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For many decades of the 20th century, Long Island City was a centre for commercial bakeries. [1] During the 1920s building boom on Long Island, the Gordon Baking Company of Detroit made plans to open a factory at 42-25 21st Street to produce its Silvercup brand of bread. [2]
Orwashers Bakery is a famous breadmaking business in New York City that has been listed among the top ten bakeries in America. [1] Also known as A. Orwasher Handmade Bread Inc. it was established in 1916 on 78th Street in the Yorkville area of the New York City borough of Manhattan and it is now one of the last vestiges of the thriving ...
Ebinger's was a bakery in Brooklyn, New York that invented Blackout cake. [1] The original location was opened by George and Catherine Ebinger in 1898 [2] on Flatbush Avenue near Cortelyou Street. [3] Contemporaries included other German bakeries such as Drake's and Entenmann's. [4]
A doughnut chain begun in Flint, Michigan. Although most of the chain was sold to Dunkin' Donuts in 1991, the bakery for the company's donuts remains operational, as do two locations in the Flint area. Daylight Donuts: 1954 A chain with about 1000 stores, founded by Tommy and Lucille Day in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [12] [13] [14] Donut Dip: 1957
Magnolia Bakery at 401 Bleecker Street in New York City (January 2013) Magnolia Bakery at Union Station in Washington, D.C. (November 2018) Magnolia Bakery is a chain of bakeries founded in New York City. The first location opened in 1996 at 401 Bleecker Street, on the corner of West 11th Street in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan.
Greyston Bakery was founded in Riverdale, New York, by Bernie Glassman, a Zen Buddhist. Although it is a for-profit company, its profits go to its non-profit parent organization, the Greyston Foundation, where they are used on behalf of the local community.
Jahn's Family Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor was an old-fashioned ice cream parlor and restaurant with locations in the New York City area and Miami-Dade County, Florida, and was famous for its huge Kitchen Sink Sundae. Only the Jahn's located in Jackson Heights, Queens is still operating.
[37] [41] Near the northwest corner of Hillside Avenue and Myrtle Avenue sat an old time ice cream parlor, Jahn's. It closed in late 2007. [ 37 ] Between Myrtle Avenue and the Montauk Line railroad is a former movie theatre, RKO Keith's Richmond Hill Theater, opened in 1929, functioning since 1968 as a bingo hall.