Varmint

1960s-1970s label from Silvis, Illinois, later based in Moline, Illinois. The label was known to use two addresses. 929 14th Street, Silvis, Illinois, was the home address of the label's founder, Virble P. Brown, Jr., while 161 4th Avenue, Moline, Illinois, was the address for Varmint Music Co., a retail music store Brown owned with Robert Schumaker. The label appears to have formally come into existence when Virble Brown legally filed a certificate for doing business from the Silvis address in June 1964. A public notice for this business filing was listed in "The Dispatch" newspaper of Moline, Illinois.