Description: The Palace of Sweets was called the "Pal" by college students. It was opened before WWI by Arthur Hetzel on the site of what is now the downtown Sentry Building, later moving to Main Street at the location of what became Jim Laabs music store (the location of this photo). A. Frank and Fannie Barrows, and later their son Allen (who eventually became Director of Libraries at UW-Stevens Point) acquired a part interest and ran the restaurant until its closing in 1967.

Sources: Selected descriptions are based on two primary sources, and references to these sources are included in parentheses at the end of each description.  The sources are:

▪ Anderson, Judy. For the love of Postcards: A Pictorial Celebration of Portage County Heritage from the Postcard Collection of John Anderson. Stevens Point, Wisconsin: Epitaph Press, 1998.
▪ Nelson, Wendell. Houses That Grew, Volume I:  A Guide to Old Houses of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Amherst, Wisconsin: W. Nelson, 1984.

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