Every Monday we share an image on the Essex on Lake Champlain Facebook page and invite our viewers to play some Vintage Essex Trivia. This time we shared two photographs of the same location in two weeks. Below is the second one:
Do you recognize the place? What was it called? Where is it? What can you tell us about it? Who was the owner? Have any stories to share?
Along the bottom of the photos I believe it reads: “Kelly’s @ Essex – Candy Box – 1946”. I am not in any way certain about the “Candy Box” part, what do you think it says? Or maybe that is right, and that was something this place sold or part of its name? Was this perhaps called Kelley’s Restaurant or something similar? Or maybe Kelley was the owner’s name?
From the booths in one photo, and the counter scene in another, it seems to me like this was a restaurant of some kind. In the photo behind the counter you can see ice cream cones, so those were sold there. There is also a sign that says “Heintz xx Soups.”
This place doesn’t exist today and I’m not sure where it was. Does anyone know? And what happened to it? What is the building today, or is it gone?
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Was this the coffee shop that was in what is now the Post Office? If so it was later owned by Myrtle MacDougal.
This was Kelly’s ice cream and lunch spot when I was growing up in Essex in the 50’s. It may have had another name early on, but the building is still there. It’s the little house on the corner of Maine Street and the street down to Beggs point. Wayne and Donna Bailey lived there in the early 60’s. I remember getting ice cream there. Those stools were used by my grandmother, Myrtle MacDougal in her little luncheonette across the street (In the postoffice building) after the Kelly’s sold the eatery and house. I think his name was Irwin Kelly, but I can’t recall what her name was.
I now remember Mrs. Kelly’s first name, it was Marion. Irwin and Marion Kelly owned and operated it. I remember them both as very kind and sweet people. He was kind of tall and thin, while Mrs. Kelly was short. I don’t know if they had any children, they were an older couple when I knew them and good friends of my grandmother, Myrtle MacDougal.
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