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World's Largest Birthday Cake - Seattle World's Fair 1962

Price: $14.95
  

Stock #: 848282
Type: Postcard
Era: Chrome
City: Seattle
State: Washington (WA)
County: King
Publisher: Forde Photog
Postmark: 1962 Aug-16
PM City: Seattle
PM State: WA
Stamp: 3c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
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The cake display, courtesy of Clark's Restaurant Enterprises, Inc., Seattle. Cake Theme: Paul Bunyan's 128th birthday. The cake was mixed and baked by Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakers, Seattle. Decorations by Edison Technical School. Souvenir mailaway boxed portions of the fruit cake are sold at the site and Clark's Restaurants, Seattle. Statistics: Weight: 25,000 pounds, plus decorations; height: 23 feet; icing: 4,000 pounds C&H Cane Sugar; circumference: 60 feet (6 sides. Recipe: Raisins: 7,000 pounds; eggs: 1,500 dozen; pecans: 2,200 pounds; flour: 10,500 pounds; can sugar: 4,000 pounds and Bunyan pinch of salt: 100 pounds.

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