Source: Rockford Register Star August 30, 2006
A Digital Collection of Rockford, Illinois History
Source: Rockford Register Star August 30, 2006
“Some 150 total performers.
Headliners:
SHeDAISY – Aug. 31, 2006
Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo – Sept. 1, 2996
Cheap trick, Buddy Guy – Sept. 2, 2006
Ted Nugent – Sept. 3, 2006
Full article in Rockford Register Star 8/30/2006
Source: The Rock River Times, December 19 – 25, 2012
Source: Northwest Quarterly Magazine, Spring 2011, Vol. 8, No. 1
Source: Rockford Register Star June 18 2000
Source: Rockford Register Star 1/6/2013
Source: Rockford Register Star 9/21/2012
Source: Rockford Register-Republic Dec. 31, 1974
See Rockford Historical Society’s Nuggets of History Vol. 53 No. 2, Spring 2015 Article by Carol J, Fox
The original sock monkey was made with Nelson Knitting Co. red-heeled socks (red heels since 1932) of Rockford, Il in business from 1880 – 1992.
In 1953 Helen Cooke from Aurora, IL patented the sock monkey. She sued Mr. Stanley Levy for patent infringement. Levy enlisted the help of Nelson Knitting Co., of Grace Winget, who made a sock monkey in 1951. Nelson Knitting Co., then bought all patents for the sock monkey until it expired in the 1970’s.
Joan Sage, marketing director of Midway Village and Museum Center, inspired by Chicago’s fiberglass Cow Parade, suggested that Rockford could do similar with Rockford as the Hometown of the Sock Monkey. In 2004-5 businesses and individuals were asked to sponsor six-foot tall fiberglass sock monkeys, Lpcal artists designed each monkey.
Where they are located: [pictures of each in the article] additional information in article
Source: Nuggets of History, Midway Village, 2015 President: Scott Lewandowski
Source: Rockford Register Star May 17, 2016
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