“Excellent Opportunity” — H and H Coffee Co. help-wanted classified fragment, 601 Delaware St., apply 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. (San Antonio Express-News, 3 March 1955)
A partial H&H help-wanted classified preserved from page 32 of the San Antonio Express-News on Thursday, 3 March 1955. The Newspapers.com clip only captured the bottom of one ad (the apply-by-block) plus the top of a second adjacent ad (the “Excellent / Opportunity for energetic young” headline) — the body text describing the role itself was cut off below the visible area. Even so, two facts can be confirmed: the H and H Coffee Co. corporate identity is still in active use at 601 Delaware St. in early 1955 (twelve years after the 1943 route-salesman ad, eight years after the postwar fires, seven years before the Continental acquisition), and the office takes applications in person between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., narrower than the 1943 ad’s 2–5 p.m. window. The headline format — “★ Excellent ★ Opportunity for energetic young…” — was a stock Help Wanted display style of the mid-1950s and would typically continue “energetic young man” or “energetic young person” with route, sales, or warehouse duties; we can’t say which from the visible text alone.
Transcription
[Trailing lines of one classified:]
Apply at office.
H. and H. COFFEE CO.
601 DELAWARE ST.
BETWEEN 11 A.M. AND 2 P.M.
[Header of the next classified — body cropped off below the visible image:]
★ Excellent ★
Opportunity for energetic young …
[body text not preserved in the clip]
Source
- San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Texas), Thursday, 3 March 1955, page 32 — H and H Coffee Co. help-wanted classified (partial clip).
- Newspapers.com: https://www.newspapers.com/image/1271684397/ (accessed 20 May 2026).
- Archive:
assets/pdfs/1955-03-03-san-antonio-express-news-h-and-h-coffee-help-wanted-excellent-opportunity.pdf.
