cleveland Comedy Company was a locally produced sketch comedy TV show that aired on Channel 5 on Friday nights in 1979 and 1980. It was developed by popular local DJ Bob James of WGAR. The cast included fellow WGAR DJ Paul Tapie, as...

Sid and Eleanor Maurer opened the Atlas Supermarket at the corner of North College Avenue and 54th Street in 1947. It closed in 2002 after 55 years in business. Fun Fact: Atlas Supermarket was where television star David Letterman worked as a stock boy...

Euclid Beach Park opened in 1895 on Lake Shore Boulevard and served as the area's primary amusement park for over 70 years. Financial problems, along with competition from the newly expanded Geauga Lake, spelled the end of Euclid Beach Park after the 1969 season.

The Euclid Tavern is one of Cleveland's most important and legendary live music venues. Opened in 1909, the "Euc" became a storied venue on the Cleveland music scene. Early in their career, Green Day performed there and got paid $100. Scenes for the 1987...

Geauga Lake is a former theme park in Aurora, Ohio that was established in 1887 in what had been a local recreation area adjacent to the lake of the same name. The first amusement ride was added in 1889, and the park's first roller...

Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, was NOT from Cleveland, he was from New Jersey. However, he was distantly related to Moses Cleaveland (yes, spelled differently) the man for whom the city is named.

Come summertime in Indiana, Cocktail Cove, located on the Geist Reservoir, is the place to party and get some sun.

Nashville's Sulphur Dell, in 1870, was the area was referred to as Athletic Park, and in 1885 it became the home of Nashville's first professional baseball team, the Americans, in the newly-formed Southern League. Grantland Rice re-named the ballpark "Sulphur Dell" in 1908 while...