The Sixties

The??Negro American League??was one of several circuits that operated during the time organized American baseball was segregated. The league was established in??1937 and disbanded after the 1962 season. This is the logo the league used in its latter years. *Design is officially licensed from...

The Hawaii Chiefs 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 Chiefs drew well, rotating home games between??the??Civic Auditorium, the??Conroy Bowl??at??Schofield Barracks??and??Bloch Arena. A crowd of...

The Montreal Beavers were established in 1961 as the Indianapolis Warriors in the United Football League. In 1965, the team moved to Ft. Wayne and joined the Continental Football League. In 1966, the club was sold and moved to Montreal where it was renamed...

Yuri Gagarin was a??Soviet Air Forces??pilot and??cosmonaut??who became the first human to journey into??outer space. Aboard his space capsule Vostok 1, he achieved this Space Race milestone on April 12, 1961.????

Located four miles south of Myrtle Beach on Old Highway 17. Magic Harbor was established in the early 1954 as a Pirate Land. In the 1960s it was re-themed as a Wild West amusement park. It was later bought by the company that owned...

The Omaha Mustangs played one season, 1968, in the Continental Football League (CoFL). The team, though, had been around since the early 1960s, having started out as a semi-pro team. They moved up to the Professional Football League of America before joining the CoFL,...

Filthy McNasty's was a club on the Sunset Strip owned by the McNasty Brothers, German immigrants who changed their names when they arrived in America. The club opened in the 1960s and was rebranded as Central in the 1980s, and the Viper Room in...

The original Jets were charter members of the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1972. They caused quite a stir when they signed superstar Bobby Hull to a million dollar contract. They were runners-up in the league's first championship final, but won in 1975 and...

The original Bills football team was established in 1946 as the Bisons in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). In 1947, after a name-the-team contest, the new name was selected. In 1949, the NFL absorbed several AAFC teams but, oddly, the Bills were not one...

Spartan Mart was a discount department store chain that operated in the 1960s and 1970s.

This classic tee is a nod to timeless gatherings and delicious comfort food. It features a detailed vintage line drawing of a classic glass casserole dish, complete with a beautiful blue floral design. OS17881

Opened in 1969, the??Beechmont Mall??in Anderson received a facelift in the 1990s. However, even new design features couldn't reverse its fortunes and it closed in 2002, making way for the outdoor shopping destination known as Anderson Towne Center.

What is now the Anderson Towne Centre, Old School Shirts remembers the Beechmont Mall. Opened in 1969, it was originally anchored by??Shillito's, Mabley & Carew, and later??Gold Circle.??In 2003 it was redeveloped into an outdoor shopping center with the old Shilito's, now Macy's, the...

The Cornwall Royals were a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 1969 to 1981 and then the Ontario Hockey League from 1981 to 1991. They were based in Cornwall, Ontario and won the Memorial Cup Championship in 1972, 1980, and 1981. OS16146

The racy comedy anthology series?????Love, American Style,?????debuted on September 29, 1969. For most of its run, it was an hour-long program that capped off ABC's Friday night lineup, which included?????The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Room 222,?????and?????The Odd Couple.??? It lived on in reruns...

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the preeminent face and voice of the Civil Rights movement in the Untied States until his death on April 4, 1968. His work continues to inspire Americans, and people around the world, to this day. A...

Ken Stabler was a star pro football quarterback who played college ball in his home state at Alabama. His nick name was The Snake, After being drafted by Oakland, he played minor league football for the Spokane Shock of the Continental Football League for...

HemisFair Arena was built as part of the 1968 World's Fair, or HemisFair '68 as it was officially called. In the 1973, the Dallas Mavericks of the American Basketball Association moved to town and were renamed the Spurs. They played in the arena until...

Cleveland's first independent TV station was WKBF, Channel 61, which began broadcasting on January 19, 1968. Competition from Cleveland's second independent TV station, WUAB Channel 43, combined with a soft economy, set the stage for a merger of the two stations with the channel...

The Chicago Mustangs were charter members of the United Soccer Association (USA) in 1967. The league was made up if wholly imported European teams, The Mustangs were actually??Cagliari Calcio??from Italy. In 1968, the USA merged with the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) to form...

Lakeside Park on Dayton's West Side was established in 1887 as a picnic grove. By the 1890s, the land at the corner of South Gettysburg Ave. and Lakeside Dr. had developed into an amusement park. It closed in 1967 and in 1996 the US...

??Founded as the Washington Darts in 1967, this outdoor soccer team was a originally a member of the original American Soccer League. In 1969 they joined the North American Soccer League. In 1972 they moved to Miami and became the Gatos. The following year...

The??1967 International and Universal Exposition??or??Expo 67, as it was commonly known, was a World's Fair held in Montreal??from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It is considered to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century??with the most attendees to that date...

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 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 Chicago Owls were established in 1967 and played in the Professional Football League of America (PFLA). In 1968, several PFLA teams, including the Owls, joined the Continental Football League (CoFL). The Owls moved into Soldier Field, while the NFL Bears were still playing...

The Dallas-Ft. Worth Spurs were members of the AA Texas League from 1965 until 1971, when the Washington Senators moved to the Lone Star State. The Spurs played their home games at Turnpike Stadium. Named after a nearby freeway, the capacity of the ballpark...

Pro football in Miami dates back to 1946 and the Miami Seahawks who were charter members of the All-America Football Conference. They only lasted one season. Miami's then small population, combined with underfunded ownership doomed the team's stay in South Florida. In 1947 they moved...

This shopping center near Avondale Estates in eastern Atlanta opened as the Columbia Mall in 1964. Shortly after being purchased by new owners in the mid-80s, it was renamed the Avondale Mall. It closed in 2001 and was demolished in 2007.

Legend City opened in Phoenix in 1963. It was conceived as a Disneyland-style, old west theme park by local ad man Louis E. Crandall. Though it faced numerous financial challenges, it remained open until 1983.