The Seventies

The Toronto Metros joined the old North American Soccer League (NASL) in 1975 after the Croatian National Sports Club Toronto Croatia (C.N.S.C.T.C) purchased the then National Soccer League (NSL) team. The Toronto Metros won the Soccer Bowl in 1976. In 1979, C.N.S.C.T.C., sold a...

Previously the Michigan Stags, on January 18, 1975, this World Hockey Association??franchise moved to Baltimore lasting but one season as the Baltimore Blades.

McNichol's Sports Arena opened in 1975 and was the home to several Denver sports teams including the city's pro basketball team. Other tenants included the Avalanche, Rockies, Spurs, Flames, and Grizzlies hockey teams, as well as the Denver Dynamite indoor football team and indoor...

Joe Morgan was an integral part of The Big Red Machine that won the World Series in 1975 and 1976. Morgan had a storied career and and his considered one of the besr second basemen of all time, both on the field and at...

The Denver Racquets were charter members of World Team Tennis in 1974. They won the league champion ship in their first season, then moved to Phoenix in 1975 where they played for the next three seasons.

The Syracuse Blazers were a minor league ice hockey team that played in the Onondaga County War Memorial and State Fair Coliseum in Syracuse, New York. The Blazers were in the Eastern Hockey League from 1967 to 1973 and the North American Hockey League from 1973 to 1977. OS16180

The Atlanta Apollos began as the Atlanta Chiefs and played in the National Professional Soccer League in 1967. When that league merged with the Untied Soccer Association to form the North American Soccer League, the Chiefs followed. The team was sold in 1973 and...

Marty Brennaman began doing Reds play-by-play in 1972. He retired at the end of the 2019 season. For most of his time in the broadcast booth he was teamed with former Reds pitching great Joe "The Ole Lefthander" Nuxhall and provided the soundtrack to...

Seven Seas Marine Life Park??was a??marine mammal and??animal theme park that opened in Arlington in 1972. Owned by the city, the 35-acre park was close to Arlington Stadium as well as a large theme park. IN 1976, city council of voted to close the...

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

Massillon, Ohio, a community just west of Canton and known as hotbed of football, hardly seems like the place one would find a tiki restaurant. However in 1960 a gentlemen named Emil Chapanar opened the Bali Hai. It quickly became Northeast Ohio's premier tiki/Polynesian lounge....

The Houston Apollos played in the Central Hockey League (CHL) from 1965 to 1969 and were the farm team of the NHL Montreal Canadiens. In 1969, the team was moved to Montreal and renamed the Voyageurs. In 1971, they moved to Halifax, retaining the...

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...

A bit of an anomaly in Nashville at the time, Cloud 9 was a disco on Hayes Street that opened in the mid-1970s. It was so popular, it programmed the music for five other clubs in Nashville as well as one in Knoxville.

KRIZ, now known as KOY, is the oldest radio station in Arizona. From 1950 through the 1970s, it was the biggest top-40 station in the state along with rival KRUX.

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...

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".

These inexpensive plastic masks and vinyl smocks were an iconic American symbol of Halloween from the 1950s to the 1970s.   OS6015

The Express rolled into the majors on??September 11,??1966 playing for New York in the senior circuit. After a stint out west with California in the 1970s, he returned to his home state, first playing in Houston, then heading up north.

After spending one season in Minnesota, the Muskies of the American Basketball Association moved south to become the Miami Floridians for the 1968-69 season. They were known simply as the Floridians for their final two seasons starting in 1970. • High opacity film that’s...

The Anaheim Amigos were charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. After a year in Orange County, they moved up the freeway to Los Angeles for two seasons where they became known as the Stars. In 1970 they moved to Salt...

The Anaheim Amigos were charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. After a year in Orange County, they moved up the freeway to Los Angeles for two seasons where they became known as the Stars. In 1970 they moved to Salt...

Toledo, Ohio was in the International Hockey League’s minor league hockey for nearly four decades from 1947 to 1986. The Toledo Mercurys were the original franchise (1947-1962), followed by the Blades (1963-1970), then the Toledo Hornets (1970-1974) and finally the Goaldiggers (1974-1986). OS16150

The Buffalo Bisons were an American Hockey League ice hockey team that played from 1940 to 1970 in Buffalo, New York, replacing the original Buffalo Bisons hockey team that left in 1936 after its arena collapsed.   OS16149

The Jersey Jays were a minor league American football team based in Jersey City, New Jersey. They began play in 1969 as a member of the Continental Football League, and were a farm team of Cleveland's pro team. The Jays played their home games in Newark Schools Stadium. In 1970, they joined the...

This mug shot of Elvis is not, in fact, a mug shot. It was taken in Denver on November 17, 1970 for an honorary police badge that was being issued to the King. He had donated a sizeable sum of money?? to the police...

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The Washington Metros were an expansion franchise in the Women’s Professional Basketball League during the league’s second season in the fall/winter of 1979-80. OS16282

The Cleveland Comedy Company was a locally produced sketch comedy TV show that aired on Channel 5 on Friday nights in 1979 and 1980. It was developed by popular local DJ Bob James of WGAR. The cast included fellow WGAR DJ Paul Tapie, as...

The Los Angeles Blades played in the Pacific Coast Hockey League for the 1978-79 season. They took their name from the city's old Western Hockey League team that played in L.A. from 1961 to 1967 and the arrival of the big league Kings.