Trek Bicycle Corporation signed a long-term licensing agreement with Greg LeMond, the 3-time Tour de France champion and the first American to win the Tour—to design, build, and distribute LeMond Racing Cycles. 1995 was also the year Trek opened a state-of-the-art assembly facility in Whitewater, Wisconsin, leaving the Waterloo location free to focus solely on frame production. In 1997, Trek helped sign former world road race champion (1993) Lance Armstrong to the Trek-sponsored United States Postal Service Pro Cycling Team. Armstrong won his first Tour de France in 1999 aboard a Trek 5500, becoming the first American to win the Tour on an
Giant from the Unknown Giant from the Unknown Giant from the Unknown (working titles Giant from Devil's Crag and The Diablo Giant ) is a 1958 independently made American black-and-white science fiction-horror film drama, produced by Marc Frederic and Arthur A. Jacobs, directed by Richard Cunha, that stars Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, and Buddy Baer. The film was theatrically released by Astor Pictures in March, 1958 as a double feature with "She Demons". The make-up effects were created by Jack Pierce, known for his Universal Pictures' classic monster makeup for Boris Karloff's "Frankenstein" (1931), "The Mummy" (1932), and Lon Chaney Jr.'s "The Wolf Man"