Venus Perez, Pioneer French Bakery employee, poses for a photo next to a huge oven. His uniform consists of: white pants, white shirt with the company patch and nametag, white apron tied around his waist and a white cap, also with a company patch stitched on it. He has devised a type of makeshift oven mitt for both hands, which in this case, are two long pieces of thick fabric folded a few times, and cut with a slit large enough to put his hands through. In essence, he can protect his hands while pulling racks of bread out of the oven, but he is not hindered by having to keep the "oven mitts" on. The Pioneer French Bakery was founded in 1908, when Jean Baptist Garacochea left his father's bakery in France and came to the States to try his luck. Currently, the bakery delivers bread to many Los Angeles and West L.A. markets and restaurants. It used to operate 24 hours a day, but now it's down to just one time shift per day. There are plans to redevelop the bakery in the same location on Rose Avenue, with condos above it. Photograph dated August 8, 2003.
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1 photographic print :color ;36 x 29 cm. Photographic prints
Pioneer French Bakery (Venice, Los Angeles, Calif.) Bakery employees--California--Los Angeles Bakeries--California--Los Angeles Bread--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs Portrait photographs
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