The Eighties

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 Minnesota Norseman were members of the??American Professional Slo-Pitch League??from 1977-1980. In their first season they were known as the Goofy's. A new owner changed the name to Norsemen for the 1978 season. Their home field was Midway Stadium in St. Paul.

The Pennsylvania Stoners played in the American Soccer League (ASL) from 1979 until 1983. They were based in Allentown, PA and in 1980 they won the ASL championship. The team went out of business shortly before the entire league ceased operations.

In 1989, San Francisco finished with a record of??92 wins and 70 losses. They won the pennant but lost the championship to their East Bay rivals.

Downtown malls were all the rage in the late '80s and early '90s, especially in the Buckeye State. Beating fellow Ohio cities Cleveland and Cincinnati by about a year, Columbus opened City Center in 1989. A popular destination at first, it soon lost shoppers...

GamePro magazine debuted in 1989 covering all aspects of the video game industry. One of its most popular features was its video game reviews which ranked games on a scale of 1 to 5. Starting in October 1990, each score was accentuated with a...

GamePro magazine debuted in 1989 covering all aspects of the video game industry. One of its most popular features was its video game reviews which ranked games on a scale of 1 to 5. Starting in October 1990, each score was accentuated with a...

In 1988, Los Angeles finished 94-67 and won the championship over Oakland. They are regarded as one of the best teams ever. READ MORE HERE.

The original St. Louis Steamers joined the the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) as an expansion team in 1979 and played until 1988. At its peak of popularity the team was drawing crowds of over 17,000 to the St. Louis Arena. READ MORE ???*Shirt...

Gimbel Brothers, better known as Gimbels, was an American department store chain from 1887 until 1987. Though it stared in Indiana it is widely known for creating the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia, the oldest such parade in the country.

Everyone knows about "The Drive," but do you know about the ORIGINAL Drive that took place one week earlier?

The Denver Dynamite??were one of four teams established for the inaugural season of the Arena Football League in 1987.??The franchise suspended operations for the 1988 season but returned in 1989 playing until 1991. Their home field was McNichols Arena.??

Charter members of the????????Arena Football League (AFL), the Washington Commandos were established in 1987. They played in the league's inaugural barnstorming season before taking the 1988 season off. They returned in 1989 as the Maryland Commandos and played their home games at the Cap...

The top horror host in the Baltimore/Washington area from 1973 to 1987. Being based in the nation's capital, the host frequently engaged in subtle political satire along with the standard horror host trappings.

Everyone knows about "The Drive," but do you know about the ORIGINAL Drive that took place one week earlier?

The Tampa Bay Storm played in the Arena Football League from the league's inception in 1987, until it's demise in 2017. Founded as the Pittsburgh Gladiators, the club moved to Tampa in 1991. The team made the playoffs in 24 of its 26 seasons...

Sudsy Malone's, officially, Sudsy Malone's Rock 'n Roll Laundry & Bar, and just Sudsy's to music fans, was a laundromat and rock & roll venue on Short Vine in Corryville. It opened in 1986 and hosted smaller rock and indie acts. During its run,...

Ear X-tacy, a name inspired by British band XTC, opened in 1985 and quickly became Louisville's premiere alternative record store. Major recording artists often came and played in-store including Queens of the Stone Age, My Morning Jacket, Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, Tenacious D,...

Ear X-tacy, a name inspired by British band XTC, opened in 1985 and quickly became Louisville's premiere alternative record store. Major recording artists often came and played in-store including Queens of the Stone Age, My Morning Jacket, Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, Tenacious D,...

Saturday Night Dead was a horror movie TV show that aired on Channel 3 in Philadelphia from from 1984 to 1990.

Enchanted Voyage was the most expensive ride built for Kings Island when the park opened in 1972. Shaped like a giant television, it took riders??through several rooms featuring animatronic versions of new and old Hanna-Barbera characters. In 1984, it was totally redesigned and became...

The Checker Motors Corporation was a Kalamazoo-based vehicle manufacture best known for making taxi cabs. The iconic, boxy sedans, roamed the streets of America's cities for most of the 20th century, before ceasing production in 1982. Though widely used by cab companies, Checker cars...

These flame resistant masks were a staple for every kid's Halloween costume from the 1950's through the 1980's. Did you have one?

The Tallahassee Tiger Sharks were a team in the East Coast Hockey League (now the ECHL), that was established in 1981 as the Nashville South Stars in the Central Hockey League. After stops (and corresponding league changes) in Roanoke, VA and Huntsville, AL, the...

The Indiana Loves??played in the second incarnation of??World Team Tennis??that began in 1981. The original league played from 1974 to 1978. The Loves competed in the 1983 season. They had no home court, instead, playing all matches on the road.

The Chicago Hustle were members of the Women's Professional Basketball League from 1978, the circuit's first season, until 1981, when the league folded. Their home court was DePaul's Alumni Hall.

Every year, celebrants descend on New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras. First celebrated in Louisiana in 1699, Mardi Gras and is now synonymous with the city of New Orleans. in 1875 it was declared a state holiday.

The New Jersey Rockets were members of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) for the 1981-82 season. They played their home games in??Brendan Byrne Arena at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, NJ. The team folded after their lone season in the MISL. The team's...

The Louisville Bulls??were a semi-pro football team that played from 1988 to 2011. For their first two seasons they played as an independent team. In 1990 they joined the Hearts of Ohio Football League (HFL) leaving that circuit in 1992 to join the Mid...

The original St. Louis Steamers joined the the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) as an expansion team in 1979 and played until 1988. At its peak of popularity the team was drawing crowds of over 17,000 to the St. Louis Arena. READ MORE ???*Shirt...