RIP, Mr. Coffee

original mr coffee c. 1972It seems like it should have been bigger news in the coffee world, but somehow it slipped past with little mention. On March 12, Samuel Glazer, one of the partners who birthed a coffee revolution, passed away.

Glazer and his high school buddy Vincent Marotta had this crazy idea that American women would like an automatic drip coffeemaker in their kitchens. The pair hired an engineer to design the machine, talked Joe DiMaggio into pitching it to the public and the rest is history.

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Source: http://www.roaste.com/CoffeeBlogs/Chamie/RIP-Mr-Coffee

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