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Well now, then, it’s a perfect time to ask about something I’ve wondered about for years.
Before my flood experience I had a lot of railroadiana including an old Official Guide. In the T&P passenger schedules, there was (as I remember) a repetitive graphic of a waiter with a coffee cup and the statement “where you get that famous T&P coffee.”
In the past, before Seattle became a coffee center, New Orleans was well known as a point of import entry for coffee. Several large roasting operations were there, still are, when the wind is right you can smell it all over town. I went into some of the plants in the course of my employment before I retired.
Was New Orleans the source of the TP coffee? Which company? This might be worth a paragraph in the book.
