Cupid Candies Closes Sunday After 64 Years On 95th Street
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The iconic Cupid Candies shop in Oak Lawn, a landmark on Chicago’s Southern Side, will shut after 64 wonderful years on Sunday, Sept. 27.
By Lorraine Swanson , Patch Staff
OAK LAWN, IL — Say it ain’t therefore! Cupid sweets will shut after 64 years on 95th Street in Oak Lawn. One of many final associated with iconic old-line candy shops regarding the Southern Side, Cupid Candies, 4709 95th St., will shut its doorways on Sunday.
Cupid Candies had been established in 1936 because of the Paul that is late Stefanos. Their cousin, Leo, would carry on to invent the Dove bar. The store that is first at 79th Street and Ashland Avenue from the Southern Side, where just fudge, toffee and popcorn had been sold. By 1940, Paul and his spouse, Pauline, launched another shop at 3207 W. 63rd St., along side a little manufacturing facility, in accordance with the organization’s site.
Your family proceeded to cultivate Cupid Candies, relocating 1943 to 3143 W. 63rd St. in Chicago.
The business expanded once more in 1956 having a new plant at 7637 S. Western Ave., in which the candy factory nevertheless runs today.
The operated and family-owned Cupid Candies produced quality chocolates, pea pea nuts, sweets and ice cream from the factory on Western Avenue in Gresham. The belated creator’s son, John Stefanos, could be the business president.
Visiting the Oak Lawn shop on Thursday afternoon, the racks remained well stocked with the hand-dipped, classic candy lines, such as for example Turks — sharp pecans and soft caramel groups dipped in milk chocolate — so called since the title Turtles had been trademarked, and cream and butter fudge made daily. It absolutely was barely the «everything must go» liquidation scavenging we have grown familiar with.
Under cup had been rows of chocolate ointments of all of the varieties, chewy facilities, nut groups and confections, each having its very own distinctive swirl at the top. A worker was opening boxes of big, red strawberries inside the ice cream parlor.
Since 1956, the Oak Lawn Cupid Candies — along with its antique frozen dessert parlor and soda water water fountain — ended up being where you stopped by to choose a box up of Turks to bring to your North Side family members on xmas, or enjoyed a sundae and a malted after a film during the Coral Theatre.
The Orland Park shop, at 9420 W. 143rd St., will stay available, since will the candies that are cupid on Western Avenue into the Southern Side Gresham community.
Stephanie Hart, the master and discovered of Brown glucose Bakery in Chicago, bought out of the historic candy that is 84-year-old on Western Avenue in June. Her Brown glucose bakery is a popular destination for black colored meals tradition when you look at the town.
Hearing that John Stefanos ended up being shopping for a customer, Hart bought the Cupid sweets factory for $500,000, utilizing a grant she received through the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic chance, BlackBusiness com reported.
Hart additionally acquired the legal rights to Cupid Candies’ brand and items. Plans are to mix the 2 brands together.
Based on BlackBusiness com afrointroductions, the 20-plus employees of this candy company will always be on to make most of the ice chocolate and cream items of Cupid sweets and cakes of Brown glucose Bakery.
But not since cool as relaxing all over soft drink fountain on a summer that is hot, fans will nevertheless be in a position to purchase a common Cupid Candies online. The Cupid sweets tradition will stay making use of their initial key household recipes, designed to use just the best, premium ingredients.
If you would like have sundae for supper or grab that Christmas time field of Turks, Cupid Candies will likely to be open from noon to 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 25 to Sept. 27.
MODIFICATION: the organization reached off to Patch to allow us realize that the Orland Park shop at 9420 W. 143rd St. will stay available. Very good news.
