For decades, the family behind the counter at the Slaton Bakery has been the Wilsons. Chad & Sherrell Wilson 109 S. 9th Street Slaton, TX 79364 Phone: 806-828-3253 / texascountry. . Follow us on Twitter: / tcrbob TCR #1571, 10-07-17
Love how the dad still wears the old style hat!! The days of the family businesses are few and far between so let's support em cuz that's Americana right there!!
A bakery where they know your name and are eager to serve and satisfy their customers. You don't see that very much anymore. Lots of experience in the bakery business.
Family owned bakery are always the best because they know what hospitality is all about, we have a family owned pizzeria where I live & the owners know everyone by name.
I love hearing about these Mom and Pop places. We used to have one in the city I grew up in but they finally closed. I can remember going in there and it smelled so good! You won't find baked goods like this at Walmart or service either!
worked in a bakery when I was 16, tough business. Work all night, make deliveries in the morning go home crash come back in later in the evening start over.
One of things I love about your show is that you show small town businesses. I live in a small town in Michigan and worry a lot about the small businesses in town. We have a wonderful bakery, but my neighbor was so excited about a chain donut shop coming to town.
Awesome! Another generation preserving their grandparent's dream.. If you're passing through Slaton to or from Lubbock, pull off the road and stop, it's not hard to find. You will not be disappointed. I love their sand tarts, they remind me of my mom's. I hope they fire up their ovens for many more years to come. Those old scales and other equipment they still use probably still works better and is more dependable than any new equipment on the market.
I love your program, but then my family dates back to 1840 Texas history. So it all interesting to me. My Great Grandma built a sod house when she first came.
My family owned a bakery just like this. Every move, every item on the shelves in the back and the front are identical to my life for forty plus years. Two of those scales are in my kitchen along with the biggest rolling pin you've ever seen! Your wafers sound amazing. Gotta love that wholesale, right? I can smell the place right now 💝 Love the overseas caps! Keep going, it's a dying art.
Taking the time with your family and learning who to make ,the Bakery work for the people and doing the job with love heart,that’s what bring the people back.
Its awesome to see that there are still folks carrying on the trades their family was part of and skills they've honed. It's also nice to see the kitchen the products we enjoy come from. Beautiful! Much love from Southeast Texas ❤
I have been going to the bakery for over 45 years. My children always enjoyed walking to the bakery after school from Eblen Pharmacy where I worked, and they always brought me a thumbprint cookie. I sure miss them since I moved away, and then I found the vanilla wafers on the shelf at United in Amarillo and now at a bakery in Paris Texas!!
What a great story and family. After I watched the video I ran down to the local HEB, Lake Jackson, and picked up a bag of Slaton's Vanilla and Gingerbread wafers. They were great. I would love to visit your bakery some day.
It sounds like a nice place but just wait till Joe Biden and Kamala Harris get into office with Doctor Freud she they'll make it is unnecessary business and tell them they have to be shut down good old times are gone when these left this lunatic politicians take over
I remember when the bakery was on Division St behind West Ward Elementary in a little building. I can say with 99% certainty that the first chocolate donut I ever ate and one I would buy today from the Slaton Bakery taste the same. There isn’t any pastry, cookie or bread that’s not good. The thumbprint cookies, Barney bread, jelly johns, cream cheese turnovers, wedding cookies, raisin bread...it’s all good! I miss it!
Strangest sounding announcer doing the narration, like he is trying to sound like what he may think a narrator is supposed to sound like, low tones, false, dramatic.
Have you ever seen more expressionless faces in your life? They're talking about their business in monotone and no facial expressions whatsoever, weird!
