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Posted By: Dave Hornish

For some reason I have become interested in researching this set-perhaps since I will likely never be able to afford an example! I also find it interesting two upstate New York towns have a link to the A's Champions cards; perhaps a salesman covering upstate was trying to entice various companies to use the cards for advertising and managed to convince Rochester Baking and Cullivan's to do so. Strangely, I thought Thomas Cullivan might have been an isolated manufacturer in Syracuse but clearly, as this link shows, I was wrong.

http://syracusethenandnow.org/History/IndustrialAgeFedSyracuseBoom.htm

Tobacco was an intergal part of the Syracuse economy at the turn of the 20th century. I did a Google Maps search for 610 Turtle Street and found it to be a house in a subdevelopment that had to have been baby boom fueled after WW2. I imagine the area was highly industrialized 100 years ago due to its proximity to the railroad and Erie Canal, making drayage easy. Anyway, no real insight but I thought this might be of interest as there is not a lot of extant information on this set.

Dave