History
Simon Hubig was born in Spain's Basque Country and immigrated to the United States after serving in World War I. He founded the Simon Hubig Pie Company in Fort Worth, Texas in 1922, capitalizing on baking skills he learned at his mother's bakery. In subsequent years, the company expanded to nine locations throughout the Southeastern United States and opened its New Orleans location in 1922. During the Great Depression, all of the locations were forced to close except the New Orleans bakery, which remained profitable. The New Orleans bakery is now the only bakery operated by the Simon Hubig Pie Company and is located in the same Dauphine Street location in the Faubourg Marigny it was founded in. In the 1950s, the Ramsey family became majority owners of the company, eventually bringing in the Bowman family during the 1970s.
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