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Showing Original Post only (View all)If you went to the corner store as a kid and you had 5 cents. What penny candy would your buy? I would buy a pretzel [View all]
stick, 2 lipsticks, and 2 wax bottles with the flavored water (?) inside. How about you?
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If you went to the corner store as a kid and you had 5 cents. What penny candy would your buy? I would buy a pretzel [View all]
debm55
Jul 17
OP
Thank you very much 82. Thank you for sharing.. I got my money from collecting glass pop bottles along the alleys.The
debm55
Jul 17
#8
Hey , you were lucky. I would trade the candy in for a pickle. Thank you alwaysinasnit.
debm55
Jul 17
#10
yep, or a Three Musketeers (my favorite) They don't taste even close to they way they did in the 1950s
yellowdogintexas
Saturday
#106
MIButterfly. Loved Turkish taffy. We would slap it on the sidewalk. When you unwrapped it would be in dozens of pieces.
debm55
Jul 17
#20
Thank you SheltieLover. I live the slo-poke sucker. However, I pulled a tooth out trying to get it out of my tooth. I
debm55
Jul 17
#21
Thank you MIButterfly. Chuncky bars were good with the raisins and nuts. I haven't seen in a long time either.
debm55
Jul 17
#22
With my nickel, I would buy a Hershey's Bar with almonds or a bag of Weis' potato chips.
LoisB
Jul 17
#17
Thank you very much LoisB. The hershey 's of my youth was great. Hershey's changed the name of today is a different
debm55
Jul 17
#24
I was raised in central PA. We took a school trip to the Hershey factory in (I think) 6th
LoisB
Jul 17
#41
HAHAHAHAHHAH. Thank you, dem4decades. But they would burn. I remember them being right next to the Jaw Breakers.
debm55
Jul 17
#25
Thank you johnp3907. I don't think my store carried those - I wished they did. I enjoy the taste of raspberry. Yum
debm55
Jul 17
#34
Yes, Coolgoober. Bazooka bubble gum wrapped in the tiny comic. You liked fireballs?Oh my
debm55
Jul 17
#35
But it was penny candy. So if you had a dime, you could buy ten, yes that's ten pieces of candy. They were smaller
debm55
Jul 17
#42
Thank you dillafae. You know I was thinking and don't remember having one. What did it taste like????
debm55
Jul 17
#44
Fireball, licorice sticks, and a long thick pretzel was the biggest bang for your nickel. Sugar Daddy & Butternut
NBachers
Jul 17
#40
NBachers , your selection is wonderful. Thank you so much. Gee, and after all those years I find out that those gray
debm55
Jul 17
#46
Yeah, if you accumulated five bucks in Mallo Cup Money, you could send it off and get 10 Mallo Cups in the mail!
NBachers
Friday
#55
Thank you pfitz59, Did your jawbreaker change color as you got to the white center?
debm55
Jul 17
#47
i dont know . a locoal store sells the pink popcorn in a bag . if tthe price is right i may get some .
AllaN01Bear
Friday
#82
Thank you very much for sharing with us, CentralMass. Yes, they came in a very small box with maybe one or two pieces of
debm55
Friday
#72
Thank you very much, WheelWalker. I remember those. The penny candy ones had a few in a cellophane wrapper.
debm55
Friday
#70
i got 10 pack of hot tooth pics. extra strong hot cinnamon + i would suck + chew them to bits.
pansypoo53219
Friday
#61
Thank you surrealAmerican. You are right, they were like very small versions of the ones sold.
debm55
Friday
#67
Thank you FarPoint. for sharing with us. I don;t recall getting those. I stuck with my favorites.
debm55
Friday
#90
Thank you crud. I also bought the wax bottle with the flavored water insides. My friends would eat the wax bottle. I
debm55
Friday
#92
Thank you very much for sharing with us, CanonRay. I don't think my regular corner penny candy store sold them. Bummer.
debm55
Friday
#96
Anybody ever see Chills Bars? Cost 3 cents. I could buy them at the general store in Adelanto in those days, early 60s
Dorothy V
Friday
#102