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

Introduced in 1982, the Commodore 64 is the single best selling computer model of all time. Along with the Apple II, it helped usher in the era of home computing for millions.

The DuMont Television Network began broadcasting on June 28, 1942, the nation's third TV network behind NBC and CBS. Regular network service began on August 15, 1946. It was started by DuMont Laboratories, a maker of TVs. Financial strains and fierce competition from NBC,...

Penny for your thoughts! Buy 12 CDs or tapes (or LPs), for a penny and buy just four more at "regular club prices." Not many did that last bit.

Musicland was founded in Minneapolis in 1955.?? In 1964, it merged with music distributor JL Marsh followed by merger in 1968 with record label and distributor Pickwick International. In 1977, American Can Company bought Pickwick and a year later, famed New York record store...

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.

Tape World was a mall-based chain of music stores owned by Trans World Entertainment, operators of Record Town, Coconuts, and FYE among others. While the name suggested emphasis on the one format, it did offer CDs, briefly, before being retired by Trans World.

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...

Remember kids, Electricity is your friend, but he can kill you. Even at Christmas!

Media Play was an attempt by The Musicland Group to compete with so-called big box retailers such as electronics stores Best Buy and Circuit City, who sold CDs at near cost to lure customers in. In addition to music, Media Play also carried books,...

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.

A popular discount department store for generations, Woolworth was also famous for its in-store lunch counter.

It's one of the world's most famous ice cream bars.

"All roads lead to the Dog House," the slogan went for Bob Murray's Dog House Restaurant. Located at the corner of 7th and Bell, it opened in the 1930s. It served its last meal in 1994.

The Continental Football League (COFL) formed in 1965 with hopes of achieving a status approaching that of the NFL and AFL. The CFL played primarily in Eastern cities not served by the other two leagues. However, by its second season, it focused on becoming...

The 211 Club poolroom in Seattle was opened in 1898 by members of the 211 Union. In 1987 it moved to a new location above the Speakeasy Cafe. Unable to renew its lease, it closd in December of 2000.

Before Spot, there was Fresh Freddie who first introduced kids to 7-Up back in the 1950's.

Who knows better than a skunk that smoking stinks?

Curling dates back to 16th century Scotland. It is popular in many Northern countries, particularly Canada where it was introduced in the 19th century. The game involves players sliding stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is...

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

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

Are you "reddy" for an electrifying Christmas?

Playland Amusement Park opened in 1930 on Bitter Lake. A popular entertainment spot into the 1950s, it featured a roller coaster, Shute the Shoots, and roller rink among other attractions. It closed in 1961, the land acquired to build a school.

The Igloo was a diner and drive-in restaurant in Seattle from the late 1940 until 1954. It's unique twin-dome design, which looked like two igloos, was intended to capture the attention of passing motorists at the intersection of Denny Ave. and Aurora Way.

The Jolly Roger Taproom in the Ballard section of Seattle is a pirate-themed beer pub whose beers are supplied by the Maritime Pacific Brewery.

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.

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...

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The Checker Motors Corporation was a Kalamazoo-based vehicle manufacture best known for making taxi cabs. The iconic, boxy sedans, roamed the streets of America's cities for most of the 20th century, before ceasing production in 1982. Though widely used by cab companies, Checker cars...

Tusko, build as "The World's Meanest Elephant," arrived in the U.S. from Thialand in 1898. After touring the country, his keepr George "Slim" Lewis, tried to get him into a circus but none wanted him. Tusko lived out his final years at the Seattle...