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HOME > History > History Club > Wallace Gloege - Gloege Bakery
History of Gloege
Bakery
Presentation to the Annandale History
Club
November, 1994
Wallace Gloege
Wallace Gloege was our speaker in November 1994. He gave an interesting account of the running of the Gloege Bakery.
The Gloege Bakery began in a two story brick building in
Annandale where the wood clock tower now stands on the corner of Oak Avenue
[Main Street] and Cedar Street. My
father, Nolen, bought the building and business from Clarence Ferrell in 1932
and continued the baking business until 1972.
The building had two apartments upstairs and my family lived in one of
them. Most of the bakery goods were
made and baked during the night hours. The
rumbling of the machines was "music" to my young ears and sleep came
easily for me, but Saturday night was a different story.
The bakery was not open on Sunday so no rumbling on Saturday night could
be heard.
The Gloege Bakery, sometimes called the Annandale Bakery,
produced a complete line of bakery goods, all from "scratch"...even
angel food wedding cakes. Unsliced
white bread was a favorite. People
often ordered 10-20 loaves and took them back to the cities.
Besides retail business, three delivery routes were
established to the west and north of
In 1957 the Clard Broberg grocery store was purchased and
the bakery moved to this location which was next to the old post office.
All delivery routes were discontinued and the business concentrated on
retail sales in this new location.
Most of the employees of my dad's bakery lived in
Even though the bakery was small, Dad was proud of his
"barrel bread mixer," his automatic cake donut machine, and his
eighteen bun pan gas-fired oven. Some of the favorite products were; angel
food cakes, unsliced white bread, Swedish Limpa, flat bread, apple kuchen,
Danish coffee cakes,
After forty years he sold the business to Wally and Rosalie
Gloege who ran the business from1972-1974, Ethel Rudolph 1974-1977, and Gary
Peterson 1977-1979. On New Years
Eve 1979, a fire in the apartment over the bakery left the bakery badly damaged.
The building, which Nolen still owned, was sold to Al Schulzetenberg.
Al built a new building which became part of his appliance business.
Thus ended the Gloege Bakery which faithfully served
Merlyn White, Secretary