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Gordon Bowker is an American entrepreneur who began his career as a writer and later co-founded Starbucks with Jerry Baldwin and Zev Siegl. He was later a co-owner of Peet's Coffee & Tea and Redhook Ale Brewery .
Friends since their University of San Francisco days, Gerald Baldwin, a former English teacher, Gordon Bowker, a writer, and Zev Siegl, a history teacher, were three 20-somethings who were passionate about the arts, fine food, good wine and, of course, great coffee.
Gordon Bowker (1934 – 14 January 2019) [1] was an English journalist and academic who wrote biographies [2] of Malcolm Lowry, Lawrence Durrell, George Orwell and James Joyce . Life and works. Bowker grew up in a Birmingham devastated by bombing during the Second World War, where he attended grammar school at King Edward VI Camp Hill.
Feb 15, 2017 · Gordon Bowker was born in Oakland, California, and was just three months old when his father, Gordon Albert Bowker (1918-1943) died serving in World War II. His submarine sank in the straits of St. George off Papua, New Guinea; the ship and crew were never found.
Starbucks was founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker at Seattle's Pike Place Market. During the early 1980s, they sold the company to Howard Schultz who—after a business trip to Milan, Italy —decided to convert the coffee bean store into a coffee shop serving espresso -based drinks.
Dec 12, 2017 · Gordon Bowker had grown up in Seattle, enrolled at the University of San Francisco, dropped out. He bummed around Europe, where he acquired a taste for English beer. The year was 1962...
Apr 5, 2023 · The journey began with three friends and business partners—Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker, who met while studying at the University of San Francisco. They dreamed of bringing premium coffee to the masses and opened the first Starbucks store in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market.
Mar 9, 2008 · Gordon Bowker tires of telling the story about how Starbucks — the coffee store and the name — was his idea. Besides not wanting to take all the credit, Bowker has moved on. After co-founding...
Mar 9, 2008 · 1960-65. Graduates from O’Dea High School in Seattle and attends University of San Francisco, where he rooms with Jerry Baldwin, with whom he later founds Starbucks. 1962. Drives cross-country with...
Jun 22, 2020 · James Joyce : a biography. by. Bowker, Gordon, 1934-. Publication date. 2011. Topics. Joyce, James, 1882-1941, Authors, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography. Publisher. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
