Peerless Confection Co., circa I don’t know. I’m guessing…1950′s? Look at the phone number, BUckingham 1-6100. I can’t imagine a company today advertising their product as being of ‘superlative quality’, and the ‘house of white/right’ line is a little weird if you think about it for too long.
I finally managed to make it up to a demolition site on The North Side: Peerless Confection, another victim (along with Brach’s and Fannie May) of Chicago’s war on candy factories.
By the time I got there the factory was more than half gone, so I stayed on the legal side of the fence and admired the curious Bauhaus-inspired wall sculpture on the otherwise featureless western facade. There’s a pretty good article about the sculpture and it’s uncertain future in the latest issue (no. 154, February 7-13, 2008) of Time Out Chicago, of all places. Seriously, it’s worth reading.