Our Pick
Posted on @rawstates
Nike founded
1964
Beaverton, Oregon
Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A track coach and one of his runners began as Blue Ribbon Sports, importing Japanese shoes and selling them out of a car at meets. Bill Bowerman later poured rubber into his wife’s waffle iron to make a sole, and the design that came out of a ruined kitchen appliance built the largest sportswear company on earth.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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