Tonight's Topic: "Happy Birthday, HERSHEY PARK!"
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After selling his previous candy-making business in 1900, Mr. Hershey moved back to his "homestead" (called Derry Church) to start his successful Chocolate-making business.
However, unlike other industrialists and company magnates of his time, Mr. Hershey wanted his Company Town to be a "real home town" with tree-lined streets, single and multi-family houses, and a community that provided the residents with many services and amenties.
Some of these included a Community Center with Venetian-styled Theater, a (single) Women's Club, a (single) Men's Club, a Zoo, a Museum and various Hershey businesses (e.g., Hershey Trust and Bank Co., department store, drug store, creamery, greenhouse, abattoir, bakery, etc.).
Besides a couple of golf-courses, Hershey also built and operated several sporting venues including a public swimming pool, a sports stadium and an indoor arena that hosted the town's own hockey team (Hershey Bears).
So how do we know so much about Hershey?
Well, it's because LW was born and lived in Hershey for more than 30 years -- and got his first kiss (from a real live 10-year old girl!) during their 1st ride in the Park's "Tunnel of Love"!
So, for tonight's Net, how much do you know about "Chocolate Town USA -- The Sweetest Place On Earth"?
Please give us your best answers for each of the following 3 TRUE or FALSE questions, by using the (reuseable) answers of "A"=TRUE or "B"=FALSE.
++ Tonight's Topic: "Happy Birthday, HERSHEY PARK!" ++
Question #1: After a couple of business flops, Mr. Hershey sold the Lancaster Caramel Co. for $1 million in 1900 in order to concentrate exclusively on his chocolate business -- True or False?
A. True, or
B. False.
Hershey sold the Lancaster Caramel Co. for $1 million in 1900 in order to concentrate exclusively on his chocolate business.(Q1)
Question #2: Hershey's first two streets, Cocoa Avenue and Chocolate Avenue, form a crossroads -- with the latter being known for its street lamps shaped like wrapped and unwrapped Hershey's Kisses -- True or False?
A. True, or
B. False.
The two dirt roads that intersected just south of the factory site would be the center of his town and would be named Chocolate and Cocoa Avenues.(Q2)
Question #3: In 1903, Mr. Hershey built his chocolate factory near his homestead (Derry Church) because of the large number of dairy farms there -- True or False?
A. True, or
B. False.
Three years later, he returned to Derry Church to build a new factory. There he could obtain the large supplies of fresh milk needed to perfect and produce fine milk chocolate.(Q3)
"The critics who could not understand why Milton Snavely Hershey chose to build his factory in a cornfield soon learned that chocolate making was not his only passion.
Hershey knew that he had chosen well. He knew that adjacent dairy lands would provide a high grade of milk for his milk chocolate."
(from: The Town - Hershey Derry Township Historical Society)
[SOURCE: Please see links below]
The Town - Hershey Derry Township Historical Society -- A good overview of the history and development of the town Hershey.(Q2)
Hersheypark -- Milton S. Hershey built Hershey Park in 1907 so his employees would have a pleasant environment for picnicking and boating.
Hersheypark Map
Life of Milton S. Hershey (from: Milton S. Hershey, The Man Behind The Chocolate Bar)(Q1,Q3):
Born September 13, 1857 on a farm near Derry Church, a small Pennsylvania community, Milton Hershey was the only surviving child of Fannie and Henry Hershey. His mother raised him in the strict discipline of the Mennonite faith. Frequent family moves interrupted his schooling and left him with a limited education. He only completed the fourth grade.
Following a four-year apprenticeship with a Lancaster candy maker, he established his first candy making business in Philadelphia. That initial effort failed as did his next two attempts in Chicago and New York. Returning to Lancaster, PA in 1883, Hershey established the Lancaster Caramel Company, which quickly became an outstanding success. It was that business which established him as a candy maker and set the stage for future accomplishments.
Hershey became fascinated with German chocolate-making machinery exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. He bought the equipment for his Lancaster plant and soon began producing a variety of chocolate creations. Hershey sold the Lancaster Caramel Co. for $1 million in 1900 in order to concentrate exclusively on his chocolate business.(Q1) Three years later, he returned to Derry Church to build a new factory. There he could obtain the large supplies of fresh milk needed to perfect and produce fine milk chocolate.(Q3)
Excited by the potential of milk chocolate, which at that time was a Swiss luxury product, Milton Hershey determined to develop a formula for milk chocolate and market and sell it to the American public. Through trial and error he created his own formula for milk chocolate. In 1903 he began construction on what was to become the world's largest chocolate manufacturing plant. The facility, completed in 1905, was designed to manufacture chocolate using the latest mass production techniques.
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++ QUOTE OF THE DAY ++ -- from Milton S. Hershey: "Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising in the world."
[SOURCE: Hershey Trust > The Hershey Heritage]
Thank you!
Shelley [KF7TBA] & LW [K7LWA]
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Posted 2014-04-26 19:15PT (Finally!!!)
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