Category:Peters & Jacoby, Allentown, Pennsylvania

Peters & Jacoby was founded by Ambrose Peters and William G E Jacoby. Peters was born in 1872 in Kernsville in North Whitehall Township, and his father, L P Peters had a popular Allentown bakery and catering service at 213 North Seventh Street. The elder Peters had begun making ice cream for his catering bushiness in 1877.

In 1888 Ambrose Peters opened a combined restaurant with Jacoby and the elder Peters when they purchased an existing bakery and ice cream parlor with a soda fountain at 627 Hamilton Street from William A Goranflo. In addition, L P Peters sold his baked goods and also ran a confectionery in the restaurant. People would marvel looking in the window at the displays of cream puffs, chocolate eclairs and charlotte russose. The bakery was operated as a separate business, known as the Ambrose F Peters bakery after the retirement of his father in 1923.

In 1916, Adolph P Schneider brought a majority interest in Peters & Jacoby. Schneider built a modern plant at 627 Maple Street and sold the ice cream wholesale. Patronage at the Peters & Jacoby store was constant during the day with the soda fountain working overtime during the hot summer months, the dining rooms were well patronized when teacher institutes were held and conventions held at the Americus and Hotel Allen. The company also did a large ice cream delivery bushiness from its wholesale plant. It's biggest demand was over the Christmas holidays. During the winter months, Peters & Jacoby cut ice for their ice cream from the Mohry ponds in Salisbury Township at the foot of South Mountain. It was stored in an iec house at the edge of one of the ponds.

The restaurant and soda fountain closed in 1925 when the building on Hamilton Street was sold to Jacob Waidelich, who moved his American Medicine Company pharmacy there, tearing down the building and replacing it with the new Waidelich building.

In 1929, the wholesaling business was sold to the Garber Ice Cream Company, but it stayed in business as Peters and Jacoby until 1938. William Jacoby passed in September 1934, Ambrose Peters in May 1945

Camera location	40° 36′ 09″ N, 75° 28′ 14″ W	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	40.602500; -75.470556