Irish American Crossroads Festival 2012
The History of the Irish Coffee at the Buena Vista Café
- When
- Wed Mar 14, 2012
- Where
- Various Locations in San Francisco
- Time
- 5:30PM to 7:30PM
- Tags
- Literary Arts, Literary Arts Lectures
Description
Crossroads 2012 partners with the California Historical Society to highlight a piece of San Francisco's own past in "The History of the Irish Coffee at the Buena Vista Café," a presentation by Elizabeth Creely. The California Historical Society will share its Buena Vista Café collection to reveal the story of Irish Coffee, a true Irish-American invention. The Buena Vista Café collection received by the California Historical Society in 1982 chiefly contains correspondence and clippings, plus a few photographs, documenting the introduction of Irish coffee to San Francisco. Original letters between Jack and Josephine Koeppler, proprietors, the Irish Consul in San Francisco, and various firms and whiskey distributors in Ireland, as well as correspondence from San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Stan Delaplane, begin in February 1954 and continues well into the 1970s with publicity and articles extolling the fame of Buena Vista’s famous Irish coffee.More Info
- Link
- http://www.irishamericancrossroads.org/calendar.html
- Call
- 415-810-3774
- Call
- RSVP: to rsvp@calhist.org or 415.357.1848, ext. 229. (Box Office)
- Contact Form (account required)
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