Anna Miller’s Pies in the Sunvalley Mall….who remembers it, and what was/is your favorite kind of pie?
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That was my first job when I was a freshman in high school in 1987. Don’t forget there were two locations at the mall. One upstairs and one downstairs. Good times.
I also worked at both locations my freshman year,1982
Don’t see in on that menu but they made a killer Dutch Apple pie.
Old times are always the good times, that’s how the brain is wired.
Loved Anna Miller pies!! My mom, aunt and Grandma would take me there once in a while. My favorite was the black bottom cream pie … although I don’t see it on the menu.
Worked at the downstairs shop in the 70s.
They made the best pies ever.
Cherry pie-nothing tastes as good as. Good cherry
The upstairs location was a later addition. We always got the banana cream pie. They would give you the pie tin they were baked in. My mom still has a bunch of them she uses.
I worked there when it first opened, it was crazy busy so I went in and asked if they were hiring. I started the next day. I also worked in the second one, near Sears, just to train the new employees, but went back downstairs. It was a fun place to work.
There are no good pies to be found now because they are all made from artificial ingredients. Used to love marie Callenders. but then when her kids took over they went rapidly downhill.
hickory pit still has pies, but they are always stale, too sweet and made from cheap, low quality ingredients. Our Great Grandmas would not be happy with the pies of today.
Anna Miller’s is still going strong in Hawaii.
Although that’s quite a drive to get a pie!
I like pie.
@ Alice
Have you tried the pies at Nation’s
Hamburgers. VERY tasty with fresh
ingredients. They have some good
seasonal fruit pies too! 😋
If anyone has any favorite buy a pie
place pleeeeeze let me know.
I never had an Anna Miller pie.
Pies I like:
Apple pie with cheddar cheese crust
Pecan pie
Sour cream lemon pie
Pumpkin pie
I discovered Anna Miller’s when I was stationed at Pearl Harbor. They were upstairs and there was a coffee shop downstairs that had a train running around, just below the ceiling.
So, I was delighted to find Anna Miller’s in Concord. My favorite lunch was the chicken pot pie/spinach salad combo with a piece of strawberry pie for dessert.
@#5 Chester,..YES!!, black bottom cream pie or was it called boston cream pie? I don’t see it list either, but it was yummo!
Anna Miller’s were good, the House of Pies was even better. And so many pies! They were in Park & Shop when we came to town in 1971.
does anyone know if that Anna Miller was the same as the old time dance star -movie star? Did she end up opening pie shops?
Making me hungry for pie
@ Xlib Xdem
Not the same person.
That was Ann Miller.
@ Cowellian
There is still an Anna Miller’s near
Pearl Harbor. Don’t know if it’s the
same one. You can check their
website.
Anna Miller’s was great! I worked at Hickory Farms in 82′ and 83′. I would go there all the time for lunch, pie and hit on the hot waitresses. Good times..
#20 your thinking about Ann Miller
Crap! That was my first real job around ’88/’89. I was a bus boy. Don’t get me started on the roaches. But, the club sandwich was real good and so were the pies. The walk-in freezer is where all the cooks smoked out.
Cheers!
Oh My! Loved this place as a kid! I am not a pie person, however the Chocolate Meringue Pie was the BEST! Plus bonus, there was two locations at the mall!!!!!
Bring it back!
I worked at the upstairs store starting in 1975 at $1.75 per hour as a combination busboy/dishwasher. Worked my way up to cook and stayed on for 2-3 years. It was a great job. On opening shift I’d take a big rolling cart through the Mall’s back corridors to a freight elevator to pick up the pies from the downstairs store where they’d been prepped and baked. I was a CVHS student, but most of the kids working there were from College Park. At the time, CVHS was a very cliquish school; the field hards stayed away from the rah-rahs, the jocks were off in their own corner, there were the drama kids and the band geeks who rarely mixed. But all the kids from College Park knew each other and hung out together. I was jealous of that. This being 1975, the employment application actually said that if you were applying for a waitress job to list your measurements: neck, bust, waist and hips. Every waitress they hired was a looker. It was a good job.
Wasn’t there also a pie place next to Longs Drugs in WC?
@Justifiable Languor #28
Carnations? I remember them having good pies.
nytemuver: Or maybe Berkeley Farms. It was a small diner that sold pies. Genevas Deli was next door between Longs and this place.
@Justifiable #28 – Marie Callender’s was next to Longs Drugs in WC.
Thanks WC resident. I knew it had pies.
When i was a teenager, i worked there . The food and pies were really good. They were located where Round One is now. The Ice Rink was also there.
N oone has the time to bake a quality from scratch pie anymore, they are too busy with selfies and photographing others doing bad things and gossiping about their neighbors..
I had to stop baking pies when I stopped eating sugar and grains. Baking good pies was very easy though when I stopped about 5 or 6 years ago. Trader Joe’s had a pair of frozen pie crusts that came folded in a box, and the quality was indiscernible from good homemade, and pie filling is, well.. easy as pie! Best fruit pie recipe is on the side of a Minute Tapioca box, IMHO.
@ 8 ~ I really don’t know why you’d sign my name to that question…
In any case… I think jokes about oral sex are in bad taste.
House of Pies in Park & Shop was better anyway.
Silva~ You should try some Pecan Pie! You are what you eat!
(You’re sweet…but you’re nuts!).
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