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Originally Posted by rtomp
Rockford is also called 'The Forest City', forest could = trees = tree climbing? Some type of climbing? Or it could tie into the green theme that was thrown around.
Also, and this is probably not connected, but when I googled '1963 robots' it came up with a page that said Iron Man was first drawn up in 1963. No idea how that would tie in though.
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We have been known as the Screw City as well from the amount of screws we use to produce. Kinda of an odd nickname. The name that is being pushed now is the Garden City.
I personally would be leaning towards the baseball side, if it has anything to do with zip codes at all. Rockford had the Rockford Peaches which is a famous girls baseball team. Then Colchester, IL has some history with baseball as well (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchester,_Illinois).
I doubt it has anything to do with the Gates factory as that closed down and is now gone.