Two Philadelphia Confectioners Give New Life to America’s Oldest Sweet Shop
Grinning the widest of grins and sporting the snuggest of suspenders, Ryan Berley shimmies past the carved hardwood display cases at Shane Confectionery like a kid in a candy store. A 36-year-old kid, but a kid nonetheless. He’s entitled: It’s his candy store.
Berley and his 32-year-old brother, Eric, recently bought and restored Shane’s, the oldest continuously operated candy shop in America. The Philadelphia landmark, a couple of blocks from where in 1732 Benjamin Franklin printed the first Poor Richard’s Almanack, has been turning out sweets since 1863. - Continue reading at Smithsonian.com.
Photo by: Chris Crisman
Article by: Franz Lidz
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partofthecumbercollective:
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Its been nice blogging with you all
I feel so cheap
QUICK EVERYONE, BACK TO LIVEJOURNAL
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It’s a home for bugs! They live in the different textures! IT IS GOOD FOR THEM TO HAVE THIS MANY TEXTURES TO LIVE IN.
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I don’t always remember to say so, but I love you, internet friends and acquaintances. This past year I moved away from most of my physical friends to a place where I only really know a handful of people besides my fiance and my cat, and having an internet community (on tumblr, withleather, lj, facesbook, guild wars 2, whatever) has saved me from just being a sad, lonely mess all the time. So, whoever you are out there, I hug you, you are beautiful and awesome, I hope you are well.
I had so much fun at c2e2 as Lumpy Space Princess! Thanks for all the kind words and photos!
lumpin’ fabulous
Chris Cobb, an artist based in San Francisco, has created an amazing installation in bookshop called Adobe Books- he catalogued every single one of the 20,000 books by color. The project is titled There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World. They were arranged by hand over a 10 hour period, and he enlisted the help of 16 volunteers. Such beautiful results, they transformed the bookshop overnight.
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Beautiful, but maddening…HOW CAN YOU FIND ANYTHING.
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NEW PRINTS ARE UP ON ETSY!!!!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/PhoebeWahl
5 NEW LIMITED EDITION GICLEE PRINTS!
lovely illustrations
I never even knew this and I’ve fed bread to ducks multiple times! D: Definitely reblog this so everyone knows!
POOR DUCKS OMG.
I PROMISE TO NEVER EVER FEED YOU BREAD EVER.
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