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History
Established in 1935.
In the fall of 1935 Evangeline Hasiotis opened a very small candy store selling a small line of chocolates in the same building as the family apartment in Manchester, NH. Evangeline’s store had no official name, and no significant signage – as was typical of local ethnic neighborhood life in that era. It was known within the neighborhood simply as «the candy store.» Evangeline’s chocolate business thrived in the decades that followed, and in 1958 she bought property to move the store to the corner of Chestnut and Cedar Street. It was at this time Evangeline and coworkers sought an official name for the store. They came up with «Van Otis Chocolates» as a derivation of Evangeline’s first and last name.
