Y2K / Early 2000s

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,...

Big Chuck and Lil' John hosted the Friday night horror movie show on Channel 8 from 1979 to 2007. From 1966 to 1979 it was the Hoolihan & Big Chuck Show??before Bob "Hoolihan" Wells moved to Florida. Cleveland also had two other horror hosts...

The AAA Las Vegas Stars were stablished in 1983 when the Spokane Indians moved to the Las Vegas Valley. The team was previously known as the Portland Beavers from 1919 to 1973. From their arrival in the valley until 2000, they were an affiliate...

Soon after opening "the biggest mall in all the world," Randall Park Mall in suburban Cleveland, developer Edward J. DeBartolo set his sites on Pittsburgh. With the paint barely dry on Randall Park, plans were drawn up for Century III Mall located in the...

The Brevard County Manatees played in the Florida State League from 1994 to 2016. In 2017, they moved to Kissimmee and became the Florida Fire Frogs. The team was contracted with the re-alignment of minor league baseball.

Baltimore joined the Eastern Hockey League in 1979 as the Clippers. The team moved to the Atlantic Coast Hockey League in 1981 and changed their name to the Skipjacks. In 1982, they moved up to the American Hockey League. In 1993, they moved to...

Candlestick opened in 1960 was home to the baseball's Giants until 1995. The 49ers moved in at the start of the 1971 football season and stayed until 2013. Oakland's former pro football team played there for their first two seasons.

J & R Music World was a music retailer and electronics store founded in 1970 in New York City. It had two locations, one on Park Row in Lower Manhattan and one on the campus of Columbia University. The company closed its main store...

Dog & Duck opened on West 17th Street near the UT campus in 1990. It was known for its expansive beer list, which included several Texas brands as well as its British pub. It relocated to East Austin in 2014 and closed in 2017.

The first three pro football teams to call Dallas home played in the Cotton Bowl, starting with the 1952 Dallas Texans. The city's surviving gridiron squad, the Cowboys, moved into Texas Stadium in 1971. The facility's most unique feature is the hole in the...

The Indianapolis Ice played in the IHL from 1988 to 1999 before joining the CHL in 1999. In 2004, the team moved to Topeaka, KS. The Ice were established after the Indianapolis Checkers, also of the IHL, moved to Denver following the 1988 season....

Opened in 1988, The Palace of Auburn Hills was a multi-purpose arena that hosted concerts and other events and was home to several sports teams including the basketball's Detroit Pistons and hockey's Detroit Vipers. The Pistons left in 2017 and though the building was...

Daddy's Junky Music store was the premier destination for Boston-area musicians. Staffed by musicians, the store served the scene from 1972 to 2011.

The original El Paso Diablos were established in 1892 as the Browns. They were later known as the Mavericks, Texans, and Sun Kings. In 1974, they became the Diablos. The team moved to Springfield, MO in 2005 but were replaced by a new Diablos...

The Chargers were charter members of the American Football League in 1960. They originally called Los Angeles home, but moved to San Diego after one season where they remained until 2016, when they moved back north to L.A.

Famous for its burgers and tots, Fat Daddy's opened in 1985 on Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh. It grew to three locations. It closed in 2014.

The Philadelphia Phantoms played in the American Hockey League from 1996 to 2009 and were the main farm team of the Philadelphia Flyers. In 2009, the team was moved to Adirondack before moving to the Lehigh Valley in 2014.

Ultra Twister was a steel-pipeline style coaster built by TOGO for Six Flags Great America in Jackson, New Jersey. The ride opened in 1986 but after just five seasons in the Garden State, it was moved to AstroWorld in Houston for the 1991 season....

The Florida Fire Frogs played in the Florida State League from 2017 to 2020. They were contracted with the re-alignment of minor league baseball.

Steeped in '70s, and a little '80s, nostalgia, the Have a Nice Day Cafe was a chain of restaurants that operated from the mid-90s to the early 2000s. At its peak, the chain had over 20 locations across the U.S.

Not a bar or restaurant like the Kon Tiki locations in other cities, this one was a movie theater complex in the Dayton suburb of Trotwood. It opened on Aug. 23, 1968 with a showing of The Odd Couple. The theater was owned by...

After a few seasons in the West Coast Hockey League, the Fresno Falcons opted for a new logo and color scheme in 1998, before changing logos again in 2003.

The Ottawa Rough Riders were established in 1876 and were one of the longest running professional sports teams in North America. They adopted the Rough Riders nickname in 1931, they were charter members of the Canadian Football League (CFL) formed in 1958. The club...

The Texas Terror joined the Arena Football League in 1996 as an expansion team. They played their home games at the Compaq Center (formerly the Houston Summit). In 1998, the team changed its name to the Houston ThunderBears. While the team had the pro...

A favorite of locals and tourists alike, Wet 'n Wild was America's first water park. Opened in 1977 it welcomed its last visitors on December 31, 2016.

Wild and Woolly Video opened in 1997 renting and selling over 20,000 titles on DVD, Blu-Ray, and VHS. It specialized in hard-to-find classics, obscurities, and titles too weird for the mainstream. One of the last video rental businesses in the region, it closed in...

Mother Goose Land was a theme park in Canton, Ohio that opened in 1954. It featured attractions based on storybook characters such as??characters as Humpty Dumpty and the Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe. In the 1980s, the park fell into disrepair and...

The original Flying Saucer restaurant operated in the 1960s at 27th Avenue and Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Open 24 hours a day, it featured??an all-day breakfast service and three-hour lunch service. Dinner was served until 11:00 p.m. In between, customers could purchase sandwiches,...

Greezed Lightnin' was a steel coaster at AstroWorld in Houston, Texas that opened in 1978. It closed with the rest of the park at the end of the 2005 operating season. At a height of 137.8 feet, it reached a top speed of 60...

Originally an expansion team in the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL), the Sidekicks went on to play in four different leagues, including the Continental Indoor Soccer League, before folding in 2004. One of the most successful indoor soccer tams in history, their legacy is...