“To have people know me, it’s fun,” said Laurie. “I like the public.”

But even better than that, the couple said, is being able to bring out the kid in everyone.

“People like candy. They like to come in and pick out the stuff they remember as a kid,” said Scott. “They like to indulge themselves and make themselves feel happy.”

Customers Kristi and Tom Boston say that Remember That? takes them to a time in Butte’s past when virtually every corner store had a candy counter.

“There wasn’t a neighborhood that didn’t have a corner candy store,” said Kristi, a self-described chocoholic. “They had an Italian neighborhood and an Irish neighborhood, and every different sect neighborhood had a corner grocery store and they all had candy counters.”

“They used to sell chum gum. It was two for a penny in a pack,” added Tom, pointing out that there were candy counters in Walkerville, next to Joe’s Pasty and on Quartz Street.

Kristi, meanwhile, said she used to sell candy on a sales route with Mountain Man Nut & Fruit Co., and Laurie Peterson was one of her customers.

“It feels good to return the favor,” said Kristi. “From one candy lady to another.”