AUGUST/1991

Peterson opened his first store in 1964, which grew to a regional consumer electronics, home appliance, and furniture chain in the
1970s.

In the mid-2000s, the Petersons sold their last remaining property
at the corner of Southeast 82nd and Foster and moved the store
to a side street a block away, just off 82nd Avenue. The final
location closed on February 28, 2009.

The former Tom Peterson’s store at the corner of SE 82nd
and Foster.

Thomas Howard Peterson (February 23, 1930 – July 25, 2016)

Sign outside last Tom Peterson’s location in late 2008.

The metal-cased blue-and-silver Walkman TPS-L2, the world’s first
low-cost personal stereo, went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979,
and was sold for around $150.00.

On January 9, 2007, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveils the
iPhone—a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera
and Web-browsing capabilities, among other features—at
the Macworld convention in San Francisco.

When it went on sale in the United States six months later, on
June 29, amidst huge hype, thousands of customers lined up
at Apple stores across the country to be among the first to
purchase an iPhone.

In November 2007, by which point more than 1.4 million
iPhones had been sold—Time magazine named the sleek,
4.8-ounce device, originally available in a 4GB, $499 model
and an 8GB, $599 model, its invention of the year.

DJ MARK ALLEN (CENTER) ON A KPOJ RADIO REMOTE
FROM AMATO’S SUPPER CLUB IN PORTLAND, OREGON.

1935 Truetone (Western Auto) 3-band console radio.

Truetone was the private label radio, television and electronics
brand of Western Auto Supply Company of Kansas City, Missouri. Western Auto was a company founded in 1909 to sell tires and automobile supplies for the Model T Ford and other cars through
its catalogs and, starting in 1913, through retail stores in Kansas
City and other major cities. In 1915, Western Auto was split into
two companies, one in California and one in Kansas City.

In the late 1920s Western Auto was looking for new items to add to
its merchandise lines. After selling radio tubes under its "Wizard"
brand in the 1920s, the company offered its first Truetone brand
radios in 1931. Truetone was the radio brand sold by Western Auto
of Kansas City while the California company sold its radios under
the name "Western Air Patrol."

1937