He eventually attended Spring Arbor College and bought a farm in Jackson County, Michigan.

[6] Pappas had arrived in the United States in 1905, and worked at two other candy shops in Michigan to save enough money to buy the Sugar Bowl.

Nick Pappas's wife Virginia and son George then operated the Sugar Bowl until it closed in 1970.

On the front, the first story contains a recessed central flanked by large plate-glass windows which are framed by matching cast iron and wooden Corinthian columns.

Along one wall is an elaborate mirrored back-bar manufactured by the Liquid Carbonic Company in the early 1900s, containing mahogany cabinets and stained glass panels.

Opposite this is another wooden back-bar with leaded glass doors and two early display cases.

[5] The second floor of the building consists of ten small rooms, and once served as living quarters.