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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]
Pepperidge Farm Incorporated is an American commercial bakery founded in 1937 by Margaret Rudkin, who named the brand after her family's 123-acre farm property in Fairfield, Connecticut, [1] which had been named for the pepperidge tree. A subsidiary of the Campbell Soup Company since 1961, it is based in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Caldor, Inc. was a discount department store chain founded in 1951 by husband and wife Carl and Dorothy Bennett. Referred to by many as "the Bloomingdale's of discounting," [1] Caldor grew from a second story "Walk-Up-&-Save" operation in Port Chester, New York, into a regional retailing giant. [2]
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]
The company went out of business and closed the bakery in 1995, [12] partly due to the cost of maintaining the outdated facility. [11] At the time, it was one of the last independent bakeries in the New York area. [11] A connected warehouse at 808 Pacific Street was used for a self-storage business as late as 2007. [13]
The merged company was renamed Vornado, Inc. On January 31, 1962, the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VNO. At its peak, there were more than 100 Two Guys locations nationwide, including Upstate New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California, Maryland, and Virginia. [6]
At its peak in the 1980s, it was the 12th largest supermarket chain in the United States and had 140 stores throughout the New York metropolitan area. [3] All Waldbaum's stores featured fresh meats and produce. 62 stores had bakeries and 36 offered pharmacy service.
The bakery was founded in The Bronx in 1927, [1] by Joseph Zarubchik, a Polish-Jewish immigrant, and is now operated by his grandsons, Stuart and Joseph. In 1977, the company opened its first of three stores in Grand Central Terminal, followed by stores in Pennsylvania Station and the Port Authority Bus Terminal – all in the Manhattan borough of New York City.