Title	Remember When...Strupps' Home Bakery was in business?
Description	Thomas Strupp and his family served their neighborhood around N.33rd and Clarke Sts. from 1919 to 1965 with delicious baked goods, produce, a few grocery items and even tobacco. The work day, or night, was long. Bakers Howard and Robert Strupp helped their father set the dough around 8 in the evening, then slept, ready to start work again at 1 a.m. so the baked goods would be ready for customers who arrived as early as 5:30. This 1931 photo shows Clara Reinke (left) a longtime clerk, with Emily Strupp, wife of Thomas, ready to wait on customers. The doors behind them lead to family living quarters and the baking room. The Depression years were hard, and the Strupps sold everything from condiments to Crackerjacks to earn enough money to live on. Prices reflected the times. Bread was 7 and 10 cents a loaf, schnecks (long johns) 4 for 10 cents, doughnuts 25 cents a dozen, pies 30 cents. After Thomas Strupp died in 1954, his widow and sons Howard and Robert operated the bakery until 1965. Howard was technical adviser for the bakery at the Streets of Old Milwaukee exhibit at the Milwaukee County Museum. Photo and information courtesy Howard Strupp. "Remember When" is prepared by the Milwaukee Public Library with resources from the local history collection.
Library of Congress Subject Headings	Strupp, Emily; Reinke, Clara; Bakers and bakeries -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Strupps' Bakery (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Publisher	Milwaukee Public Library
Contributor	Howard Strupp
Date Original	1931
Source	Milwaukee Journal
Newspaper Publication Date	10-10-1989
Date Copyrighted	2005
Type	Image
Has Format	Photograph
Relation	RW 2170
Collection	Remember When, F. P. Zeidler Humanities Room, Milwaukee Public Library
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Date created	09-08-2010