Tell me what you really think.
I'll have a candy lipstick, a pack of Beemans, and a lemon phosphate, please.
OOOh, Beemans. What I wouldn't do for a steady supply! The wax bottles they have out today just aren't the same as when we were kids. The candy cigarette formulation hasn't changed a bit though. Very addictive taste.
Mamacita, I'm only 28 and I recognize most of these. What are Slo-Pokes??? My great-grandparents owned a soda fountain and drug store so this entry was right up my alley.
yeah I remember all the candy you mentioned. I lived in a small enough town there was no ice cream man, it wasn't that big of a deal though, no matter where you lived, he was pretty much just down the street anyway (I think there were 5 different little shops that had candy and ice cream).
I liked the dreamsicles best.
Yes, I remember all of them...and how about "dots?" They were little dots of hard candy on long pieces of shiny white paper.
I found nearly all of those candies at Meijers a few months ago. I got some for the kids for Christmas. (But they cost way more than a penny. Are you sure you're not my mom?)
They LOVE getting SugarBabies! And Lik-M-Aid is still one of my favorites!!
We had Sweiger's Store right across the street from our Church. Thursday night choir practice, 10 cents, Mrs Sweiger's patience and a promise to the choir director to Keep our bags down at our feet until we were excused. I was a salt fanatic; my purchases were often pretzel rods or a small bag of the best potato chips ever Mahan: I Recall an American Indian with full headdress on the bag. Although I'm saddened that my grandchildren will never get a similar experience, it's worse Knowing they wont even get to enjoy riding their bike's down to "the store" for treats and a comic book.
My parents owned a corner mom and pop store. We sold penny candy there as well. I just bought a box of "Penny Lane" candy to show my chldren what we sold. The box contined: Mary Janes, red hot dollars, tootsie rolls, those wax soda pops with the syrup in it a bunch of other stuff. I also managed to get two 1/2 lb paper bags to show them what we put the candy in. We sold all kinds of stuff, bazooka bubble gum, pretzel rods. If I was good my parents would let me bring a friend down to the store and we would each get a dime worth of candy.
And in the movies: Black Crows, Dots, JuJubes, Walnettos, Choclettos.
Gimme-a-pack-of-Beemans-pepsin-chewing-gum-please. Great ad.
I saw your comments over at Michele's and just wanted to tell you that you're absolutely right on all counts. Thanks for having the courage to tell people so.
I remember most of those candies, though when I was young then were a nickel a piece. You can still get sno cones here too, you find people pushing little carts who sell then and use a bicycle ringer to get your attention, though most of them now primarily sell italian ice.
Candy cigarettes (which were replaced by the real thing when I was 15) were my favorites. I also liked wax bottles and lips. The best was the 2 for a quarter hot dogs at A&W, with root beer in tall, frosted mugs for 5 cents! Dose were da days!
With all the junk candy we ate its a wonder we all survived but we did!How could we eat that wax is beyond me!?! Your city sure sounds like mine
we used to find bottles to return so we could have enough money to go get penny candy..I agree those were the days indeed my friend...oh yes those were the days!!! : )
Man did you bring back some memories. Our snow cone man drove a bike that was really like an overgrown tricycle with a big cooler on the back and he rang his little bike bell. Brrrrnng, Brrrrng, Brrrrrng. Everyone would come running.
Oh my. Yes, I do remember. There was a little store on the way home from our elementary school too; although I'm guessing it was a lot creepier than yours. It always seemed to be just-about-nightfall in there.
I still see some of those candies at our local indie record store, of all places. Still love Red Hots, Atomic Fireballs and all things cinnamony.
I remember all those, plus Red Vines, Grape and Strawberry Nehi, moon pies, pinwheels (the cookie, not the toy), pecan pralines, and red peanut patties.
Slo-pokes were a caramelly-fudge thingy on a stick. You could suck on it or, with great strength, you could pull off a piece with your teeth, turning the remainder on the stick into a stretched out serpent's tongue.
Penny candy - thise were the days.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Take care
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Them be the candies of my youth, too. And remember Lemonheads? How about the Helm's Bakery truck? (Perhaps that's just a California thing...a truck that drove around a la ice cream trucks, but it sold breads and cakes and other bakery items.)
I remember being only five and my mom would let let walk all the way around our block to the drug store facing the main street to buy her a pack of cigarettes, and I would be allowed to pick up some candy treats for myself for running the errand. Of course, they'd sell me the cigs, no problem. But would I today let my 5-yr-old walk around our block, even though we live in a closed, gated community? Sadly, no.
What wonderful memories your post brought back. My father would give my sister and I each 25 cents per week for penny candy in the 1960's, and did we get a lot of candy for the money! The only snack that still tastes exactly as it did 40+ years ago is Indian brand pumpkin seeds! I used to pay 2 cents per box back then; I now pay $25 for 5 cases of packets!
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