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KG4CGC
07-25-2009, 01:16 PM
http://www.hometownfavorites.com/ Nostalgic for the days of your misspent youth strolling through the candy isle?
Click on a year and let the old memories warm your cockles.
N2NH
07-25-2009, 02:26 PM
The Charms "Sweet Pops" were great lollipops. You could get many of the "50s Candy" in the 60s too.

Sky Bar is my favorite candy I Can't Get. From the 60s-70s too.

Another good find Charles. Plan to order when I get back to working.
:drool
KG4CGC
07-25-2009, 02:36 PM
Aw hell. When did you get stop working? Seems to be spreading.
N2NH
07-25-2009, 02:42 PM
Aw hell. When did you get stop working? Seems to be spreading.

A couple of months ago. Ripped both of the muscles in my Achilles Tendon. It gets better then it gets worse. Right now it's pretty painful. Living on Aleve and Vicodins. The Aleve takes 2 hours to work, but I usually wait. The Vikes are for when they don't work or when I have had the pain for a day or 2.

Really stinks being inside most of the summer even as crappy as it's been.
KG4CGC
07-25-2009, 02:44 PM
I guess it's too late to wish you a speedy recovery.
N2NH
07-25-2009, 02:46 PM
I guess it's too late to wish you a speedy recovery.

:P :lol: :lol:

Heck, if I can ride it out, ought to make it to the next career. Since I can sit in class, college isn't a problem. Standing and walking are. I don't even like to think about running - which is a btch, since I'm always just missing buses or trains.
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HUGH
07-29-2009, 02:27 AM
1: Sweet cigarettes. They were white sticks of some floury, sugary concoction with a little red dye on the tip. They did not lead to me, or any friends, taking up smoking but they are surely banned now.

2: Gob stoppers. Balls up to 1.5 inches in diameter made from layers of hard sugar of different colours. Once you had sucked all the layers off there was an aniseed in the centre around which the manufacturer "grew" the gobstopper. I suppose, due to the risk of choking, they were banned also. A pity because, for a penny or so, you could make one last about 2 hours.
KB3LAZ
08-01-2009, 04:01 PM
http://www.crossroads-market.com/images/HFCA177.JPG

http://www.crossroads-market.com/images/HFCA190.JPG
KG4CGC
08-01-2009, 04:06 PM
I remember wax candy. My mom hated the stuff.
W4GPL
08-01-2009, 04:17 PM
That's a really neat site.

Now I want some Nerds.
WØTKX
08-01-2009, 04:21 PM
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/milkoo33.jpg

http://www.mooncostumes.com/image/19398
KB3LAZ
08-01-2009, 06:33 PM
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/milkoo33.jpg

http://www.mooncostumes.com/image/19398

Sugar, eh?
n4aud
08-01-2009, 07:42 PM
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/milkoo33.jpg

http://www.mooncostumes.com/image/19398
Looks tasty to me! :agree: :cheers: :yes:
KB3LAZ
08-01-2009, 08:19 PM
http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/milkoo33.jpg

http://www.mooncostumes.com/image/19398
Looks tasty to me! :agree: :cheers: :yes:

As long as there are not brown clumps as their are on her dress. :shock:
N5RLR
08-02-2009, 10:09 PM
Bit-O-Honey [click]. (http://www.crossroads-market.com/images/HFCA297.JPG) Now, there's a blast from the past. :mrgreen:

And speaking of honey [click]... (http://www.mooncostumes.com/image/19398) :geek
W1GUH
08-14-2009, 02:09 PM
Chocolate Cigarettes
I bought a case of those on ebay a few years ago, but they weren't the same. That paper was stuck to the chocolate "stick" and you had to eat it along with the chocolate. In the 50's, the stick slid out of the paper easily after you were done "smoking" and wanted to eat the chocolate.

Multi-color dots on strips of paper. Til they got all yucky and gross from eating the dots off the paper! :sick:

Licorice "records" These were long strips of licorice about 1/8" wide wrapped around a red hard candy in the middle. Looked like a record til you started eating the licorice.

Lik-m-aid http://www.victoryseeds.com/candystore/fun_dip.html

But the packaging was differeint in the early 50's. The envelope was just paper and the graphics were different. You ate it by dipping your finger in it and that licking off what stuck. After a while both the paper and your finger were kinda yucky! :sick: (See dots on paper, above) Good training for later in life! :bbh:

Rock Candy
Just crystallized sugar on a string made by super-saturating a sugar solution and letting it crystallize on the string.

White break-up chocolate from the department or candy store

Pumpkin Seeds - kids needed all the salt they could get!

Fleer Double-Bubble gum
Chum Gum
Bazooka Gum (Passable only if Double-Bubble gum wasn't available.)
BlackJack Gum
Clove Gum

This is reminding me of the wonderful autumn scent given off the the bowl of all the candy you got on Hallowe'en.