All three were instrumental in the memories made inside the iconic Rubber Bowl in Akron. As the Summit County Land Bank prepares to take ownership of the property, talk of plans to demolish the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Why then is the University of Akron known as the Zips ... make her official debut until 1955 at an Acme-Zips game at the Rubber Bowl. Since then, Zippy has been synonymous with UA.