CANDYMAKING MOVES WEST

Submitted by Edgar on Tue, 09/29/2015 - 2:49pm
By LeRoy Jones
Donley Cross was performing Shakespeare for San Francisco audiences in the early 1900s when, during a performance, he fell off the stage. Because of an injured back he sustained in the fall he had to end his acting career. In 1920, Cross and Charlie Fox organized the Fox-Cross Candy Company across the bay from San Francisco in Emeryville.
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