Charles August Fey

Augustinus Josephus (later Charles August) Fey was born in the Bavarian village of Vöhringen, where his father was a schoolmaster…

In 1897, Charles Fey set up shop on the third floor of an ornate building at 406 Market Street in…

Company logo, Chas. Fey & Co.

Charles Fey (left) with his longtime foreman Albert Quast (right) on the factory floor.

Charles Fey surveys the damage at Chas. Fey & Co., 406 Market Street, after the earthquake and fire of 1906.

Plaque marking the former site of Chas. Fey & Co., 406 Market Street.

One of Fey’s Draw Poker machines on the counter of a San Francisco saloon.

Charles Fey with his grandsons (from left to right): Franklin (born 1929), Marshall (born 1928), and Edmund, Jr. (born 1926).

Right after the earthquake and fire of 1906, Fey moved his operations to a shed at 395 Jessie Street. The…