Source: Rockford Morning Star, Sept. 26, 1959.
Skandia Hardware building from google.com (image captured May, 2019). Skandia Hardware sign is still
visible in window left center. The business closed in September of 1959.
Advertising
City Directory Ad
Source: Rockford City Directory, 1930, p. 894.
Influence Of Early Baseball
“‘On the Fly’ was the name of an 1867 tobacco product from R. J. White & Co. produced for the Base Ball Clubs of America.”
“Many of the New York City area base ball teams played their games at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, which is shown above from an 1859 issue of Harper’s Weekly.”
“By 1868 base ball had been embraced by the corporate world, including Stiefel & Co., manufacturers of the ‘Base Ball Collar.'”
Source: Journal of Illinois History, Winter 2012, pp. 252, 257, 262.
City Directory Advertisement
Ad page 44, 1859-1860 Rockford City Directory
Source: Rockford City Directory, p. 44, 1859-60.
Seventh Street Fall Festival October 27 – November 1, 1919
Source: Rockford Public Library Local History Archives-Business and Industry Collection
D’Agostino’s Advertisement
The Morning Star April 18,1970 pg 8
Rolling Stones
Register Star September 22, 1981 pg. 20
Mechanics Furniture Company, Rockford, Illinois
Source: The Rockford Furniture Herald, The Rockford Manufacturers Association, December, 1926, p.9.
Coil Bros Advertisement
Rockford Morning Star Oct. 14,1964 pg. 6
On The Waterfront, 2008 – ad, music headliners & bands
Source: Northwest Quarterly magazine, Summer 2008, ad, page 44, Vol. 5, No. 2
Bettye LaVette, Blue Oyster Cult, Boiled in Lead, Chicago Afrobeat Project
Deedle Deedle Dees, Eddie Blazoncyk’s Versatones, Edgar Winter, Finger Eleven, Los Lonely Boys, Shocker Band, Marshall Tucker Band, Puddle of Mudd, Styx, Tommy Castro Band,
Vanessa Hudgins