George Haas & Sons

George Haas & Sons was a confectioner in San Francisco, California. The business expanded to four stores including one in the Phelan Building that was marketed as the most beautiful candy store in the U.S. and features on a historic postcard. Haas also had a tea room on the building's second floor.[1] The Haas Factory Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NHRP). Tongs from the business are collectible.[2] Haas candies were used in a murder by poisoning.[3][4]

George Haas' son R. C. Haas married Corinne Madison, daughter of the head of the California Associated Raisin Company.[5]

Members of the Gruenhagen family were involved in the business.[6]

Haas Candy Factory

The Haas Candy Factory building in San Francisco is listed on the NRHP in San Francisco. It is at 54 Mint Street in the South of Market neighborhood.

References
  1. Whitaker, Jan (2015). Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn: A Social History of the Tea Room Craze in America. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1250089816.
  2. Yvaska, Steven Wayne (February 9, 2008). "Boxes used to come with more than just candy". The Mercury News. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  3. Nash, Jay Robert (1986). Look for the Woman: A Narrative Encyclopedia of Female Prisoners, Kidnappers, Thieves, Extortionists, Terrorists, Swindlers and Spies from Elizabethan Times to the Present. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1461747727.
  4. Scott, Gini Graham (2007). American Murder. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0313024764.
  5. California Fruit News, Volume 49, Issue 1337. Howard C. Rowley. 1914.
  6. The Bay of San Francisco: The Metropolis of the Pacific Coast and Its Suburban Cities : a History, Volume 1. Lewis Publishing Company. 1892.
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