Golden, COLORADO - Adolph Coors Company - ADVERTISING - Bottling Plant, Beer for Sale

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Golden, COLORADO - Adolph Coors Company - ADVERTISING - Bottling Plant, Beer:
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Golden, COLORADO - Adolph Coors Company - ADVERTISING: Coors operates the Golden, Colorado brewery, the largest brewery in the world. In 1873, German immigrants Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler established a brewery in Golden. Coors invested $2,000 in the operation, and Schueler invested $18,000. In April 1977, the brewery workers union at Coors, representing 1,472 employees, went on strike. The brewery kept operating with supervisors and 250 to 300 union members, including one member of the union executive board who ignored the strike. Soon after, Coors announced that it would hire replacements for the striking workers. Labor unions organized a boycott to punish Coors for its labor practices. One tactic employed was a push for state laws to ban sales of unpasteurized canned and bottled beer. Because Coors was the only major brewer at the time not pasteurizing its canned and bottled beer, such laws would hurt only Coors. Sales of Coors suffered during the 10-year labor union boycott, although Coors stated that declining sales were also due to an industry-wide downturn in beer sales, and to increased competition. Coors family members have played a prominent role in American politics and public policy, supporting many conservative causes. Such causes included providing a $250,000 grant in 1973 to found The Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative think tank, and, via its parent company, the right-leaning think tank American Enterprise Institute. Chairman Pete Coors ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate from Colorado in 2004 on the Republican ticket. The card shows a birdseye of the brewery. The card is in good condition.