KPTV’s First Test Pattern

Portland’s local Fox-affiliated television station, KPTV channel 12 signed on the
air Saturday September 20, 1952 on channel 27, as Oregon’s first television
station, as well as the world’s first commercial TV station on the UHF band. The
station was originally owned by Empire Coil and since it was the only TV station
at the time, it carried all four networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and the now-defunct
DuMont Television Network.

KPTV founder Herbert Mayer (above) delivered the 
inaugural address from Portland’s Benson Hotel.

General Motors Company (GM) was founded in Flint, Michigan as a holding 
company for Buick, controlled then by William C. Durant who was a leading
manufacturer of horse-drawn vehicles. GM’s co-founder was Charles S. 
Mott, whose carriage company was merged into Buick prior to GM’s 
creation.

William C. Durant

Charles S. Mott

This 1908 Cadillac was produced the year GM was formed.

Car number ten million for General Motors, a 1929 Buick sedan

   Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945)

Hershey was a confectioner, philanthropist, and founder of The Hershey
Chocolate Company in 1903 and the "company town" of Hershey, Pa. 

Milk industrialist Elbridge Amos Stuart (below) created Carnation evaporated milk
and its famous slogan, that it came from “Contend Cows”. Stuart and a fellow
business partner founded the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company in Kent,
Washington. The company was soon renamed Carnation Sterilized Cream when
Stuart noticed a sign with the name Carnation in the window of a tobacco store
in downtown Seattle. That name was later changed to Carnation Evaporated
Milk. Nestlé acquired the Carnation Company in 1985.

Elbridge Stuart

1917

The site of the original Carnation Farms is located east of Seattle, in
Carnation, Washington. It is now used as a Hole in the Wall camp for
terminally ill kids.

1923 brochure

NOTE: Due to the discovered effects of lead poisoning by the Consumer
Product Safety Commission, laws banning the use of lead house paint
were not passed until 1971, when a phase out began. The Chemical’s
use was not fully banned until 1978.