Notes
For the sake of brevity, citations from the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News are abbreviated DP and RMN, respectively. Citations from these, as well as the periodicals Municipal Facts and the Colorado Manufacturer and Consumer, in the following notes were all obtained at the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, and are marked DPLWHC.
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1. Goodstein, North Side Story, 193.
2. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States, various issues; Population Division, www.census.gov/popest/index.html (accessed March 27, 2014).
3. Samuel H. Williamson, “Seven Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a U.S. Dollar Amount, 1774 to Present,” MeasuringWorth, www.measuringworth.com/ppowerus, 2014.
4. Town of Highlands: Its Progress, Prospects and Financial Condition: First Annual Report (Highlands, CO: Highlands Chief Press, 1891), 10, quoted in Leonard and Noel, Denver, 61.
5. Pamela C. Whitenack, “Hershey, Milton Snavely, 1857–1945,” Hershey Community Archives, www.hersheyarchives.org/resources (accessed May 19, 2014).
6. “Why Colorado-Made Candy Is Superior to the Product of Lower Altitudes,” Colorado Manufacturer and Consumer 13 (July 1915): 4, DPLWHC.
7. Candy and Ice Cream, “Factory News” (March 1915): 29.
8. “Why Colorado-Made Candy Is Superior to the Product of Lower Altitudes,” 4, DPLWHC.
9. Ibid.
10. RMN, “Denver to Have Big $500,000 Company,” October 19, 1915, DPLWHC.
11. Ibid.
12. United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789–1945 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949), 67.
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13. “A Zoo Is Born,” www.denverzoo.org/about-us-history.
14. “Denver Auditorium Arena,” Wikipedia (last modified June 12, 2014).
15. “Elitch Gardens History,” www.elitchgardens.com.
16. Rykken Johnson, “Denver Candy Maker’s Christmas Is at Hand,” DP, May 4, 1977, DPLWHC.
17. RMN, “Business Conditions Good,” September 5, 1920, DPLWHC.
18. Goodstein, North Side Story, 11.
19. Ibid., 42.
20. “Palette of Our Palates: A Brief History of Food Coloring and Its Regulation,”Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety 8 (2009): 238, onlinelibrary.wiley.com.
21. DP, “Candy Man Arrested,” September 5, 1920, DPLWHC.
22. RMN, “Candy Boards Reinstated in Stores,” July 3, 1920, DPLWHC.
23. Candy and Ice Cream, “Factory News” (March 1915): 29.
24. “History,” Great Western Sugar Cooperative, 2006, www.westernsugar.com/History.html.
25. DP, “Sugar Factories Will Slice Beets,” September 19, 1920, DPLWHC.
26. Jake Friedman, “The Common Sense Candy Teacher,” Candy and Ice Cream (March 1915): 5.
27. Instructions for Starting a Candy Business (Philadelphia: Candymakers Supply House, n.d.).
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28. Tolbert R. Ingram, ed., The Yearbook of the State of Colorado (n.p., 1926), 142, DPLWHC.
29. Ibid., 1928–29, 159.
30. Ibid., 1939–40, 120.
31. Clinton H. Scovell, “Counting Your Costs,” Candy and Ice Cream (February 1915): 26.
32. “Barron’s,” Wikipedia (last modified May 27, 2014).
33. Goodstein, North Side Story, 214.
34. Johnson, “Denver Candy Maker’s Christmas.”
35. Sidney Redner, “Population History of Denver,” physics.bu.edu/redner.
36. Municipal Facts, “Growth and Resources of Industrial Denver” (August 1920): 5, DPLWHC.
37. Ibid.
38. Denver Times, “Denver Proving Candy Center of Entire West,” October 12, 1923, DPLWHC.
39. DP, “Lollipops Still Mainstay of Straser Candy Co Line,” February 9, 1964, DPLWHC.
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40. Goodstein, From Soup Lines to the Front Lines, 228–34.
41. RMN, “Brecht and Nevin Candy Companies to Be One Operating Organization,” March 10, 1931, DPLWHC.
42. DP, “Rocky Mountains Business Holding Above Last Year,” September 23, 1934, DPLWHC.
43. DP, “Denver Chamber of Commerce Celebrates Fiftieth Anniversary,” April 3, 1934, DPLWHC.
44. DP, “Denver Capital of U.S.,” June 4, 1940, DPLWHC.
45. DP, “Carl Hammond, Founder and Owner of Company Dies,” August 5, 1966, DPLWHC.
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46. DP, October 7, 1937, quoted in Leonard and Noel, Denver, 219.
47. DP, December 8, 1941, quoted in Leonard and Noel, Denver, 220.
48. “Candy Consumption and World War II,”historyhodgepodge.com/2013/03/05/candy-consumption-wwii.
49. DP, “Cafes: Sugar Bowls to Go Off Thursday,” February 2, 1942, DPLWHC.
50. “USS Franklin,” Wikipedia (last modified on July 10, 2014).
51. RMN, “Ribbon Candy Like the Old Days,” December 21, 1977, DPLWHC.
52. Robert Burns, “A Man’s a Man for A’ That” (1795), www.robertburns.org/works/496.shtm.
53. “One Hundred Years of Consumer Spending,” U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey, 1950.
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54. RMN, “Ribbon Candy Like the Old Days.”
55. Ibid.
56. Williamson, “Seven Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a U.S. Dollar Amount.”
57. RMN, “Ribbon Candy Like the Old Days.”
58. Ibid.
59. Ibid.
60. DP, “Hammond Estate Listed at $359,570,” March 27, 1969, DPLWHC.
61. Johnson, “Denver Candy Maker’s Christmas.”
62. Ibid.
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63. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed., s.v. “evolution.”
64. Rebecca Landwehr, “Denver’s Candy Kings,” Denver Business Journal (December 12, 1999), www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/1999/12/13/story3.html.
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid.
67. Ibid.
68. Ibid.
69. Aubrey Gordon, “Confection Connection Site Boosts Hammond’s Candies’ Sales,” Denver Business Journal (November 24, 2002), www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2002/11/25/smallb.2.html.