Jamaica’s Wonder Bread Plant Closes After 130 Years

The New Year will not be a happy one for the 200+ people who work at the 130 year old Wonder Bread bakery in Jamaica, Queens. Hostess will be closing the doors of a neighborhood institution that first came to the neighborhood in the 1870′s. Hostess says that modernizing the plant is too expensive. That means no more $.99 loafs, and one more sign of economic hardship and change for a borough that has seen its share of difficulties in the current economic climate.

One local called the bakery closing the “end of an era.” While the production of Wonder Bread will be moved to another nearby bakery, it is a dramatic shift to see things that made it through several wars and the Great Depression closing their doors…

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