I know that I am giving away my age but.... Remember when your mom couldn't give you a dollar for fear that you would buy a hundred chocolate footballs and end up in a sugar coma? Hee Hee
I rode my bike as well. I would always have to get a candy necklace to chew on and keep it on at least until the next day. And Jolly Rangers came in the little thin bars. Watermelon was my favorite. And I would buy Sour Apple bubblegum because it smelled so good. And Pepsi was a dime out of the machine, sold in a glass bottle. Oh but life seemed sweet and simple back then. The air smelled good. We drank our water out of a metal bucket kept on grandma's table. And everyone drank out of the same ladle. We didn't dare mess up all of grandma's clean snuff glasses. We played outside all day, from morning until we were chasing fireflies at night. We played kickball, tag and Red Rover Red Rover send J. right over with all our cousins and neighboor hood kids., And do you guys remember the lemon that rattled that you spun around your ankle for ever and ever? Oh how I miss those days.....
Oh my yes, we used to go to the bread store and they would have racks of penny candy. My favorite: tootsie rolls!
haha maybe I am showing my age...but no I don't remember that. I do remember when a dollar would buy two candy bars instead of one. When I was in high school I interviewed my grandfather for a school project and was suprised what he said you could get for 50 cents, and my grandma said when she first started working a weekly paycheck was like $20 and that was plenty. And now $20 wouldnt even pay for gas for a week.
I'm with ya, also remember you made it TO that store walking or on your bicycle with neighborhood friends. And you always took the long way..... there and back.
Today we can't even let the kids go to the neighbors with out a background check.
The penny Tootsie Rolls were the best! Now you can get them in huge bags at the grocery store
I'd buy 50 pieces of bazooka bubble gum, loved the comics... they were 2 cents.
Of course I remember penny candy. Hell, you could get TWO swedish fish for a penny. My sisters and I would go rooting through the coat pockets in the closet, the couch cushions looking for change. We could score BIG at the corner store with a quarter!
Even popsicles were a dime, Fudgesicles, however were 15 cents, too rich for our blood!
Sigh.
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Yes those were some good days. I always biked to the corner store, it seemed that a dollar back then gave you so much candy.
I can remember going to the store with 50 cents and standing there telling the cashier which candies I wanted (they were kept behind the counter) until I spent it all. It would all go in a little brown paper bag. I cannot believe all the candies I could pick out! Heck, even with ten cents I could get a handful of things!
I worked at T,G, & Y for a while and they had theirs until a few years later. Sears had the best one around. I loved going because it was just enough to take care of a craving and you didn't have to buy the whole box.
Lol, my boyfriend was just telling me about this last night. He said that when his younger brother was really little, their grandpa told them about penny candy (But by this time, penny candy was long gone). So his younger brother rode his bike to the store, brought 100 pieces of candy up to the register, handed the cashier a dollar bill and tried to walk out! LMAO!!!
