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Les Schwab founded the company with a single store in Prineville, Oregon, when he bought OK Rubber Welders in 1952. Corporate headquarters were moved from Prineville to Bend in 2008. [ 2 ] From 1964 until 2011, the firm offered an innovative February "Free-Beef" promotion, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] to boost sales during slow late-winter months.
The name of the business changed to "Les Schwab Tire Centers" in 1956, dropping the OK franchise. [5] From this grew a tire empire based in Prineville that had 34 stores in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho in 1971, [ 7 ] and 410 stores in the western U.S. and $1.6 billion in annual sales by 2007. [ 3 ]
Auburn is a city in King County, Washington, United States (with a small portion crossing into neighboring Pierce County). The population was 87,256 at the 2020 Census. [4] Auburn is a suburb in the Seattle metropolitan area, and is currently ranked as the 15th most populous city in the state of Washington.
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State Road 9 became Primary State Highway 9 (PSH 9), State Road 1 and US 99 became PSH 1, State Road 5 became PSH 5, State Road 3 became PSH 3, and the Inland Empire Highway branch from Dayton to Clarkston became a branch of PSH 3. [35] In 1964, Washington unveiled a new numbering system for highways. Concurrencies with state primary state ...
The Enumclaw–Maple Valley–Renton highway was built in 1914 and expanded in the early 1930s by the county government. It was absorbed into the state highway system in 1937 and designated as a branch of Primary State Highway 5 and renumbered to SR 169 in 1964. Recent residential development in Maple Valley and surrounding areas has increased ...
State Route 164 (SR 164) is a 14.82-mile-long (23.85 km) state highway serving southern King County in the U.S. state of Washington. The highway, which connects Auburn and Enumclaw along the White River , begins at an interchange with SR 18 in Auburn and travels southeast to Enumclaw, where it intersects SR 169 and ends at SR 410 .
Map of Washington's congressional districts from 2023 Interactive map version. The following is a list of the ten congressional districts in the U.S. state of Washington.From the time that Washington Territory was formed in 1853, through statehood in 1889, Washington Territory elected an at-large non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives.