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ON TV
ON TV was an over-the-air subscription TV service that started broadcasting in 1977. With the use of a set-top descrambler, subscribers could watch movies, sports, and other premium content. By 1985, competition from cable TV forced ON TV and similar services out of business. -
Montreal Royals
Montreal Royals?? was the name of two minor league baseball teams that played in Quebec. The first incarnation of the the team played from 1897 until 1917. In 1928, the team was??resurrected and joined the International League. They are best remembered as the team... -
Howdy Raccoon
Howdy says, "have good outdoor manners." He first appeared in 1959 in public service advertisements in Pennsylvania. His primary mission was to encourage folks not to litter, prevent forest fires, and otherwise treat the land well. -
Vancouver Grizzlies Basketball
The Vancouver Grizzlies first hit the court in 1995 and spent six seasons in Canada's Pacific Northwest before heading to Memphis, TN. -
Westland Mall
Westaland Mall opened in 1969 as an open-air, plaza-style shopping center, much like the Northland Mall five years earlier. Lazuras had a free-standing store on the site beginning in 1962 and became one of the mall's anchors. In the 70s, the mall was the... -
Newark Eagles Negro League Baseball
The??Newark Eagles??were a professional??Negro league baseball??team which played in the??Negro National League??from??1936??to??1948.?? *Product is official licensed by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum?? -
Bishop Sycamore High School
Fake it til you make it at BSHS! -
Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks Football
The Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks were charter members of the World League of American Football (WLAF) established in 1991. The team went 0-10 and was dissolved after one season. They were replaced in 1992 by the Ohio Glory. After the 1992, the NFL, who ran the... -
Los Angeles Bulldogs
The Los Angeles Bulldogs were formed in 1936 with hopes of joining the National Football League. When their efforts were rebuffed, they played as in independent team before joining the rival American Football League (II) for the 1937 season. They proceeded to run the... -
Netscape
It was pretty much everyone's first web browser.??The company's first product was the web browser??Mosaic Netscape 0.9,??released on October 13, 1994. Within four months of its release, it had taken three-quarters of the browser market. It was further boosted when Vice President Al Gore... -
Weingarten's Supermarket
Weingarten's was a supermarket chain based in Houston. While most of its locations were in the greater Houston area, it had locations in San Antonio, Austin, Shreveport, Louisiana, and Memphis, Tennessee. The parent company sold the grocery stores to concentrate on its commercial real... -
Longhorn Ballroom Dallas
The Longhorn Ballroom opened in Dallas in 1950 and hosted everyone from the Sex Pistols to Merle Haggard. -
Montreal Concordes
The Montreal Concordes were a continuation of the original Montreal Alouettes. The name change was necessitated when the Alouettes' owner folded the team in 1982 but asserted his rights to the name and logo. The team reverted back to the Alouettes name in 1986. -
WXVX "X15" 1510 AM Radio (Officially Licensed)
In September of 1988, Pittsburgh's alternative music station WXXP, Double X, switched its format to adult contemporary. On April 15, 1989, WXVX 1510 A.M. in suburban Monroeville, which had been playing '50s and '60s oldies, flipped its format to modern rock under new program... -
Cleveland Jaybirds Softball
The Cleveland Jaybirds were a men's professional softball team that played in the American Professional Softball League (APSL) starting in 1977. After two seasons, the team was sold to local ad man Ted Stepian, who renamed them the Cleveland Competitors. After one more season... -
San Antonio Rampage
The San Antonio Rampage began as the the Tidewater Wings, members of the American Hockey League (AHL), in 1971. They changed their name in 1972 to the Virginia Wings. In 1979, they moved to Upstate New York and became the Adirondack Wings. In 2002,... -
"Let There Be Light!" Crosley Field First Night Game
It took some convincing, but in 1935 the Cincinnati Reds convinced Major League Baseball to allow night baseball in order to draw more fans.??President??Franklin D. Roosevelt, sitting in the White House in Washington, D.C., threw the switch??that lit up Crosley Field on May 24,... -
Vintage Riverfront Stadium
Riverfront Stadium, later Cinergy Field, was the home of the Cincinnati Reds (and Bengals) from 1970 until 2002. The Reds captured three World Series titles (1975, 1976, and 1990) while playing there. The Bengals won the AFC Championship there in 1981 in a game... -
Starwood Ampitheater
The Starwood Ampitheater was an outdoor music venue in Nashville. For a generation it was greater Nashville's outdoor concert hot spot. It opened June 20, 1986 with concert called??One for the Sun, featuring, among others, rock & roll legend Carl Perkins.??Blue Oyster Cult performed... -
Donut-Go-Round
Do-Go-Round was a small chain of doughnut shops in the Eastern U.S., mostly in Pennsylvania and Maryland. In the 1950s, they ran an ad campaign using the famous comedy duo Laurel & Hardy. *Names and likenesses of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy used under...

