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[tends2dogs]

My favorites were: Bit O Honey

                                Milk Duds

                                Slo Pokes

                                 Black Cows

                                 Nut Chews

                                 Smarties

                                 Lemon Drops

Remember the little hot cinnamon candies?  My mom used to sprinkle them inside her apple pies before putting on the top crust to bake.  YUM!

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@seehorse  OMG!  We did the same thing too, pretending that it was communion.

  That is very interesting that a company in Belgium made the

communion wafers and then the flying saucer candies. That was very clever. We loved them, they were fun, a great novelty.

 You can still find these.

[jannabelle1]

Oh yes, we used to go to the Little Store in our neighborhood - they had the best candies! Dots - the little candy dots on a strip of paper, wax pop bottle (tiny little soda shaped bottles with pop/soda inside, taffy apples in the fall were the best....also malted milk balls, slow-poke suckers and that wonderful little 5 pack of jelly candies on a white strip of cardboard. Fun times!

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@CatsyCline   I remember getting the package of Chuckles. I don't see the licorice one in your picture.

 I also remember Sky Bars, with each section a different flavor.

 I just thought of something, I bet dentists made  a lot of money from our generation, with all that sugar and the sugared cereals that came out too.

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@CatsyCline   Your mentioning the old squeaky wooden

floorboards, just reminded me of McLellan's, an old 5 and 10,

downtown.

   It had those floors and as soon as you walked in, you smelled popcorn. Right inside , next to the front entrance, was a big popcorn machine. You could buy a tall white paperbag of popcorn that must have been 15 inches long.

 As  preteens and young teens, I think that we did most of our shopping at our three 5 and 10 stores. Woolworth's was the new modern one, the first store in the city with an escalator.

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@LdyBugz  I only remember kids wearing those belts with jeans.

It was probably late 60s-early 70s. They stayed in the belt loops

and we didn't feel anything sharp through the denim that would have been double thickness on the waistband. Plus, a top would have been tucked in. Three layers to protect our skin.

[frenchie]

I was in grade school in the late 40s so all we got was a dime for candy. Yes it did fill up a little brown bag. Three Musketeers bar for a nickle was the biggest bargain, or a Planters peanut bar. Sometimes shared a popsicle with a friend. Sky Bar was a favorite too. Sometimes I spent my dime on paper dolls or a comic book. Saturdays our school hall showed movies for fifteen cents. Two full movies and cartoons. From one to four thirty or so sitting in the front rows, we were blinded for an hour getting out of there. We had great ice skating ponds too. Funny I remember buying cough drops and eating the whole box like candy. 

[CatsyCline]

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@Enufstuff wrote:

@CatsyCline   Your mentioning the old squeaky wooden

floorboards, just reminded me of McLellan's, an old 5 and 10,

downtown.

   It had those floors and as soon as you walked in, you smelled popcorn. Right inside , next to the front entrance, was a big popcorn machine. You could buy a tall white paperbag of popcorn that must have been 15 inches long.

 As  preteens and young teens, I think that we did most of our shopping at our three 5 and 10 stores. Woolworth's was the new modern one, the first store in the city with an escalator.

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@Enufstuff    i'm from LI though i lived in MA (mostly) , NH or RI as an adult.    as a kid, in the bigger town we had a McLellan's too, and Woolworth. there was a locally owned dept. store with wood floors and big ceiling fans.  two floors. 

the squeaky floor paper store with candy was in our small village in an old bldg. across the street was a small meat and grocery market. they had a freezer chest with ice cream.  before i could read i always looked forward to the "Leaf" ice cream in little cups. it was a green leaf, for  Breyers ice cream. 

my first friend was the little boy next door.  we would get the ice cream cups when his family - parents and 3 boys - would take us out on Sundays to the wildlife sanctuary.  there were holes rusted out in the floorboards of their old at the time car. so you could see the road flying by beneath your feet. i never said anything to my mom or dad. if they knew about it they probably would have said no you cant go.

[SaveTheTurtles]

We had a Drews variety store in our village. They had a wonderful penny candy counter and my mom always let me pick out  2 things. I would almost always get a carmel nougat log called a penny log. The other piece would be a tootsie pop or chocolate.

[Carmie]

@Enufstuff   I ate so much candy when I was a kid, if sugar could kill,I'd be dead by now.

I used to buy at least five Heath bars every day when I was in high school on my way home from school and eat them that night, in addition to heaven's only know what else including Juicy Fruit and Teaberry chewing gum.  I bought a lot of gum.

I am fortunate that I have great teeth and gum's.  I have all my teeth except my four wisdom teeth.  I have one crown due to a dentist's error. The rest are all mine.

I was lucky.  I should be toothless.