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The Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas. The bakery was founded in 1896 by August Wiederman, an immigrant from Wiesbaden, Germany. [2] With the help of local entrepreneur Tom McElwee, the bakery soon outgrew its original building, and required a new one in which the second floor was turned into a hotel.
A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based baked goods made in an oven such as bread, cookies, cakes, doughnuts, bagels, pastries, and pies. [1] Some retail bakeries are also categorized as cafés , serving coffee and tea to customers who wish to consume the baked goods on the premises.
The company named a new chief executive, Tony Alvarez. Interstate Bakery's stock, which had been $34 per share, fell to $2.05 with the bankruptcy. During the bankruptcy proceedings (at the time, the longest-running in U.S. history), Interstate fought a 2007 bid from Mexican baker Grupo Bimbo and Ron Burkle of the Yucaipa Companies. [20]
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In 1925 it bought Taggart Baking Company, the maker of Wonder Bread, and became the largest commercial bakery in the United States. [9] [10] Twinkie snack cakes were invented in 1930 in Schiller Park, Illinois, by James Alexander Dewar, a baker at Continental Baking Company. Continental was based in New York from 1923 to 1984. [11]
Starting with a single horse-and-wagon route and one retail bakeshop, the business grew and flourished. Legend has it that in the company's early years, an award known as the MERIT-A award, signifying highest merit, was conferred on some bakery products. This company consistently won the award and displayed the symbol “MERIT-A” on the packages.
An NBC affiliate aired “Lena Richard’s New Orleans Cook Book.” It ran in 1949 and 1950. It likely would have lasted longer, but Richard died unexpectedly in November 1950.
The Arnold Bakery Building is a historic commerce building in east-central Austin, Texas constructed around 1890.. In addition to being a bakery, the building served many other purposes throughout the 20th century for the African-American community before falling into disrepair.