Meanwhile , Erika ' Rika ' Wallen , born Lovisa Erika Jakobson in 1874 on a farm near Örebro Sweden , immigrated with her sister in 1891 to the United States . They traveled to Minneapolis , Minnesota to join their brother Carl Jakobson . There they changed their last name to Wallen to distinguish themselves from the many other Jacobsons and Jakobsons . After Carl died in an accident , the sisters moved to San Francisco , which they heard was booming . Rika took a job as a cook for the Hills Brothers coffee family , which lasted until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Rika's Landing Roadhouse