Paducah has always had its share of treats to eat. Gilliam's Candy Company supplied many persons with cures for their 'sweet tooth.' Gilliam Candy Company started out in 1902, founded by Cleve and Nannie Gilliam of Graves County, Kentucky.  Starting out on Second Street, the company moved several times until it built a new factory on Paducah's southside. Famous for the production of sweets such as 'Cattails,' 'Peppermint Barber Poles,' 'Kits,' and 'B B Bats,'  and later associated with Sophie Mae peanut brittle, the manufacturer supplied Cracker Barrel Country Stores across America. Many folks remember getting Gilliam Candies in their Christmas stockings, or in their Easter baskets. Gilliam's famous striped sticks of hard candy were offered in over thirty flavors. They were particularly known for their 'sugar sanded candy drops' sold in brown paper bags. Gilliams was joined by other candy manufacturers, and at one time was producing over eight million pounds of candy in a single year! The local Gilliam Candy Company is now a memory of the past; but an exhibit at the Market House Museum shares many pieces of ephemera and photographs of the employees, and several vintage candy boxes, now depleted of the candies once enjoyed. Newspaper clippings and production facts make for an interesting trek through Paducah's sweet past.