In 1971 as Kenneth Shelley and Jo Jo Starbuck were putting the pairs competition on ice, three Seattle slackers named Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker and Zev Seigl were busy reinventing the corner coffee shop.

For their logo, they chose the two-tailed siren (common in medieval literature) as a symbol of strength and power.

For the name of their now ubiquitous java huts, they borrowed that of Captain Ahab's java-swilling first mate -- so B is correct.






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