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’88 Flashback: The Original Monsters of Rock Tour with Van Halen, Metallica, Scorpions, Dokken, and Kingdom Come (video can be seen on YouTube)
http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle...s-of-rock.aspx

Simon & Garfunkel kicked off a reunion world tour there.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?n...,3283313&hl=en

Footage of Yes in 1972
http://forgotten-yesterdays.com/date...70&qdateid=238

Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey RUBBER BOWL
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Rubber Bowl Believe, The Movie
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Akron Rubber Bowl 1940 to 2016
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Rodeo in the 1930's
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Akron Turkey Day 1969 (upset)
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From the news archives...

"Rubber Bowl Idols"
http://www.ohio.com/entertainment/ru...idols-1.109038

"Somebody to shove: Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane bandmates got arrested at 1972 Rubber Bowl concert"
http://www.ohio.com/lifestyle/histor...ncert-1.658216

The Rolling Stones – Rubber Bowl 1972 (Sweet Records SV-71172)
http://www.collectorsmusicreviews.co...ords-sv-71172/

THE ROLLING STONES - akron Rubber Bowl 1972 (look on youtube)
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Here is a Grateful Dead convert in 1986.
https://archive.org/details/gd86-07-...934.sbeok.shnf

Grateful Dead & Bob Dylan - "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Rubber Bowl, 7/2/86)
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They raced derby cars there?
http://altohio.com/rest-in-ruins-the...ns-rubber-bowl

his article (from earlier this year) explains how Canton came to have two high schools in the 1970's.
http://www.cantonrep.com/article/201...News/150119359

I never knew they used to land planes on the site of the current McKinley High.

https://books.google.com/books?id=CK...canton&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=u4...canton&f=false

Also I didn't know that Timken Vocational School students were active in supporting the troops during World War II. They made ball bearings in facility across from the school.

How did the Timken family become such a big name in Stark County and worldwide? This article describes the history.
http://www.farmanddairy.com/columns/...ton/14572.html

A postcard of the four high schools:

From the Retired Guy blog:
http://bennel.blogspot.com/2012/12/c...en-lehman.html

The Canton Lehman High School Association remains active today and even awards annual scholarships. Here are photos related to their first game in Fawcett Stadium in 1938.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/canton...7635938491573/

Lincoln High also is not to be forgotten.
http://www.cantonlincolnhighschool.org/

Here are photos of the old McKinley and Lincoln Highs (page 72 from the book "Canton" by Gay Morgan Moore)
https://books.google.com/books?id=vV...lehman&f=false

A website with photos and info of old schools in Stark County:
http://www.oldohioschools.com/stark_county.htm

A list with some of the great athletes from Canton. And yes...Chris Spielman is listed.
https://cantonohio.gov/greats/?pg=486

This info can keep you busy for hours. It's a publication named, "A Collection of School Histories, Canton Public Schools" by Gordon G. Humbert.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...87519884,d.cWc

This podcast (episode #112) remembers the consolidation in the district in the 1970's.
http://sportstimemachine.net/tag/canton-lehman/

Here is a 2002 with former CCS (and former Massillon) superintendent Fred Blosser, entitled, "Taking responsibility."
http://www.sbnonline.com/article/tak...hools-a-10-mi/