The Eighties

Youngstown native Bernie Kosar played for the Browns from 1985 to 1993 and remains one the teams most beloved stars. Beginning with his rookie season in 1985, he led the Browns to five straight play-off appearances including the AFC Conference Championship game in 1986,...

Australia's Wonderland opened on December 7, 1985, as the sixth member of the Kings Entertainment amusement park family. At 219 acres, it was the largest amusement park in the Southern Hemisphere. The park's design was based mostly on Canada's Wonderland. It was also a...

WNKU signed on in 1985 from the campus of Northern Kentucky University. For the 31 years the station broadcast a mix of mostly locally-curated adult album alternative music with select programs from National Public Radio as well as other public radio networks. It is...

Previously known as the Memphis Americans, the team re-located to Las Vegas for the Major Indoor Soccer League's 1984/85 season. They folded at the conclusion of that season.

The Maine Guides were a minor league baseball franchise that played in Old Orchard Beach between 1984 and 1988. OS15759

Bigg's was on of the country's first hypermarket. Developed by a French conglomerate, it opened it's first location in 1984 in Eastgate area of suburban Cincinnati on Route 32. It grew to seven locations in the Cincinnati area along with one each in Colorado...

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

Fantasy Island amusement parked opened in 1961 on Grand Island. It originally sat on 12 acres and was divided into five themed areas:??Action Town, Animal Kingdom, Garden of Fables, Indian Village, and Western Town. It grew to 85 acres. A waterpark was added in...

Following the demise of the Indianapolis Racers in 1978, the Indianapolis Checkers were formed, joining the CHL in 1979. In 1984, they moved to the IHL, moving to Denver after the 1987 season.

The city's almost NFL team in 1995. Abandoned by the Colts in the middle of the night in 1984, Baltimore tried for years to either lure an existing team to town or get an expansion team. In 1993, the city came close to the...

Sam Boyd Stadium was completed on October 23, 1971, and was originally known as??Las Vegas Stadium.??The name was changed to the??Las Vegas Silver Bowl??in 1978. In 1984, it was renamed the??Sam Boyd Silver Bowl in honor of Sam??Boyd,??a major figure in the hotel and??casino??industry...

Midwest Airlines was founded as Midwest Express in 1983 in Milwaukee. In 2010, it was acquired by another airline.

Ground was broken for Old Indiana Fun Park in 1973, but the park didn't open for another ten years, first as??Middle Country Renaissance Festival. It ran for six weekends until the end of the first weekend of October 1983. Construction of a ride park...

Read's Drug Store was a chain based in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded by William Read. He sold it to the Nattans family in 1899, who held on to it until 1983 when they sold the operation to Rite Aid.

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.

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.

WRQC was arguably Cleveland's first modern rock radio station. It changed its call letters from WLYT in the spring of 1983 and began playing new wave and alternative rock, exclusively. The big rock station in town played some of this music, but for 92...

The Cleveland Press??was the city's afternoon and published from 1878 to 1982.

The Stingers were Cincinnati's only major league hockey team. The team played at Riverfront Coliseum (now U.S. Bank Arena) from 1975 to 1979, and they were members of the World Hockey Association (WHA). When the WHA merged with the National Hockey League in 1979,...

The Hurricane played in the original North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1978 to 1980. Their home pitch was the Astrodome.?? In the winter, the team moonlighted as the Houston Summit of the Major Indoor Soccer League. Both teams played to small crowds with...

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 Olympic Drive-In on St. Charles Rock Road in the County has been the target of frequent raids by police and of a newly formed decent films committee in an attempt to close the theatre for allegedly showing obscene films," said a newspaper report...

The Pittsburgh Hardhats played in the??American Professional Slo-Pitch League (APSPL) from 1977 to 1980. The league sought to capitalize on the popularity??of softball as recreational??sport by turning it into a professional spectator sport. Several teams featured several Major League Baseball players??on their rosters.

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 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.

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 Detroit Turbos were a member of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League from 1989 to 1994, winning the MILL Championship in 1991.  OS16586

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...

The Screamin Demon (later just the Demon) was a looping shuttle coaster (one that does not make a complete a circuit) that opened in 1977 at Kings Island just north of Cincinnati. It moved to Camden Park in New Jersey in 1988 and closed...