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The Tarkington automobile was a two-door, six-cylinder, [1] gas-powered car built in the early 1920s in Rockford, Illinois. Joseph Arthur Tarkington tried very hard to get his car into mass-production, but was unsuccessful. The company was incorporated in January 1920 with $500,000 of initial funding. [2]
The company was founded by Forest City, Iowa businessman John K. Hanson in February 1958. At the time, the town, located in Winnebago County, Iowa, was undergoing an economic downturn, so Hanson and a group of community leaders convinced a California firm, Modernistic Industries, to open a travel trailer factory in a bid to revive the local economy.
The slide room concept had been around in the RV industry since the 1970s and power slide outs since 1990, [21] but this was Sunline's first application of them. 50,000th Sunline, a 2000 T-2370. 8/26/99. The Saturn travel trailer line was launched in 1996. [22]
On the Waterfront was founded in 1983, during an economic downturn in Rockford, when city officials approved $15,000 in financing for a celebration of the city's 150th anniversary. [ 1 ] The annual On the Waterfront Festival went on to become Illinois’ largest music festival, covering nearly 30 city blocks with over 100 performers across ...
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The Rockford Register Star is the primary daily newspaper of the Rockford, Illinois, metropolitan area.The fifth-highest circulation newspaper in Illinois, the Register Star takes its name from the 1979 merger of two predecessors, the Register Republic (founded February 15, 1855 (), daily since January 6, 1873 ()) and the Morning Star (founded March 20, 1888 ()).
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The car was a 1949 Ford sedan and had been used to transport the bodies which Gein had exhumed from local graveyards. Gibbons bought the car in an auction for Gein's estate, held in 1958. [ 2 ] Fourteen different bids were placed for the car, [ 3 ] yet Gibbons held out and won.