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From: "joseph brady" <>
Subject: Re: [PAPHL] Re: Schillings Bakery -- where?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 19:21:30 -0700
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Our german bakery was Kahl's at 8th Street & Indiana Ave..around
1945-1960....they had BUTTERCAKE!!!!!!

On 5/10/06, Tom Clarke <> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if anyone had a photo of Schillings---a bakery,
> > I believe? My dad speaks very fondly of their cheesecake in his
> > reminiscences. I have both the Philadelphia photo volumes and was
> > disappointed that neither had a picture of the building!
>
> =========================
>
> My dad used to regularly stop Friday nights on the way home from work in
> Frankford and other places to our suburban home in Rockledge with
> decadently rich German butter cake, raisin cinnamon buns and other
> 'luxuries'. That Schillings was in Cheltenham, down the road from the
> Fox Chase area. The street names I don't know, but it was as I recall a
> one story addition(?) to the normal stone home there. It was on a
> residential corner but by maybe 1985 on a trip back home the building
> was vacant. What an era ended. Everybody in our family and
> neighborhood knew of the place. I would bet the building with its large
> glass window(s) is still there.
>
> Tom Clarke 5-10-06
>
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