GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- La King's Confectionery is your connection to a bygone era. The cute soda fountain and candy shop on the historic Strand in Galveston features a working 1920s-era soda fountain serving malts, shakes, ice cream sodas, sundaes, splits and floats.
The sweet shop also has a master candy maker who creates all the old-time specialties like peanut brittle, pecan pralines, hand-dipped chocolates, fudges, and of course their famous salt water taffy, which is made right before your eyes.
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La King's is the only place in the world that still serves Purity ice cream, which is Texas' first ice cream manufacturer, founded in 1889 on Galveston Island.
The King family has a candy-making history that goes back to the 1920s. The current confectionery originated in 1976 when Jack King took his father's candy recipes, 19th-century formulas and antique equipment handed down to him and made La King's legendary not only with tourists but locals as well.