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Waxie Maxie's was a chain of record stores in the DC area founded in 1938 by Max Silverman. At its peak in the 90s, it had nearly 40 stores. The end came at the turn of the century as the end of the CD...

Waxie Maxie's was a chain of record stores in the DC area founded in 1938 by Max Silverman. At its peak in the 90s, it had nearly 40 stores. The end came at the turn of the century as the end of the CD...

The Virginia Sailors were members of the Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL) from 1966 through 1968. They split their home games between Wakefield High School Stadium, Montgomery Field, and Herndon Stadium. Unlike subsequent Virginia teams, the sailors were based in suburban DC as opposed the...

The Washington Tapers were members of the American Basketball League, a short-lived circuit that operated for a season and a half starting in 1961. The Tapers moved to New York have through their inaugural season, and then went to Philadelphia in the fall of...

WHFS was an alternative rock station serving both Baltimore and Washington D.C. Founded on November 11, 1961, the station, from the start, was quite adventurous in its music programming, settling into a progressive rock format in the late '60s. In 1983, the station switched...

The Warner Theatre was a movie house located in the nation's capital. It opened in 1924. In the 1950s it began showing movies in Cinerama, the new technology of the day.

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 Florida Blazers of the World Football League started off as the Washington Ambassadors, though they never played a down in the nation's capital. Unable to secure a stadium there, the team wound up in Central Florida and made it all the way to...

The Virginia Squires were an American Basketball Association??team based in Norfolk, VA. Founded as the Oakland Oaks in 1967, the team moved to Washington, D.C., in 1970 and were renamed the Caps. They moved across the Potomac the following year to become the Squires....

The Virginia Squires were an American Basketball Association??team based in Norfolk, VA. Founded as the Oakland Oaks in 1967, the team moved to Washington, D.C., in 1970. They moved across the Potomac the following year to become the Squires. Their most famous players were...

The Virginia Squires were an American Basketball Association??team based in Norfolk, VA. Founded as the Oakland Oaks in 1967, the team moved to Washington, D.C., in 1970 and were renamed the Caps. They moved across the Potomac the following year to become the Squires....

The Washington Caps were an American Basketball Association??team based in the nation's capital, thus the nickname. Founded as the Oakland Oaks in 1967, the team moved to Washington in 1970. They moved across the Potomac the following year to become the Virginia Squires.

The??Washington Black Senators??were a baseball team that played in the (second) Negro National League in 1938. The team was established when the Washington Elite Giants moved up the road to Baltimore.?? *Design is officially licensed from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Charter members of the????????Arena Football League (AFL), the Washington Commandos were established in 1987. They played in the league's inaugural barnstorming season before taking the 1988 season off. They returned in 1989 as the Maryland Commandos and played their home games at the Cap...

Opened as District of Columbia Stadium in 1961, the home of pro football and pro baseball in Washington, D.C. was renamed Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in 1969. It was better known as RFK Stadium and also hosted soccer as well as concerts and other...

Griffith Stadium was the primary ball park in the nation's capital from 1910 to 1965. It hosted pro baseball and pro football, as well as college sports, and multiple Negro league clubs. It was replaced by District of Columbia Stadium which was later renamed...

The??Washington Pilots??were a??Negro league baseball??team that played in the??East-West League in 1932. Baseball Hall of Famer??Mule Suttles was their star player. The league folded before the end of the season, and in 1934 the Pilots became an independent team. *Design is officially licensed from...

The Diplomats joined the old North American Soccer League (NASL) in 1974 as an expansion team. Though successful on the field and at the gate, the team was never profitable. In 1980, the original team folded. That same year, the Detroit Express moved to...

The original North American Soccer League (NASL) was formed in 1967 when the competing United Soccer Association and the National Professional Soccer League decided to join forces. For the next 12 seasons, it was the top-level league for outdoor soccer in the U.S. and...

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. The chain even made inroads into Canada. In 1982, the chain was...

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. The chain even made inroads into Canada. In 1982, the chain was...

Remember kids, Electricity is your friend, but he can kill you. Check out the sticker!

The DuMont Television Network began broadcasting on June 28, 1942, the nation's third TV network behind NBC and CBS. Regular network service began on August 15, 1946. It was started by DuMont Laboratories, a maker of TVs. Financial strains and fierce competition from NBC,...

Penny for your thoughts! Buy 12 CDs or tapes (or LPs), for a penny and buy just four more at "regular club prices." Not many did that last bit.

In the early 1950s, between 20,000-60,000 people a year were becoming afflicted with polio. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh developed a polio vaccine in 1952. By 1955 a campaign to vaccinate children in the U.S. was launched. ALbert Sabin...

Woodsy Owl first appeared in 1971 and asked Americans to take better care of the environment by disposing of trash properly. An??updated version??of Woodsy was developed in the 1990s.

Somethings never change.

In 1976, America's largest fast food chain introduced the character of Phil A. O'Fish to help sell their fish sandwiches. In recent years it has become the opposite of an urban legend with many asserting Phil A. O'Fish never existed. He did, but he...

It's one of the world's most famous ice cream bars.

Woodsy Owl first appeared in 1971 and asked Americans to take better care of the environment by disposing of trash properly.??An updated version of Woodsy was developed in the 1990s.