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Bigg's was on of the country's first hypermarket. Developed by a French conglomerate, it opened it's first location in 1984 in Eastgate area of suburban Cincinnati on Route 32. It grew to seven locations in the Cincinnati area along with one each in Colorado...

The Harrisburg Giants were a Negro leagues team established in 1890. In 1924, they joined the Eastern Colored League. Even after the color line was broken, the Giants played on. Unlike fellow surviving Negro leagues teams, they weren't a barnstorming team, but had a...

The Bacharach Giants were a Negro Leagues baseball team established in 1916 in Atlantic City. Until 1923, they were an independent team, save for 1920 when they were members of the Cuban League. In 1923, they joined the Eastern Colored League, In 1929, they...

Robert Hall Clothes, better known as simply Robert Hall, was a warehouse-style clothing store foined in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1937. It eventually grew to over 350 locations in 36 states. Founder Jacob Schwab is reported to have pulled the name out of thin air....

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,...

The Omaha Mustangs played one season, 1968, in the Continental Football League (CoFL). The team, though, had been around since the early 1960s, having started out as a semi-pro team. They moved up to the Professional Football League of America before joining the CoFL,...

Fontaine Ferry Park opened in 1905 at the end of West Market Street in Louisville. It closed in 1969 after a riot on opening day left the park heavily damaged. It re-opened in 1972 as Ghost Town on The River. A year later the...

The Charlotte Hornets began as the New York Stars, a charter member of the World Football League in 1974. Just before week 14 of that season, the team left the Big Apple and headed to North Carolina. Before arriving in Charlotte, though, they played a...

Before major league hockey arrived in Columbus, the city had many minor league teams. None were more popular than the Columbus Chill. In 1991, the team debuted as an expansion franchise in the East Coast Hockey League (now just the ECHL, thank you). Their...

The Minnesota Norseman were members of the??American Professional Slo-Pitch League??from 1977-1980. In their first season they were known as the Goofy's. A new owner changed the name to Norsemen for the 1978 season. Their home field was Midway Stadium in St. Paul.

The Las Vegas Gamblers were the valley's first pro hockey team and were members of the Pacific Southwest Hockey League (PSHL) from 1968 to 1971. Their home ice was the a place called the International Ice Palace, a venue that was in a strip...

The first team to be called the Charleston Senators played its first game in 1910. They lasted until 1916. In 1931, a new Senators team debuted, took a few seasons off during World War II, and returned in 1949. They played for four more...

The Buffalo Central Terminal was Western New York's main train station from the time it opened in 1923 until 1979. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The building is currently being redeveloped. *A portion of proceeds benefits the??Central...

The 1994 baseball season was cut short by a player's strike that dragged on into fall and resulted in the cancellation of the post season. When the strike began, Montreal was in first place with a record of 74-40, the best record in the...

After beating San Francisco in the league championship series, Pittsburgh went on to win the 1971 world championship.??

In 1989, Oakland finished with 99 wins and 63 losses They won the championship and??are considered to be one of the greatest teams ever.??

The Atlanta Black Crackers, originally called the Atlanta Cubs, were a Negro League baseball team that played from 1919 to 1952. They played as both an independent club as well as in various Negro leagues throughout their history. Their home field was Ponce de...

The Stars were a Negro league baseball team that called Detroit home from 1919 to 1931. Starting as an independent team, they played in the Negro National League from 1920 to 1931. They played their home games at Mack Park. It was located at...

Aloha Stadium opened in 1975 as replacement for old Honolulu Stadium. The facility was home to U of H football, the World Football League's Hawaiians (1975), the minor league baseball Islanders (1976-1987), Team Hawaii of the NASL, the Pro Bowl for many years, as...

The??Kissimmee Cobras played in the Florida State League from 1985 to 2000. For most of their existence, the were a farm team of Houston in the Senior Circuit of the big leagues. Indeed, they used the parent club's nickname until 1995, when they became...

Two Guys from Harrison, better known as the Two Guys department store chain, was founded in New Jersey, was founded in the late 1940s, somewhat by accident. Brothers??Herbert and Sidney Hubschman, who had operated a snack bar at the headquarters of RCA, obtained several...

Pizza Haven was founded in Seattle in 1958. It??was one of the first pizza places to make deliveries. Restaurant employees used radio phones to relay orders to roving drivers who carried stacks of pizzas in a warming oven in the back of their vehicles....

Kemp Hill Music was a chain of record stores in the Washington, D.C. area. Founded in the 1970s, it grew to over 30 locations. The last one was located on Branch Avenue in Prince George???s County. It closed in 2017.

The Calgary Cowboys began as the Philadelphia Blazers in the inaugural season of the World Hockey Association in 1972. The team moved to Vancouver in 1973, keeping their nickname. In 1975 they moved to Calgary and became the Cowboys. They folded in 1977.

The San Francisco Saints were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. With the arrival of the Warriors in 1962, the Saints moved across the bay to Oakland where they became...

The Hawaii Chiefs were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. Unlike other ABL clubs, the Chiefs drew well, rotating home games between??the??Civic Auditorium, the??Conroy Bowl??at??Schofield Barracks,??and??Bloch Arena. A crowd of...

Laurel & Hardy were one of the most famous comedy duos in history. Stan Laurel, born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in England, came to the U.S. in 1912 with a comedy troupe in which he performed. After the tour, he decided to stay and later...

Most Queen City hockey fans know of the Mohawks, Swords, Stingers, and Might Ducks.?? However, another hockey team played in Cincinnati, albeit for just one season. IN 1963, the Indianapolis Capitols of the Central Professional Hockey League relocated to The Cincinnati Gardens after their...

The Pennsylvania Stoners played in the American Soccer League (ASL) from 1979 until 1983. They were based in Allentown, PA and in 1980 they won the ASL championship. The team went out of business shortly before the entire league ceased operations.

The Tidewater Sharks played in the Southern Hockey League from 1975 to 1977. Their home was the Norfolk Scope. The team folded before finishing the 1976-77 season.