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Idora Park amusement park in Youngstown, Ohio, closed in September 1984. The once-flourishing attraction was opened as Terminal Park in 1899 by the Youngstown Park and Falls Street Railway Company to encourage use of their streetcar services on weekends and holidays. Later named Idora Park, it was known as ‘Youngstown’s Million Dollar Playground’. It remained popular longer than many other Read more...
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The Cincinnati Bengals NFL football team plays its home games at Paul Brown Stadium in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The Bengals moved to the newly-constructed football stadium in August 2000, which is named after the team’s late founder and first head coach, Paul Brown. Known as PBS for short, the Paul Brown Stadium is also nicknamed The Jungle by fans. Read more...
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The first store to scan a product barcode at the checkout was the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, on June 26th, 1974. Marsh executive Clyde Dawson made a trial purchase of a selection of groceries, the first of which was a 10-pack of Wrigleys Juicy Fruit gum, scanned by cashier Sharon Buchanan. The Marsh store closed in 2017 and the Read more...
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The first Japanese car to be manufactured in the US was the Honda Accord which first rolled off production at Honda’s factory in Marysville, Ohio, on November 1, 1982. The first American-built Accord was a silver gray four-dour sedan bearing an Ohio license plate reading USA 001 and is presently on display at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Read more...
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LeBron James was born at Akron City Hospital in Akron, Ohio on December 30, 1984. Read more...