Vintage Illinois Rose Bowl 1984 Felt Pennant - From My Childhood
I was in the KotBT's room recently and saw that Nat had a stack of vintage felt pennants on his dresser that she was dealing with/sorting in an attempt to put some up on the walls of his room. They ALL were pretty neat, but there are a couple from the collection that I think are worth documenting on this here blog. The first one is this one you see above - Fighting Illini Football Rose Bowl 1984. This pennant is one of MINE - from when I was a kid. I remember it well. It came - along with a whole host of boxes from my childhood - from my parents when they moved out of my childhood home. It was one of a few pennants that they (somehow??) saved. This one is of particular interest to me - and I love that it is going in our boy's room. I had a sister that was a number of years older than me. And one of my earliest memories is of visiting her down at the Six Pack in Champaign during her freshman year. I would have been four or five years old when she was there. And thi