Southwest

Legend City Family Fun Park in Phoenix entertained a generation of visitors from 1963 to 1983.

The Phoenix Inferno joined the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) in 1980. In 1983 new ownership renamed them the Pride. They folded after that season.

KRIZ, now known as KOY, is the oldest radio station in Arizona. From 1950 through the 1970s, it was the biggest top-40 station in the state along with rival KRUX.

The Shreveport Steamer began as the Houston Texans (no relation to the current NFL team), a charter member of the World Football League (WFL) in 1974. Halfway through the season, the team moved to Louisiana. Radio legend Larry King was part of the Steamer...

The Hurricane played in the original North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1978 to 1980. Their home pitch was the Astrodome.?? In the winter, the team moonlighted as the Houston Summit of the Major Indoor Soccer League. Both teams played to small crowds with...

Billed as an expansion team for the second season of the World Football League (WFL) in 1975, the Wings were actually the relocated Florida Blazers. Playing their home games at Alamo Stadium, they went out of business along with the rest of the WFL...

The Texas Terror joined the Arena Football League in 1996 as an expansion team. They played their home games at the Compaq Center (formerly the Houston Summit). In 1998, the team changed its name to the??Houston ThunderBears.??While the team had the pro football market...

The Texas Terror joined the Arena Football League in 1996 as an expansion team. They played their home games at the Compaq Center (formerly the Houston Summit). In 1998, the team changed its name to the Houston ThunderBears. While the team had the pro...

The??Dallas Chaparrals were charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. Though successful on the court, the team drew poorly. In 1973, the team was acquired by a group of San Antonio businessmen in a deal that gave them a three-year option...

The Houston Mavericks first tipped off in fall 1967 as charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA). The team spent to years in Texas before moving to North Carolina to become the Carolina Cougars. In 1974, the team moved again and became the...

The Marshals first took the (indoor) field in Waco, Texas in 2004 as members of the National Indoor Football League (NIFL). Financial issues with team's owners caused the league to take over the Marshals, selling them at the end of their first season to...

Ultra Twister was a steel-pipeline style coaster built by TOGO for Six Flags Great America in Jackson, New Jersey. The ride opened in 1986 but after just five seasons in the Garden State, it was moved to AstroWorld in Houston for the 1991 season....

The Tulsa Roughnecks played in the old North American Soccer League from 1978 until the league folded after the 1984 season. The club started as the San Antonio Thunder in 1975. In 1977 it became Team Hawaii but moved to Oklahoma after playing just...

The San Antonio Rampage began as the the Tidewater Wings, members of the American Hockey League (AHL), in 1971. They changed their name in 1972 to the Virginia Wings. In 1979, they moved to Upstate New York and became the Adirondack Wings. In 2002,...

The Houston Astrodome, officially the NRG Astrodome, is the world's first multi-purpose, domed sports stadium. It opened in 1965 and was most famously home to baseball's Astros as well as the NFL's Oilers. Many other college and pro teams also played there including the...

The sibling to the Alameda Mall, Northwest Mall opened in 1968 in the??Lazybrook/Timbergrove??neighborhood of??Houston, Texas. While Alameda Mall, opened two weeks earlier, continues to draw shoppers, Northwest Mall closed for good on March 31, 2017.

The Dallas Tornado soccer team was a charter member of the United Soccer Association (USA) in 1967. In 1968, the team, along with the rest of the USA, merged with the National Soccer League (NSL) to form the North American Soccer League (NASL). One...

As the cold wind rolls off Lake Erie, Cleveland baseball fans' thoughts turn to Arizona and spring training.??

The??Dallas Chaparrals were charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. Though successful on the court, the team drew poorly. In 1973, the team was acquired by a group of San Antonio businessmen in a deal that gave them a three-year option...

KZEW, "The Zoo," debuted in the fall of 1973 after changing its call letters from WFAA, which first went on the air in 1947. Throughout the rest of the 70s and two the end of the 80s, KZEW was??the??rock & roll station in Dallas....

Sivils Drive-In opened in Houston in 1938. After an article in?????Life?????magazine, a Dallas location was opened in 1940. A Birmingham location was later added to the chain.

Ii all started in 1971 when nightclub owner Sherwood Cryer asked country music legend Mickey Gilley to be his business partner. Gilley's Club became on the most iconic nightclubs of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as a Texas institution. It was featured in...

Weingarten's was a supermarket chain based in Houston. While most of its locations were in the greater Houston area, it had locations in San Antonio, Austin, Shreveport, Louisiana, and Memphis, Tennessee. The parent company sold the grocery stores to concentrate on its commercial real...

The Six Flags Mall opened in 1970 in Arlington and took it's name from the nearby amusement park. After the Parks at Arlington shopping center opened in the late 1980s, Six Flags Mall went into a steady decline.?? It closed in 2012, reopened under...

Big Town Mall opened in 1959 in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite and was the first enclosed shopping center in the Southwest. The center's exterior was featured in the 1985 film??True Stories by Talking Heads member David Byrne. The mall closed in 2001 and...

The Summit opened in 1975 and was home to the NBA's Houston Rockers for whom the arena was primarily constructed. However, it was also the home ice of the original Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association from 1975 until 1978, as well as...

Greezed Lightnin' was a steel coaster at AstroWorld in Houston, Texas that opened in 1978. It closed with the rest of the park at the end of the 2005 operating season. At a height of 137.8 feet, it reached a top speed of 60...

The Phoenix Giants were a AAA baseball team that played in The Pacific Coast League (PCL) in 1958 and 1959 and then from 1966 to 1997, when the National League Arizona Diamondbacks began play. They were the long-time farm team of the San Francisco...

The Corpus Christi Sharks joined af2, a minor league run by the Arena Football League (AFL), in 2007. Their homefield was the American Bank Center. Their head coach was San Antonio native, and AFL veteran Michael Trigg. The team folded in 2009.

The Ft. Worth Texans hockey team was established in 1967 as the Wings, a farm team of Detroit's top-level team. They played in the Central Hockey League (CHL) at the Will Rogers Coliseum. In 1974, they became the Texans. They defeated their arch rivals...