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Continental Baking Company purchased Taggart in 1925. [7] This made Wonder Bread a national brand and added "It's Slo Baked" to the logo. [8] In the 1930s, Continental Baking began marketing Wonder Bread in sliced form nationwide, one of the first companies to do so; this was a significant milestone for the industry and for American consumers, who, at first, needed reassurance that "wonder-cut ...
Dorsch's White Cross Bakery, also known as the Wonder Bread Factory, is a complex of historic structures located in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was entered in the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 2011 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The Ward Bread Company was organized by Robert B. Ward in New York, Brooklyn and Newark in 1900. Around 1910, The Ward's Bakeries built two big factories in Bronx, NY (143rd St. and Southern Boulevard) and Brooklyn, NY (Ward Baking Company Building at Vanderbilt Ave and Pacific Street), [4] which "marks a triumphant return to New York". By ...
In the final stage, bread wagons were loaded from the ground-level archways on Argyle Street. In use as a bakery until 1957, this building was converted to residential lofts in 2007. The factory clock remains above the front entrance." [6] [7] Most of the industrial equipment inside the factory remained in place before the building was repurposed.
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Before its demise on November 21, 2012, Interstate was making 217,460 loaves of Colombo sourdough per week at its Oakland factory, and 71,540 rolls per week at its bakery in Sacramento, as well as Wonder Bread, Twinkies, and Ho Hos snacks from a sister factory at 1525 Bryant street. [22] [27]
The first loaf of sliced bread was sold commercially on July 7, 1928. Sales of the machine to other bakeries increased and sliced bread became available across the country. Gustav Papendick, a baker in St. Louis, bought Rohwedder's second machine and found he could improve on it. He developed a better way to have the machine wrap and keep bread ...
The intro originally said that Wonder bread is the name of two North American brands of bread,yet it listed 3 North American brads one in US, one in Canada and one in Mexico. I changed it to reflect that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.72.241.66 00:51, 6 February 2009 (UTC)