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Welcome
University Square Mall
837 South Kerr Avenue
Wilmington, NC
910-799-9023 |
Landfall Shopping Center
1319 Military Cutoff Road
Wilmington, NC
910-256-6585
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The history of Apple Annie's Bake
Shop . . .
For more than six generations, the
Longordo family has been baking everything from pasta to
breads, cakes, and cookies. It all began during the 1800s
in a small town in Italy where Gary Longordo's great,
great grandfather began making pasta for the locals.
The business continued until the early 1900s when Gary's
grandparents, Nunzio and Annie Longordo, moved the family
business to New Jersey. They changed the product
from pasta to bread. The business flourished and
their son Frank took over. Frank Longordo, Gary's
father, took the business to a higher level. He
hired bakers, sales clerks and assistants and created a
full scale bake shop. During this time Gary, his
wife Christine,
and her younger brother,
James got involved in the family business.
Along with twenty employees, Frank baked, Aris, Frank's
wife supervised, Gary decorated and Christine managed the
finances. However things didn't end there.
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Having ties to the South, the family decided to move
the business to Wilmington, NC, in 1984. Frank
served in the Marine Corps at Camp LeJeune and Aris
grew up in Swansboro, NC. The Longordo's opened
Apple Annie's Bake Shop in Wilmington, NC. Since
then the bakery has been known as one of the finest in
the country and has been named the
National Retail Bakery of the Year. |
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Jill Longordo, Gary and Christine's
oldest daughter has joined the family business,
supervising the second location. That makes six
generations of fine baking! |
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James
Giufurta
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Frank Longordo |
Gary Longordo
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