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He got his start in the business of candy-Mayville, N.Y., where his father, Paul, put him to work in the Middle, where his father saved a huge all-day lollipops so popular county fairs in the 1950s and the ingredients in the 1960s.

"We had to make three shifts of workers these lollipops," John Webb said.

Paul Webb insisted on purity, of course, so it was the work of John to move all of the components, including lollipop sticks around the barn, so could not be cleaned.

Because the ingredients became railroad box cars were much moved.

"I think we finally ran out, they are at the beginning of the 1980s," John Webb said.

Even if the whole day lollypop fad faded, Paul Webb had Mastered the art of making other candy, including peanut chosen particularly carefully, goat milk fudge, manual suction pump, the second of your favorite chocolate and Pecan — frogs. Some call the turtles.

in the early 1970s, Paul and Nadine Webb had moved to Florida, where they operate on the Lake Wales copper Top restaurant. Paul Webb met C.S. Taylor, which was made of the citrus fruit candies Davenport since 1920.

When Taylor retired in the 1970s, Paul Webb bought Taylor's recipes, old copper kettles, candy molds and other devices. He works in his candy store in downtown Davenport, Iowa for a few years, but then it moved to the United States 27, where Webb's Candy Shop sits today.

John Webb, his father ran the business for some time, but has now passed the responsibility for the day-to-day operation of his daughter, Ashley, the elder, the University of South Florida.

And he does not change much. The wine bar outside the construction site, he said he considered switching to anything about how the candy is made.

"We are still using the same copper kettles of citrus fruits, candy and nut must be particularly carefully," he said Friday. "In our chocolate is more than 100 years old. He is the "Old Faithful". He never breaks down. "

The plastic wrapping machinery seal candies became a candy factory in citrus fruits and candies are all still in the hand, the result is a unique vacuum pump in one bag. Antique scales to measure the ingredients used on candies.

Ashley Webb has added his marketing expertise, created the site and monthly promotions. They ship candy and personal or corporate gifts fudge.

When his grandfather became a Diabetic, he started the sugar candy and ice cream bar, also on the site and hand dipped.

He said, they use only the actual ingredients, their candies and chocolate gourmet. Even if they perform regularly in many of the flavors of fudge, they are known for their goat milk fudge.

"We have become accustomed to their own goats milk, until the Department of health is required to be pasteurized milk from goats," John said.

John Webb was the youngest of five siblings and his work is similar to the candy shop Mayville, N.Y.

They, too, the use of their father, Paul, who died in 2001 at the same time, the old-fashioned recipes.

"My grandfather for the first time the dialog is correct," Ashley Webb said. "We have to keep the tradition going."