Jun 26, 2012

Eat the Heat: Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop Makes Your Dentist’s Dreams Come TrueBy Jared Downing303Magazine.com

Patrick Evan was due for a bit of fun. He had been accounting for 13 years, and finally left his cubicle to do what any math major on a midlife crisis would: Start a candy store.

And not you’re quaint, Cherry Creek chocolatier. Evans started Denver’s location of Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop, an iridescent palace of sugar and carbonated syrup that lights up Writer’s Square like a Jack-O-lantern until 10:30p.m. Now it’s the biggest of its kind in the state, which would make Evans something like the Willy Wonka of Colorado… if Wonka wore board shorts and a T-shirt and smacked on Subway foot longs.

“I don’t even really have a big sweet tooth,” Evans says. “I just like fun.”

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