Collin Street Bakery

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This monument, awarded by the Texas Historical Society, stands at Bakery's entrance. SURVEY ATORICAL TEXAS COLLIN STREET BAKERY OPENED TWO BLOCKS NORTH OF THIS SITE IN 1896, BY AUGUST WEIDMANN, AN IMMIGRANT BAKER FROM WIESBADEN, GERMANY AND W. T MCELWEE. A LOCAL COTTON BUYER, COMBINING THE TALENTS OF A BAKER WHOSE PRIDE AND JOY WAS BAKING A BETTER CAKE WITH THE FLARE OF A MAN WHOSE BUSINESS ABILITY HAD A TOUCH OF THE SENSATIONAL WAS A MOVE THAT RESULTED IN A MOST UNUSUAL AND SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE. PRUIT CAKE ORIGINAL COLLIN STREET BAKERY ONE OF WEIDMANN'S FEW ASSETS WAS AN UNKNOWN CAKE RECIPE. THIS WWAS TO BECOME THE FAMOUS ORIGINAL DELUXE FRUITCAKE TODAY SHIPPED TO EVERY STATE IN THE UNITED STATES AND TO MANY FOREIGN COUNTRIES. MCELWEE. A LOVER OF SPORTS AND THE THEATRE, BUILT A ROOMING HOUSE OVER THE BAKERY IN 1906, AND INVITED VISITING BASEBALL PLAYERS. CIRCUS PERFORMERS AND VAUDEVILLE TROUPES TO STAY THERE. SOON GUESTS WERE HAVING FRUITCAKES SHIPPED TO FRIENDS IN REMOTE PLACES. EMPLOYEES AT THE BAKERY DURING THIS ERA RECALL VISITS FROM WILL ROGERS ENRICO CARUSO JOHN J MCGRAW, "GENTLEMEN JIM CORBETT AND MANY OTHER CELEBRITIES. THEY ALSO RECALL THE DAY THE GREAT CIRCUS SHOWMAN JOHN RINGLING, AND MANY OF HIS FAMOUS PERFORMERS STOPPED IN AND ORDERED CHRISTMAS CAKES SENT TO THEIR MANY FRIENDS IN DISTANT LANDS. The COLLIN STREET BAKERY. We've outgrown two other homes in Corsicana since our founding in 1896. The world-famous Original DeLuxe Fruit Cake. Shipped into every free nation on earth. COMMITTEE

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Houston Texan 4/1/76-Dear Keith ET LORIBUS UNUM BLE USA: 124 The COLLIN STREET BAKERY was founded in 1896 by August Weidmann, German master baker from Wiesbaden on the Rhine. Some early, illustrious customers of the Original DeLuxe Fruit Cake were Will Rogers, John Ringling, Enrico Caruso. Today, “that famous Corsicana Fruit Cake" is shipped to celebrated persons around the world. Stilt custom-baked and hand-decorated, never sold in stores, the DeLuxe is called by gourmets, the finest Christmas delicacy money can buy. Colin Street Bakery, 408 W. Seventh Ave., Corsicana, Texas 75179 We wel ennuyer green, the ONE NATION" IND VIS wild Los hobbym morning, down toran ce are rare ingLexas - it is are Jeautiful. Farma tre per un tercard berous and people weeray this so tolnotrand tomorrow. i Drove three Lexas Arm Auston will see the Astrodome and Galvestons the law Stanley and his Yomily for four Lours, Lad Leaas stlak Abthe pued wert with Mesquite wood-a delicious flavors Yoda xides are planted wity Blue Boraf (Lupin ) - now in full bloom. the leido are Mrs. Ruth H. Wade 561 Silva Avenue Santa Rosa, California 95404 Rog Enil and Paul