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The AAA Stars were stablished in 1983 when the Spokane Indians moved to the Las Vegas Valley. The team was known as the Portland Beavers from 1919 to 1973. The team changed its name to the 51s in 2001, in honor of nearby Area...

The Las Vegas Locomotives, or Locos for short, were charter members of the United Football League (UFL) and began play in 2009. They won the 2009 and 2010 championship games and also appeared in the 2011 contest. The team folded, along with the rest...

Baby Doe's Matchless Mine was a theme restaurant popular in the 1970s and 1980s.??The chain was named for Elizabeth McCourt "Baby" Doe Tabor (1854???935), the young bride of Central City, Colorado mine owner Harvey Doe. It was founded by aviation collector David Tallichet Jr....

A sibling to the famous Filene's department store, Filene's Basement was a separate chain that featured??high-end goods and was known for its distinctive, low-technology automatic markdown system.??

At least it looked that way in the late '70s, as the North American Soccer League (NASL) grew in popularity in North America. Kids all over the continent were playing in youth leagues, while the NASL grew to 24 teams in 1978, a number...

Beverly Park operated from 1945 to 1974 at the corner of Beverly Blvd. and La Cienega, the present home of the Beverly Center Mall. The Park was apparently inspired Walt Disney to create Disneyland.??

Whitney's Playland At-The-Beach was the San Francisco Bay area's favorite amusement park from 1913 until it closed at the end of the 1972 operating season.

The Los Angeles Buccaneers played in the NFL in 1926 and 1927. They represented Los Angeles in name only, and we're instead a travelling team based in Chicago, though it's roster was stocked with players from California.

This fictions coffee shop is supposedly located at 4th & Pike in downtown Seattle. It is frequented by local radio personalities and was very popular in the 90s.

The Oakland Oaks were a basketball team co-owned by singer Pat Boone. They began in 1967 as charter members of the American Basketball Association. They went from worst to first in 1969, capturing the second-ever ABA title. In 1970, the team moved east to...

The Utah Stars began as the Anaheim Amigos, charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. In 1968, they moved up the freeway to become the Los Angeles Stars. In 1970, the team moved to Salt Lake City, where they won the...

The Salt Palace was an arena in Salt Lake City, Utah that was home to the Utah Stars of the??American Basketball Association (ABA)?? after the team moved to town from Los Angeles. While in Utah. The Stars won the 1971 ABA Championship. The Stars...

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...

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.

They'll be buzzin' around the bases and the ball park this spring! Cicadas are winged insects, known for the songs sung by most, but not all, males of the species. They are better known for their swarming behavior which occurs every 13 to 17...

Before Spot, there was Fresh Freddie who first introduced kids to 7-Up back in the 1950's.

Founded in 1912 as Standard Oil of New Jersey after the breakup of the larger Standard Oil corporation, Esso gas stations were found all over the Northeastern United States and parts of the South starting in the 1930s. In 1972, most were re-branded Exxon....

The Checker Motors Corporation was a Kalamazoo-based vehicle manufacture best known for making taxi cabs. The iconic, boxy sedans, roamed the streets of America's cities for most of the 20th century, before ceasing production in 1982. Though widely used by cab companies, Checker cars...

The Hollywood Stars were a Pacific Coast League baseball team based in Southern California. The first iteration played in L.A. from 1926 to 1935 before moving to San Diego. The second Stars team played from 1938 to 1957 and the arrival of big league...

The Los Angeles Blades played in the Pacific Coast Hockey League for the 1978-79 season. They took their name from the city's old Western Hockey League team that played in L.A. from 1961 to 1967 and the arrival of the big league Kings.

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...

Boomerang Bay was the former name of four different water parks in the U.S. Operated in conjunction with the Paramount's amusement parks, the name was derived from one of the company's movie properties. They were later rebranded after Paramount sold its amusement park division,...

The Honolulu Sharks were members of the Hawaii Winter Baseball league, a developmental circuit that played on and off from 1993 to 2008. Partially funded by Major League Baseball, it featured players from Japan, Korea, and North America.

The original Los Angeles Blades played in the Western Hockey League (WHL), a minor league circuit based on the West Coast,?? from 1961 to 1967. The team began as the Victoria (B.C.) Cougars in 1949. They were sold and moved to Los Angeles in...

Jack Murphy Stadium, better known as simply "The Murph" to San Diego Sports fans, opened in 1967 as San Diego Stadium. It was renamed in 1981 to honor Murphy's efforts in the 1960s to build a multi-purpose stadium in the city and thus attract...

Jackie Robinson best known for breaking the color barrier in the modern era of baseball, but fans of the sport also recognize his extra ordinary talent. After playing for the Negro American League's Kansas City Monarchs in 1945, he was signed by Brooklyn and...

Based in Cleveland, Millbrook Bread was sold throughout the Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, it's parent brand opted to go with another name nationwide in an apparent attempt to have a more consistent feel in product offerings.

The Waikiki BeachBoys were members of the Hawaii Winter Baseball league, a developmental circuit that played on and off from 1993 to 2008. Their name was derived from a group credited with popularizing the sport of surfing in Hawaii. Partially funded by MLB, the...

The Hilo Stars were members of the Hawaii Winter Baseball league, a developmental circuit that played on and off from 1993 to 2008. They split home games between Vulcan Field and Wong Stadium. Partially funded by the big leagues, the league featured players from...

The North Shore Honu were members of the Hawaii Winter Baseball league, a developmental circuit that played on and off from 1993 to 2008. Their homefield was Hans L'Orange Stadium in Waipahu on Oahu. Partially funded by MLB, the league featured players from Japan,...