Actually Hostess Cupcakes-[@259 Lowell Street, now the VNA]–was a product made by the Continental Baking Company—at that site.
In addition to cupcakest their primary product was Wonder Bread. All their products, including “snowballs” were distibuted to grocery stores via a fleet of small trucks housed at the same facility.
They sold “day-old” products, not sold, and returned by to the company for credit,
at reduced prices from a retail outlet in the front of the building.
That “day-old” store got a lot of business, particularly during the 1930′s recession.
As kids, in the 1930′s, coming home from the old Bingham School–[grades K to 6]- on Lowell Street, opposite Wilton Street–[where the Spanish theme apartment buildings now stand]– we could buy those cupcakes/snow-balls for 5-cents; and if a kid didn’t have a nickel, the good ladies working there would, sometimes, give up one for nothing.
Then there was Dad’s Oatmeal Cookie Company at the corner of Woodbine and Lowell Streets, where the ladies working there would give us kids “broken” cookies—for nothing. You could smell the aroma of oatmeal cookies being baked, all over the neighborhood.
As far as accessing Trum Field from our homes on Alpine and Albion Streets.
From Alpine we would cross Princeton Street-[the house, @#14 Princeton, and the garage @ #4 Princeton; did not exist. Basically an empty lot---part of which was occupied by a small, very
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