On the Side | Sweet sorrow: Candy trade loses a master craftsman

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, May, 2006 | by Rick Nichols

A pull-down grate covered the storefront at Young's Candies near the corner of 28th and Girard last week, and in the oak-trimmed windows, the pedestals that held the Easter pieces were draped in white sheets that gave the impression - in light of recent events - of shrouds.

Young's has been in Brewerytown since 1897, since the heyday of the neighborhood German candy-maker (the name was Jung, back then), marking each holiday as visually as any department-store Santa or foil-wrapped pot of roadside lilies.

So it was rather inconvenient that Harry Young, at 77, died just one week before what would have been his 60th Easter on the job, right in the middle of the small-time candy trade's final crunch of the chocolate season: "Harry wouldn't have taken this time off for a...