Penny Candy

Ahhh, the Good Old Days...my sisters & I would do chores around the house & Mom would give us a quarter each. Oh how we couldn't WAIT to run down to Corner Store to buys a little brown bag full of Penny Candy !!! There were Jaw-Breakers, Red Hots, Nicco Wafers, Rootbeer Barrels, Licorish Whips, Caramel Swrills, and those little drinks in the wax tube and what about those cute little colorful tiny Buttons on a roll of white paper !!! Not to mention a Biggie, the SKY BAR, YUMMY ...but that one cost a Whole Nickle, LOL Ahhh, do you remember when candy bars were only 5 cents ??? I miss those days !!! Don't you ???

I loved the necco wafers, jordan almonds from the movie theater snack bar, and the pistachio nuts that came out of the machine for a nickel and stained everything red! It was years before I knew the shells were naturally beige. My Grandma always bought us those buttons on the paper, those were fun too. Yeah, and those little wax bottles with the syrup.

I loved the Necco wafers, especially the chocolate ones! yum! I also always got milk duds and those mint things at the movies. I liked candy cigarettes, and have never smoked the real thing.

Oh Yeah, Candy Cigarettes I forgot about those. But now I remember puffing on one & walking around w/my head up in the air, trying to act like the Adults around me, LOL I can't imagin what THEY were thinking ??? But in those days EVERYONE Smoked. Unfortunatly I Still do

My friend and I pretended Sweet Tarts where our energy pills when we played SPY. We'd pop them and run around the neighborhood spying on people.

This was before all the attention was paid to sugar and hyperactivity. Funny, we had it figured out way back when.

I LOVED candy. On the days we walked home from school we'd go in Benjamin Franklin's, the local FIVE AND DIME! I still recall standing in front of the candy section and picking over the colorful Jaw Breakers, Mallow Cups with the coupons in them, Bazooka Bubble Gum, Pixie Sticks, Milk Duds, bland colored M&M's, Jujubees, Buttons (I ate so much paper back then), Bit o Honeys, Candy Necklaces (remember whipping those things against your neck as you ate them?),and the list goes on.

Great memories. I can't believe I still have my teeth! I have lots of fillings.

I'm doing a chapter on penny candy in my book. This is awesome. I forgot about Milk Duds.
Louisa

Dotsie ,
That old Ben Franklin was in Govans up my me. They would stand over me to see if I was stealing anything and made my mother mad. I never took anything at all.

I remembe the three muskateer bars and the clark bars which I loved Juicy Fruits from the Senator . Oh, love those candy cigerettes we would puff on them also.

Oh, love those jaw breakers would take them out of your mouth just to see what color would come up next. Those were the days.

Oh I remember those days of the candy store directly across from school. The owner made a mint on us kids! Lots of glass jars with all sorts of goodies. I too, loved the drinks in the little waxed bottles, as well as those red waxed lips. Do you remember them? I am just not sure now whether they were candy or just fun stuff. The straws filled with candy were fun too ... oh so much sugar as well as the buttons on paper. I remember wearing those candy necklaces and chewing on them at my leisure. Who would think that we would put that in our mouth and continue to wear it afterwards? Ah, the innocence and fun!

Going to this store for a dime was like hitting the lottery!

Say now don't forget the ever popular MaryJanes and the Watermelon slices. When I first went to High School I dated a cute guy named Gene George, his father owned the Ben Franklin Stores across the country.Whenever Gene came over he brought me my favorites Haystacks, those are the chocolate and coconut mixed and piled into little haystack looking candies...happy times back then.

Mary Janes! That's it. Chatty, I tried to remember the name for that candy the other day when I posted about Bit O Honey's. I thought I was losing it. Thanks!