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Snickers used<\/strong><\/span> to be my bar.<\/p>\n It\u2019s everybody\u2019s bar.\u00a0 It\u2019s the number one seller in the America.<\/p>\n The pic above is John Lokar, the candyman, 1981.\u00a0 He owned L&M Candy on East 185th Street.\u00a0 He had everything, including baseball cards and tobacco.<\/p>\n I also had<\/strong><\/span> a taste for Nestle Triple Deckers.\u00a0 Long gone.<\/p>\n My wife had a nostalgic longing for Valomilks.\u00a0 She recently bought one at a specialty store and didn\u2019t like it. Too sweet.<\/p>\n My dad was a Planter\u2019s Peanut guy, and he also liked Mr. Goodbar.\u00a0 I used to buy a Mr. Goodbar before I visited his grave.<\/p>\n Kit Kat:<\/strong><\/span> not bad.\u00a0 Kit Kats were from Canada when they were good.<\/p>\n Canada, that’s a great candy-centric vacation.<\/p>\n Chunky . . .<\/p>\n I miss Chunky.\u00a0 No, I miss the idea<\/em> of Chunky.\u00a0 I miss Arnold Stang (who did Chunky commercials).<\/p>\n My grandmother<\/strong><\/span> Anna\u00a0 Soltzberg had a candy store at 15102 Kinsman Road, Cleveland, from 1927 to 1937:<\/p>\n I studied this photo with a magnifying glass.\u00a0 Here’s the inventory:<\/p>\n Mr. Goodbar, Ivory soap, Sensen breath mints, Boston Wafer, halvah, Ringo, Lux and Lifebuoy soaps, Coca-Cola, peanut bars, chocolate-covered cherries, Maxwell House coffee . . .<\/p>\n Uneeda biscuits,<\/strong><\/span> Dentyne, Lifesavers, Tootsie Rolls, Oh Henry, and cigars: White Owl, Dutch Master, Websters, Cinco, Murad, John Ruskin and Charles the Great Pure Havana.<\/p>\n Candy was a low-cost entry point for immigrants.\u00a0 John Lokar — the man with the gigantic Snickers\u00a0 — was a Slovenian-American candy wholesaler.\u00a0 I bought new baseball cards from him in 1981.\u00a0 Didn’t make any money on it.<\/p>\n When did Snickers come out?<\/p>\n <\/em>1930.\u00a0 Frank<\/strong><\/span> Mars named the bar after his horse. (Googled<\/em>.)<\/p>\n Here’s an ad from the December 1980 Candy Marketer<\/em>.\u00a0 Lokar gave it to me:<\/p>\n Jaw Breakers.\u00a0 I haven’t had one of those since the Center-Mayfield stopped their 25-cent Saturday matinees.<\/p>\n Reese . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Who was Reese?<\/p>\n — Snickers used to be my bar. It\u2019s everybody\u2019s bar.\u00a0 It\u2019s the number one seller in the America. The pic above is John Lokar, the candyman, 1981.\u00a0 He owned L&M Candy on East 185th Street.\u00a0 He had everything, including baseball cards and tobacco. I also had a taste for Nestle Triple Deckers.\u00a0 Long gone. My wife […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12521"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13572,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521\/revisions\/13572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/soltzber-candy-store-152-and-kinsman.-1927-37-anna-soltzber-in-apron.-louis-soltzber-behind-counter.bmp\" "\\"soltzber")
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\nFor relatives only: candy-store photo . . . \u00a0 Anna Soltzberg, apron; her husband, Louis Soltzberg, behind counter; her sister-in-law Lil Seiger, behind counter; and two unidentified women.<\/small>
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\nAnybody have strong feelings about MilkyWay? I doubt it.<\/small>
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