This Tuesday, 4 March 1975 San Antonio Express clip is a classified display, not a coffee-brand advertisement: it offers used International and Chevrolet step-vans “priced for quick sale,” with buyers directed to 601 Delaware Street. That address is the Delaware Street plant documented elsewhere on the site — but by March 1975 the coffee era was over. The ad names no seller. Kenneth L. Wagner had owned the building since August 1972, Continental returned its rail-spur rights that same month, and city directories place B&W Service Co. (toys wholesale) in the building from 1975 to 1992. Wagner’s World Toy House display ad ran from the same address two days later, on 6 March 1975 — see 1975 — 601 Delaware as B&W toy warehouse. The vans are best read as the toy distributor’s fleet, and this clip as post-coffee context for the property.
Attribution note (2026-07-20): this clip was previously cited as evidence of Continental operating at 601 Delaware through 1975. That reading rested on the address alone and has been withdrawn.
Transcription
Column header (badges): TRUCKS-TRAILERS-BUSES · 908
Boxed classified (as set):
PRICED For Quick Sale
1955 (Clean) International Stop-Van, $550
1964 Chevy Stp Step-Van (12’) $1000
1965 Chevy Step-Van (12’) $1000
1966 Chevy Step-Van (12’) $1000
SEE AT
601 Delaware St.
(Typesetting abbreviations “Stp” / “Stop-Van” transcribed as visible.)
Source
- San Antonio Express (San Antonio, Tex.), 4 March 1975 (Tuesday). Project scan:
San_Antonio_Express_Tue__Mar_4__1975_.jpgin the Newspaper Clippings gallery.