{"id":20164,"date":"2019-03-15T18:16:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T22:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=20164"},"modified":"2020-10-21T02:54:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T06:54:45","slug":"hickory-farms-chocolate-bar-wrappers-of-the-early-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=20164","title":{"rendered":"Hickory Farms Chocolate Bar Wrappers of the early 1970’s!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Hickory Farms is mostly associated as a catalog retailer of meats and cheeses these days (with the occasional holiday pop-up store), but over the years they’ve had permanent mall locations and offered all sorts of consumable gifts, including a run of delicious-sounding chocolate bars I recently discovered that were first released in the early 1970’s!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The history of Hickory Farms is wonderfully and succinctly summarized over on Hickory Farms<\/a> current homepage:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Hickory Farms history summarized from HickoryFarms.com<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This vintage image of a Hickory Farms mall store evokes quite a lot of nostalgia:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Hickory Farms of Ohio mall storefront – circa 1970 – source HickoryFarms.com<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

One can imagine shopping for gifts for a family member or perhaps gathering supplies for a casual get together with friends. And filling a shopping bag just like this one:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Vintage Hickory Farms store shopping bag – photo courtesy Dan Goodsell<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

For some added nostalgia and a sense of what Hickory Farms was like and what it meant to people back during this era, here are a pair of vintage television commercials from the early 1980’s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n