Pictured is Larry Padora packing three dozen loaves of fresh bread to be given away via the Tamaqua Salvation Army. Padora’s is a regular contributor to the Tamaqua Salvation Army and Schuylkill Carbon Marine Corps League Detachment 626.
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A historic marker outside the bakery reads: “This unique Italian break bakery’s oven was built near the turn of the 20th century under the ownership of George Dallas.
Built of special firebrick, the oven measures 21X20 feet and reaches a temperature of 650 degrees. It takes 10 minutes to bake 375 one pound loaves of bread. It requires two tons of buckwheat-sized hard anthracite coal monthly and in the only bakery of its kind in Pennsylvania.”