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- In 1933, Samuel Bloomfield started in the business of manufacturing display and pie cases in a 2,000 square foot plant in Chicago. His sons, Daniel and Harold, assisted in the business.
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Jan 25, 2014 · History of Bloomfield Industries. In 1933, Samuel Bloomfield started in the business of manufacturing display and pie cases in a 2,000 square foot plant in Chicago. His sons, Daniel and Harold, assisted in the business.
- Bloomfield Industries History, Part 1: Difficult as Pie
- II. in Bloom
- III. Keys to The Kitchen
- IV. Fathers & Sons
- V. “A Chicago Thing”
- VI. End of The Line
The first mention of Samuel Bloomfield in the pages of the Chicago Tribunecomes on November 12, 1918, the day after Armistice Day. While sharing in end-of-the-war revelry with celebrators near LaSalle and Randolph, Sam had apparently gotten into a squabble with a street car operator who was trying to enforce an anti-smoking ordinance. Allegedly, Bl...
Moving into a 25,000 sq. ft. plant at 3333 S. Wells Street, a short stroll from Comiskey Park, the Bloomfield Manufacturing Company was able to employ a team of about 40 workers by the time they received their corporate charter in 1939. Two years later, of course, many of those employees were off to war, and the Bloomfield plant was thoroughly repu...
Shortly after acquiring Bloomfield Industries, the promotional team at Beatrice Foods put together a wee industrial film to show off its shiny new toys. Titled “Bloomfield Industries: Keys to the Kitchen,” the 5-minute film—captured in its entirety below—provides a pretty good snapshot of a company reaching behemoth status in the Mad Men age. “Sinc...
Michael Bloomfield (1943-1981), grandson of Samuel and eldest son of Harold, never followed in their footsteps. Born with a silver spoon in the golden age of American kitchenwares, he certainly could have elected to carry on that lucrative mantle, literally selling silver spoons en masse to the food-service industry. But the awkward Jewish kid from...
Along with Paul Butterfield and a few others, Michael Bloomfield was part of a new wave of young white musicians in Chicago trying to turn their admiration for black music into an artistic partnership—but he knew a mutual respect had to be earned. “You had to be as good as Otis Rush,” Bloomfield said. “You had to be as good as Buddy Guy, as good as...
Back in Chicago, the Bloomfield plant on 47th Street remained in operation throughout the 1970s, and Mike’s kid brother Allen continued to represent the firm as a salesman, working largely in New York. Manufacturing was gradually moving to Taiwan, however, and in the early ’80s, Bloomfield Industries and several other Beatrice affiliates were split...
Bloomfield's father, Harold, was born there in 1914. Harold's father, Samuel Bloomfield, started Bloomfield Industries in the early 1930s. After Samuel passed away, Harold and his brother, Daniel, inherited the company. Bloomfield's mother, Dorothy Klein, was born in Chicago in 1918 and married Harold in 1940.
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Harold's father, Samuel Mike Bloomfield, started Mike Bloomfield Industries in the early 1930s.
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