AKRON, Ohio - The Akron Rubber Bowl is one step closer to its demise. On Monday, Akron City Council approved a measure to transfer title for the Rubber Bowl from the Summit County Land Bank to the ...

Now, the Rubber Bowl is zoned for residential and can't be used for public recreation. To have the zoning changed, Team 1 must go through Akron's conditional use process. That requires getting ...

An Akron icon is about to disappear, as demolition crews began dismantling the Rubber Bowl on Wednesday afternoon. City officials held a press event at 2 p.m. in which members of the media were ...

Demolition of Akron’s Rubber Bowl started on Wednesday, a decade after it ceased to be the stadium for University of Akron football and almost eight decades after it was designed. Akron Mayor Dan ...

Lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen and singer-guitarist Sammy Hagar perform June 22, 1988, as the rock band Van Halen headlines the Monsters of Rock at the Akron Rubber Bowl. ∎ Jessica Riddle of ...

6, 1975, at the Rubber Bowl. The season-opening crowd of 27,949 was probably the biggest I had ever seen as a kid. The University of Akron played Marshall that evening, and it began as a joyful ...

“It is my whole life.” Fifty years ago, the famous daredevil crossed the Akron Rubber Bowl on a 600-foot wire above 37,484 fans at the 20th annual Acme-Zip Game. Acme grocery stores, the ...

Akron was falling down on its war job. The town last week had become a No. 1 trouble spot in the U.S. Grimy, rubber-smelling Akron is counted on to produce two-thirds of all the heavy tires needed ...

particularly a stellar performance in the Rose Bowl. Born in Akron, Welch was named after his grandfather, who had become the Rubber City's first chief of detectives in the 1920s. The younger ...

AKRON, Ohio (WJW ... 30-plus years since Whitney Houston stunned the Super Bowl Find out more about the auditions right here. The team’s home opener at Canal Park is Tuesday, April 8.

My fondest memory was when Van Halen played the Rubber Bowl, and when I got to hang out with the band Warrant at the Agora.” ∎ Akron artist Mac Love: “Getting to produce the @PLAY Akron ...