G'day,
Would love one of these. What a great body and conversation piece.
Peter
This photo make me think of my paternal grandfather and his bakery. He was a baker for another bakery from about 1913 until about 1925. Then in 1925 he built a bakery and opened his own business.
I think this story is from the pre-1925 era, probably not after he opened his own bakery. He would tell me many stories after dinner and a couple of glasses of wine. Simply put, he told me that at one point they stopped using horse and wagons to deliver bread and switched to Model T's. On cold morning it was "crank and cuss", "crank and cuss".
He would probably have benefited from this forum!
This bakery is in Galt, near you, Henry. I bet you know it well:
Their story says it's a 1922, and the original bakery was somewhere in Mich.
I'll bet that loaf photo was taken in the UK. There was a fad in the '20s here for advert vehicles - beer bottles, cigarette packets etc, but the most popular was the T Ford bakers van as shown. I don't know who made them or how many, but I have seen at least 6 photos with different bakers names. Don't know of a survivor.
Ralph, the older photo says that Spaans Bakery was in Muir, Michigan (about 40 miles due east of Grand Rapids). That is confirmed by the current company's history:
http://www.spaanscookies.com/historyspaans1.html
Very entrepreneurial, those Dutch bakers....