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Loose-Wiles Company Building, ca. 1912. Once the largest factory building under one roof, the building constructed c. 1912 was called the "Thousand Windows Bakery." It housed the Loose Wiles or Sunshine Biscuit factory. They manufactured their "trademark" Sunshine biscuits as well as Saltines, Hydrox Cookies, and Animal Crackers. The factory closed in the 1980s and the iconic electric sign, which had not even been installed when this photograph was taken, was removed (though later occupants of the building have added their own signage to the still-standing metal framework).

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29-10 Thompson Avenue

Loose-Wiles Company Building
29-10 Thompson Avenue image

29-10 Thompson Avenue

Loose-Wiles Company Building.
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29-10 Thompson Avenue

Travelling library station of the Queens Borough Public Library, visiting the Loose-Wiles biscuit factory, Thompson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, April 25, 1917.
29-10 Thompson Avenue image

29-10 Thompson Avenue

\[Sunshine Biscuit Factory] Partial, exterior, close-up view of Sunshine Biscuit Factory located at tthe Degnon Termonal in Long Island City, Queens. It was built in 1914 and was known as the "Thousand Window Bakery."
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