Ehler’s Coffee, coffee on the rise
One hundred years ago today, Ehler’s Coffee was a newly incorporated business operating out of Brooklyn.
Reprinted in Erin Meister, New York City Coffee: A Caffeinated History. New York: American Palate: 2017.. P. 36.
The incorporators were owners Albert and Katie Ehler and Henry Bonawitz, with capital stock valued at $300, 000–as reported in the September, 1920 issue of Simmons Spice Mill, a tea, coffee, and spices trade journal published out of 97 Water Street in lower Manhattan.
The coffee industry was hot in 1920, and of interest to the Times , who saw the rise in terms of Prohibition.
New York Times, 29 September, 1920, p. 8. The New York Times.
WRITTEN BY JONATHAN GOLDMAN, SEPTEMBER 15, 2020.
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