Memories
Wow, this thread has created a "rush" of fantastic childhood memories! I hadn't thought of the Hansel & Gretal shop for years. Summering across the cove from the Wawbeek Cottage Colony every summer, my Mom used to take my sister and I on the long hike along the shoreline to Melvin Village & the Hansel & Gretal shop a couple of time every summer (back in those days people didn't mind if strangers walked quietly across their property at the shoreline). Like virtually everyone posting before me...fantastic memories of fishing for a prize. However, being a chubby kid, I think that I actually liked all of the glass jars of penny candy best...especially the long paper strips with the little dots of candy all lined up in neat rows & columns on it! If I remember correctly (and I might not) the penny candy was put into small striped (red & green) paper bags.
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