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Item
Title
A120186-1
Date(s)
- 1959-03-18 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Jordan's Baking Co. at 54th and So. Washington. The bakery was celebrating its 23rd business birthday in 1959. Jordan's began in 1936 in Old Tacoma with 3 employees and one delivery truck. They moved in 1939 to this location in South Tacoma. In 1959, Jordan's employed 110 persons with a payroll exceeding $600,000 annually. Their number 1 product was Jordan's white bread. (TNT 4/7/1959, pg. C-20)
Jordan's Baking Co. (Tacoma); Bakeries--Tacoma--1950-1960;