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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. Biography
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) was an English journalist and academic who wrote biographies 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.
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 and...
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.
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.
Mar 9, 2008 · Age: 65. Childhood: Father died in World War II, when he was 3 months old. Mother raised him in Ballard and Burien. Family: Lives with his wife, Celia Bowker, in Seattle.
Apr 5, 2023 · Meet the Founders: Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker. This is the story of how three men, with a shared love for coffee, laid the foundation for what would become the world’s most iconic coffeehouse chain: Starbucks.
Sep 16, 2014 · His name is Gordon Bowker. He is the creator of two iconic Seattle brands—Starbucks and Red Hook—but, modest and shy, he shuns the spotlight. The Starbucks story begins with a defining moment ...
Jun 13, 2012 · Gordon Bowker’s ‘James Joyce’: Portrait of the author as a man. On Saturday, June 16, devotees of James Joyce will be celebrating Bloomsday. More than 100 years ago, on June 16, 1904, Mr ...
