Food & Gourmet Items
Van Otis Chocolates - $25 Gift Certificate
- Item Number
- 51
- Estimated Value
- 25 USD
- Leading Bid
- 15 USD
- Number of Bids
- 2 - Bid History
Item Description
Van Otis Chocolates’ is a Manchester landmark. This candy
store consistently receives top votes in media polls. Its Elm Street retail store is crowded year-round but especially full of men on Valentine’s Day.
Products available include the super famous Van Otis Swiss
Fudge, Assorted Chocolates, Seasonal and Holiday Chocolates, Gift Baskets, Nuts, Popcorn, Gourmet Chocolate Bars, Liquor Cordials, Truffles, and Traditional Cream Fudge.
Item Special Note
Van Otis Chocolates’ beginning dates back to 1935 when
Evangeline Hasiotis began making and selling chocolates in the ground floor of her family’s 3-story walkup apartment building on Spruce Street where Manchester’s Verizon Wireless Arena now stands. Evangeline (close acquaintances called her “Van”---hence the origin of the store’s name from Van’s first and last names) came to the United States in 1922. She emigrated with her Greek family as an eleven-year-old. She graduated from Manchester High School—Central in 1930.
Evangeline enrolled in the Fanny Farmer confectionary school in Boston in 1935. It was a two-week program. It was later that year when she began her business. Her business grew quietly but steadily until 1958 when developers bought her family’s Spruce Street property and she moved her store to an expanded location at the
now-famous corner of Cedar and Chestnut Streets, where the legend of Van Otis really grew. Evangeline dedicated sixty continuous years of her life to her chocolate business—right up until the day she died in September 1995.
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