The band failed to distinguish itself from the many others of the era, and broke up after playing its last show at the Ritz Ballroom in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 2, 1938.

More than 25 carefully selected cities were visited, including New York, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Newark, Elizabeth, Stamford, Waterbury, New Haven, Bridgeport, Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, and Waltham.

In June 1957, Wham-O co-founder Richard Knerr decided to stimulate sales by giving the discs the additional brand name Frisbee ( pronounced " friz '- bee "), after learning that Connecticut college students were calling the Pluto Platter by that name, the term " Frisbee " coming from the name of the Bridgeport, CT pie manufacturer Frisbie Pie Company.

They were married on June 17, 1936, and lived in a modest brick bungalow at 3536 South Lowe Avenue in the heavily Irish-American Bridgeport neighborhood, just blocks from his birthplace.

The original founders of the Bluefish were Mickey Herbert, Jack McGregor, Mary-Jane Foster, and the Bridgeport Waterfront Investors.

When all of the children were old enough to attend school, Ann found employment as a linotype operator for the Bridgeport Post.

Swedesboro and Bridgeport, were the among the earliest European settlements in New Jersey as a part of the 17th century New Sweden colony.

Several spurs of Route 44 had existed or were planned prior to 1953, including Route S44, which ran concurrent with US 322 to the ferry between Bridgeport and Chester, Pennsylvania ; Route S44A, a never-built bypass of Camden ; and Route 44T, which was to run from a tunnel under the Delaware River in Paulsboro east to Route 42.

After two bypasses were built for US 130 around Carneys Point and between Bridgeport and Westville, Route 44 was redesignated along the former US 130.

During the Civil War munitions were made here, and it was then in the shops of the Hotchkiss Company in this village that the Hotchkiss explosive shell for rifled guns was invented, which led to the expansion of the company and its removal to Bridgeport.

Bridgeport is the setting of the 1947 film Out of the Past ; several sequences were filmed on location in the town.

" In Barnum's own words: " I have no desire to be considered much of a philanthropist ... if by improving and beautifying our city Bridgeport, Connecticut, and adding to the pleasure and prosperity of my neighbors, I can do so at a profit, the incentive to ' good works ' will be twice as strong as if it were otherwise.

However, their aircraft ran out of fuel and crash-landed in Bridgeport, Connecticut ; both were injured.

Around the time of the renumbering, limited-access bypasses for US 130 were built around Carneys Point and between Bridgeport and Westville ; the former alignments eventually became Route 44.

Operations were then moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Broadway Records were first manufactured about 1921 by the Bridgeport Die and Machine Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

When Bridgeport Die and Machine went bankrupt in 1925, the Broadway label was acquired by " The New York Recording Laboratories " ( NYRL ), which ( despite what the name might suggest ) were located in Port Washington, Wisconsin.

Interviews for eligibility were conducted in an abandoned complex in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The Bridgeport Herald reported that Whitehead and another man drove to the testing area in the machine, which worked like a car when the wings were folded along its sides.

According to William O ' Dwyer, the Bridgeport Daily Standard newspaper reported that photos showing Gustave Whitehead in successful powered flight did exist and were exhibited in the window of Lyon and Grumman Hardware store on Main Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut in October 1903.

The Bridgeport Sunday Post reported that Mrs. Whitehead said her husband's first words upon returning home from Fairfield on 14 August 1901, were an excited, " Mama, we went up!

Orville Wright denied that he or his brother ever visited Whitehead at his shop and stated that the first time they were in Bridgeport was 1909 " and then only in passing through on the train.

College campuses were moved, which brought thousands downtown in Hartford, Stamford, Bridgeport and Waterbury.

( Even though Columbia were bought by ARC in 1934, Columbia records were pressed at Columbia's Bridgeport, CT.

Paul Leka, an East Coast record producer, brought the band to his recording studio in Bridgeport, Connecticut where it recorded original material for its first album.

Bridgeport ’ s facility had been recorded to produce an average of about 170 tons of volatile organic compounds per year.

" The album was recorded from January – February 2002 at Tarquin Studios in Bridgeport, Connecticut except for the song " Campfire Kansas ", which was recorded in November 2001 at Z ' Gwoth Studios in Lawrence, Kansas.

Barnum was instrumental in starting Bridgeport Hospital, founded in 1878, and was its first president.

Barnum was instrumental in starting Bridgeport Hospital, founded in 1878, and was its first president.

At the Bridgeport, California Mountain Warfare Training Center in March 1997, a test HMMWV drives through the snow, equipped with Mattracks treads.

In 1998, the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball played its inaugural season, with teams in Somerset, Newark, and Atlantic City ( NJ ), Nashua ( NH ), Newburgh ( NY ), and Bridgeport ( CT ).

The land under The Ballpark at Harbor Yard was purchased by the city of Bridgeport from Donald Trump for $ 1 and with the forgiveness of back taxes owed on the property.

The away jersey is grey with navy blue piping, and the " Bridgeport " wordmark centered across the front in navy blue with white outline.

He was replaced with Steve Stirling, who had previously been coaching the team's top minor league affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.

Route S44 was designated in 1939 as a connection from Route 44 in Bridgeport to the ferry across the Delaware River to Chester, Pennsylvania, and was concurrent with US 322.

Bridgeport is also the name of a post office with ZIP code 48722.

In the 1856-57 session of the Michigan Legislature, a road was authorized construction of a road from Bridgeport in Saginaw County northeast to Forestville in Sanilac County, with a route that would pass through what is now Caro.

Swedesboro, along with Bridgeport, was one of only two settlements established in New Jersey as a part of the New Sweden colony.

Bridgeport has a city manager form of government with a mayor and a nine-member borough council.

Bridgeport experiences a semi-arid climate ( Köppen BSk ) with cold, relatively snowy winters and hot, dry summers.

Bridgeport after Barnum, and endowed the circus operator bear with a Barnum-like outsized personality and word balloons with lettering that resembled 19th century circus posters giving graphic depiction of the sort of colorful language Barnum was prone to use.

* Route 25 runs north to south, merging with Route 8 at the Bridgeport line and continues overlapped with Route 8 ( commonly known as the Route 8 / 25 connector ) into Bridgeport ending at Interstate 95.

The ferry service was run with two boats, Chester, a large boat with a capacity of 60 motor vehicles, and Bridgeport, a smaller boat with a capacity of 48.

US 26 intersects with U. S. Highway 385 in Bridgeport and then continues to its eastern terminus in Ogallala, Nebraska at Interstate 80.

On his return his invested part of the fortune he had made in overlooking Cold Spring Harbor on the North Shore of Long Island, where in 1852-55, in competition with P. T. Barnum's palace " Iranistan " in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he proceeded to design and have built a baronial residence from its eastern shore, which, it was given out, was intended to resemble Windsor Castle ; he named the place Glenada, the glen of his daughter Ada, but the locals called it " Banvard's Folly ".