Russell Stover's Candies got their start on South Broadway? In 1923 Clara and Russell Stover begin making candy in the kitchen of their Denver bungalow home at 960 Detroit Street. (1). They opened their first store at 7 Broadway Street (seen here). The company, initially employing seven employees, is first known as Mrs. Stover's Bungalow Candies. The Stovers used their meager earnings, to create their own candy company. Through their successes and failures, they were now prepared to officially run a successful candy business. Russell and Clara Stover began to build factories in Denver and Kansas City, Missouri.(1) In 1931, the Russell Stover Company headquarters was moved to Kansas City, increasing its output, from 20,000 to 11 million pounds, of candy production. In 1943, Mrs. Stover's Bungalow Candies was renamed "Russell Stover Candies".(2)
Sources: (1) https://www.russellstover.com/rsc-history
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Stover#cite_note-3
Image Source: The Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, Call Number X-23926
