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Sanders Confectionery (MI) (Images of America)

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For more than 130 years, there was no sweeter word in Detroit than Sanders. The venerable confectioner used to be once as much part of Detroit’s streetscape as the Big Three, Hudson’s, and Coney Islands. Sanders used to be more than just an ice-cream and candy shop. A Detroit icon, it served a fountain of memories for generations. Detroiters stood two and three deep in the back of lunch counters for tuna or egg salad sandwiches, devil’s food buttercream “bumpy”
cake, hot fudge sundaes, and Sanders’ signature dessert―hot fudge cream puffs. As Detroit boomed, so did Sanders. At its peak, the company boasted more than 50 stores, with its products to be had in as many as 200 supermarkets. The Sanders story started in Chicago, where Fred Sanders opened his first shop. A series of misfortunes prompted him to relocate to Detroit, where he started selling his confections on Woodward Avenue. Business grew regularly, and by the early 1900s, he had opened other shops along Woodward and in other places in Detroit. The Motor City nearly lost Sanders within the mid-1980s, but its desserts shops have begun resurfacing, thanks to some other Detroit institution, Morley Brands LLC, which bought the Sanders brand.

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