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Paul Bunyan's birthday cake display postcard, Seattle World's Fair, 1962

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Located in the fair's Food Circus, Paul Bunyan's 128th birthday cake weighed 25,000 pounds (plus decorations) and stood 23 feet tall, with a circumference of 60 feet. The recipe included 10,500 pounds of flour, 4,000 pound of sugar, 7,000 pounds of raisins, 1,500 dozen eggs and a "Bunyan pinch" of salt: 100 pounds. The cake was mixed by Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakers of Seattle, with decorations by the Edison Technical School. Souvenir portions of the cake, in mailable boxes, were available for purchase at the fair.

Printed on verso: "A Sight and a Taste to Remember" / The cake display, courtesy of Clark's Restaurant Enterprises, Seattle. Color photo by Forde Photographers, Seattle. George Molecey, Production Director.
ID Number: 1965.3689.34
Date: 1962
Creator(s): Forde Photographers, Photographer
Physical Description: 1 postcard ; 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Additional Information: View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv98889
Credit: MOHAI, Leo William Utter Collection on the Century 21 Exposition, 1965.3689.34
Copyright: All Rights Reserved