Places

The World of Sid and Marty Krofft??was an indoor amusement park??in Atlanta, Georgia that was based on the various TV shows??produced by the sibling duo Sid and Marty Krofft. It was located in what is now CNN Center.??

Edgewater Park was a 20-acre amusement park at Grand River and Seven Mile Rd on Detroit's West Side that opened in 1927. For over 50 years its visitors enjoyed such attractions as the Wild Beast roller coaster, the 110-foot Ferris wheel, and the Hall...

Nashville is Music City, USA

Wild and Woolly Video opened in 1997 renting and selling over 20,000 titles on DVD, Blu-Ray, and VHS. It specialized in hard-to-find classics, obscurities, and titles too weird for the mainstream. One of the last video rental businesses in the region, it closed in...

Sunset Bowl opened in 1957 in Ballard and soon became a local hotspot. Sunset It closed in 2008 and was demolished in 2010.

Ernst Home Centers was a chain of home improvement stores founded in 1893 in Seattle by brothers Charles and Fred Ernst. At its peak it boasted over 95 stores in nine states. It filed for bankruptcy in 1996 and was liquidated in 1997.

The building that housed the Off Ramp Cafe was built in 1908 and was home to a variety of shops until the 1950s when a successive string of muisc clubs occupied the space. In 1986 it began booking alternative rock acts as the Off...

The Chubby and Tubby variety store began in 1947 in a metal hut. It grew into a South Seattle institution but closed in 2003.

Cellophane Square was a famous record store in Seattle's University District that opened in the early 1970s. It closed in 2009.

Geri's Hamburgers was founded in 1962 in Rockford, Illinois and modeled after the early McDonald's of the day, including a design geared toward walk-up service. This was no accident, as one of Geri's owners was a former vice president at McDonald's. Later locations had...

Beefsteak Charlie's was founded in Manhattan in 1910 and became a chain in 1976 with locations through out the New York metropolitan area. The chain went out of business in 1987, but a few locations soldiered on, the last one, in Nassau County, closed...

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.