Goodbye Wonder Bread

With a great amount of sadness, I read yesterday on Columbus Underground about how the Wonder Bread factory in Columbus is closing. I'm sorry for the workers and for Columbus to lose an icon.

Anyone who grew up in the area knows the factory because of it's huge neon sign and the wonderful yeasty bread smell that emanates from it. You can see and smell it from the highway. I always thought I was lucky to grow up in a town with a bread factory, as opposed to a tire factory.

When I was a kid, there was a yearly summer festival at the little 1950s strip center down the street from my house. The parking lot would be partially closed, there would be games, Elsie the Cow (or some bovine stand-in), and a guy dressed as a bag of Wonder Bread, handing out miniature loaves of squishy bread.

Comments

[Amy]

that is sad - and a bread factory is way better than a tire factory (for a while, I lived in a town with a mushroom farm - that was not pleasant when the wind was from the north....)

[Jennifer]

I grew up in a town with a bread factory... much better than a tire factory... almost as good as the Blommer factory.

[Sara]

Aw, this makes me a little sad and a lot nostalgic. I used to work kinda near there and I remember the smell vividly. Wonder Bread doesn't have the best reputation as far as breads go but their bread sure SMELLS like first class bread when baking!