Helms Bakery Truck Drawers
Feb 16 2017 helms bakery operated on venice blvd.
Helms bakery truck drawers. The buildings have now been adapted for reuse as retail shops restaurants and the interior design trade showrooms and the complex is part of what is now called the helms bakery district. I have a couple of helms bakery cards that my mother would put in the window when she wanted the driver to stop by our house. Maybe i m confusing that with the pull out wooden drawers.
Today all we have is delivery trucks from amazon ups fedex etc somehow just not the same. We also got milk from altadena dairy. By the next day we were all back to craving helms bakery items.
Helms respectfully became the official baker to the olympics in the 1930 s. A beautiful condition 1935 twin coach divco helms bakery truck. In cuvler city ca from 1931 to 1969.
1955 chevy 1st series panel truck by icecreamman55. Especially of the great aroma once those drawers opened. 1935 other makes helms bakery truck delivery van up for auction is a super rare piece of southern california history.
Restoration on future bakery truck. The folks at helms gave us all little loaves of helms white bread which none of us even opened on the bus ride back to school. Their main facility was in culver.
Their slogan was daily at your door and their products were delivered throughout southern california by delivery wagons packed with fresh loaves of bread donuts cookies and cake. Remember that helm s bakery truck that used to drive around the neighborhood with the delicious helm s. Helms bakery truck has 5 244 members.
The helms bakery was a southern california fixture for decades from 1931 to 1969. I still remember how super fresh the donuts were off of the helms truck especially the french twists and those beautiful wood drawers they were stored in. Wooden drawers in the back of the truck were stocked with fresh donuts cookies and pastries while the center section carried dozens of loaves of freshly baked bread.
May 11 2014 explore admechris s board helms bakery truck child memories followed by 210 people on pinterest. Have a great weekend with all our memories of. See more ideas about bakery childhood memories memories.
Every day quaint blue yellow trucks stopped in assigned neighborhoods to give a double toot on a whistle calling customers to come out into the street to buy freshly baked breads pastries from wooden drawers in the back. We just had the starter rebuilt ew coil and a new voltage regulator installed this week. For some reason i remember our bakery truck being wood sided like the old station wagons.
