Y2K / Early 2000s

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,...

With it's popular flagship store on State St. in the Loop, Marshall Field's was a landmark, destination, and a Chicagoland institution. In 2005, the chain was acquired by Macy's with all stores rebranded with the new owner's name.????

Farmer Jack was a supermarket chain based in Detroit from 1924 until 2007. It's iconic radio commercials, heard on stations such as CKLW, announced the store's weekly deals as "Farmer Jack savings time." Popular throughout the second half of the 20th century, the chain...

Bill Knapp's was an American family restaurant chain founded by Clinton B. Knapp in 1948 in Batttlecreek, MI. At its peak it had 60 locations in Michigan, Ohio, Florida, Indiana, and Illinois. The last location closed in 2002.

Jungle Jim's was an iconic Central Florida restaurant with locations in downtown Orlando in the Church Street Station, on 535 near I-4, and Merritt Island on the Space Coast. It opened in the late 1980s and closed in the early 2000s. The restaurant was...

East Towne Mall opened in 1984 as??Knoxville Center in North??Knoxville,??Tennessee.?? Despite being in one of Knoxville's most vibrant and fastest growing areas, the mall succumbed to the changing taste of shoppers and closed for good on January 31, 2020.

Do frogs eat cicadas? We're going to find out soon as Brood X of the 17-year cicadas comes back to the Tristate in 2021.

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.

Soul Train was musical variety show that ran from 1970 to 2006. The show was hosted by Don Cornelius and first aired in Chicago before being syndicated nationally in 1971. Cornelius stepped down as host in 1993 but remained it's main creative force.??

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...

Duffy's Shamrock Bar was opened in the 1950s at 1645 Tremont Place and was a Denver institution into the 21st century. It later moved a block over to 1635 Court Place. Denver weekly paper Westword??wrote in 2002 that Duffy's felt "like an East Coast...

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 football market...

The Fort Wayne Fury played in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) from 1991 to 2001. Their home court was the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.

The Tampa Bay Mutiny were charter members of MLS and took the field for the league's inaugural season in 1996. The team was owned by the league and at first was quiet successful both on the pitch and at the gate. However, onerous lease...

Jungle Jim's was an iconic Central Florida restaurant with locations in downtown Orlando in the Church Street Station, on 535 near I-4, and Merritt Island on the Space Coast. It opened in the late 1980s and closed in the early 2000s. The restaurant was...

The Kansas City Outlaws played in the United Hockey League (UHL) during the 2004/2005 season. They are so far the last pro hockey team to call the city home.

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.

The Portland Beavers were established in 1903 and through several iterations represented the city in the Pacific Coast League. The last team to use the name left Portland after the 2010 season when plans to build a baseball-only park for the team fell through.

The Connecticut Whale was the nickname the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League switched to in 2010. The name honored the departed, and sorely missed, Whalers, who had departed for North Carolina in 1997. In 2013, The Whale switched back to its...

Cellophane Square was a famous record store in Seattle's University District that opened in the early 1970s. It closed in 2009.

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...

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...

Media Play was an attempt by The Musicland Group to compete with so-called big box retailers such as electronics stores Best Buy and Circuit City, who sold CDs at near cost to lure customers in. In addition to music, Media Play also carried books,...

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 Cleveland Rockers played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 until 2003. The Rockers were one of the original eight franchises of the WNBA but were folded despite putting competitive teams on the court and drawing a respectable number of fans...

The Summit opened in 1975 and was home to the NBA's Houston Rockers for whom the arena was primarily constructed. However, it was also the home ice of the original Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association from 1975 until 1978, as well as...

The Birmingham Bolts were members of the original XFL in 2001 season, that league's only season. The team finished?? with 2 wins and 8 losses while averaging 17,000 fans a game at Legion Field.

The sibling to the Alameda Mall, Northwest Mall opened in 1968 in the??Lazybrook/Timbergrove??neighborhood of??Houston, Texas. While Alameda Mall, opened two weeks earlier, continues to draw shoppers, Northwest Mall closed for good on March 31, 2017.

Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour is an American ice cream parlor chain founded in Portland in 1963 by Bob Farrell and Ken McCarthy. The chain grew to 120 locations, but as of 2018 there were only 2 locations remaining, both in California.

The Savannah Sand Gnats were a minor league baseball team that played in the Class A South Atlantic League from 1984 to 2015. Up until 1995, they were nicknamed the Cardinals. They were a farm team for several big league club's over their history,...