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SOUTH PARK SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF
BUDDY AND JANE HEBERT

TAYSTEE BREAD COMPANY

We Are Bakers Of  "PURE FOOD PRODUCTS"
And Kindly Ask That There Be  "No Smoking"

    THE AROMA FLOATED OVER THE ENTIRE AREA OF SOUTH PARK!  AND WHAT A  DELICIOUS AROMA IT WAS - IT
AROUSED THE TASTE BUDS OF MANY RESIDENTS.  THE SMELL OF BREAD BAKING IN THE OVENS AT THE TAYSTEE
BAKING COMPANY - 3845 PORT ARTHUR ROAD. THE SMELL OF THE FRESH BREAD BAKING DROVE MANY A RESIDENT
TO THE TAYSTEE BREAD BAKERY, WHERE THEY PURCHASED A HOT LOAF OF BREAD, DASHED HOME AND
SMOTHERED IT IN BUTTER AND  INDULGED THEMSELVES !  HOW GREAT IT WAS !

    THE TAYSTEE BREAD COMPANY CAME OUT OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS TO BEAUMONT, TEXAS IN 1937, AND WAS
ORIGINALLY LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF FANNIN AND HOLMES, AND WAS MANAGED BY HAROLD T. DUPERIER. ( I
WAS UNABLE TO OBTAIN THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE WHO OWNED THE TAYSTEE BREAD COMPANY.)  IN 1946 LOUISE
LARCOMB SOLD THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS TRACT 181 IN THE J. W. BULLOCK ADDITION TO THE TAYSTEE BAKING
COMPANY AND IN 1949 A BRIGHT YELLOW TILE BUILDING WAS ERECTED AT 3845 PORT ARTHUR ROAD. THIS WAS THE
BEGINNING OF TAYSTEE BAKING COMPANY AS WE KNEW IT.

    NOT ONLY DID THE TAYSTEE BAKERS BAKE THEIR DELICIOUS BREAD, THEY ALSO MADE CUPCAKES, FRIED PIES,
DONUTS, PIES, CAKES - YOU NAME IT - THEY BAKED IT. THERE WERE DELIVERY TRUCKS THAT DELIVERED THEIR
MERCHANDISE TO ALL THE STORES IN THE BEAUMONT AND MID COUNTY AREA.ONE OF THE MOST ENJOYABLE AND
EXCITING THINGS ABOUT THE TAYSTEE BAKERY WAS 'LITTLE MICKEY - I GUESS YOU WOULD CALL HIM SORT OF A
MASCOT. HE WAS A MIDGET - REALLY! HE WORE A LITTLE TAYSTEE BAKING UNIFORM AND CAP. HE HAD A VERY
SPECIAL LITTLE DELIVERY TRUCK, WITH THE TAYSTEE ENBLEM, AND HE DELIVERED THOSE LITTLE SPECIAL LOAVES
OF TAYSTEE BREAD TO ALL THE SCHOOLS AROUND THE AREA. HOW THE KIDS LOVED TO SEE MICKEY COMING. HE
APPEARED AT .ALL TYPES OF SPECIAL EVENTS, AND IT WAS REALLY WONDERFUL TO SEE HIM. HE LOVED HIS JOB.
AND MICKEY TOOK AS HIS WIFE ANOTHER MIDGET, ALTHOUGH I CANT RECALL HER NAME, AND THEY HAD A SON WHO
WAS A NORMAL SIZE YOUNG MAN. ( I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A PICTURE OF MICKEY.)

    IN 1951 THE TAYSTEE BAKING COMPANY WOULD MERGE WITH PURITY BAKING COMPANY, BUT IT CONTINUED TO
OPERATE AS THE TAYSTEE BAKING COMPANY. HAROLD T. DUPERIER WOULD CONTINUE TO MANAGE THE TAYSTEE
BAKING COMPANY UNTIL 1966, WHEN  JIM PENMAN BECAME THE MANAGER, AND STAYED AS MANAGER UNTIL 1968,
AT WHICH TIME W. I. ALLEN BECAME THE MANAGER.

     IN 1970 THE TAYSTEE BAKING COMPANY WAS SOLD TO AMERICAN BAKERIES COMPANY, ALSO OUT OF CHICAGO,
ILLINOIS, AND H. B. NORWOOD BECAME THE MANAGER. IN OCTOBER OF 1973, AMERICAN BAKERIES WAS SOLD TO
JOHN F. GElS, JR., WHO IN TURN SOLD IT A FEW DAYS LATER TO THE HOLSUM BAKING COMPANY, AND IN 1974 IT
BECAME A THRIFT STORE WITH FRED OSBORN BEING THE MANAGER. IT WAS LATER SOLD TO IDEAL BAKING
COMPANY OF PARIS, AND THEN SOLD TO FLOWERS BAKING COMPANY OUT OF PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS. I AM NOT SURE
JUST WHEN FLOWERS BAKING COMPANY DISCONTINUED ITS BUSINESS, BUT THE BUILDING IS NOW OCCUPIED BY THE
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK - BUT ALL THE SPLENDOR OF THE ONCE OUTSTANDING BUILDING HAS NOW
DETERIORATED.