The Bread Box - circa 1989

Or the anatomy of "The Bread Box"

"The Bread Box" (BB) was the brainchild of Sam & Penny during what I like to call my wandering phase - I had just graduated from high school and had worked a summer at Wildwood Ranch - I had saved up some money and mom and I were bored. We thought Fowlerville needed a discount bread store we did a "Durochery" amount of research and decided to call it the Bread Box. First order of business was to get a sign made - of course mr. Lowery was the best choice because he taught art at the Baptist School - then we needed to decide what flavors of Town Club Pop we were gonna sell... Of course we were going to need some suppliers for "Discount" bread - we found the Kepplingers had a day old store in detroit so we went there on what would become a weekly trip for us to get our first order of bread - all the favorite variety's were available at pennies on the dollar we had $$$ signs flashing now - how could they sell that bread so cheap we were gonna do awesome. In that process mom also made contact with the Voortman cookie guy (who was going to install a cookie display rack FOR FREE, we also got the Town Club pop guy to deliver A LOT of pop to the store, mom waited outside the IGA and got the Little Debbie guy to sell us all his day old stuff and she hunted down "Leo - the bread guy" we were really on our way and the grand opening was only 2 days away - mom talked Bread Guy Leo into coming to the store the night before opening to deliver more bread (the Kepplingers was good, but we needed more) plus he said he would bring us some bread racks (we were to find out later on that this was one of the LONG string of "Leo said's" that would never come to fruition). So at 6.30pm on the day before we opened Leo's big white bread truck rolled in and over the next 2 hours leo talked mom and I into buying about 125.00 worth of day old bread - he kept pulling out bread saying "well this is for a customer in Williamston or Howell or wherever....but since your just starting out I'll let you guys have it" we bought that crap hook, line and sinker when he finally left mom and I stared at other realizing that the con had but put over on us. We were now fully loaded and hoped beyond hope that things would go well - hereis a picture of mom from the week before opening - she is making signs in her traditional way - with a straight edge ruler so the signs looked good and not all wavy.

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