![]() She was house-hunting in 2016, and found a place that checked all the boxes. ![]() Two: “Why would you open a bakery there?”Įasy. People have two questions when she tells them about Paper Moon Pastries – “The best sweet treats this side of 77.” The movie Oelling watched with her own dad, cozy on the basement couch, falling in love with the black-and-white charm and the chutzpah of the heroine. There’s the vintage radio and a tattered cigar box, like the one Tatum O’Neal toted in “Paper Moon,” the 1973 movie she starred in alongside her father, Ryan. There’s the mural Oelling painted on a long wall in the dining room with a look-alike-Lindsey-swinging on a crescent moon, a nod to the hand-painted advertisements on brick buildings of small-town America. The 31-year-old is wearing a flour-dusted apron in the Paper Moon kitchen, the glass front door dripping sweat from the heat of three ovens. It’s Oelling’s day off from her full-time job as a mental health therapist at Blue Valley Health. “Two hours later, we were out of everything.” She sells her last cinnamon roll at 8 a.m. ![]() “The line stretched into the street and around the building and it stayed that way the entire time.” She unlocks the door with 100 cinnamon rolls, a pair of cakes, a tray of cupcakes, a batch of cookies and her best friend Sean Flattery – the fella behind the wheel of the Model A – on hand to pour coffee. On May 21, 2022, after years of dreaming, months of planning and a frantic, hopeful week of baking, Oelling retraces her steps to Fourth Street, crosses her fingers and opens for business for the first time at 7 a.m. But she wouldn’t be any of this if not for a faulty ‘55 Chevy and a grandmother she’d never know. Lindsey Oelling is an actress, an artist, a baker, a therapist, a TikTok queen and history-loving small town revivalist. “It’s not a commercial if it’s not a little corny, right?,” she writes on social media. That spring night, the brunette baker heads home – a short tree-lined stroll away – and edits the footage into 38 seconds of nostalgia. Welcome to Paper Moon Pastries, the 1930s-style small-town bakery inspired by a classic movie – its introduction to the sweet-eating public set to the sound of tinny music from a bygone era, but captured with a drone and an iPhone. The black-and-white scene turns technicolor, like a Gage County “Pleasantville,” as a brunette with cherry red lips leans in with a coffee pot and a wink. Its driver eases up in front of a brick storefront and strolls inside, jaunty as you please, dressed in his Sunday best. The Model A dashes down West Fourth Street. CORTLAND – It’s five days before the big day.
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