DISPOSABLE COFFEE CUP - COFFEE EXPRESS SMALL
c. 2022Cylindrical polymer coated paperboard cup, wider at the top than the base. Round flat base with a extended rim.Black text across bottom face of cup body [perth coffee express], stylised orange ball illustration with lines and a semi circular extension on left side. Black vertical line with an arrow at top on side of the cup near cup vertical join seam line. White text on black line [COMPOSTABLE Zirro].
Black manufacture text on the inside edge of the rim around base.
Takeaway cup used by Tesfay Wereta at his mobile coffee van 'Coffee Express' and at his cafe in the 2020's. Tesfay Werata grew up in the town of Maichew, which is located in the State of Tigray in Ehiopia. Tesfay's mother ran a coffee producing busines, a cafe and a small pop up shop in the town. In c1997 Tesfay's mother passed away. Around this time Tesfay and his three siblings migrated to Melbourne, Australia.
In 2005 Tesfay returned to Tigray to visit family. It was during this time that he was given this family coffee pot. While there he met Maarenet who was from Perth, a year later they were married and living in Perth. Tesfay worked as a taxi driver for eight years before spending two years looking after their four children while Maarenet finished her studies and worked. In 2018 he purchased his own coffee truck and two years later opened M & T Cafe in Camillo. Coffe plays a big part in Tesfay and his families life. It links his to his Ethiopian heritage, his family and memories of his mother.
The coffee pot belonged to Tesfay's grandmother who used it to make coffee in the traditional Ethiopian way for her family. Maaranet continued the tradition in Perth, using the pot mainly on Sundays to make coffee in the traditional way for the family and guests. It was used until it cracked and needed to be replaced.
Details
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on base rim [okelly www.okelly.co Zirro Compostable shamrock]
This object is part of a collection that represents the commercial history of the City of Armadale. It represents the many different businesses that have operated in the local area and how those businesses have evolved over time. Businesses play an important role within a community, they provide wanted and needed goods and services, employment, income and opportunities to the local community. They can also operate as important social connectors, places where people gathered and engaged with other members of the community.
City of Armadale - History House
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