A store once filled with clothes and memories is leaving the Bakersfield community.
- Sugar Daddy’s, a boutique in Bakersfield, is closing after 42 years.
- Owner Heidi Shubin cites burglaries, the economy, and personal issues as reasons for closure.
- The store was originally founded by Shari Stacy in 1982 and later passed down to Heidi Shubin.
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Sugar Daddies, a well-known boutique, will be closing their doors for good.
Cindy Cagle, customer shares, “I still come back because everybody knows this place, they know the family and all of the really good deals you can get.”
1982 was the start of Sugar Daddy’s Woman’s Boutique founded by Shari Stacy a few years later passed down to Heidi Shubin in 2016.
Heidi Shubin reminisces, “I grew up I was 10 years old when my mom bought this.”
Sugar Daddy’s fashion bringing those from around Kern County like Dores Depew who traveled from Tehachapi to check out what’s new.
Depew says, “Whenever I come into town I come into Sugar Daddy’s to see what they got and what I have to buy.”