Smales Pretzel Bakery 4.51

4.9 star(s) from 181 votes

210 Xenia Ave
Dayton, OH 45410
United States

About Smales Pretzel Bakery

Smales Pretzel Bakery is a well known place listed as Food/Grocery in Dayton , Food & Grocery in Dayton , Bakery in Dayton ,

Contact Details & Working Hours

Address:

210 Xenia Ave
Dayton, OH 45410
United States

Telephone:

(937) 253-7482

Web site:

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Opening hours:

Monday:7:00 am-1:00 pm

Tuesday:7:00 am-1:00 pm

Wednesday:7:00 am-1:00 pm

Thursday:7:00 am-1:00 pm

Friday:7:00 am-1:00 pm

Saturday:8:00 am-2:00 pm

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Details

The bakery began with German-born Rudie Schaaf opening Gem City Pretzel on Warren Street in 1906, not long after he arrived in Dayton as a boy in 1895. The shop’s current location at 210 Xenia Ave. dates to 1926 when his daughter, Emma, moved it there and renamed it.

Smales' history twists into the city’s at every turn. A stand operated in the old downtown Arcade for years. Armloads of pretzels were ferried to neighborhood groceries and found their way into the hands of generations of school kids.

Currently owned and operated by Emma Smales, Schaaf's great-great granddaughter.