RSS for this post's commentsComments
-
Hi Mickie (and former Jay Dee Bakery patrons)
Thank you for posting the Jay Dee Bakery Daily News article & your sentiments on Queens Central! It is disheartening that a community fixture and a rare Art Deco commercial survivor, is no more. Since I couldn’t encourage the owner to creatively adaptively reuse its Art Deco features, despite promises of funding & community awards, the next best option was to work with him to find parties who will salvage some of its Art Deco features. Patti Miller & Joel Owens were the first party to come forward, and thankfully, they plan on recreating the bakery as close as possible, so future generations can understand why this was such an important landmark. I am assisting them, and seeking any photos or historic documents which may help recreate Jay Dee Bakery down south, and help us compose a more formal history. Do you have any interior or exterior photos, as well as any memories to share? Sadly, I was not granted permission to take photos within the bakery; only after its features including the recessed ceiling and silhouette cake displays, were completely gutted. We are hoping to salvage as much of the facade as possible. Please help in any way you can & forward the word to family and friends. My e-mail is unlockthevault@hotmail.com Thank you!
- Michael Perlman, Rego-Forest Preservation Councilm Chair
Four Borough Preservation Alliance Corp, Queens VPPosted by Michael Perlman, Rego-Forest Preservation Council
on September 2nd, 2009 at 11:17 pm -
P.S. Is the ballerinas photo from a Jay Dee Bakery cake? If so, can you please grant permission to feature it on my flickr page and grant you credit? Thank you!
Posted by Michael Perlman, Rego-Forest Preservation Council
on September 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 pm -
Hi Michael. Glad you liked the post. Sorry, the ballerina photo is just a random photo I found using Google. I think you do great work, and I’m sorry you get so much opposition.
Posted by Mickie T
on September 3rd, 2009 at 2:29 pm -
I’ll miss viewing the cakes in the window with the glazed whole bananas draped across them.
My husband will miss seeing the site of his childhood responsibility: bike ride to Jay Dee and order a pound and a half seeded rye, sliced! And quickly eating slices before his mother put the loaf in the freezer
Posted by Kitty
on September 5th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Jay Dee Bakery owner says, So long, y’all!
Posted by Mickie T on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Another NYC 1950’s landmark is being scooped up by Southern architectural preservationists.
The Daily News reports today that Jay Dee owner Amnir Yelizarov has not only closed the historic Jay Dee bakery, but is selling off the architecturally-significant components to preservationist entrepeneurs Pat Miller and Joel Owens.
Rego-Forest Preservation Council’s leader, Micheal Perlman, met with Mr. Yelizarov, but could not convice him to save any of the features intact.
Miller and Owens bought the venerable Cheyenne Diner and will add Jay Dee to their dream of recreating a back-in-time town in the south.
Whatever your opinion about Jay Dee’s products or the closure, I’ll miss the plaster cakes, colors faded by the sun, and the tiny plastic ballerinas that I always coveted as a child.
(Photo from Etsy)
