A second Savannah store was opened in the Abraham Minis Building in Franklin Square in City Market.

Stan and Pam Strickland founded River Street Sweets in 1973,[5] having fallen in love with ornaments at Christmas markets in Germany.

One night, they made three pieces of candy, put it on wax paper, "and boy, it was good," said Stan.

[2] Stan purchased a slab of marble, weighing about 800 pounds (360 kg), from a local stonemason on which to let the hot pralines cool.

Their children, Jennifer and Tim, worked exclusively for Pam, and the family did not speak for about twenty years.

[2] In 1996, the company expanded and moved part of their production into a factory outside of town to handle its mail orders.

[2] Seven years later, Savannah's Candy Kitchen and River Street Sweets merged brand names.