The Eighties

While it was known for most of its existence as the St. Louis Arena, from 1977 to 1983 it was known as the Checkerdome. Opened in 1929 it closed in 1999, replaced by the Kiel Center (now the Scottrade Center). Over the years it...

Two Pesos was a Tex-Mex restaurant chain that opened in 1982 in Houston.  OS16122

The Ohio Mixers were a basketball team based in Lima, Ohio. They began play in December 1982 as an expansion franchise in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). The spent two seasons in Northwest Ohio before moving south to Cincinnati, where they became known as...

Burger Chef was a fast-food hamburger chain that started in Indianapolis in 1958. At its peak in the mid 1970s, it was second only to McDonald's in the number of nationwide locations in the U.S. In the early '70s, it attempted to enter the...

The Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo debuted in 1982 and has since become one of the top such displays in the U.S. ?? *A portion of sales from all Team Fiona and Cincinnati Zoo products benefits the Zoo in the care of...

The Westlake Drive-in opened in the summer of 1950 on 10th St., near what is today the intersection with I-465. It closed in 1982. Today the site is occupied by a medical building and a home improvement center.

The Six Flags Mall opened in 1970 in Arlington and took it's name from the nearby amusement park. After the Parks at Arlington shopping center opened in the late 1980s, Six Flags Mall went into a steady decline.?? It closed in 2012, reopened under...

The Orange Army was the Wichita Wings fan-base of fans the Wichita Wings of the Major Indoor Soccer League. A rabid group of supporters, they packed the 9,600-seat Kansas Coliseum for several seasons in the mid-1980's.

Prior to becoming WDHT, in the late 1970s they changed their call letters to??WAZU??under their new name??"WAZU, The New FM 103 The Zoo...from W to A to Z to U!" Then in the 1980s they renamed as??"Rockradio FM 103 WAZU"??and then later as??"102.9 WAZU".

The Edmonton Trappers were a minor league baseball team that were part of the Triple-A level in the Pacific Coast League, from 1981 to 2004. OS15863

The Cleveland Stars joined the American Soccer League in 1972. In 1974, they became the Cleveland Cobras. The team folded after the 1981 season.

The Montreal Manic were members of the old North American Soccer League from 1981 to 1983. Their home field was Olympic Stadium. The team had previously been based in Philadelphia where they were known as the Fury.??

Vanguard debuted in video arcades in 1981 and later became available as home video game on the Atari 2600 and later Atari 5200 platforms.

The New Jersey Gems played in the Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL) and was one of only three teams in the league to survive through all three seasons, from 1978–79 to 1980–81. The team made the league playoffs once, losing in the first round. OS16255

The Buffalo Blazers competed in the National Soccer League, a Canadian-based circuit, from 1976 through 78 and again in 1980. They originally had hoped to join the North American Soccer League, but the Rochester Lancers already held the rights to Western New York. The...

Did you visit "New Yawk" in the 80s? OS9780

When disco died at WDAI in May of 1980, WRCK (WRoCK) was born, playing "Chicago's rock hits." Today the station is known as WLS-FM.

You can catch Eddie fueling up that there RV. OS17143

Survey says...!" This design pays homage to the legendary Mark Goodson, the man behind the most iconic game shows in television history. From The Price Is Right to Family Feud and Match Game, this clean, classic logo is for the trivia buffs and those...

The ultimate "end of the show" memory. Every episode of Family Ties and Spin City ended with this tribute to Gary David Goldberg’s loyal black lab, Ubu Roi, holding a frisbee in front of the Louvre. It’s a nostalgic salute to one of the...

Before the age of endless streaming and digital downloads, there was the magic of the VHS tape. If you grew up in the ‘80s or ‘90s, you know this logo by heart. Whether it was the The Berenstain Bears, Arthur, or a classic storybook...

This tee celebrates the iconic Children’s Television Workshop logo, the creative force behind some of the most influential kids’ programming ever made. Before algorithms, before streaming, this was smart, thoughtful television that actually taught you something. Clean, nostalgic, and instantly recognizable to anyone who...

SkyDome opened in 1989 as the new home of Toronto's baseball and football teams. The city's basketball team played there from 1995 to 1999 while a new arena was being built downtown. The football team got the boot in 2015, leaving the baseball team...

The Coral Court Motel??opened in 1942 on historic U.S. Route 66??in the St. Louis suburb of Marlborough. In 1989, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places??being cited as a valuable example of Art Deco architecture. OS2770

Yippee-ki-yay, it's Christmas! FC10076

A sincere Yippee-ki-yay to everyone who disagrees.

Billed as "Orlando's number one dinner attraction," Arabian Nights opened in 1988. Tucked away on Arabian Nights Drive, off 192, its final performance came on New Year's Day 2014.

ToyBiz was founded in Montreal in 1988 as Charan Toys and became known for producing action figures, as well as plush and role-play toys of various licensed brands and characters. It primarily produced toys for Marvel Entertainment who became a majority owner in 1998....

Eliot Ness was a federal agent mostly widely known from the fictionalized portrayals of his life in the TV series the Untouchables??(1959-1963) and the 1987 movie of the same name. He became Safety Director of Cleveland in 1935 and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in...

WAKR, Channel 23, was established in 1953. It was Akron's only commercial TV station. IN 1986, it changed it's call letters to WAKC and later to WVPX.