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 first-place prize of 5,000 francs—a value of around
$40,000 today—was shared equally between the French
manufacturers Panhard & Levassor and Les Fils de
Peugeot frères for hewing closest to the competition’s
ideals.

The real winner of the Paris-Rouen Trial, however, was
the automotive industry itself.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Longtime Portland news personality Jeff
Gianola, who currently is an anchor at KOIN-TV, said he will
step away from television news this year after spending 43
years working in the industry.

The Emmy-winning news anchor announced his retirement 
this evening, July 21, during the 5 p.m. newscast.

Originally from San Diego, California, Gianola first moved to
Portland in 1983 to start working at KATU News.

He co-anchored the evening news broadcasts for several
years in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

On July 21, 2011, NASA’s space shuttle program completed
its final, and 135th, mission, when the shuttle Atlantis landed
at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

TIM MAGUIRE

Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán is 78 years old today.

In 2023, Rolling Stone named him the 11th greatest guitarist
of all time. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and three Latin
Grammy Awards, and was inducted along with his namesake
band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.