JACK'S COOKIES

Jack's Cookies

Displaying posts 1 - 30 out of 36.12Steve Cannella

Does anyone remember Jack's Cookiies? Do you know where they were?

over a year ago · ·

Mark S. Hankins

I ate 'em.

Weren't they a Winn Dixie house brand before Sunshine and Krackin' Good?

over a year ago · ·

Steve Cannella

You're right Mark- they had a factory or distributorship on North Boulevard!

over a year ago · ·

Mario Núñez

Jack's Cookies were like Charles Chips... You couldn't eat just one... And didn't they make Christmas Cookies too???

over a year ago · ·

Carmen Bell Stegner

I remember them.. My daddy worked there..drove truck & maybe other stuff.. brought cookies home all the time!!.. i dont remember where the place was.. i thought it was over in East Tampa/40th street area.. will have to ask my mother if she remembers!

over a year ago · ·

Kristine Tjernstrom Lay

Were located somewhere near Myrtle Hill Cemetery... My mom used their broken cookie store as a bribe for us to go with her to our granddad's/grandmother's gravesite. That was our after visit treat :)

over a year ago · ·

Mario Núñez

Kristine, now that you mention it... I think it was somewhere around 40th street.. Out there by the cemetery... The 'broken cookie store'... Yep, I remember it too.. I'll ask my Mom too... Surely we'll nail this down... But weren't those cookies delicious?

over a year ago · ·

Steve Cannella

The more I think about it--it was near 40th street. For some reason I remember it as a green building. Does this sound right?

over a year ago · ·

Clint Shaffer

My dad was an orthodontist, and one of his first patients was a woman whose husband worked at Jack's Cookies. I remember going to the factory on a school field trip at least once.

over a year ago · ·

Clint Shaffer

Green building sounds right, but I remember it being in the Seminole Heights/Hillsborough High area, just west of 275...

over a year ago · ·

Steve Cannella

I can't seem to find any pictures or even the address of Jacks Cookies Factory online... I'm on a mission now.

over a year ago · ·

Carmen Bell Stegner

I forgot to ask my mother if she remembered where it was.. I remember going there but was young.. still thinking EAST TAMPA!! We will figure it out somehow!

over a year ago · ·

Clint Shaffer

BTW, I was thinking of the location of the FACTORY--don't remember the store...

over a year ago · ·

Steve Cannella

Same here Clint- I'm thinking Factory as well. I remember E. Tampa somewhere. Google has a newspaper archive search and I found mostly information on the girls softball team that Jacks Cookies apparently sponsored for many years.

over a year ago · ·

Janeen-Lamar Stokes

My Grand father John C. McSwain Was the president of Jack's Cookie Company Fl. My father Britt Bernard was production manager. My father is 70 now and still lives in Tampa. The owner was Leon Bishop. His daughter is still a family friend and lives in NC. The company also sold Christmas trees at the coorner of Florida and Waters Ave. I was lucky enough to eat vanilla waffers of the "line" (which means hot). I have a lot of good memories going to visit my father and grandfather. We still have the red leather chair from my grandfather's office.

over a year ago · ·

Janeen-Lamar Stokes

3615 E. Lake Ave. West of 40th by the railroad. Not Myrtly the one across the St.

over a year ago · ·

Janeen-Lamar Stokes

Not green- the building was yellow. They had many tours. the first plant was on North Blvd corner of West St. They advertised on Romper Room and me and my sister san the Happy Jack song on black and white TV. We jumped out of the Jack in the Box.

over a year ago · ·

Janeen-Lamar Stokes

Southland was a sub. (The Busy Baker) of Jack's.

over a year ago · ·

Janeen-Lamar Stokes

Dear Clint Shaffer, Your Dad's first patient was my mom Judy Bernad. She was pregnant with me. I've seen pictures, her teeth were a mess. I just called my dad and read him the blogs. He said Clint has to be Dr. Schaffer's son. Your Dad used to call my mom "Mother Bernard." He put braces on me and my 2 sisters too. My dad did plumbing in your dad's house to work off some of the bill.

over a year ago · ·

Janeen-Lamar Stokes

Lttle Rascal Spanky owned a brokerage in the Bahama's and bought cookie from the TAmpa Jack's to sell in the Bahama's. The company sold from SAN Juan PR to new England.

over a year ago · ·

Janeen-Lamar Stokes

Carmen Bell- What was your dad's name. My Dad wants to know if they new each other.

over a year ago · ·

Clint Shaffer

Hi, Janeen,

I remembered Judy, and "Bernard" clicks as well. I knew your sister Debany (though I'm not sure I spelled it right), and I remember your mom stopping by my dad's office (the newer one, further north on Florida Ave.) to visit when I worked in his lab in the 70's; he always really enjoyed your mom. I seemed to remember that Debany worked in the office one summer, too. I think I remember meeting your dad on the factory tour, though I was probably just a grade schooler at the time. Great to hear from you. My dad is a hale and hearty 84, remarried after my mom died three years ago, and now lives most of the year in Largo. Great to hear from you and your family!

over a year ago · ·

Clint Shaffer

How long did the first factory operate? The North Blvd./West St. location looks more like the one I remember going to--can't recall ever visiting the one that was further east.

over a year ago · ·

Janeen-Lamar Stokes

N. Blvd opened 1938 closed and Lake ave. opened in 1956. Company was sold in 1978 to Flowers Bakery.

over a year ago · ·

Steve Cannella

Janeen, you definitely solved the mystery of where the factory was! Thank you so much. Jacks Cookies was a treat for so many Tampa natives and holds fond memories for so many of us!

Do you have any pictures of the Jacks Cookies factory on E. Lake? I don't know why I thought it was a green building.

over a year ago · ·

Janeen-Lamar Stokes

I'll get some from my dad. it was yellow because it was actually called Happy Jack Yellow in part of the logo adds. Maybe it was green after it sold in 1978 to Flowers bakery.

over a year ago · ·

Steve Cannella

I'm just happy I can remember Jacks Cookies. I trust you on the color :-)

over a year ago · ·

Debaney Bernard Benton

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Hello Clint...great to "see" you. I treasure all of my Jack's Cookies memories and wish that my children had been able to "tour" the plant.

over a year ago · ·

Mark S Howard

So this thread is a prime example of the fun FB can be. I wish I had some now with a nice glass of Iced Cold Milk ...Mark

over a year ago · ·

Carmen Bell Stegner

MEEEEE TOOOOOO!

over a year ago · ·

Displaying posts 31 - 36 out of 36.12Clint Shaffer

Absolutely! But it would have to be from one of the Florida Dairy dispensers...

over a year ago · ·

Tony Leto

As a kid (in the 50's and early 60's) I used to eat Jacks Vanilla Waffers every morning in a big bowl with my cafe con leche. My parents used to buy them at Big Barn in Ybor City. My grandchildren (ages 5 & 8) love having vanilla waffers and cafe con leche when they spend the night at Nano and Abuela's house. lol

over a year ago · ·

Steve Cannella

Tony - the Vanilla Waffers were my favorite. Great will milk too. My father worked as a bag boy when he was in high school at the Big Barn on Hillsborough Ave and the river, which later became Kash N Karry, owned by the Greco family.

over a year ago · ·

Gary McMullen

lived around corner. It was on the corner of North Boulevard and West. We always had the broked cookies. My sister was married with Hawaian Punch and broken Jack's cookies.

over a year ago · ·

Carmen Bell Stegner

Janeen, sorry i just now saw your question about my dad.. His name was Clayton Bell..

over a year ago · ·

Jim Green

My aunt worked there. We got free broken cookies all the time. They also sponsored my little league team one year.

over a year ago · ·

OMG, Jacks Cookies! - Our Uncle Herman used to take us kids to that store on a day when older cookies were on sale, he would let us fill our ams up with cookie packages and bought them all for just a couple of bucks. We thought we were rich on those days. Thank you Uncle Herman.

I can't get these doggone cookies out of my head, and I'm 54 years of age. The Jack Cookies Company was located on Lake Ave, just east of 34th St in Tampa, between 40th and 34th St. You could purchase the cookies direct, but every mom and pop store in the area had them, and there were many little neighborhood stores. Someone compared them to "Charlie Chips", not even remotely close. I lived near Osborne & 34th St, nearly a mile away and you could smell them as they baked. The Oatmeal were soft, but not too gooey, or chewy. The butter coconut and short bread were incredible. All were huge in size. I know, I know, I was a kid and it just seemed that way, not. They also made a brownie that I've not come close to having since then. Oh yeah, and while we are on the subject, let's not forget wonder bread at Hillsborough Ave and 22nd. Most will tell you it's all realative, don't believe it. Things were much better. They say there's nothing new under the sun. It would be nice to see some of those things come back. Jesus Keep Us!....................do you remember chicken from the "Wig Wam?"

Jacks Cookie Co. was located at 3615 E. Lake E Ave. Tampa Flordia, I worked with them as a District Mgr. for years, some of the best people I ever knew, Mr leon Gishop was the owner at that time, one of the best products I have ever sold, people were loyal to their jov=b and the company, I personally wish theuy were still available in full line.

Donnie Pridgen

Jack's (broken) cookie store was @ N.Blvd and West street. Building still there-empty ?

My father worked for a CPA firm in downtown Tampa, and Jack's Cookies on East Lake Avenue was a client of his firm. Several times a year he would go to Jack's Cookies to look at the books, or help with the income tax returns. I went to the location recently, and the building is there, but with a different name.

Jack Cookies was on Lake Ave just west of 40th St. The building is still there. Lake and the railroad tracks. I lived down the street from it and used to sneak there as a kid. Get a bad full of broken cookies for a nickel!

Jack's Cookie Company was founded in 1927 by Wilber and Helen Bishop. Helen baked the cookies at home, sealed them in cellophane with a tiny iron and Wilber delivered them. Leon Bishop, Wilber ' s brother acquired it sometime in the 30's. Wilber and Helen were my grandparents. I have pictures of the family sitting on the running board of one of the cookie trucks taken around 1930. My mother still has the iron that grandma used to seal the cellophane. The original bakery was in Bradenton, then on North Blvd. I'm not sure when it moved out of the kitchen.

I worked for Jack's Cookie Company back in 1976-1979. I worked in the Orlando division. We had a warehouse in Orlando near Downtown Orlando that serviced the Orlando area as well as the east coast from Daytona South to Palm Bay. We also served Kissimmee and South to Haines City. It was a great job and I made the mistake of going to work for Sunshine Biscuits (think Cheeze-It's, Hydrox, Vienna Fingers, Krispy Crackers. Jack's treated me great and I thought going to work for a large national company would be a good move. It wasn't, they were one of the worst companies I ever worked for. Kellogg's bought what was left of it. I went to work for the government and retired with a great pension so it all worked out. I really enjoyed my time with Jack's Cookie Co. Again, they were very good to me and I loved my job, first as a route driver and then managing their Orlando division.

I remember Jack's Cookie Company! It was located on Lake Avenue and 37th Street (near a rail road track). My siblings, classmates and I would meet and walk along the rail road tracks to Jack's Cookie to buy their broken cookies. What wonderful memories! (lol)

Worked there from 80 to 83 , good times , good people and those vanilla wafers , the best .

I bought some Jack's vanilla wafers at a Winn Dixie store a few weeks ago. They were excellent but I don't know who is making them now. Still in the bag though.

Jack Scaglione

You folks are taking me back to my childhood

In the 60's my mom would take 34th and Lake to go home, and just before the railroad track I'd look over to the famous Jack's cookies building and shout out "Jack's Cookies'

I believe I thought it was named after me!! LOL

Thanks for the memories

Yes, I used to work at the Lake Ave plant on the evening shift shortly after I got out of the military back in 1986.

Hi, I am a historian doing research on Jack's cookies, and hoping to contact people who worked for Jack's Cookie Company and who knew the Bishops. If interested in chatting please send me a message on Facebook.

Or you can email me directly at kerskine::at::southern dot edu.