The NECCO candy company is known for some unique and increasingly obscure products. They've lent their name to the NECCO Candy Wafers, the Clark Bar and their classic Candy Buttons. One of the hardest NECCO candies to find is the Sky Bar.
The Sky Bar is one of the oldest name-brand candy bars in America. The brainchild of a NECCO employee named Joseph Cangemi, It was first release in 1938 and it got its name from a unique advertising campaign. The NECCO company commissioned a series of sky writing exhibitions to inform the public, mostly in New York, of the upcoming release. After the mandatory blackouts of the Second World War were lifted, only a few companies were ready with their lighted advertisements in Times Square. NECCO was one of them and the ad was for their Sky Bar.
Since then, the Sky Bar has had increasingly limited distribution. The Internet has helped fans of the candy purchase whole boxes via NECCO's
website.
