75 cents for a postcard.
Gloucester Is For (Fish) Lovers Postcard At Alexandra’s Bread, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Gloucester Is For (Fish) Lovers Postcard At Alexandra’s Bread
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Twin Lights Soda Logo T Shirts Exclusive At Alexandra’s Bread
If you were born in Gloucester you remember Twin Lights Soda. You remember those heavy glass soda bottles and you remember the crates that they used to put the heavy glass bottles into. You remember the different cool flavors like birch beer, and cream soda.
Well Alexandra’s Bread exclusively carries Twin Light T Shirts. She had them made up with permission from the bottler. For a little bit of nostalgia, cruise on down to Alexandra’s Bread, grab a cobble or six and check out all teh cool stuff on the walls for sale.
Click here for a story on Twin Lights Bottling from The Salem Evening News
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Local Holiday Shopping Spotlight- Alexandra’s Bread
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Snoop Mad Devours Her Cobble
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Gloucester Doors- Alexandra’s Bread
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Oatmeal Raisin Cookies At Alexandra’s Bread
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Twin Lights Postcards at Alexandra’s Bread
Alexandra being a fan of all things Twin Lights had these cool Twin Lights Postcards made up. They are for sale at Alexandra’s Bread for a meager 75 cents. That’s short money Homie! I’m thinking about buying a couple and framing them up for a cool piece of local art.
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Twin Lights Postcards at Alexandra’s Bread
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Alexandra’s Bread -Old School Goodness
When I stopped by Alexandra’s Bread the other day I noticed the lack of high tech kitchen gadgetry. Everything is done old school. This scale is out back and when I saw it I initially thought it was just for show until Alexandra started weighing out portions of dried cranberries on it.
No digital scale here baby, just Old School Goodness!
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The Folly Cove Designers
From the Sara Elizabeth website-
“History of the Folly Cove Designers
The Folly Cove Designers grew out of a design course taught by Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios. She lived in Folly Cove, the most northerly part of Lanesville, Gloucester, Massachusetts. She was able to express the local consensus that the world was a beautiful place, and the elements of beauty surround us in nature.
Her block printing thesis grew out of the home industries/arts and crafts movements of the past. The artist/designer of products for home use is separated from the product by machine age technology (and now globalization). Fine art for home use is within our own power. To this end her design course taught an ability to see the design in nature, a set of good design rules (dark and light, sizing, repetition, reflection, etc.), and the craftsmanship of carving the linoleum, and then printing fabric for home use.
On completion of the course the graduate was permitted to submit a design to the jury(selected Designers rotated this responsibility starting in 1943) of the Folly Cove Designers. If it was accepted as displaying the design qualities as taught in the course, then they could carve the design in linoleum and print it for sale as a Folly Cove Design.
The design course started in 1938. In 1940 they had their first public exhibition-in the Demetrios studio. The following year they decided to go public, they called themselves the Folly Cove Designers. Every year they had an opening to present the new designs, and everyone enjoyed the coffee and nisu (Finnish coffee bread). They established a relationship to wholesale their work to the America House of New York which had been established in 1940 by the American Craftsman Cooperative Council. In 1944 they hired Dorothy Norton as an executive secretary to run the business end of the successful young enterprise. In 1945, Lord and Taylor bought non-exclusive rights to five designs which pushed the reputation of the group, and began some national publicity and diverse commissions for their work.”
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Alexandra’s Bread has some of the wall hangings for sale from Sara Elizabeth-
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The Alexandra’s Bread Interviews Part III
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Twin Lights Postcards and Folly Cove Designers Represented at Alexandra’s Bread
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Alexandra Bread Company Part II. See what is inside the walls of this stunningly beautiful Gloucester business.
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Alexandra’s Bread Lobster Buoy Decorations From Lunenburgh
Alexandra and John spend time in Lunenburgh where they discovered these cool lobster buoy decorations. I’ve been sayinng it over and over since walking through the other day. The whole bakery is visually beautiful. There is so much to look at and eat. The couple ought to go into design because they obviously have a great eye for beauty and simplicity.
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Alexandra’s Bread Cobbles!
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Alexandra’s Bread- The Interviews Part I
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Part one of a five part series at Alexandra’s Bread on the East End Of Main Street. Discover what a cobble is.
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Alexandra’s Bread
Yesterday morning I decided to swing by Alexandra’s Bread to pick up a couple of those highly addictive cobbles for the Bean and Snoop Mad (along with taking some footage for the blog). I haven’t been in there for a while and had forgotten how visually and emotionally pleasing the place is. Between the smells of the bread and sights of beautiful wares on the shelves, the place itself is like a huge collage of beauty.
We’re really lucky to have places like this in Gloucester.
The steamy window must mean there’s baking going on-
Alexandra’s Bread, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 