West State Street Looking East.
A view of W. State Street looking east toward the Rock River. Businesses on the left include Woolworth's, Rockford Dry Goods, and Kepner's Shoes at 213 1/2 W. State. On the right are Stuckey Suits, the National Hotel (308 W. State), and the John R. Porter & Co. building, otherwise known as Porter's Corner, W. State at Main, a corner where, for many years, a drug store stood, later to be replaced by D. J. Stewart's and Stewart Square.
circa 1920s-1930s
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West State Street, Looking East, Rockford, Illinois
At Church Street intersection. "This new twenty-square-block downtown lighting area was installed at a cost of over $250,000." Osco Drug, Carson, Pirie, Scott, Rockford Dry Goods, and Busch Jewelers on the left with the Hotel Faust's red neon sign in the middle distance.
H. Brueckner
Color-View Inc.
1960
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South Main Street looking North, Rockford, Ill.
A nighttime neon-lit street scene with Rockford Dry Goods and the Coronado Theatre on the left, and Masters Shoe Company, Busch Jewelers, and Woolworth's on the right.
Color-View Inc.
1965
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