Walk into any Starbucks today and you’ll see a familiar green circle featuring a crowned mermaid with flowing hair. Clean, corporate, recognizable from blocks away. But that polished symbol bears almost no resemblance to the original logo that graced the first Starbucks store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market back in 1971. The story of how a seductive, bare-breasted siren became today’s sanitized coffee queen involves artistic inspiration, corpora…
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