Toledo

In 1963, the Omaha Knights of the International Hockey League (IHL) moved to Toledo and became the Blades. In 1970 they became the Hornets. They moved to Lansing, Michigan in 1974 where they spent one season as the Lancers before folding.

The??Toledo Goaldiggers played in the International Hockey League from 1974 to 1986, replacing the city's previous team, the Blades (later Hornets). After 10 years in Toledo, that club moved to Lansing, Michigan at the end of the 1973/74 season. The Goaldiggers suspended operations in...

The Toledo Storm played in the East Coast Hockey League (now simply the ECHL) from 1991 to 2007. They won back-to-back Kelly Cups in 1993 and 1994. In 1996, the team made hockey history as Erin Whitten, one of the team's goaltenders, became the...

The Toledo Mercurys played in the International Hockey League (IHL) from 1947 until 1962. It was the league's first franchise outside of the Detroit Metro area. The team won the league championship, the Turner Cup, in its first season. They won again in 1951...

The Ohio Cannon played in the 1999 season of the short-lived Regional Football League. The team played it's home games at the Glass Bowl. Former college football star Major Harris was the team's quarterback. They finished with three wins and four losses but still...

The Toledo Tigers played in the Negro National League in 1923.  *Product is official licensed by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

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...

The Hanson Bothers, Jack, Steve, and Jeff, were fictional characters from the 1977 movie Slapshot. Though the film starred one of the biggest stars of the day, Paul Newman, the brothers portrayed by Steve Carlson, Jeff Carlson, and David Hanson, went onto develop quite a...

The International Record Syndicate, or I.R.S. Records, was a label founded by Miles Copeland (brother of The Police's Stewart Copeland) and Jay Boberg. A division of A&M Records, its roster included some of the most important new wave acts of the '80s including R.E.M.,...

The International Record Syndicate, or I.R.S. Records, was a label founded by Miles Copeland (brother of The Police's Stewart Copeland) and Jay Boberg. A division of A&M Records, its roster included some of the most important new wave acts of the '80s including R.E.M.,...

The International Record Syndicate, or I.R.S. Records, was a label founded by Miles Copeland (brother of The Police's Stewart Copeland) and Jay Boberg. A division of A&M Records, its roster included some of the most important new wave acts of the '80s including R.E.M.,...

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

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...

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...

Family Video was in founded in 1978 in Springfield, Illinois as the Video Movie Club. The idea came about when??Midstates Appliance and Supply Company, owned by Charles Hoogland, found itself stuck with an excess of video movies as a result of being a distributor...

The??Toledo Spitfire was women???s professional football team that played in the National Women???s Football Association (NWFA). The league's first season was 2001. The Spitfire joined the NWFA for the 2003 season as an expansion team. The team later moved to Ann Arbor and became...

Designed by the Dinn Corporation of Cincinnati, Mean Streak opened on May 11, 1991 at Cedar Point. The coaster's designer, Charles Summers, was also on the design team for The Beast at Kings Island. In 2016, the ride was closed. It was redesigned for...

Originally opened as Avalanche Run, this indoor roller coaster opened at Cedar Point in 1985. In 1990, it was renovated and renamed Disaster Transport, featuring a futuristic space theme. Over time, though, the theming deteriorated and was never repaired. It gave it's last ride...

Red Barn was founded in 1961 in Dayton. The chain, which served hamburgers and fish in addition to fried chicken, grew to over 400 locations in 19 states before shutting down in 1986.

Each week, starting in the late '60s and going through the '70s, listeners to Detroit's CKLW, many as far away as Cleveland, anxiously awaited to see where their favorite songs ranked on the station's Big 30 countdown.