# @theoregonian on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu4o-aGh5ss
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8010582-theoregonian-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-07-19T16:05:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Oregonian (@theoregonian) — https://gondola.cc/theoregonian

## Caption

Jim Roberts, the co-founder of cult-favorite Portland coffee chain Coffee People and credited with inventing the coffee drive-thru, has died, according to an Instagram post from Jim & Patty’s, Coffee People’s successor. He was 74.

Roberts is credited with opening one of America’s first drive-thru coffee shops, Motor Moka, which debuted on Northeast Grand Avenue in 1990, where it attracted reporters from national magazines and TV news shows. At its peak, 2,500 cars passed through the drive-thru daily.

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Photo by Ben Brink/The Oregonian

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