They found hundreds of items of old store products, supplies, furniture and fixtures. Some of the items were old cash registers, scales, needle boxes, dry goods, and actual food products in cans, tins and in boxes from 50 to 100 years ago. Upon entering the store, one will find on display old clothes, shoes, a barber chair, a post office, a player piano, and many things of bygone days just hanging around. Penny candy still lines shelves by the checkout counter, where slots and boxes of the old post office remain. In summer, hand-dipped ice cream is dispensed from a window where stamps once were sold.
People actually ask how much the penny candy is, buy around here it still is a penny.
One will find licorice creams, honey-filled queen bees, chewable crayons, gummi bears, heartbreakers, jawbreakers, salt water taffy, orange slices, cherry bites, spearmint leaves, cinnamon hearts, horehound drops, swedish fish, strawberry twists, and bubble gum among the array. It's a treasure trove of candies for those filling Easter baskets or shopping for Valentine, Halloween, or Christmas sweets. Many thousands of pounds of chocolate wafers are sold for candy making to the Amish at Christmas time. Amish families who host church services in their homes two weeks in a row put on a handsome feed for congregation members. They buy pounds and pounds of bologna and cheese and bake lots of bread.