The Sixties

In 1963, the Omaha Knights of the International Hockey League (IHL) moved to Toledo and became the Blades. In 1970 they became the Hornets. They moved to Lansing, Michigan in 1974 where they spent one season as the Lancers before folding.

The Cleveland Pipers were a pro basketball team founded in the early 1950s and were a company team that played in the Amateur Athletic Union before moving to the National Industrial Basketball League in 1959. In 1961, the team joined the professional American Basketball...

The Chicago International Amphitheater opened in 1934. It was the home of the Chicago Gears of the National Basketball League from 1944 to 1948, as well as the Chicago Packers of the NBA from 1961 to 1962. The Chicago Cougars??of the World Hockey Association??played...

Atlanta-Fulton County was built to attract pro baseball and pro football to Georgia's capital and largest city. It was proposed in 1961 and ground was broken in 1964 almost immediately after an unidentified Major League Baseball team agreed to move to Atlanta provided a...

Not to be confused with comic actor with the same name, Pat McCormick was a T.V. personality in San Francisco best known for hosting the Charley and Humphrey kids show. The program started in Fresno in 1959 and moved with McCormick to?? KGO-TV in...

Candlestick opened in 1960 was home to the baseball's Giants until 1995. The 49ers moved in at the start of the 1971 football season and stayed until 2013. Oakland's former pro football team played there for their first two seasons.

The New Titans, officially the Titans of New York, were charter members of the American Football League in 1960. Their homefield was the deteriorating Polo Grounds, once home to baseball's Giants. While the team played respectively, attendance lagged, and the team was sold in...

WYDD first signed on in 1967 as a jazz station. In the '70s it switched to a more progressive, free-form AOR format, before flipping to top 40 in the '80s. As top 40 stations go, though, it was pretty adventurous, playing songs that were...

The Washington Caps were an American Basketball Association??team based in the nation's capital, thus the nickname. Founded as the Oakland Oaks in 1967, the team moved to Washington in 1970. They moved across the Potomac the following year to become the Virginia Squires.

Stu Kerr hosted Professor Kool's Fun School??? on WMAR-TV from 1967 to 1977. The show mixed comedy and education and was the launched the career of Kevin Clash, the man behind, or rather under, Elmo.

Big Chuck and Lil' John hosted the Friday night horror movie show on Channel 8 from 1979 to 2007. From 1966 to 1979 it was the Hoolihan & Big Chuck Show before Bob "Hoolihan" Wells moved to Florida. Cleveland also had two other horror hosts...

White Hen Pantry was a chain of convivence stores established in the Chiagoland area in 1965. It grew to 261 stores in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Detroit, and Boston.

The Latin Casino was a Philadelphia-area nightclub that opened in 1948 at 1309 Walnut Street. Many top entertainers of the day performed there. In 1960, the club moved to Cherry Hill, NJ.

Just as every major city had at least one horror movie host, they also had a children's show host. In the 1960s, in Cleveland, it was Captain Penny, but for kids growing up in the '70s it was Barnaby portrayed by Linn Sheldon. The...

The Coral Court Motel began welcoming travelers along U.S. Route 66 in Marlborough, MO in 1942. However, when I-44 was completed in the 1960s, the motels fortunes declined. In 1993, after years of neglect, it closed. OS2013

Fontaine Ferry Park opened in 1905 at the end of West Market Street in Louisville. It closed in 1969 after a riot on opening day left the park heavily damaged. It re-opened in 1972 as Ghost Town on The River. A year later the...

Dr. Shock was Philadelphia's favorite horror movie host, showing B-movies on Channel 17, WPHL, from 1969 to 1979. His famous phrase was "let there be fright."

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.

Penny Whistle Park became a favorite Dallas attraction shortly after it opened on 1967. An indoor amusement park, it was located at 10717 E. Northwest Highway and Plano Road. Among its many rides and attractions were an aluminum merry-go-round, a ladybug ride, a ball...

Added to National Register of Historic Places, the Gardens opened as the Jefferson County Armory in 1905. In 1975, it became Louisville Gardens. Lance Russell and Dave Brown hosted the infamous Tuesday Night Wrestling show from the Gardens on WDRB-TV. The building was the...

The Philadelphia Bulldogs were a professional minor league football team that played in the Continental Football League in 1965 and 1966. The team won the 1966 championship but did not return for the 1967 season.

KYAC was Seattle's soul station from 1965, when it first signed on, until 1981 when it became KKFX.

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.

Burger Queen was a popular fast food chain in the Louisville area. It was founded in 1963 and its mascot was Queenie Bee,??? with it's roots going back to 1956 in Winter Haven, FL.??In 1981 it became Druther's Restaurant to reflect a broader menu...

From 1969 to 1980, it was a Memorial Day Weekend tradition. At its peak, more than 300,000 rafters partook in this annual raft race held on the Chattahoochee River (where word has it, it gets hotter than a hoochey-coochey). The race started at Morgan Falls...

From 1969 until 1993, the Lionel Corporation operated a chain of toy stores under the names Kiddie City, Playworld, and Toy Warehouse. At its peak, the chain had over a 150 stores and was the second largest toy store chain in the country.

The Big Dipper was the classic coaster at Geauga Lake amusement park. Built in 1925 as the Sky Rocket, it was designed by famous coaster designer John A. Miller. It became the Clipper in 1947 with the name changed to the Big Dipper in...

A holdover from the 1962 World's Fair, Fun Forest ??was the place to go for thrill rides. It closed forever on January 2, 2011.

Montreal Royals?? was the name of two minor league baseball teams that played in Quebec. The first incarnation of the the team played from 1897 until 1917. In 1928, the team was??resurrected and joined the International League. They are best remembered as the team...

The Black Cat Bar, also known as the Black Cat Cafe, was a popular counter-culture hangout in the 1950s and early 1960s in San Francisco. It first opened in 1903, closing in 1921. It re-opened in 1933 and operated until 1963.