US flag sleeveOn Sunday, April 27, 2003, your museum curator attended the 15th Annual Specialty Coffee Conference & Exhibition in Boston, sponsored by the Specialty Coffee Association of America. It was an enjoyable experience walking around and talking with the various vendors, and several of them were generous enough to donate some coffee sleeves to the museum. Thanx to Java Jacket®, BriteVision Media, Packaging Specialties, LBP Manufacturing, Danisco, International Paper, and Gevalia Kaffe. The sleeves have been placed in the appropriate galleries throughout the site.

The SCAA's 18th Annual Conference & Exhibition is in Charlotte, North Carolina this year. Conference sessions begin on Friday, April 7, 2006, and the exhibition opens on Saturday, April 8. If any visitors to this museum/site are going, please pick up as many javajackets as you can and send them to us.
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Starbucks chimney sleeve WANTED!! These holiday-themed sleeves were used at Starbucks during the 2002 holiday season. We've found four of them, and have seen others with references to Santa and fruitcakes printed on them; what others are there? Starbucks has used holiday themed sleeves each year since. The museum is working on a page devoted to these. If you work for Starbucks, please contact us! We need an insider for the 2006 holiday sleeves.
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Do you need the lyrics to the song "Java Jive" by the Ink Spots? Or the lyrics as recorded by Manhattan Transfer? How about the parody written by Jonathan C. entitled "Cola Crave"?

I love coffee, I love tea
I love the java jive and it loves me . . . .
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A short mnemonic for remembering the first eight numbers (taking you 7 decimal points out) of PI is "May I have a large container of coffee?" giving 3.1415926.
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Have you ever wondered why drying coffee drops form a ring?
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Here are some interesting quotes about coffee.
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Read about vacuum coffee pots by Brian Harris
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two classic diner mugs (Bel-Loc Diner in Baltimore, MD, and Jigger's Diner in East Greenwich, RI)
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animated coffee cup
need a fix every morning?