The Seventies

The Houston Summit were one the 6 original Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) teams in 1978 and were named for their home arena. After two seasons in Houston, the team moved to Baltimore and became the Blast.

The Garden State Bowl was an annual post-season college football bowl game played in East Rutherford, New Jersey, from 1978 until 1981. Freezing temperatures each year at the game, together with a lack of successful local college teams, contributed to the bowl game's demise.  OS15945

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...

Did you survive the Blizzard of '78? Known throughout the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region as the Great Blizzard of 1978 and the White Hurricane, the storm blasted the area from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. The cities of Milwaukee,...

Did you survive the Blizzard of '78? Known throughout the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region as the Great Blizzard of 1978 and the White Hurricane, the storm blasted the area from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. The cities of Milwaukee,...

Did you survive the Blizzard of '78? Known throughout the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region as the Great Blizzard of 1978 and the White Hurricane, the storm blasted the area from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. The cities of Milwaukee,...

Did you survive the Blizzard of '78? Known throughout the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region as the Great Blizzard of 1978 and the White Hurricane, the storm blasted the area from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. The cities of Milwaukee,...

PM Magazine was a news and entertainment magazine produced in several markets throughout the United States from 1978 to 1991.

Established in 1942 as W83C, this legendary Chicago radio station changed its call letters several times before becoming WLUP "The Loop 97.9" in 1977. For the next 41 years it was one of the most popular and influential radio station's in America. It is...

William Hudnut was the 45th mayor of Indianapolis serving from 1976 to 1992. He was the longest serving mayor in Indianapolis history.

The San Antonio Thunder played in the original North American Soccer League in 1975 and 1976 before moving west to become Team Hawaii. Their home pitch was North East Stadium in 1975 and Alamo Stadium in 1976. After a year in the Pacific, they...

With the heated Space Race cooling off in the mid-70s, a new era of cooperation between the US and the USSR was ushered in. This was first demonstrated with the Apollo-Soyuz mission of 1975 in which spacecraft from each nation linked up in Earth...

Riverfront Coliseum, today known as Heritage Bank Center, was completed in 1975 and was home to the??Cincinnati Stingers??hockey team of the??World Hockey Association, and later the Tigers who played one season in the Central Hockey League. Its current main tenant is the Cincinnati Cyclones...

The Baltimore Hustlers were the relocated Memphis Sounds and were scheduled to play in the American Basketball Association in 1975. Shortly after the team's new nickname was announced it was changed to the Claws in response to local opposition as well as pressure from...

The Baltimore Claws were the relocated Memphis Sounds and were scheduled to play in the American Basketball Association in 1975. At first, the team was named the Hustlers but local opposition as well as pressure from the league necessitated a change. The team played...

When the Portland Storm folded at the conclusion of the 1974 World Football League (WFL) season, the prospects for pro football in Bridgetown looked bleak. However, Portland returned to the league the following season with a new team, the Thunder, and a new owner....

Not to be confused with the city's current NFL team, these Houston Texans were charter members of the World Football League in 1974. Playing their home games in the Astrodome, they spent only half a season in Houston before moving to Shreveport, Louisiana where...

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 Carolina Cougars began as the Houston Mavericks, charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. The club relocated to North Carolina in 1969, splitting home games between Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greensboro. The latter is where they played most of their games...

The Seattle Totems were a professional ice hockey franchise and was a member of the Pacific Coast Hockey League (renamed the Western Hockey League in 1952) between 1944 and 1974. In their last season of existence, the Totems played in the Central Hockey League in the 1974–75 season. They played their home games in the Civic...

The Phoenix Racquets were charter members of World Team Tennis in 1974. They spent their first year of existence in Denver and won the league championship playing there. After moving to Arizona, their success continued. They played on until the league folded following the...

The Nets began their journey as a charter member??World Team Tennis??(WTT)??that began in 1974. The franchise was originally awarded to Bill DeWitt Jr., who planned to place the team in Cincinnati, where he already owned the Stingers of the WHA. Before the start of...

"Positive waves" was a slogan used by the Indianapolis Racers hockey team who played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) from 1974 to 1978. In 1979, the Indianapolis Checkers were granted an expansion franchise in the Central Hockey League.

Como Mall opened in the Buffalo suburb of??Cheektowaga in 1973. IN 1984 it became Appletree Mall. After exiting bankruptcy it was redeveloped as Appletree Business Park.

The KI and Miami Valley Railroad opened in 1972 along with the rest of the park. A three-foot gauge heritage railroad it runs from the main park to the water park and back.

The Denver Rockets, first known as the Denver Larks, were charter members of the American Basketball Association in 1967. Originally awarded to Kansas City, the franchise was shifted to Colorado when an arena lease could not be secured in Missouri. Kansas City would eventually...

The Vegas Vampire was Sin City's horror host from 1963 to 1972. The show aired on Friday and Saturday nights on Channel 5.

WWOM-TV began broadcasting on October 14, 1967 on Channel 26 in New Orleans. It was the first independent station in the market. The station struggled, however, and was bought out of bankruptcy in 1971. A year later it changed its call letters to WGNO....

Established as WMIL in 1961, 95.7 FM in Milwaukee became WMVM in 1971, then WZUU in 1972. In 1986, it switched to an alternative rock format under the call letters WBGK. After two years, it flipped formats and call letters again.

The first three pro football teams to call Dallas home played in the Cotton Bowl, starting with the 1952 Dallas Texans. The city's surviving gridiron squad, the Cowboys, moved into Texas Stadium in 1971 as they were becoming one of the most storied franchises...