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Red Hook Bakery – West 9th Street – Red Hook, Brooklyn

Jun 5th, 2008
by fadingad.

Red Hook Bakery

Red Hook Bakery

Red Hook Bakery
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Posted in: Bakeries, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Waterfront, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Red Hook.

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11 Comments

  1. Yoly says:
    March 31, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    Wow……… I just came back from Red Hook this weekend and saw the bakery. As a child I remembered it being Larsen’s bakery.

    How could I ever forget the wonderful aroma eminating from there. I remember buying coffee cake and crumb cake from the bakery at 20 to 25 cents a box. (The box was the size of the now Entemann’s box) . I was a kid then but my Mother would send me to the bakery. I remember some of the ladies who worked there. Going back gave me warm memories of the bakery. The bakery entrance was in the corner where now they have a small food store. When I saw that giant picture I never remembered seeing it as a child though. Neither was my sister who was with me. We missed that.

  2. jerry says:
    August 27, 2009 at 11:40 pm

    Hey, My name is jerry and my grandfather own a store on the corner of w9th and henry “Pablo’s” and I remember the bakery entrance but not the giant pictures.Those cakes were the best after a day at red hook pool.

    1. lourdes says:
      August 5, 2011 at 5:21 pm

      I remember you, I’m Lourdes, I lived in 715 Henry Street. Of course I remember the store 🙂 glad your well!

      1. Louise says:
        May 22, 2012 at 2:29 am

        Lourdes….I don’t know if I spoke to you before. My family lived at 715 Henry St. My Aunt Nora and Uncle Joe and my cousins, their daughters Anne,Rose and Josephine. My Uncle owned Kings Towels Supply Laundry..Rudy Alvalez lived on the top floor… and we went to PS27s. Thanks Louise

  3. Maureen says:
    September 13, 2010 at 3:51 am

    When I was a small child I remember going to Larsen’s Bakery and one of the ladies who worked there would give me a big chocolate chip cookie that was just baked. We lived on LuQuer and Court St., right opposite St. Mary Star of the Sea Church and would walk to Larsen’s every week. A great memory!

  4. fadingad says:
    September 14, 2010 at 1:36 am

    Yes! What a great memory. So many of our memories are associated with food! Thanks Maureen.

  5. Louise says:
    May 25, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    I remember going to Larsen’s all the time. One of the girls that we grew up with and lived in my building in the projects? Jo-Ann Miller..her dad was a baker at Larsen’s. He was always bring cakes home…wasn’t the smells great? I loved the white bread(the loaf),we would get it sliced…yummmmmm…And the day old buns were good also..The paintings that are on the building today? They were not there when we were kids. I guess the hipsters or the newbies in the neighborhood like that…

  6. greg says:
    July 10, 2012 at 6:15 pm

    My grandmother lived in two different apts. One on clinton st. across from the Clinton theater and the other on lorraine st. across from the ballpark, next to the pool. I loved the crumb cake from Larsens bakery. That was back in the 50’s. I now live in San Diego(for 40 yrs.) but I still long for Larsens crumb cake.

    1. EDDIE says:
      August 29, 2012 at 4:44 pm

      HI MY NAME IS EDDIE IT REALLY BRINGS BACK LOTS OF GOOD MEMORIES I LIVED AT 22 MILL ST I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER LARSENS BAKERY I REMEMBER THE WOMEN WORE WHITE UNIFORMS MY FRIEND PAPO WHO LIVED ON THE SECOND FLOOR FATHER ALSO WORKED AT LARSENS MY FATHER WORKED AT BUSHWICK CAN FACTORY .WHEN I WAS A KID MY FAVORITE STORES WERE SALS CANDY STORE THE BAKERY PABLOS GROCERY AND WHO CAN EVER FORGET THE GERMAN SHEPARD DOG THERE SO MANY GREAT PEOPLE AT THAT TIME . I STILL LIVING RED HOOK AREA .

  7. Carol Matlock says:
    September 23, 2012 at 9:47 pm

    Hi, My Great Uncle and my Great grandfather owned that Bakery. I love hearing about it. Does any one one know just what street it started on?

  8. Luis Hernandez says:
    August 17, 2015 at 5:46 am

    I remember going there right after swimming in the pool. And the aroma was awesome you smell it a couple of blocks away. I would get those large cookies and chocolate layer cake. Sweet memories. I used to live in the back on Wolcott street back in the 60’s and I always remember those good times.