Ann’s Bakery, which has operated on the older alignment of Route 66 in Tulsa since 1940, will close at the end of July.
Shannon Harris, granddaughter of the bakery’s founders, told the Tulsa World about its impending closure.
“We love our customers and the bakery and how everybody supported us, but it is time to move on,” Harris said. “My dad got sick back in September, and he died a week ago Monday. My mom retired about a year and a half ago. It’s hard work, and there isn’t a lot of time to be with family, and the town has moved south, so it has been a combination of things.”
The business also suffered from an electrical fire in early 2007 that closed it for more than a year.
Harris said the building at 7 N. Harvard Ave., at the corner of the 1926-1932 alignment of Admiral Place (aka Route 66), is for sale. The report didn’t elaborate on what would happen to the business’ iconic signs.
Special and wedding-cake orders at Ann’s will be honored through October.
This video from 2013 delves into the history of Ann’s Bakery:
Ann’s Bakery will stay open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday until it closes. Make sure you check out its doughnuts and cream horns.
Annie and Raymond Bay founded Ann’s Bakery in 1938 and moved it to its Harvard Avenue site in 1940.
(Images of Ann’s Bakery’s neon signs via Facebook)