187 results for: Food and Beverage Industries
Homegrocer.com mouse pad, ca. 1997
Homegrocer was an early online grocery delivery business, founded in Bellevue in 1997. The company developed its own technology, including an award-winning website, a wireless picking system, and high-tech phones for drivers. Homegrocer went public in March of 2000, just as the dot-com bubble was becoming the dot-com bust. While initially successful and profitable, the company found itself struggling to…
ID Number:2001.41.7
Date:Circa 1997
Homegrocer.com shopping bag, ca. 1999
Homegrocer was an early online grocery delivery business, founded in Bellevue in 1997. The company developed its own technology, including an award-winning website, a wireless picking system, and high-tech phones for drivers. Homegrocer went public in March of 2000, just as the dot-com bubble was becoming the dot-com bust. While initially successful and profitable, the company found itself struggling to…
ID Number:2001.41.10
Date:Circa 1999
Homegrocer.com shopping bag, ca. 1999
Homegrocer was an early online grocery delivery business, founded in Bellevue in 1997. The company developed its own technology, including an award-winning website, a wireless picking system, and high-tech phones for drivers. Homegrocer went public in March of 2000, just as the dot-com bubble was becoming the dot-com bust. While initially successful and profitable, the company found itself struggling to…
ID Number:2001.41.11
Date:Circa 1999
Frango mints food box, ca. 1950s
Frango's chocolates were originally made in the candy kitchen atop the Frederick & Nelson store in downtown Seattle and were sold in the store starting in 1918 until it closed in 1992. Ownership of the name changed with mergers and Chicago store Marshall Field's produced their own version using a different recipe. Today, you can still buy these delicious candies…
ID Number:2002.10.1
Date:Circa 1950
Cup and Saucer from Vivace Expresso, ca. 1998
Espresso Vivace was founded in Seattle 1988. Co-owners David C. Schomer and Geneva Sullivan first operated a coffee cart at 5th and Union downtown, with a second cart operating near Broadway Market on Capitol Hill. In 1992 they began roasting their own coffee in the Northern Italian style and around the same time opened their roastery and café, also on…
ID Number:2002.36.5
Date:Circa 1998
Danken’s ice cream carton, J.P.'s Patches of Pralines, ca. 1992
Danken’s ice cream was started by Dan Samson in 1983. The original location was at 50th and University Way but moved in 1984 to 4507 University Way. Through a partnership with Breyers Ice Cream, Danken’s was able to sell pints of ice cream in stores throughout the Pacific Northwest and make custom flavors for regional businesses. Of the over 150…
ID Number:2003.35.1
Date:Circa 1992
Cane box used for packing chocolate at Gillman's Candies store, ca. 1920s
Gillman Brothers Confections and Produce opened in 1916 on 1st Ave in Seattle. The boxes were imported from China to pack chocolates for sale during the holiday season. There is also a 1919 image of Gillman's Candies store in the Pemco-Webster-Stevens collection at MOHAI.
ID Number:2005.43.1
Date:Circa 1920
Homemade blacksmith grindstone made and used by August Wenzel, ca. 1890s
August Wenzel, a German immigrant, made this grindstone. He operated a meat market, blacksmith shop, cooperage, and brewery in Seattle in the late 1880s and 1890s. August Wenzel also made beer barrels for the Hemrich Brothers Brewery, which later became Rainier Brewery.
ID Number:2005.60.3
Date:Circa 1890
Bottle for Pike Place Brewery beer, 1990
This style of bottle, with painted label and porcelain top, was used when the company started brewing in 1989, and customers were charged a deposit. The bottles were so popular that customers did not return them, and the style was discontinued for a more practical, conventional style in 1991. The name was changed from Pike Place Brewery in 1995 to…
ID Number:2008.23.6
Date:1990
Beer tap for Pike Place Brewery Pale Ale, 1989
This tap dates from the earliest days of Pike Place Brewery, a company started in 1989. The name was changed to The Pike Brewing Company in 1995 to avoid legal issues with the Pike Place Market Authority.
ID Number:2008.35.1
Date:1989