Just a year after opening its new factory, the building of what beverage company housed Marines to pump Bay water to douse the spreading fire after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake?

In 1905, coffee entrepreneur James Folger opened a brand new factory near the water in SF. As luck would have it, the earthquake struck a year later, and somehow their HQ was the only coffee building to survive. During the rebuilding, Folgers gave the local citizens free coffee.

Asked by Tom Cohen · Last updated 5 years ago · 259 views