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AKING CO
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BREAD LINE
AFTER
SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER 1906.
REFUGEES RECEIVING BREAD FROM
CALIFORNIA BAKING CO.
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Oakland, Calif., April 18, 1916.
The California Baking Co.,
San Francisco.
Gentlemen :
I have a loaf of your bread that is ten years old.
On the Sunday morning after the earthquake I stood
i.. the bread-line that formed in front of your
Fillmore St. store. The line was over three and a
half blocks long as I remember it.
In perhaps two hours I reached the store and for ten
cents received two loaves of bread. One of them I
ate and the other I wrapped up and put in my suit-
case for supper.
That afternoon I got a chance to go to Los Angeles
and took it. A week later I happened to look through
my suitcase and found that loaf of bread had thor.
oughly dried out. I kept it to see how long it would
keep. I have it today--ten years afterward.
Two years ago while showing it to a friend, the loaf
dropped to the floor and shattered like a piece of
glass. I have put the pieces back together and the
loaf is in fair shape.
Naturally I prize this peculiar relic very highly.
If this interests you, drop me a line and I will
bring the loaf over to your office.
Yours very truly,
L. L. DeBra
