Childhood Flavorites…
Nope, not a typo.
This blog is inspired by the Charm’s Blowpop. Sour Apple. I have one in my mouth right now. I’ve been sucking on these suckers for about a week now. They are, after all, fat free. I picked on up at Nationals…someone had used them for promo…sorry that I can’t tell you who because I ripped the little label off before I unwrapped it, but the flavors instantly transported me back to my childhood.
It’s funny how we all have our favorite candies from childhood. My sister in law loves Milk Duds. Before her diet, she would steal them all out of the kid’s bags at Halloween. Me, I’m going after the $100,000 bars. And don’t get between me and my Hot Tamales.
Not that I have a horrible sweet tooth, but sometimes, it’s about the memories more than about the candies themselves. To say I was raised in a strict household is a huge understatement. We lived in a mostly hispanic/Italian neighborhood, next door to my grandmother’s house. My grandmother lived with one part of her house on a relatively busy road. Behind her was a gas station that my grandfather owned at some point before I was born, but was now owned and operated by some cousin of his that we didn’t talk to. (No, I have no idea why.) Anyway, catty-corner from the gas station was a Little General Store. Did you have Little Generals? It was like a 7-11, only with no gas (which, clearly, was across the street.)
My grandmother used to let my best friend, Denise, and I cross the busy intersection to go the Little General to get banana slushies.
Did you ever have banana slushies? They serve them now at 7-11. They aren’t quite the same.
I think it was the freedom. The fact that my Nanie stood on her porch and watched us walk, watched us cross and timed our stay inside the store, didn’t matter. We were free! Our pockets filled with nickels so we could load up on a big slushie and pick up a pack of Adam’s Sour Orange gum (my favorite!) or those really, really long Pixie Sticks (Denise’s favorite.) No one cared about sugar rushes. No one cared about empty calories. There was mild concern about tooth decay, but we brushed, so hey, no biggie.
When we were at Denise’s grandmother’s house (she lived six blocks away from the big intersection) we did our sweet’s shopping at a bodega smack down in the middle of our neighborhood. Right down her street. We didn’t call it a bodega, but that’s what it was–a small, hispanic-run store that sold bread, milk, some produce, fabulous deli sandwiches, deviled crabs and other latin delicacies…and candy. We called it the corner store. I’m quite certain the proprietors spoke no English, but Denise was bi-lingual, so it wasn’t a problem. We’d still spend our nickels on our favorite sweets while picking up a gallon of milk for her Nene. We were all of 10 years old.
The idea of me letting my daughter walk out of my SIGHT beyond the circle of our cul-de-sac gives me nightmares. It was a different world, then, I guess…but damn, it doesn’t seem like that long ago. And as much as I love my neighborhood now, there isn’t a store anywhere near that the kids can go to to get candy. I think now that’s a shame.
To think this whole blog started with a Blow Pop.
Which, by the way, makes me miss those big, flat lollipops that Charms used to make–the sweet and sour ones. Talk about addictions.
Anyone else like dipping their lollipops in really cold water before sucking on them, or is that just a Florida thing?
So…what were your favorite childhood indulgences? What sweet is it hard to pass up when you see it now, just because it reminds you of days gone by?
Happy Birthday, today, to my Dad. He likes nonpareils. The chocolate ones. And a Hershey’s Candybar with Almonds. The big thick ones you have to break the chunks off of!
Oh I love Pixie Stix, even now. They taste really good in fruity alcoholic drinks
Whatchamacallit bars - they have everything: peanuts, krispies, caramel, and of course the all important chocolate. And Kit Kat bars are an old favorite. Nerds, milk duds, tootsie rolls - they all remind me of Halloween treasures. Yeah, the days before we worried about gaining weight and sending our blood sugar through the roof…
Comment by Stacy ~ — August 8, 2007 @ 6:07 am
Hi Julie
Charms Sour Apple blow pops are my favorite
My husband loves Hot Tamales also. I like Mild Duds also.
We had a candy store called Mary’s we would go to or a plce called Faters.
I can’t believe I can’t think of a single old time favorite candy probably because I haven’t had my
yet
Have a good day
Comment by Cherylann — August 8, 2007 @ 6:58 am
Julie what a wonderful post!
Behind my grandmother’s house there was a little alley and at each end, a store. (One of the owners had a mean old monkey named Walter that would pull my hair, so naturally he got the most business.) Anyway, my favorites were those little wax coke-shaped bottles with the kool-aid like drink in them. Occasionally they’ll have those in Cracker Barrell and it takes me back every time.
Comment by Rhonda Nelson — August 8, 2007 @ 7:03 am
I think I got a sugar high just reading this
. One of my favourites as a kid was to put my Three Muskateer chocolate bar in the freezer. Also I loved the big tacky wax lips.
Comment by Corinne Davies — August 8, 2007 @ 7:08 am
What memories! Our local candy store was Smokey’s. We would get pixie sticks and those little wax bottles with the flavored juice in them. Don’t remember what they’re called. And of course candy cigarettes.
Comment by Michelle — August 8, 2007 @ 7:33 am
Rhonda - just read your post about the little kool-aid bottles - lol. I posted the same thing.
Comment by Michelle — August 8, 2007 @ 7:34 am
Fun dips … they had these different colored sugars and this stick like candy that you’d use to dip and mix flavors. And chocolate covered gummy bears.
Comment by Yolanda — August 8, 2007 @ 7:58 am
Ohhh, one of my favorites was malted milk balls and I don’t remember the name of them but they were different flavored dots lined up 3 or 4 across on a strip of paper that you would pull off a dot and eat as you wanted them. I also enjoyed root beer barrels. Lots of fun memories. Thanks for reminding me of some pretty great times.
Comment by Shari C — August 8, 2007 @ 8:15 am
Ooohhh, Fun Dips, I had forgotten about those! I love those things. And Pop Rocks - I got some a couple years ago just to see if they were the same and they are! And Chewy Sweet Tarts! Yum.
Side note -Hubby gets to go home, home today. We’ve been in a hotel since Saturday but tonight we’ll be in our own bed. And he’s getting antsy so I better go before he decides to start walking!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Julie!
Comment by Jodie — August 8, 2007 @ 8:35 am
Oh, the memories! I too loved the little kool-aid bottles. The pop and burst of flavor when you ate ‘em was so satisfying somehow, LOL. I loved those really big SweetTarts. The chewy ones that were the size of your hand. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. We’d ride our bike up to the “Double-B”, our local shoppette. Also, my grandfather was a candy distributor! Yes, we got treats every time we went to see them. Yum!
As for the dipping lollipops, I do that too. Something about a cold, sweet lollipop just hits the spot…and, I’m in FL now, but grew up in South Carolina. Maybe it’s just so hot in the South that we look for any way to cool down that we can, hahaha! I know it’s been hot lately! It was too hot for us to stay at the beach yesterday. Yikes!
Comment by Becca — August 8, 2007 @ 8:43 am
LOL, Jodie, you beat me to the sweettarts thing. I guess you type faster than me. Ooooh. I forgt about pop rocks. Remember the whole pop rock/coke thing? We used to throw ‘em into a coke just to watch it fizz. No one was ever brave enough to test the stomach exploding myth, though.
Comment by Becca — August 8, 2007 @ 8:46 am
FUN DIPS! LOVED those! :love2:
Happy Birthday, Julie’s Dad! My Dad’s was August 6th. How funny!
Julie, watch out that you don’t rot your teeth with all those blow pops …
And how are they no calories with sugar in it?
Comment by Carly — August 8, 2007 @ 8:59 am
I didn’t say no calories…I said fat free!
Comment by Julie Leto — August 8, 2007 @ 9:12 am
oh my so many fond candys and memorys… i can honestly say that i didnt have to go far.. my dad owned a small town gas station my whole life until a few years ago when health forced retirement… i had candy and pop at my disposal 27-7… i was an only child (well for my dad anyway i have 3 much older half sisters that were out of the house by the time i was around to know) so my dad indulged my candy and pop whims.. i just grabbed it off the shelf, and if i wanted pop i just grabbed the keys and opened up the cooler… my dad always scheduled his work ahead and we always took a 9 oclock break for pepsi and cheetos… and even when my kids would go spend time with them over the summer and go to work with grandpa.. candy highs and cheetoh breaks were still in place…
i miss those days terribly but i know his health was far more important and i have my memorys and so do my girls..
Comment by Jolene — August 8, 2007 @ 9:18 am
Oh Julie, I still love sour green apple blow pops!! Why haven’t we brought them to our weekends yet…well, now we know.
And yes I definitely remember those big Charms lollipops–I liked the cherry. We also used to go to a High’s store, which sounds like the ones you mentioned. Penny candy was actually a nickel by then, but I remember stocking up on Pixie Stix, Charms, Jolly Ranchers (which were long and flat back then and you bought them individually!) Those wax tube things filled with sugar juice. Candy cigarettes (can you imagine that now????) I loved Wacky Wafers and Zero bars and Laffy Taffy and those candies that had a white stick that you’d lick and then stick in the Pixie Stix like powder…
I loved those days of seeing how far my twenty-five cents would go, too. So sad that our kids just don’t have that kind of memory…I can honestly remember being in 1st or 2nd grade, waving goodbye to my Mom, heading down the street to a friend and being gone for eight or nine hours! Can’t even imagine that nowadays.
Comment by Leslie Kelly — August 8, 2007 @ 9:29 am
Today is hubby’s birthday (Happy Birthday, also to Julie’s Dad!), too.
I remember (don’t laugh…but it’s true!) going to our doctor and next door was a family run pharmacy and picking out pop rocks and sweet tarts after an appointment. My grandma used that pharmacy, too, so she’d pick up pop rocks for us, also. They are so awesome. On a weird side note….my grandma also used to give us Hall’s metholatum cough drops (she was a hypochondriac) and tell us it was ‘candy’. Still, when I have a bad cough, I can only have those and it reminds me of my grandma. LOL!
I was, and always will be, a chocolate gal. I always loved decadent chocolate. No Hershey’s for me (and I married someone whose Mom works for Hershey’s, too). Give me Cadbury’s, but now, I’ve gotten into the more expensive ones (don’t even ask)
Comment by katie — August 8, 2007 @ 9:37 am
It still blows my mind that my son can go to birthday parties and pass on the cake. When I was a kid, anything sweet was a HUGE score not to be shunned.
If there are any Oregonians here who are also old enough, my best candy memories were going to Lynch’s drug store on Beaverton Hillsdale Highway, being given some change and heading to the “penny candy” display (circa 1967).
Wax lips, those wax bottles with the 1/4 tsp of syrup in them, Pixi stix (that always collapsed from moisture before you got all the sugar out), candy necklaces, wax fingertips. The novelty stuff always got me. And of course, I can eat the chocolate off a Reeses peanut butter cup before getting to the inside. It’s a talent, I know.
Comment by Lori Borrill — August 8, 2007 @ 9:46 am
OOOH we didn’t have those Littel General stores but I did have a corner store that was may three houses down from where I lived. I would walk over there and get chips and chip dip for me and my mom when the other kids were taking their nap and watch soaps.
I used to love Pixy stix also another fav was Pop rocks? Used to love hearing them crackle in your mouth but what was even more fun was annoying people with the noise.
I also loved Bazooka bubble gum and used to save the little comic that was inside.
Now my favorite candy bar has always been snickers. I LOVE em.
Comment by BadBarb — August 8, 2007 @ 9:52 am
I LOVED Milk Duds. I still do. Also, those bubble gum cigarettes that blew the powdered sugar for smoke. We would ride our bikes with those cigarettes hanging out of our mouths and think we were ultra cool. I don’t know why. No one in my family smoked and I’m a total non-smoker now. But I think it was what Julie mentioned above–freedom. The bubble gum cigs made us feel grown up, mature, free. Ah, the good old days. We actually live in a small town and do have an itty bitty general store next to our post office. The only problem? Everyone lives on quite a bit of land so it’s actually three miles away. They close up at 4:00 pm everyday and are NOT open on Sundays. Little old men actually sit inside and read the paper and watch CNN. I love going in this store to buy–you guessed it–Milk Duds. They also have the gonzo pixie sticks, bubble gum cigarettes and another favorite–penny candy tootsie rolls. Can you believe that anyone sells anything for a penny anymore? They do. My son is old enough to ride his bike, but it’s so far that he and his friends don’t bother. They will ride the four wheeler, however. I guess to them that is freedom. Oh, and with bubble gum cigarettes hanging out of their mouths.
Comment by Kimberly Raye — August 8, 2007 @ 9:55 am
I loved the flat cherry Charms lollie pops. There’s a little gas station on the way to Destin that has them. When we drive to see my parents I always make Science Guy stop there to get some.
Sugar Daddy’s, loved them. I actually pulled out a filling with them once. That was not so good.
Comment by Vicki — August 8, 2007 @ 10:15 am
I loved Razzles — “First it’s a candy, then it’s a gum!” Recently I found some Razzles at Bed, Bath and Beyond and bought them for the kids to try, and they thought they were “gross”. They didn’t like how when you chewed them they crushed into powder before turning into gum. But I STILL love those things!
And then there were ASTRO POPS! My brother and I would race to see who could make the sharpest tip the fastest! My mom always worried that we were going to stab ourselves, or each other, with the super sharp tip.
Comment by Janelle — August 8, 2007 @ 10:20 am
Julie,
Thanks for the memories. :-) I used to love Pixie Stix. And I thought I was the only one who dipped her suckers in cold water! I grew up in Georgia so that was a great way to cool down on a hot, muggy day.
Our cold water was chilled with ice from the “ice house” that we’d chip off the block with an ice pick. My aunt and uncle lived in a really, really small town in S.C.
It’s amazing how as kids we could walk or ride our bikes just about anywhere. Times sure have changed and in that regard not for the better.
As far as a favorite “sweet” I can’t pass by I have to say it’s one of your books! I’m reading “Stripped” at the moment and it is sooo great. I don’t think I could ever write a BLAZE this good!
Have a great day,
Cher
Comment by Cher — August 8, 2007 @ 10:24 am
Wow! This post does just take you right back into the sugar haze of youth
I’d almost forgotten about Razzles! I’ll have to go find some to see if my son would like them–he’s just gotten old enough to get that gum is NOT candy 
And I remember just about all of the “flavorites” mentioned so far–guess I was a candy junkie! (That might explain why I had so many cavities that the dentist pulled my front teeth long before my adult ones were ready to come in… ) Anyway, mmmm!
Comment by Fedora — August 8, 2007 @ 10:45 am
One of my favorites was Sugar Babies. Dom’s was the name of the candy store that was across the street from my school.
Comment by Susan — August 8, 2007 @ 12:56 pm
I’m having so many memories of my little brother and me going to Pat Houston’s(our corner store) on our bikes to get candy. We would actually walk or ride bikes about a mile to go get our candy. I’m pretty sure I was 8 and my brother was about 5(you have to love living in a small town). I still love sour apple and grape blow pops(I also dipped in water or coke as a kid). We also always got fun dip, now n laters, candy cigarettes, bubble gum, and kit-kats. My grandfather gave us candy money everyday and we would go see Mr. Bill and get all the candy we wanted. He even gave us free candy when we would go in for groceries with my mom and dad.
Comment by Liza — August 8, 2007 @ 12:58 pm
Oh such wonderful memories.
We had a little corner store named “Bessies” 1940’s and 50’s
They had the best penny candy and you got so much
for your quarter allowance. I liked red licorice pipes, hard tacks,
squirrel nuts & Mary Janes. Remember the flying saucer wafers with the
little sugar beads inside. Watermelon rainbow strips.
Lik-a-maid powder in envelopes
Wax lips & licorice noses. Candy lipstick oh yeah.
The candy dots on paper strips. Juicyfruit cowboy hats and red hot dollars.
My all time favorite 5c candy bars
were Forever Yours.
They now sell them as milkyway midnights. Mars bars were good too.
I am a huge fan of hersheys dark chocolate. Oh how about Turkish Taffy.
You know you could slam it and it broke into pieces.
Fireballs (my dh’s favorite) and color changing jaw breakers
Okay per usual I got carried away. Thanks for the tasty memories.
Tomorrow you’ll get to see Zoey’s Plotmonkey debut posted by Janelle.
Hubby has decided we are too old for all her energy.
She is so friendly and we love her so much.
Allready she has stolen our hearts. :love2:
We really shouldn’t have spent so much money
so near to retirement but I am very glad we did.
I’m hoping she’ll keep us young.
Comment by jeannie — August 8, 2007 @ 1:01 pm
Clove gum….I love it. I cannot resist good n plenty.
Comment by Phyllis — August 8, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
Razzles!!! And big Sweet Tarts! And Laffy Taffy…..mmm. My uncle used to call the AstroPops “pea-dillies.” No idea why, or how to spell it, but his big joke was “don’t get impaled on a pea-dilly!”
We used to call the stores ice houses when I was a kid, and there was one at the end of the alley by my gma’s house, too!
Comment by Mary — August 8, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
Ummm…Mary, I think there might have been some adult humor in there!
Becca, as a kid I was afraid of the Pop Rock Coke thing too but as an adult I had to try it!
I’m fine! 
Carly, its funny that you told Julie not to rot her teeth because the first thing I thought of when I read her first line was when hubby quit smoking he sucked on Dum-Dums. He’d never had a cavity in his life and he got 3 in the 6 months he sucked those things!
Comment by Jodie — August 8, 2007 @ 1:56 pm
Julie, thanks for the memories! We lived down the street from a little Mom & Pop store, can’t remember the name! My favorites were Heath Bar, they were bigger then!, Nestle’s Crunch, Sugar Daddy’s, at the movie cause it lasted so long & also Big Hunk’s for the same reason. I do remember bubble gum with the cartoon inside the wrapper & candy cigarettes, the wax coke bottles with the liquid inside and to many other things to name! We got to walk down to the store about once a week with a nickle to pick out something. Those were the days, no television we played outside all day with kids in the neighborhood, rode bikes, roamed all over without anyone pushing the panic button. It was a good time to be growing up. :love2:
Comment by Donna M — August 8, 2007 @ 2:41 pm
Good N Plenty, Mary Janes, Peanut Chews, Bit O Honey, Now-a-Laters…
I agree though. I think is the freedom of being able to go to the store around the corner, relatively unconcerned for our safety with our pennies and pile up. A dollar bought one hundred pieces!
Comment by Patricia W — August 8, 2007 @ 3:00 pm
I’ve always been a candy nut. It’s about memories for me too… sometimes… but I also have a REALLY big sweet tooth. I love Blow-Pops too but always hated the sour apple. Just so you know, you aren’t alone in the dipping the lollipop in water thing. Well, I’ll actually use whatever drink is handy (love Mt. Dew) but I do it too.
Comment by Jen — August 8, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
Walnettos—they are almost impossible to find.
Comment by Estella — August 8, 2007 @ 3:58 pm
Pea dilly is a snow pea with a sweet and sour taste.
The pops probably reminded your grand dad of them.
They tend to grow straight up from the bush with a pointed top.
Comment by jeannie — August 8, 2007 @ 4:09 pm
Julie this blog is wonderful!! Memories of going to the “corner deli” came back to me and made me smile…also hungry. My favorite is swedish fish but they have to be red or I don’t like them. How about the rootbeer candy that was shaped like a soda bottle?? Has anyone ever had those or are they a Philly thing? Julie you’re so right that times have changed. I would go to the deli and the people that worked there knew your name and especially knew whose kid you were. Those were the days weren’t they??
Comment by Tina — August 8, 2007 @ 5:35 pm
OMG - what a sugar rush I got just from reading all the posts.
Thanks for the memories!
We had Harry’s store about 3 or 4 houses down the street from my home and they sold all kinds of penny candy (that cost more than a penny). My sister and I would get Sugar Daddies and Babies, Sweet Tarts, Laffy Taffy, Orange Slices and Spearmint Leaves, Fun Dip, Pop Rocks, Blow Pops, Sky Bars (remember those - 4 different flavors in chocolate - vanilla, fudge, caramel & something nutty I didn’t care for), Choco-lite bars, Chunkies (had nuts & raisins in chocolate), etc. We got a lot of fillings in our teeth when we were kids.
In the summertime Harry also sold ice cream treats like banana, blue raspberry & rootbeer popsicles, bomb pops (not called that anymore) - remember they were red, white & blue, the ice cream cones with vanilla ice cream, chocolate coating & nuts (I can’t remember what they were called - nutty something or other). He had a Slush Puppy machine too… Blue raspberry was my favorite.
Comment by Carolyn A. — August 8, 2007 @ 5:53 pm
nutty buddy’s
rootbeer barrels
Comment by jeannie — August 8, 2007 @ 6:15 pm
love them blow pop. all chocatlates candy.
Comment by kim h — August 8, 2007 @ 6:17 pm
My favorite then, and now, is still Bottle Caps. You can still get a BIG box of them at WalMart for 88 cents. And I remember a fizzy-kind of candy, not PopRocks, but it tasted JUST like Coke and fizzed in your mouth when you ate them. Loved another candy that was just like a long, flat lollypop, but no stick. For the life of me, I can’t remember the name. They came in grape, cherry and green apple. And another favorite was the Chunk bars. Just one big square. I pulled a filling out with a Tootsie roll and to this day, I still can’t stand them. Never liked Tootsie Pops either…but a cherry Blow Pop was always near by. And Ring Pops!!!
Comment by Leslie in GA — August 8, 2007 @ 6:33 pm
Oh this is a fun subject.
How about Charleston chews, Kits (little squares of taffy 4 or 5 for a penny)
Marshmallow ice cream cones. Fizzies they were effervescent tablets that
made a drink when dropped in water. What did they call the tiny fluted
dishes and spoon that had like fudge in them. Have a fun night.
Comment by jeannie — August 8, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
Yes, I dunk my pops in water. I love the charm sweet/sour ones best, followed by tootsie pops.
http://www.groovycandies.com/
this is a site for those candies you don’t think you can find any more. Including the above mentioned charms sweet/sour pops.
I love chocolate- I grew up not too far from the Nestle plant. Halloween was always the best time then- my neighbor worked there and would always have the really big bars for my bag.
Skybars are an old favorite of mine too.
Damn, now I have to go see what is in the freezer.
Comment by Heather — August 8, 2007 @ 6:53 pm
Mike and Ike’s. I never pass a box up. Blow Pops are awesome too. My kids and I will get them sometimes and I adore them.
Comment by Patty L — August 8, 2007 @ 6:54 pm
I love my desserts - fruit desserts, ice cream, cheesecake and anything chocolate.
From days of old, I remember Bonamo’s Turkish Taffy Bars shown on Howdy Doody I believe and also loved to get my hands on and I see them every so often now - Tootsie Roll Lollipops. They come in a bunch held together with a rubber band I think. I too like nonparalells - esp. the dark choc. ones.
Happy Bday to your Dad.
Comment by Pat L. — August 8, 2007 @ 7:36 pm
Oooh Julie todays blog was like a trip down memory lane….for me it was always swedish fish.
There was a candy store up the block from us that was owned by two elderly sisters who lived in the apartment behind the store, they made their own hours but if you rang the bell they would come open up….they had every kind of candy but my favorite was always the swedish fish which sold for a penney each!!!
Carly, I just wanted to let you know I recieved my package :present: today and I felt like a child on Christmas morning…thank you, thank you, thank you
Jodie, So glad hubby is coming home today
Hope he’s feeling more and more like himself!!
Comment by Tina Martinesi — August 8, 2007 @ 7:38 pm
What a great post! I used to love and still do ~ good and plenty, swedish fish, marshmellow ice cream cones, laffy taffy and dots.
Of course ~ anything chocolate too.
Comment by Shelley — August 8, 2007 @ 8:10 pm
Some of us definitely grew up in the same age group;
The wax shapes with flavored liquid inside, the Hot Tamales I still look at and so often purchase, the 5c Star bar, the Elephant popcorn with the prize inside, jawbreakers, etc.
Comment by RobynL — August 8, 2007 @ 10:11 pm
Necco Wafers; my all-time favorite
Didn’t see them for years, ran across them on a trip to Oregon, I was hooked again. When I see them today I scarf them up. I have customers that will bring them to me when they find them ‘coz they know I have a hard time finding them in the DFW area, and of course there are Cherry Sours
Comment by Justine Taylor — August 9, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
I remember when candy bars were a dime! My favorites were Red Hots and Root Beer Barrels Now I am telling my age
Comment by Joye — August 10, 2007 @ 1:25 pm
Hey Julie, I read this a couple of days ago, but didn’t get a chance to reply…I couldn’t get it off my mind though…my favorite candy when I was a kid roaming the streets was “Sugar Daddy.” I loved Sugar Babies and Boston Baked Beans and Lemonheads…I don’t even know if they still sell those…I remember when I was growing up in Jamaica West Indies, that I could buy penny candy…I nickel was like a fortune to me…
Comment by Paula R. — August 10, 2007 @ 8:46 pm
I loved your trip down memory lane. We had a 7-11 about 2 blocks from us that we were allowed to go to pick up bread and milk and CANDY. My faves were the long flat watermelon Jolly-Ranchers and Sweet- Tarts. We have a 7-11 abput 6 blocks from us and my 16 year -old has NEVER walked there by himself and we have been in this condo for his forever.
I still like to dunk lollies in cold water and I am from Miami but my husband is from Glendale, Ca and he used to do it as well.
Comment by Sue Mont — August 13, 2007 @ 11:06 pm