Something Very Sweet About San Diego
Every couple of weeks Dana Eacobellis drives sixty miles or so into town to buy the supplies she needs to keep her small business going. Top of her shopping list? Sugar. Lots of sugar. She recalls a person in the checkout line asking why so much sweet stuff? “I said, ‘Well, I have a small candy shop in the mountains.’” Another customer immediately spoke up, “That’s not Wisteria, is it?”
It most certainly is Wisteria Candy Cottage. Along Old Highway 80 in the town of Boulevard, for more than a century now, Wisteria has been a sweet stop for generations of travelers between San Diego and the Imperial Valley…