3/29/25 Queens 2nd Alarm Box 4465

[memorymaster]

We are in Florida and no decent bakeries down here. It has something to do with the humidity and the water. HOWEVER. Marios Meat Market in south Fort Myers has great Italian bread. How you say? The dough is made in Brooklyn, shipped here and baked a couple of times a day in Fort Myers!!

Good to know. Thanks Kev.

 

[efd274]

My wife loved the chocolate layer cake from Storks. Speaking of bakeries, how about "Garden Bake Shop" on Union Tpk. on the north side of the street east of 251's house? They were great also.

Right near the old Mays Dept store and virtually across the street from E251. Also I worked in high school one year in the Purity Bake Shop a German bakery on Northern Blvd across from
St Andrew’s Church between 157th and 158th St. It was an awesome bakery on the style of Storks. One of the cake icers there fought in World War I on the German side and walked with a limp from shrapnel in his knee from the war - he would drink anywhere from 24-28 cans of Schaeffer beer every day. I used to count them and be amazed! Some of the four tier wedding cakes looked like the leaning Tower of Pisa until the owner straightened them out.

The bakery was open from 6am to 6pm but it was virtually a 24 hour operation - around 8pm a fireman from E274 who lived in the area would come by the back door and get some leftover Danish and a pastry ring or two - when he wasn’t available they would occasionally send a guy from the firehouse out to pick up the goodies under the guise of checking a leaky hydrant.

 

[memorymaster]

Right near the old Mays Dept store and virtually across the street from E251. Also I worked in high school one year in the Purity Bake Shop a German bakery on Northern Blvd across from
St Andrew’s Church between 157th and 158th St. It was an awesome bakery on the style of Storks. One of the cake icers there fought in World War I on the German side and walked with a limp from shrapnel in his knee from the war - he would drink anywhere from 24-28 cans of Schaeffer beer every day. I used to count them and be amazed! Some of the four tier wedding cakes looked like the leaning Tower of Pisa until the owner straightened them out.

The bakery was open from 6am to 6pm but it was virtually a 24 hour operation - around 8pm a fireman from E274 who lived in the area would come by the back door and get some leftover Danish and a pastry ring or two - when he wasn’t available they would occasionally send a guy from the firehouse out to pick up the goodies under the guise of checking a leaky hydrant.

On the north side of Northern, just east of St. Andrew's, on the corner was a drug store at that time. A FF from E16 practically ran the place except for the pharmacy are of course.