Tucker Coffee Company
Tucker Coffee Company
San Antonio, Texas coffee firm at 422–424 Ruiz Street in the 1920s, producing Aviation brand coffee. Founded after W. E. Hayman sold his Hoffmann-Hayman interest to the Mengers in January 1920, so Tucker is a separate, related San Antonio coffee line — not a predecessor of H&H.
Capital stock: $25,000, from H. W. Tucker, H. H. Tucker, and W. E. Hayman.
Officers named in site material: A. B. Walker, C. A. Luafenburg, T. W. Willard, A. Walker, and B. B. Dinius.
A surviving Aviation-brand can lid is documented in the collection (2017-09-18 post).
Open questions
- Tucker Coffee’s founding year (1920 or 1921 per Spice Mill incorporation notice; the December 1923 Light charter clip may be a re-charter or expansion)
- Hayman’s exact role — investor only, or operating principal?
- End-of-business date — Tucker drops out of the documentary record after the mid-1920s
- The two “A. Walker” entries in the officer list may be a duplicate of “A. B. Walker,” or a separate person