HILLS BROTHERS COFFEE - Revision history

Ccarlsson at 04:30, 27 May 2025

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	''Video: Prelinger Archive''		''Video: Prelinger Archive''

			[[Image:Hills-Bros-Coffee-ad-1939 fb provenance-unknown.jpg]]

			'''Advertisement for Hills Bros. Coffee, 1939.'''

			''Image: Provenance unknown''

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	Embarcadero and Folsom: One of main industries that sprung up early in SOMA was the coffee industry. Starting in the late 19th century, San Francisco had become the largest west coast coffee provider by the 1920s, including companies like [[Hills Bros. Coffee—The Fulcrum Connecting San Francisco and El Salvador\|Hills Bros.]], Folgers, and MJB. This industry provided the first link between San Francisco and Central America, where the coffee was grown. Following the industry, Central American laborers came to San Francisco in the early 20th century to work in processing plants and canneries. This explains San Francisco's unique connection to Central America, when most other California cities are historically predominantly Mexican. Most people think that Central Americans first came to San Francisco in the 1960s to 1980s, with the wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador, but many chose to come here because they already had family connections and community links going back to the early part of this century.		Embarcadero and Folsom: One of main industries that sprung up early in SOMA was the coffee industry. Starting in the late 19th century, San Francisco had become the largest west coast coffee provider by the 1920s, including companies like [[Hills Bros. Coffee—The Fulcrum Connecting San Francisco and El Salvador\|Hills Bros.]], Folgers, and MJB. This industry provided the first link between San Francisco and Central America, where the coffee was grown. Following the industry, Central American laborers came to San Francisco in the early 20th century to work in processing plants and canneries. This explains San Francisco's unique connection to Central America, when most other California cities are historically predominantly Mexican. Most people think that Central Americans first came to San Francisco in the 1960s to 1980s, with the wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador, but many chose to come here because they already had family connections and community links going back to the early part of this century.

	The Hills Brothers Factory has since been converted to offices, condominiums and a microbrewery catering to the new upscale South Beach professional clientele.		The [[Working at Hills Bros. Coffee\|Hills Brothers Factory]] has since been converted to offices, condominiums and a microbrewery catering to the new upscale South Beach professional clientele.

	[[Image:Hills-Bros-Coffee-on-pallet a0000159.jpg]]		[[Image:Hills-Bros-Coffee-on-pallet a0000159.jpg]]

Ccarlsson at 00:01, 23 October 2020

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	''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''		''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''

	~~[[Image:Hills-Bros-c-2003 .jpg]]~~

	~~'''Hills Brothers after conversion to offices, c. 2003.'''~~

	~~''Photo: Chris Carlsson''~~


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	''Photo: San Francisco Museum and Historical Society''		''Photo: San Francisco Museum and Historical Society''

	~~[[Image:HillsBrosExhibit.jpg]]~~

	~~'''Hills Bros. exhibit at the [[PPIE: A Festival of Empire Wrapped in Technological Hubris\|Panama-Pacific International Exposition]], 1915.'''~~

	~~''Photo: SanFranciscoMemories.com''~~


	~~[[Image:Hills Bros Red Can.jpg]]~~

	~~'''The original Red Can one-pound can, the backbone of Hills Bros.' massive expansion of market control over consumer coffee sales in the early 20th century.'''~~


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	''Photo: Chris Carlsson''		''Photo: Chris Carlsson''

	Embarcadero and Folsom: One of main industries that sprung up early in SOMA was the coffee industry. Starting in the late 19th century, San Francisco had become the largest west coast coffee provider by the 1920s, including companies like Hills Bros, Folgers, and MJB. This industry provided the first link between San Francisco and Central America, where the coffee was grown. Following the industry, Central American laborers came to San Francisco in the early 20th century to work in processing plants and canneries. This explains San Francisco's unique connection to Central America, when most other California cities are historically predominantly Mexican. Most people think that Central Americans first came to San Francisco in the 1960s to 1980s, with the wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador, but many chose to come here because they already had family connections and community links going back to the early part of this century.		Embarcadero and Folsom: One of main industries that sprung up early in SOMA was the coffee industry. Starting in the late 19th century, San Francisco had become the largest west coast coffee provider by the 1920s, including companies like [[Hills Bros. Coffee—The Fulcrum Connecting San Francisco and El Salvador\|Hills Bros.]], Folgers, and MJB. This industry provided the first link between San Francisco and Central America, where the coffee was grown. Following the industry, Central American laborers came to San Francisco in the early 20th century to work in processing plants and canneries. This explains San Francisco's unique connection to Central America, when most other California cities are historically predominantly Mexican. Most people think that Central Americans first came to San Francisco in the 1960s to 1980s, with the wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador, but many chose to come here because they already had family connections and community links going back to the early part of this century.

	The Hills Brothers Factory has since been converted to offices, condominiums and a microbrewery catering to the new upscale South Beach professional clientele.		The Hills Brothers Factory has since been converted to offices, condominiums and a microbrewery catering to the new upscale South Beach professional clientele.

Ccarlsson at 23:39, 21 October 2020

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	<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/0251_Behind_the_Cup_The_Story_of_Hills_Bros_Coffee_22_40_02_00" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>		<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/0251_Behind_the_Cup_The_Story_of_Hills_Bros_Coffee_22_40_02_00" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>

	'''"Behind the Cup," a self-promotional 16 minute silent film made in the 1930s by Hills Bros. Coffee company, showing the work done in El Salvador to produce the famous "Red Can" product that came to dominate coffee and mass-marketing in mid-century U.S. life.'''		'''"Behind the Cup," a self-promotional 16 minute silent film made in the 1930s by Hills Bros. Coffee company, showing the work done in El Salvador and then in the San Francisco factory under the Bay Bridge to produce the famous "Red Can" product that came to dominate coffee and mass-marketing in mid-century U.S. life.'''

	''Video: Prelinger Archive''		''Video: Prelinger Archive''

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	''Photo: SanFranciscoMemories.com''		''Photo: SanFranciscoMemories.com''


			[[Image:Hills Bros Red Can.jpg]]

			'''The original Red Can one-pound can, the backbone of Hills Bros.' massive expansion of market control over consumer coffee sales in the early 20th century.'''

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	''Photo: San Francisco Museum and Historical Society''		''Photo: San Francisco Museum and Historical Society''

			[[Image:HillsBrosExhibit.jpg]]

			'''Hills Bros. exhibit at the [[PPIE: A Festival of Empire Wrapped in Technological Hubris\|Panama-Pacific International Exposition]], 1915.'''

			''Photo: SanFranciscoMemories.com''

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	''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org, wnp67.0462''		''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org, wnp67.0462''

			<iframe src="https://archive.org/embed/0251_Behind_the_Cup_The_Story_of_Hills_Bros_Coffee_22_40_02_00" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" allowfullscreen></iframe>

			'''"Behind the Cup," a self-promotional 16 minute silent film made in the 1930s by Hills Bros. Coffee company, showing the work done in El Salvador to produce the famous "Red Can" product that came to dominate coffee and mass-marketing in mid-century U.S. life.'''

			''Video: Prelinger Archive''

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	''Photo: Online Archive of California''		''Photo: Online Archive of California''

			[[Image:Folgers Coffee at Main and Howard 1938 wnp67.0462.jpg\|792px]]

			'''Folgers Coffee advertising on side of their building at Main and Howard, 1938.'''

			''Photo: courtesy OpenSFHistory.org, wnp67.0462''


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	The Hills Brothers Factory has since been converted to offices, condominiums and a microbrewery catering to the new upscale South Beach professional clientele.		The Hills Brothers Factory has since been converted to offices, condominiums and a microbrewery catering to the new upscale South Beach professional clientele.

			[[Image:Hills-Bros-Coffee-on-pallet a0000159.jpg]]

			'''Hills Brothers coffee being unloaded from freighter on San Francisco shore, mid-20th century.'''

			''Photo: Online Archive of California''

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	''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''		''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library''

			[[Image:Hills-Bros-c-2003 .jpg]]

			'''Hills Brothers after conversion to offices, c. 2003.'''

			''Photo: Chris Carlsson''