Charlie's Place

You are standing at the entrance to Charlie's Place, a neighborhood playground that bears a name linked to an unlikely piece of American culinary history. The site is named in honor of Charles Lubin, the entrepreneur who co-founded the Sara Lee bakery company. Lubin revolutionized the mass-market dessert industry in the mid-twentieth century by developing a specific method for baking, freezing, and reheating cakes within the same foil pan.