Dec 18, 2013

Colorado Springs Family-Owned Business is Ground Zero for Old-Fashioned CandiesBy Teresa FarneyGazette.com

Colorado Springs, CO – Meet Alice Spencer-Robinson, chief elf at the Candy Basement at Spencer’s Produce, Lawn & Garden Center. With candy cane-striped glasses and a holiday sweater, you can’t miss her.

But you might wonder what a candy store is doing in the basement of a gardening center. That business, at 1430 S. Tejon St., which has been in the Spencer family since 1934, has supported the candy store since the 1940s.

“My dad and uncles were members of the Elks Club 309,” Spencer-Robinson said. “In the 1940s, the club had a Christmas party for underprivileged children. They gave each child candy, nuts and a toy in a red mesh stocking.”

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