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The Colonial, 20 May 1955; South Bend Regional Chamber (2021); Big C Lumber's own history
The 1955 bench gives the band its names, at advertisement strength. Karl Weis kept a garage on the corridor in 1955 — one of the two firms in the interleaved 401 North advertisement, the pharmacy being the other, with the address assignment unresolved (C40). The bench's remaining surnames print as the paper prints them, firm-linked and unexpanded: Snyder (service station, 151 North), Peterson (I.G.A. supermarket, 320 North), Ben (superette, 107 North), and Carl J. Reinke, whose firm, Carl J. Reinke & Sons, contracted in Roseland. The lumber succession runs through the band in full names: on William Hass's death in 1956, Ralph Hass, Paul Hass, Gladys (Hass) Foley and William Foley took the businesses; in 1968 the Foleys took the retail yards; Roger Foley took control in 1982, two years before the Big C name.