Salt Water Taffy

[James A. Landau]

Responding to off-list questions from Gerald Cohen:

>  a little girl customer stopped by and asked for some taffy.  Mr.
>  Bradley queries "You mean 'salt water taffy,' don't you?"

that should read "Mr. Bradley queried".  Typing error on my part.

>Note 41: James' Salt Water Taffy Co., 1519 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, pamphlet
>"Mr. Bradley Had an Accident."

Correct.  Note 41 does not give a date for the pamphlet.

I checked www.fralingers.com and discovered something odd.  The Franlingers
Web site states that Theodore Lapres was the son-in-law of Joseph Fralinger.
However, Volume III of _The Jersey Shore: Family and Personal History_ states
that Lapres was the son-in-law of Joseph's brother Florence L. Fralinger.
Volume III is cited in the bibliography of the Web site (first commercial Web
site I've ever seen that had a bibliography!) but volume II is not.

I still can't explain why two different sources (the Fralinger Web site and
the Edmiston obituary) mention a Supreme Court that John Baker says does not
exist.  Nor can I explain why Fralingers', which according to both the Web
site and Volume III of _The Jersey Shore_ has been selling "salt water taffy"
since 1885, should have claimed (per Barry Popik) a first use of 1894.


      Jim Landau
       baffled in Atlantic City