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Milwaukie Pastry Kitchen photographs and news clippings
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- 1977-1988 (Creation)
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The collection consists of six photographs showing cakes made by the Milwaukie Pastry Kitchen, Hurtis Hadley decorating cakes, and wearing his Albertsons Bakery uniform after he closed the Pastry Kitchen. In addition to the photographs, there are 21 clippings from newspaper articles about Hurtis Hadley and Dorothy Hadley. Most of the clippings relate to the Pastry Kitchen, but some relate to Hurtis Hadley’s decorating mentor, Larry Powell, or to Hadley’s work at other bakeries. Materials range from 1977 to 1988.
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Dorothy Jean Bishop was born in Tillar, Arkansas, in 1942, and moved with her family to Vanport, Oregon, in 1944, so that her father could work in one of Henry Kaiser's wartime shipyards. Hurtis Mixon Hadley was born in Neveda County, Arkansas, in 1942, and his family moved to Vanport in 1945. As children, Dorothy Bishop and Hurtis Mixon Hadley survived the flooding of Vanport, and attended the Portland Public Elementary and High Schools. The couple met while Hurtis was playing music in his band, The Fabulous Majestics, and they were married in 1962.
In 1963, Dorothy Hadley graduated with her cosmetology license from the College of Beauty in the Hollywood neighborhood of Northeast Portland. In 1965 Hurtis Mixon Hadley changed his name to Hurtis Mixon Hadley, Sr. following the birth of his first son, Hurtis Mixon Hadley, Jr. In 1965, Hurtis Mixon Hadley, Sr. became the first Black Oregonian to graduate from Portland Community Colleges' Bakers Apprenticeship program. In 1970, he became the first Black bakery manager in Oregon, as well as the first Black bakery trainer in the state for the Albertsons corporation. In 1977, the Hadleys purchased the Milwaukie Pastry Kitchen, and became the owners of the first Black-owned bakery in the state of Oregon. They closed the bakery in 1985.
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Online collection contains a selection of items from the full collection. The remainder of the collection can be viewed on-site at the OHS Research Library.
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- Citation: Milwaukie Pastry Kitchen photographs and news clippings, Org. Lot 1311, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.