The Sixties

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history." This quote by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King comes from a sermon he wrote in his 1963 book??Strength to Love. A portion of proceeds from each shirt sold benefits The MLK Coalition....

Toledo, Ohio was in the International Hockey League’s minor league hockey for nearly four decades from 1947 to 1986. The Toledo Mercurys were the original franchise (1947-1962), followed by the Blades (1963-1970), then the Toledo Hornets (1970-1974) and finally the Goaldiggers (1974-1986). OS16150

The??Jersey Giants??were a minor league??American football??team based in??Jersey City, New Jersey. They played in the Atlantic Coast Football League in 1962 and 1963. Their home field was Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, New Jersey.??

The Pittsburgh Rens were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. Rens was short for??Renaissance,??a clean air and civic revitalization project launched by city leaders in the late 1940s.??The Rens were...

Red Barn was founded in 1961 in Dayton. The chain, which served hamburgers and fish in addition to fried chicken, grew to over 400 locations in 19 states before shutting down in 1986. Their characters were called the Hungries.

Marston's??was founded by George Marston in 1881 in downtown San Diego. In addition to its flagship store, it had two suburban locations. It was sold The Broadway in 1961.??

Massillon, Ohio, a community just west of Canton and known as hotbed of football, hardly seems like the place one would find a tiki restaurant. However in 1960 a gentlemen named Emil Chapanar opened the Bali Hai. It quickly became Northeast Ohio's premier tiki/Polynesian lounge....

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WUBE-FM has been Cincinnati's home for country music since 1969.??

The Montreal Voyagers, or Vees, were a minor league hockey team that played from 1969–1971 as an affiliate of the Montreal Canadiens. OS16144

The King set up a residency at the International Hotel in Las Vegas and played there annually from 1969 to 1976, He sold out every show.

After spending one season in Minnesota, the Muskies of the American Basketball Association moved south to become the Miami Floridians for the 1968-69 season. They were known simply as the Floridians for their final two seasons starting in 1970. • High opacity film that’s...

HemisFair '68 was the official 1968 World's Fair (or International Exposition). It was held from April 6 through October 6, 1968 in San Antonio. The theme of the fair was "The Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas", celebrating the many nations which settled South...

In 1968, the Los Angeles Stars moved up the freeway from Orange County, where they had been known as the Anaheim Amigos, a charter member of the original American Basketball Association (ABA) beginning in 1967. Their home court was the Los Angeles Memorial Sports...

The Denver Rockets, first known as the Denver Larks, were charter members of the American Basketball Association in 1967. Originally awarded to Kansas City, the franchise was shifted to Colorado when an arena lease could not be secured in Missouri. Kansas City would eventually...

The Carolina Cougars began as the Houston Mavericks, charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. The club relocated to North Carolina in 1969, splitting home games between Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greensboro. The latter is where they played most of their games...

The Anaheim Amigos were charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. After a year in Orange County, they moved up the freeway to Los Angeles for two seasons where they became known as the Stars. In 1970 they moved to Salt...

The Anaheim Amigos were charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. After a year in Orange County, they moved up the freeway to Los Angeles for two seasons where they became known as the Stars. In 1970 they moved to Salt...

The Seattle Totems were a professional ice hockey franchise and was a member of the Pacific Coast Hockey League (renamed the Western Hockey League in 1952) between 1944 and 1974. In their last season of existence, the Totems played in the Central Hockey League in the 1974–75 season. They played their home games in the Civic...

The Detroit Cougars were charter members of the United Soccer Association in 1967 and until they merged with the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) in 1968 they joined the North American Soccer League (NASL). OS15771

WWOM-TV began broadcasting on October 14, 1967 on Channel 26 in New Orleans. It was the first independent station in the market. The station struggled, however, and was bought out of bankruptcy in 1971. A year later it changed its call letters to WGNO....

In 1965, the four Daoud brothers bought a hamburger restaurant called Hamburger Heaven in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Mt. Washington. With their purchase they also received a Cincinnati-style chili recipe. They quickly realized the chili was outselling the burgers, so they focused on the...

The Charleston Rockets?? played their first season in the original United Football League in 1964, In 1965, they became charter members of the????Continental Football League (CFL). The team played a total of five seasons and ceased operations in January 1969.

Nightmare Theatre??was Seattle's signature late night horror movie program. Airing from 1964 to 1978 on KIRO-TV, Channel 7, its cast was mostly made up of performers from the PJ Patches kids show. Nightmare Theater host The Count, became a cult celebraty in the Pacific...

All-American Burger founded in 1963 by a successful stockbroker named Aaron Binder.  The company grew fairly quickly, and by 1970 had four locations in the L.A. Basin. For reasons that are unclear, things took a turn for the worse in 1981, and the chain...

The Vegas Vampire was Sin City's horror host from 1963 to 1972. The show aired on Friday and Saturday nights on Channel 5.

Eliot Ness was a federal agent mostly widely known from the fictionalized portrayals of his life in the TV series the Untouchables??(1959-1963) and the 1987 movie of the same name. He became Safety Director of Cleveland in 1935 and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in...

Crossroads Mall opened in Boulder in 1963. It closed in 2004 and was demolished. The area is now occupied by an outdoor, lifestyle shopping center.

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history." This quote by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King comes from a sermon he wrote in his 1963 book??Strength to Love. A portion of proceeds from each shirt sold benefits The MLK Coalition....

The??East???West All-Star Game??was an annual game for??Negro league baseball??players and held toward the end of the season. The game was created by Gus Greenlee, owner of the??Pittsburgh Crawfords. In??1933, he decided to match the??Major League Baseball All-Star Game??with??Negro league version. Newspaper balloting was set...