The Eighties

Portside was a an entertainment and shopping district in downtown Toledo. It opened in May 1984 to much fanfare, including parades on both land and water. Though it was a popular regional destination, it was unable to pull shoppers away from suburban malls. It...

The 1983 Detroit Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on June 5, 1983. OS16007

The American Soccer League (ASL) was established in 1933. A league with the same name was established in 1921, but ceased operations after its 1932 season. The second ASL lasted until 1983. Two subsequent leagues used the name. ASL II, for most of its...

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 New York Stars were one of the earliest women’s professional basketball teams in the United States, formed in 1978 at the inception of the Women’s Professional Basketball League (1978-1981). Although the Stars existed for just two years, they had a league championship and doubleheaders with...

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.

After the Central Hockey League (CHL) version of the Stingers folded 33 games into the 1979/80 season, Cincinnati was left without a pro hockey team for the first time since 1974, when the American Hockey League's Swords folded. The Tigers hit the ice in...

The New Orleans Pride was a Women's Professional Basketball League team from 1979 until the league folded following the 1980-81 WBL season. For both seasons, the team was coached by former NBA player and coach Butch Van Breda Kolff.  OS15946

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...

This t-shirt is a heavy hit of nostalgia for fans of 90s television and cinema. Featuring the iconic production logo of Rysher Entertainment, this design transports you straight back to the end of a Highlander episode or the opening of a cult classic film....

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