The Sixties

The New Orleans Buccaneers were founded in 1967 and were charter members of the American Basketball Association. The spent three years in the Big Easy before moving to Memphis in 1970.

The Norfolk Neptunes played in the Continental Football League (CoFL) from 1966 to 1969 and the Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL) in 1970 and 1971. Their home was??Foreman Field??on the campus of??Old Dominion University??in Norfolk. The Neptunes were one of the most successful minor...

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

The Toledo Mercurys played in the International Hockey League (IHL) from 1947 until 1962. It was the league's first franchise outside of the Detroit Metro area. The team won the league championship, the Turner Cup, in its first season. They won again in 1951...

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.

The Makai Room was part of a bowling alley in Mar Vista, California. It opened in 1961. Today, the bowling alley lives on under a different name, with the last tiki-inspired touches having been removed in the late 1970s.

Boston's third pro football team, after the Braves/Redskins (1933-1936) and Yanks (1944-1948), were founded in 1959 as charter members of the new AFL. In 1970, the team changed it's geographical name to Bay State, before switching to New England a few months later, the...

The Cleveland Stokers played in the United Soccer Association (USA) in 1967 and the North American Soccer League (formed when the USA merged with the National Professional Soccer League) in 1968. They played their home games at Cleveland Stadium. The biggest highlight of their...

Established in 1967, the New Jersey Americans were charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA). After just one season in the Garden State, they moved to Long Island and became the New York Nets. They returned to New Jersey in 1977 after the...

The Orange County Ramblers played in the Continental Football League (CFL) in 1967 and 1968. Their homefields were Anaheim Stadium and Santa Ana's Municipal Stadium. In 1967 , the team went 10-2 and made it all the way to the championship, which they hosted. They...

The Orlando Panthers played in the Continental Football League as well as the Atlantic Coast Football League, from 1965 to 1971 and were one of the most successful minor league football teams in history, both on the field and at the gate. Their home...

Griffith Stadium was the primary ball park in the nation's capital from 1910 to 1965. It hosted pro baseball and pro football, as well as college sports, and multiple Negro league clubs. It was replaced by District of Columbia Stadium which was later renamed...

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.

Druther's Restaurant was a fast food chain in Louisville that began as Burger Queen??in 1963, with its roots going back to 1956 in Winter Haven, FL. The name change came in 1981 to better reflect the restaurant's offerings which came to include chicken and...

The Kansas City Steers were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. Unlike other ABL clubs, the Steers drew well. The team finished with a record of 54 and 25, an...

The Chicago Majors were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. The Majors hit the court the same year the city received a franchise in the established National Basketball Association (NBA)....

Open Pantry was a chain of convenience stores that operated in the Greater Cleveland area from 1961 until the early 1980s.

The Outrigger Restaurant was a tiki themed bar and eatery established by actress Frances Langford and her husband Ralph Evinrude. It was located near Port St. Lucie in Jensen Beach, Florida. It opened in 1961 and closed in the late 1980s.

KXOK St. Louis went on the air on September 19, 1938 at 1250 on the AM dial. It moved to 630 two years later. One of the members of the air staff was Paul Aurandt, who would later become newscaster Paul Harvey. In its...

Gray Drug was founded in 1912. In the 1960s it bought Cincinnati-based Rink's discount department store, later merging it with Cleveland's Bargain City. The drug store chain to over 100 stores by the 1970s. In 1987, Gray Drug was acquired by Rite Aid.

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...

KULA began broadcasting on May 14, 1947. In 1967, it changed it's call letters to KKUA and switched its format to Top-40. It has changed call signs several times since, and today is a talk radio station.

The Georgia Dome was opened in 1992 and primarily served as the home the NFL Atlanta Falcons from 1992 through 2016, replacing Atlanta Fulton County stadium, built in 1966. It was demolished on November 20, 2017. The facility also was home to the NBA...

Moo Juice was a brand of flavored packets milkshake mix. It was introduced 1966 and was originally available in chocolate or strawberry. Two flavors, vanilla and chocolate malt, were added a few years later.

Channel 48, WKBS, was an independent TV station licensed to Burlington, NJ that served the greater Philadelphia TV market.??The station broadcast from 1965 to 1983.

Northland Mall opened in 1964 as an open-air, plaza-style shopping center. It was enclosed in 1975 and became a proper mall. The subsequent opening of three other large shopping centers close by led to the mall's demise. It closed in 2002 and demolished in...

It's your move! Look great in this chess and Cincinnati-inspired design from Old School Shirts!

The Indianapolis Chiefs hockey team played in the IHL from 1955 to 1962 at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum. They won the Turner Cup in 1958, despite having a losing record.

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WQXI first went on the air in 1948 and played the pop standards of the day. In the 1960s it moved to a top-40/rock & roll format, before switching to oldies in the 1970s. The station is most famous for being the inspiration for...