Feb 11, 2014

‘The Candy Men Can!’By Greg EdwardsWaynesvilleDailyGuide.com

Waynesville, MO – Walking into the Route 66 Candy Shoppe in the Roubidoux Plaza in Waynesville is like taking a step back in time.

“We were really going for an old-fashioned theme,” said Charley Dill, who co-owns the shop with Daniel Kallman. “We wanted it to be like Oleson’s Mercantile on ‘Little House on the Prairie.’”

That’s one goal Dill and Kallman definitely reached, with the small candy store having baskets of candy that look like they can from a different era, as well as glass bottles of coke, a seemingly endless variety of taffy, and an assortment of other items that many people haven’t seen in years.

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