H and H Coffee

Dedicated to the history of the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. founded 1899 in San Antonio, Texas.

HemisFair ‘68 opens in San Antonio

The Texas world’s fair — HemisFair ‘68: Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas — opens on a 92-acre downtown site, drawing roughly 6.4 million visitors over six months. The fair brings a wave of restaurant, hotel, and tourism build-out to San Antonio during H&H’s final years of operation under Continental Coffee ownership (1962 acquisition → 1972 real-estate sale). Whether HemisFair generated identifiable institutional H&H accounts is an open thread; the fair-era San Antonio hospitality boom is the relevant world-context backdrop.