First Job For Marie Malm Was At A Candy Factory

Third From Right, Marie Malm

Yesterday at the candy history display at Tacoma Historical Society downtown (reviewed in Tacoma Weekly, Chocolate City)I admired  hand-managed heavy candy-making machinery.   The climate was right here, and it was close to railroad shipping,  so there were many companies that made candy in Tacoma.   There was a huge copper kettle with a huge spoon from Brown and Haley.  A guide pointed out machines,  among them one that made Ribbon Candy, and I thought about the story of my mother’s Aunt Marie.

Second From Left, Marie Malm

My mother, Linnea Gord Jensen, wrote in a 1930s bio about Marie Malm, her aunt, that Marie’s first job was at a candy factory.  She worked later at Sperry Flour Mill as a baker in the test kitchen,  she was a baker there for many years.  Marie Malm appears in two photos of the Test Kitchen Workers at the Sperry Flour Mill.  The  workers’ names are not listed.  Perhaps others in these photos also worked at Tacoma candy factories at other times.