Bond Bakery
and Nanny
My sister and I spent many an hour watching Hopalong Cassidy and The Lone Ranger, all in glorious black and white on the small screen – quite
small screen at home. Bond Bread
sponsored Hopalong, and I believe it also sponsored The Lone Ranger. Great times.
Interestingly enough, this was the period in which milk was
delivered to your door by the milkman and bread by the Bond Bakery truck
driver. We got the milk that way, but I
don't recall the bread deliveries.
Not a problem though!
Our grandmother, Alice Edith Southworth Healey, worked for Bond
Bakery in Hartford CT in the 1950s or so.
On occasion we would pick her up after her shift ended. Just approaching the Bond Bakery would cause
drooling. The aroma, oh my, so very wonderful.
Nanny would come out with her white bakery cap still covering
her white hair. She smelled wonderful
to cuddle up to on the trip to her home or ours. We likely ate a lot of Bond Bread when growing up, although I
remember Wonder Bread as well.
Our great grandmother Alvra, our Nanny Alice, Aunt Jane and “Uncle”
Eddie had goodies when we would come to visit or spend the night. One treat was the Bond Bridge Cookies. We would play a game called auction bridge
with Nanny and Jane and they occasionally served these cookies which were cut
in the shape of clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades. So appropriate. So
memorable.
Alice with her Great Grandson
Joseph
