September 29, 1925, Menasha Record
Made down the road in Fond du Lac by the Bonita Candy Company, the Leaping Lena bar gets the first class ad treatment by the Record, complete with a comic strip which were in their heyday about this time. This is an intriguing confection; you just don't see that many candy bars that involve cherries. For the record, the Bonita Candy company was sold to the Ziegler Candy Company of Milwaukee in 1953 and the bar was manufactured there presumably until that company folded in 1972. Undoubtedly if you were in Menasha at this time, you'd have found this bar in the local pharmacies and candy stores.
I found a wrapper for Leaping Lena in a scrapbook my grandmother made in the 30's. There is a handwritten note saying. "how we loved these!"
ReplyDeleteBonita also made another bar. I think it was made with corn flakes ?
ReplyDeletemy grandmother used to talk about this candy bar. She lived in a tiny town in Western Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh and said that she would get it when they went to the movies… She was born in 1910.
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing. I always wondered if this candy bar really existed
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