Penny Candy - Life in America

[@sharoncrawford3042]

Im 64. I remember my sister and I picking up soda bottles and redeeming them for money. Took money and bought penny candy. Miss that life.

[@elwin38]

I used to do that when i was little in the early-mid 70's. The good ol days.

[@waynefish888]

I myself did the same ,

[@BrendainPA]

We did the same thing (I'm 67). Once we uncovered a hole (it probably had something to do with the sewer LOL) that had a lot of soda bottles inside. That cache of bottles got us penny candy for a few days.

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

Amen.

[@waynestumbo2408]

did the same in the early to mid 70s

[@justinthyme7275]

That corner store with penny candy. There were 10 kids in my family. My grandpa gave us each a dime. We came back with brown bags full of candy. Damn those were good days.

[@blancamiranda7424]

☺️

[@ashleyklotz3762]

I'm a young one.. candy was still a lot cheaper in the 90s than it is now but me and my sisters, we had this 1 neighbor that would let us take turns during the summer just cleaning the trash out of his work truck, he would give us a dollar, that's all we would ask for because the corner store right next to us had those ultra long, like 2ft long popsicles for 50 cents exactly so we could get 2 of them.. it's funny how when you're little and got 10 cents-dollar for something it seemed like so much because we could still get something.. now even getting money from the "tooth fairy" has be like $5 now just so the kid can actually get something

[@susanparker1374]

I also remember doing that. (1966)

[@lawrence1960]

We would go the Ben Franklin 5 & Dime in the neighborhood. Great memories…

[@ethelnewberry9296]

@@lawrence1960: Oh!!! I loved Ben Franklin!!! I didn't know about B F until the early '60's up in the wilds of Wisconsin. I bought the embroidery type pillow cases that you "fancy stitch" in all the flowers, leaves, and trees etc, as a hobby or a "nerve catcher." I still have them resting in my linen closet, because they are to fragile for any more household use. I did some very nice work back in the day and would like to do more, but those cases are no longer produced...I suppose the company has long been closed down by this time. When I went around in search of them last year, the young store ladies, including a manager of Michel's had blanks on their faces." Oh...for the good old days!!! So...I took up some Art and Creative Writing classes instead. Thanks for sharing. Happy Winter

[@fob1xxl]

I'm a child of the 50's. We had an old fashioned corner store that sold all the Penny Candy you'd want. I would buy Necco Wafers, wax lips, wax mustache, candy cigarettes , wax soda bottles. Tootsie Pops, walnettos. Fleer "Double Bubble" Bubble gum. Baseball card bubble gum. Candy bars were 5 cents. They even had a soda fountain and that's where I got my first Cherry Coke ! I was 10. Greatest memories of my life !

[@capt.obvious4487]

I am not trying to be rude but you are the first person that I know that enjoyed Necco Wafers in my book they have to be the worst candy ever made tied with the pink candy that tasted like pepo bismal and cercus penuts.

[@patriciakehaya6711]

I remember these days good times today parents will nit let there kids eat all that candy even in the sixties and seventies i would load a bag up with treats candy bars are expensive today don't buy much sure miss those days

[@libslayer4280]

Me too. So many great memories.

[@janecarolhogue3140]

Wasn't that great?

[@martinpennock9430]

Yep. Mee toooo

[@bparrish517]

The comments are a must read. They take up where video leaves off by highlighting the common experience we all had, no matter where we lived or how poor we were.

[@rascal0175]

Poor is right. I really don’t care to remember those days. Penny candy was a child’s Godsend. I will be 74 next month and as I reflect on what was once my life I still cannot let go of those memories. To this day I cannot let anyone or anything go hungry.

[@bparrish517]

@@rascal0175, Your comment strikes a chord with many of us similar in age. Empathy IS a Godsend and a great gift which He has endowed you, albeit through heartbreaking difficulties. Thank you for using your experiences for good and for transforming them into comfort for others.

[@rascal0175]

@@bparrish517 Poverty is a teacher, hunger is the headmaster. Wants may never be satisfied but needs should be met. At a Christmas dinner in Rangoon, Burma an employee mentioned knowing the waitress, whose 15 year old sister was dying. The girl wanted to be buried with a violin as she loved music. We got her the violin, which cost a pittance. Then I found an Oxford trained cardiac surgeon to repair her heart. The cost was quite moderate and the surgery a complete success. I didn’t know her but I could not let her die. If we have the means to alleviate suffering, hunger or death, why not? A colleague told me “You can’t save the world.” True enough, but we can choose to act (or not) when we personally encounter human need or suffering. I acted because I was once the one in need and someone payed my childhood hospital bill. My own death cannot be too far distant given my age. When we go I think the only thing we take with us is a personal record of what we have said and done. I saw that during a near death experience. Everything we have acquired here is left behind and means nothing. Why tell you all this? I don’t know. Maybe it is because we were all once kids with our noses pressed against the glass on a penny candy display. We all knew want.

[@bparrish517]

@@rascal0175, You ask why you share all this. I don’t know, but I’m grateful you did as what you you share only reminds us that despite all that is deficient about this world, my God is gracious enough to appoint some like you to embody His love for us. I’ve read a passage in the Bible that illustrates that truth in the most succinct way and it’s found in the Gospel of John, chp. 3, vs. 16.

[@ethelnewberry9296]

You are correct about that. By the way, would you be a relative of Gail Parrish of Livonia, Michigan in the late 1930's or early "40's? Posted October 15, 2021.

[@scottmcwave9479]

The little dots of candy that came stuck on a strip of paper! Buy them by the foot!

[@Donna-zc9ii]

Those were made by the same company that made Necco wafers. We all loved them and probably ate some of the paper that came off with the dots😄

[@beingreatcanbackfire]

they still sell these at cracker barrel!

[@jaf8771]

@@Donna-zc9ii That's funny that you should mention that about the "Paper" because that's why I stopped eating the colored " pills."...as I called them.

[@leonard5606]

@@beingreatcanbackfire You might luck out and find them at your favorite Dollar Tree they carry quite a few of the early ones...... :)

[@nans969]

I had a love hate relationship with them. Lol they tasted great, if you can get to eat them without picking off the paper.

[@richardklug822]

I spent summers in the early 50's with my grandparents. Pop-Pop had been in the merchant marine and always smoked a pipe. He used wintergreen Canada Mints to cleanse his breath afterwards. After we got haircuts, we'd walk to a nearby drugstore to buy his tobacco and mints, and a few penny candy pipes made from black licorice for me. I remember feeling quite grown up, like two "old salts", as we walked home quietly sucking on our pipes. I never became a smoker, but have treasured those pretend memories my whole life. RIP, Pop-Pop!

[@generatorjohn4537]

I remember my Grandfather too in the early to mid 1960's. Enjoyed your story about yours.

[@sharonrose9994]

Love your story!

[@RJ-hx5nb]

Went to google to see your Pop-Pop's wintergreen Canada Mints. They still make them. Are they pink ? My Dad used Sen-Sen to coverup his breath.

[@ohmeowzer1]

I loved your memory of your pop pop , thank you for sharing..

[@landru303]

I love that little story

[@brendaryan306]

There was a sugar shortage in the 70's Candy bars got marked up but never came back down. Penny Candy taught us, kids, how to think about what we spent our money on. It was serious deliberations for my 5-year-old soul.

[@xaenon]

Brenda Ryan Indeed so. At 4:47 I know that expression on the old man's face very well. It was exasperation as children would often spend 10-15 minutes picking out their candy, one and two pieces at a time because, as you pointed out, it was matter for serious deliberation for a child.

[@davidedmundson8402]

Nickel candy bars went up to 10 cents. Worst day of my life.

[@matrox]

Probably a fake shortage just like gas. I remember when gasolene and oil prices went up briefly about 10 years ago. the gas came back down but the motor oil for changing oil never came back down. Why? Because they new it would not be as noticeable as gasoline.

[@ritaroad]

@@matrox :( we were innocent

[@Zuxiasunicorn]

@@davidedmundson8402 LOL!!! Same, and I remember the first Halloween when the fun size candy bars arrived, I was sorely disappointed when I only got one full sized bar that year and none from then on. That was about mid to late '60's.

[@sharonh2991]

When I was around 3 years old in the early 60s my mom’s aunt worked in a candy store in NY. It was old even back then and had well worn wood floors and every kind of candy imaginable. Any time we went in she’d tell me to pick out anything I wanted. These days, any time I pass an old shop with wooden floors I have to stop in just to take in the aroma. I love the smell of those old stores.

[@sharoncrawford7192]

Our candy store was like that. But I was born in the mid 50s, so my time buy penny candy was in the 60s. We would walk home from school and if we had some money we would go in and get some candy. Sometimes I'd get a bottle of Pepsi and a bag of potato chips.

[@Mxbarry]

When I was a kid growing up in Baltimore during the '50s and '60s I'd cash in soda bottles for my penny candy at the local High's Ice Cream store. A wagon full of bottles at 2 cents deposit each would buy enough candy to last well over a week. Red Hot Dollars, Tootsie rolls, Mary Janes, Squirrel Nut Zippers, licorice, Pixie Stix, candy dots on paper, and more! In later years, I worked at that High's Store selling penny candy to the kids. No gloves either. We picked the candy up with our bare hands. It took a lot of patience to stand there while they picked out what they wanted. "Gimme one of those, and two of those, and one of those...". I felt sorry for the owner who waited on me when I was little. LOL!

[@sharoncrawford3042]

Thats what my sister and I did. The soda bottles were glass. We would go all over the neighborhoods looking for them, take them to what we called, The little store and cash them in. Took the money and bought candy of course. So much fun. Kids dont seem to have the simple pleasures of life anymore. That was early 60s. How I miss those days.

[@matrox]

@@sharoncrawford3042 Yeh...now they are No Deposit..No Return.

[@PrimeDirective101]

We had the same setup. The owner of the place couldn't stand kids and every day after school he would go through dozens of kids picking out their candy piece by piece. Oh, Archie! we loved him anyway. I'll never forget him.

[@movinngroovin2104]

We did too as kids we had a wagon and would go door to door.

[@mabella3437]

OMG such a GREAT STORY!!

[@robertbraden3889]

In 1968 I was walking to the store and a car dumped their ash tray out the window as it went by and there was a lot of change mixed in those butts and it scattered all over the road, I searched the roadside and found 87 cents, I bought all 2 for a penny candies like bazooka bubble gum, red vines, tootsie rolls, and root beer barrels. I was a poor barefoot kid and it was one of the most memorial days of my childhood!

[@sharonrose9994]

Awesome l!!

[@oceanlover3530]

Great story! ✌🏻👍🏻✌🏻

[@bettymiller1929]

Great story.... thx

[@doloresdrury8018]

I could only imagine the excitement in your belly! That must have been one of the happiest days of your life!!!

[@robertbraden3889]

@@doloresdrury8018 Yes it was! I went home with 174 pieces of candy and Bazooka Joe bubble gum and shared it with my 5 brothers and sisters, it was a good day for everyone! My Mom had to stash some away so we wouldn't get sick, lol. : )

[@johnallen2771]

I had a paper route when I was 10 in 1960 so I always had a pocketful of pennies and nickels. I'd stop at the store to buy some candy on my way home after my route. My favorites were the wax bottles and figures that had a little shot of colored sugar water in the middle which you sucked out. Then you could chew the wax for a little while until you spit it out. All the bubble gum, licorice and plain, unmarked candy, like a piece of butterscotch round, was a penny. The chocolate bars were a nickel and they were a lot bigger and longer back then. Of course I used to collect baseball cards and they always had a big piece of bubble gum in them. It's a wonder I have any teeth left at all.

[@miriambucholtz9315]

There were 5 little wax bottles in a set for 5 cents. They were called Nik-l-Nips, if I remember correctly.

[@johnallen2771]

@@miriambucholtz9315 Yes, they were different colors. Then they started making them in the shape of different animals and stuff later on. That was 60 years ago for me.

[@brewcrew5854]

when i was little the neighbor handed out wax lips/mustaces/ and teeth at halloween it is something i can smell and taste in my mind and it is not really appetizing do u recall any such items .this was mid 70s

[@johnallen2771]

@@brewcrew5854 Oh, yes. They had kind of a powdered sugar taste. Loved those. You could chew on that wax for hours.

[@machintelligence]

You could follow a trail of those wax bottles that had melted into the concrete sidewalk back to the store that sold the candy. You knew you were getting close when they became more frequent. At least they didn't stick to your shoes like discarded used bubble gum.

[@luisreyes1963]

The day the candy store disappeared was a sign of the nation's decline. 🍬

[@eddiemunster4094]

The major decline was when prayer and the ten commandments were abolished from school in the early 60's!

[@bobwhite2609]

@@eddiemunster4094 Yes,Then crap rap music was introduced in the government brainwash public school system.Is this a Christian nation? No.If it was half of what you see would not be out there.It is that simple.

[@calbob750]

The decline started when the USofA became all about ME and not about US.

[@anonymous_idontreplylmaous72]

You dumbasses are missing the obvious joke

[@bobwhite2609]

@@calbob750 I agree.And I feel that since 99.99999999999999999999999% of people are all about themselves. I decided to join them.If you can not beat them then join them is my motto.I am in my mid 50s I am fed up with people.The crap that I been through in life concerning people.I am done.

[@kerrytakashi12]

I loved Woolworth's penny candy section. It was child heaven.

[@xaenon]

I loved Woolworth when I was growing up. As a kid, of course I loved the candy and comic books and baseball cards.

[@elwin38]

I also loved Woolworth's candy section. Their food court smelled good too.

[@freedomranch6094]

Best banana splits at the one in LA, Ca

[@x0xTHLover4Lifex0x]

If you were a white child maybe

[@maggiefinnessy-cook8753]

I liked the necklace with pastel colored beads on an elastic string.

[@sebastianponce9658]

I watch these videos right before I go to bed to get a good night's sleep 😴. I can have good memories and hopefully dream about them. My mom used to take me out shopping when I was a kid and she would buy me a cheese burger and coke at woolworths . They were my favorite cheese burgers in the world

[@xaenon]

I miss Woolworth's lunch counter. It was good (though simple) food, a generous portion, and priced very reasonably. And they had the best damned french fries I ever tasted. Hell, I miss Woolworth's, period.

[@ethelnewberry9296]

@@normandparent7160: Oh Norman!!! Relax...damn it!!!

[@janyceparks8326]

Oh how I loved penny candy. I walked my kids to the small neighborhood store in the evenings and bought a small bag. Sometimes we would then go to the school playground for awhile. Days were so much more simpler, and so much more fun.

[@thetrumpnewsnetwork7503]

Necco Wafers ... sometimes I by a roll even today to take a little trip down memory lane. Penny candies, 10 cent sodas, 50 cent matchbox cars in a cardboard box ... the world has changed so much and sadly not for the better.

[@ethelnewberry9296]

Trump News Network: Teaberry Gum, Black Jack Gum were my favorites. All gum was 5 cents a pack, 1 cent Tootsie Rolls, 5 cent Hershey Bars, Milky Way Bars; $.29 cents for a 12 ct Box of Kotex kept in the back room of the small Dime Store that you had to "whisper" to the salt and pepper haired lady that you needed a box, and she would say, "wait here." 5/6 minutes later she would come back with a box all neatly wrapped up in brown wrapping paper with Scotch Tape strategically placed exactly where it should go, and then put it in a brown paper bag, and she would say, "twenty-nine cents please." Coins were handed over, and I would silently walk out the door to go home so embarrassed because I just knew inside me that people knew I was being "visited by Mrs. Monthly." Things are so drastically different today than in 1948 when my "Lady Hood" started.

[@eckankar7756]

Don't forget the 10¢ comic book

[@Zuxiasunicorn]

@@ethelnewberry9296 My fav was the clove gum.

[@ethelnewberry9296]

@@Zuxiasunicorn: Yup!!! I liked that too. Isn't this fun!!!

[@penname40]

As an elementary student in the mid to late 60's, I remember saving milk money from lunch and taking the nickel across the street with dozens of other kids and picking out penny candies from the glass front case and carrying the small brown bag of goodies home.... peanut butter bars, ike & mikes, banana bikes, hot tamales.... ah, the good old days.

[@donaldwycoff4154]

I remember the wax harmonica filled with cherry juice. the "cigarettes" that if you blew on it, a little cloud of "smoke" would come off it, but otherwise it was bubble gum shaped like cigarettes. Cinnamon toothpicks, red hots, milk duds; and I loved the Necco Wafers. Candy corn has to be in the list. And I remember they also sold Royal Crown sodie pop, to wash it all down. I lost my sweet tooth about the age of 20, but that didn't stop me enjoying your video.

[@jenniferdjaslowskj993]

funny you should mention the candy "cigarettes"!!! can you imagine! Nothing like seeing a 5 or 6 year old pretending to smoke...OMG! ahh, I remember it well and it was no big deal and children thought it was fun, pretending to be a grown up (yikes)..I guess that where some bad habits started, too....(I wonder whose marketing idea THAT was?)

[@frandistabile4723]

When I lived in the Bronx, I walked down the Avenue one day with one of the cigarettes blowing the smoke out like I was so cool and two older ladies yelled at me and pulled it out of my mouth. They must have felt pretty foolish. Lol

[@dmotta2811]

I remember all of those

[@mikeywestside8509]

Innocent fun ruined by political correctness

[@fob1xxl]

I loved those cigarettes! I thought I was so cool !

[@petezaria9409]

I'm a 65 year old Canadian, our penny candy differed to a degree, but my favourite was "Paper Dots", colourful hard icing dots attached to a strip of what looked to be adding machine paper. I still find them once in awhile and the moment I have one, I'm nine years old again.

[@karenryder6317]

I never understood why so many kids liked those paper dots. I thought they were tasteless.

[@ethelnewberry9296]

Pete Zaria: Sweet story full of beautiful memories.

[@summerrose4286]

They were my brother's favorite, too, along with tootsie rolls. He loved getting these two candies on Halloween.

[@moosebat47]

Remember those too here in Ohio in the early 60s!

[@bighuge1060]

@@karenryder6317 I think a memory had to be attached to them. As I wrote previously, the kids used to get these after riding the mobile ride in Queens, NY in the mid 1960s. They were just food-colored sugar dots but nostalgia is a great thing.

[@jlc55army]

I remember the smell of the penny candy section. Us kids would buy shoe string licorice, bulls eyes, baseball cards with gum in the pack, Boston baked beans, and my favorite Atomic Fireballs.

[@Leavingthisworld]

Atomic fireballs. They were made in my hometown, Forest Park Illinois by Ferrara Pan Candy Company.

[@willgaukler8979]

... so that’s when I started liking Boston Baked Beans ...

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

Oh Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhh!

[@jaf8771]

I lived in the city and in school I would buy fireballs for all the farming kids who couldn't get to a store....they were bused. Would give them to the kids the next day in school. Had large orders too... but, I felt sorry for them being so far from a market.

[@randompage429]

Yes! Boston baked beans! I forgot about those! Atomic fire balls were also a favorite!

[@annb1]

Loved the pixie sticks with colorful paper wrappers.....pure sugar! I also remember the big plastic ones.

[@arugulaempire8779]

They were the best.

[@sharonrose9994]

My daughter and me love pixie sticks, we get a good sized bag at the Dollar Tree.

[@xaenon]

The Woolworth's near me sold something called Bub's Daddy. It was bubble gum, but it was a thick stick of it, about 1/2" around, and about 12" long. It came in various flavors - regular bubble gum, grape, cherry, and green apple IIRC. Haven't seen one of those in decades....

[@mariem.1398]

yup when i was a kid i put some in chewing Bubble gum & chew it

[@barbarachippel3142]

They still have them at the Dollar Tree but they aren’t a penny anymore! 😢

[@nucktabayoyon1619]

I love these old videos. Seeing what my grandmother ate as a kid. Priceless.

[@janecarolhogue3140]

Those were wonderful times .spend week with grandparents. Nana would give me a few coins walk down railroad to the little general store with girl next door. Great memories

[@charlesvandenburgh5295]

I remember the owner of the local pharmacy used to let us read the recent Sgt. Rock comic book from the comic book rack while sucking on a Tootsie Roll Pop, a Sugar Daddy, or a Fire Ball. Mary Janes and Squirrel Nuts were good but would probably pull out a tooth filling today. I'm old enough to remember the wax soda bottles too.

[@suechun8871]

The store was on the corner across the street and on our way we would pick up glass bottles on the side of the road and we would have enough to treat ourselves...without asking Mom for any money.

[@mrs.g.9816]

That's what I did 55+ years ago!

[@ledhceb]

A history of the Brachs candy company would be interesting

[@iswc27]

So would a history of Schrafft's.

[@markw208]

Agreed. In Texas most grocery stores had a stand alone island of Brach’s individually wrapped, sold by the pound. But those just weren’t the same as the old candies

[@marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736]

@@markw208 Brach's is now owned by a Hispanic foods co.

[@MsGail61]

@@markw208 I used to drop a quarter in the box for 3 pieces in Publix in Florida, it seems well into the 2000s. I can’t remember when those displays disappeared.

[@syxepop]

@@marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736 - nope. If you've Wiki'd you found out today's Brach candy owners are the Italian confectionery group FERRERO (under their Ferrara Candy banner), same ones who've recently bought the confectionery business of Nestlé in US, along with the Baby Ruth and Butterfinger chocolate bar brands.

[@ddoyle11]

Maple walnut goodies at Montgomery wards were the best! I also liked their orange slices and circus peanuts. Good memories.

[@scottmcwave9479]

orange slices were killer!

[@marycarson2923]

To this day every time I see circus peanuts I have to buy them,my aunt used to give me some of hers when I was five. Good memories!

[@robedmund9948]

@@scottmcwave9479 Still are today!

[@ethelnewberry9296]

DDoyle11: I used to take my 7 year old daughter on walks over the railroad tracks and end up at Wards. (Monkey Wards as some used to call it) The minute you came in the door the aroma of Pistachio Nuts would wrap around you and lead to directly to the candy and nut counter. We would watch the Pistachio's being cooked in huge stainless steel vats. When they were cooked, the lady would tip them out onto a huge "S S" tray to cool. I would buy $.50 worth divided into two white bags. (The amount in the bags was large for the price paid.) One for her and one for me for our walk back home. They were so delicious while they were still warm. We talked about those walks to Wards about a week before she suddenly died from Covid. My darling girl was only 65 when she left me. She refused to get the vaccine shot even though I practically begged her. I miss her so much. Funny how candy and nuts can awaken memories from long ago...and then be carried to the present day. And yes, we also enjoyed the Walnut goodies. Thanks for your comment about Wards. So much to remember.

[@glennso47]

Horehound candy I hope I spelled it right.

[@deeguenveur9987]

Back in the day when candy was made with real sugar and coke in the bottles too! Now we have High Fructose in just about every product.....sad!! My dad owned a candy vending machine company and I remember driving with my parents and siblings downtown Los Angeles and picking up all the boxes of different candies to fill the penny machine with...we would even ride along with dad on his candy route and help him empty the money out of machines, clean and refill them...it was an all day adventure helping him...naturally we got rewarded with candy....lol...great times....

[@bellalegosi7850]

Soda tastesd better back then in the glass bottles

[@deeguenveur9987]

@Michael Klouser yes, we usually buy the Mexican made coke in glass bottles....much better than the canned coke....there is a store in Highland Park, called Galcos and they carry all the original sodas from the original recipes.....very cool place. They even carry all the old candy too. Abba zabba, rolos, etc.....

[@deeguenveur9987]

Yes, Galcos is our go to store for all the original sodas and candy....

[@sharoncrawford7192]

Thats why another of people are so fat. When I grew up you didn't hardly ever see a fat kid.

[@vickiladu6755]

And sucralose in everything!

[@dbrew2u]

I would happily trade all of my Computers and Cell Phone to be able to return to those innocent times . They were indeed better days than we have now sadly .

[@corniss]

Me too

[@valeriegriner5644]

Me, too, Dave! I miss those innocent times of penny candy and neighborhood bike rides. We played outside until dark...no worries back then.

[@sharoncrawford7192]

Same. I'm 64.

[@sherree4444]

Me too!!!! Absolutely!!!! The world we live in today is so very sad.

[@donathon7303]

To me it's kinda yes and no.... but I will say that I'm glad I was born back then and able to enjoy a time that for better or worse will never exist again.... just my opinion

[@abrahamnutrition]

I owned a candy store for about 5 years very similar to these. Old-fashioned style. Best years of my life.

[@mattfleischman176]

I guess the 2 people who did the thumbs down,never experienced penny candies. I did just a little in the late 70s,early 80s.

[@TheEvie202]

me too:) The lipsticks were a nickel and Jolly Rancher stix were a dime!

[@kirabrewer8658]

penny candies were around when I was kid. and i am 30 years old. gas station marathon in laurium Michigan had penny candies. just the tooties rolls and other fruit flavors.

[@dandylionriver]

We had an old timey penny candy store by our house back in the 60’s and 70’s. I sure do miss those days.. 🥺❤️

[@DeeJayRI]

Hi Recollection Road, I'm not sure if this is the place to make my response, but I wasn't sure where else I could comment. I have to tell you how very important all of your videos are to me. Like many people, I find myself suffering extreme anxiety from dealing with Covid-19, in part related to my job as an event manager at a waterfront banquet venue. Trying to guide wedding couples and others through the ever changing myriad of state mandated rules and restrictions that apply to catered social events has been nothing less than impossible and stressful. I haven't slept through the night in probably over 6 months. I find myself watching KZbin videos at 2 or 3 in the morning, just trying to lessen my anxiety and depression, so I can fall back to sleep, which is how I came across your videos. I'm 61, so many of your videos hit home, as I grew up experiencing them. The music and especially the narration, when you add that (great narrating voice), are very calming and relaxing and takes me to a more peaceful place and time in my life. The pacing with narration spaced out between the photos with your background music is very soothing. I would not be lying if I said you have taken me from a very dark place I didn't want to be in to a much peaceful relaxed place. Please keep up the great work. You would never realize this if I didn't say it, but I'm going to, you may have very well saved a life, my life. Keep up the great work!

[@mabella3437]

that was beautiful! I felt down tonight and not even my 80 s music could bring me up! however, your video did!! GOD BLESS YOU FOR CARING & SHARING!! Life is precious and God s greatest gift is the gift of life!! Blessed new year to all whom are watching!!

[@summerrose4286]

You are among friends here.

[@mikki3961]

Glad you are here.

[@TheOzthewiz]

My favorites were: "Mary Janes" and "Bazooka gum". The Bazooka gum would be wrapped with a comic book style glossy paper that had a short story.

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

Amen and lets have a moment of silence for the manufacture of the Reverent Bazooka Bubble Gum.

[@radioguy1620]

Bazooka Joe If i remember correctly

[@Donna-zc9ii]

Does anybody remember "Swell" bubblegum? It never gets mentioned anywhere, maybe I'm dreaming😄

[@kbunky69]

Tootsie Roll. Candy Cigarettes, gum drops, double bubble were part of my favorites . Yummy

[@charles-y2z6c]

Loved Candy Cigarettes, always tried to get the powder to blow smoke. Never smoked tobacco so all the hype about it was training children to smoke had no effect on me.

[@carolynpilcher3789]

Lord I remember when I could go to the store and get candy for a penny man those were the days, I could take a dime and get a bag full of candy.

[@harrybriscoe7948]

With 35 cents you could get a soda to Also my dad was making under $10,000 a year and had a mortgage and new cars, All relative

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

Better Days..............

[@onwards4944]

I remember picking up a pop bottle biking 3 miles to the store for penny candy. I asked for a bag when I got my one bottle worth of Squirrel Nuts. Used the bag to pick wild strawberries on the way home. Hulled them and put them in a bowl with milk for my younger brother. Long ago and far away.

[@gerristephenson7277]

This brought back so may memories. I love the comments from people who had all the same experiences and memories!

[@garytaylor4345]

I remember riding my Sting Ray bike up to the “little store” where they sold all kinds of candy

[@RJ-hx5nb]

Same, little drug store up the street on the corner. They also redeemed glass bottles for 2 cents ~~~~~

[@dondressel452]

Wish I still had my Sting Ray 🚴

[@lawnmowerman2199]

Same story here. Lived in a little town and our neighborhood was about a 10min ride on our bikes to "Mr. Brownies" drugstore. A true old fashioned drugstore complete with a simple rack for every department! Of course the best two were the candy counter and the toy rack with the sporting goods rack coming in with a very close third. You could just walk across the street to the hardware stor and get your bike license.

[@sharoncrawford7192]

Thats what we called our store, the little store.

[@cmkilcullen8176]

Yeah! Sting Ray bikes were the best!

[@alansenzaki4148]

Your best video yet!!!...i forgot this until now. I grew up in the fifties. These are fond memories.

[@billbucher3177]

Oh my gosh, this video just took me back some 54 years ago. I am 64 years old, I strongly remember taking a quarter to the penny candy store in the south side of Chicago. As kids we would pick out one piece of candy at at time, and the lady behind the counter would place it in the little brown bag.... Thank you so much for reviving this memory! !!!! She had so much patience. Thank You for the memory! :)

[@arugulaempire8779]

Woolworth's in my area had penny candy. It was sold be the piece. When i was a kid, my brother and our friend would go to the counter and spent soooo much time carefully making our selections, the teenagers that worked the counter got inpatient. They thought they were so cool. Sometimes the old ladies got impatient too. But we did not care. We had to make our money go for the best penny candy they had so we took our time. Candy cigarettes, wafer flying saucers, marshmallow ice cream cones and pixie sticks were a favorite.

[@kerrytakashi12]

Oh Thank you for your comment. In the 70s the Woolworth's that my family visited had a penny candy section near the diner area. I always went for Bazooka gum and candy cigarettes.

[@bellalegosi7850]

I forgot about the marshmallow ice cream cones . Love those

[@lynn6221]

Omgoodness I forgot about the marshmallow ice cream cones. Lol

[@tammymtampa]

Gosh the pic of the little girl looks so much like me !! I look back at those 1960s pics of mine and think OMG with the SHORT BANGS ! LOL

[@janecarolhogue3140]

Me too

[@anonymous_idontreplylmaous72]

Ikr

[@karenryder6317]

If you watched season one of "Bridgerton" recently, you'll see they gave these bangs to the heroine, Daphne. The inspiration was one of Audrey Hepburn's looks!

[@maxbrown8044]

I am 18 years old. I am very interested in seeing many older folks share their experiences of the past -- long before I was born. It is interesting to think how things different must have been, and how different things are bound to be by the time I am a much older man.

[@mannyj4751]

I guess it's all relevant because people could raise a family for less than $ 50.00 a week back in the 50' s. Rent was maybe $ 30 a month. Gasoline was 19 ¢ to 25 ¢ a gallon. We went to the movie theater for a quarter This week I paid $4.09 a gallon for regular gas!

[@ambassadorforjesuschrist5933]

Max, I am impressed with your statement! Great that you have an interest in history! May the Lord Jesus Christ bless you with knowing HIM... R o m a n s 1 0 : 9 - 1 3 G T Y D O T O R G

[@sharoncrawford7192]

Im 64, and yes everything was so much better back in the 50s and 60s. I feel sorry for kids today.

[@maxbrown8044]

@@sharoncrawford7192 Yeah, I can see how you feel that way. It's so hard for folks my age to really see your perspective because obviously we didn't live through your time. Also, the modern day is something we're fairly used to; I wonder how we would perceive the 1950s if we were to be transported back to those times for a bit. I also wonder if I will look back at the 2010s as a relative ideal by the time I am possibly living through the 2060s. It's curious how the passage of time relates to our own unique perspectives.

[@jaykaiser1754]

@@sharoncrawford7192 I'm sorry you feel that way, but being that your generation has been adults for over 4 decades, doesn't the world we live in now make you more responsible of it than the young people? The 50s and 60s are the result of your parents and grandparents generations, are they not?

[@terrykrall]

At Christmas, my grandmother placed white bags of candy for me and my brothers on the stair steps that went upstairs. The upstairs was kept cool because it was rarely used and the chocolate wouldn’t melt like it would in the main part of the house with us kids and parents and grandparents in it. The bags were white with a little celophane window so you could see what was inside, they came from a drug store where you could buy a few pieces or a pound or more. She always got these chocolate triangles which were basically like butterfingers but they were triangular in shape. I remember Grandma packed a lunch for me when we once went to Louisville with Grandpa to sell tobacco, she put Bullseye Goetze’s Caramel Cremes in my lunch bag. I STILL BUY THEM! My older brother got chocolate covered peanuts. My other grandmother had hard candy, the ribbon candy at Christmas which was fun to look at too. Grandpa liked Circus Peanuts, the orange marshmallo-ish candy.

[@terrykrall]

@Joe Nickell Vevay, Indiana. Grandpa took us to Louisville only one time to sell part of a crop of burley tobacco. I think we got up at 4AM. Got in his Beige 66 Chevy Pick-up (no radio in it) and he had a trailer attached with tobacco on the trailer. When the buyers came to us in the warehouse, it took just seconds and it was sold.

[@Zuxiasunicorn]

Goetz's is the best!

[@summerrose4286]

Loved this story; thanks for sharing it! And I love Goetz's. I still buy them as well.

[@Donna-zc9ii]

@@Zuxiasunicorn Yes, aren't they the company that makes cow tails? OMG, They ate do good.

[@martinpennock9430]

I can remember going to the corner drug store and getting those malted milk eggs 5 for a penny. 5 cents and you had yourself a real good tummy ache! Those were the days.

[@dinerdashing]

I remember back in the early 70s when I was about ten, I would go to my small town's 7/11 store, grab a small brown bag, and buy myself a _bagful_ of penny candy. I'm so glad I got to be a part of that time in America when penny candy still existed. Wonderful decade, wonderful memories. Be well and stay safe everybody.

[@generatorjohn4537]

I remember fire balls were a big deal in 5th grade!

[@kimbishop4734]

More great memories. My wife was lucky enough to have a mom who would let her and her older sister walk the 4 or 5 blocks to the corner store. They'd come back with their penny candy and sell it to the other kids in the neighborhood for 2 cents. And Woolworths ... I loved that store. I remember my mom treating me to lunch at their counter. I think it was the first time I had food mom didn't make. I'm 67 now and I'd give anything to go back to those days. We've lost so much.

[@matrox]

Who remembers when big box department stores had their own candy section, usually a large kiosk in the middle of the store where they sold all types of candy and they would put it in bags. Mostly adults were doing the buying for their kids.

[@tomjoad6270]

I remember when I was a kid there was a gas station that Was on the way home from school !!! They had a candy section !!! My favorites were a bubble gum called green hornet, it was apple flavored, and milky way Bars !!! M&Ms and sugar daddies !!!! The good old days when a penny, a nickel, a Dime would actually buy something !!! 💯🇺🇸🦅🗽💖👍

[@ethelnewberry9296]

@Ralph Goober: So were the Quarters, Half Dollar coins, Nickles, and of course, the Silver Dollar.

[@paulht3251]

This brought a tear to my eyes me and my two brothers would go to our corner store once a week with ten cents and get a bag of candy 😎ahh the good old days

[@herdfan697278]

My childhood memories will Rest In Peace when I do. They will lie in state with a whole library of stories and life experiences!

[@ta11guy63]

This vid was such a great reminder of my grade school youth. I walked to school everyday and would stop at Joe's Hardware with friends at Taft and Electric Ave at least a couple times a week on way home. The scene at 4:50 is sooo reminiscent of look on Joe's face with a small brown bag in hand as we took time from his other duties staring at the candy and eventually pointing and saying "one of dem", then, after perusing the supply say"one of dose" which he would put in bag. He eventually would start grabbing one and say "one of dese"? to move us along and we would just nod agreement. Paying Joe as much as 10¢ and leaving happily with our small brown bag of sugary delights.

[@Kim-mz8co]

Geez. I didn't realize these videos would mean so much to me. My favorite penny candy from the corner store owned by Mabel across from my elementary school were sour cherries. Watching this video I can remember the tastes, smells, and sounds of the store. My first job was down the street at a barbershop as a shoe shine boy. One of my responsibilities was keeping the drawers of the barbers supplied with Bazooka Bubble Gum for their young customers. I chewed more than my fair share their too! Thanks for the upload!

[@Stephanie-vn6ir]

My favorite Penny Candy as a child were the flying saucers and the candy cigarettes! Yum

[@Stephanie-vn6ir]

@Ralph Goober yup that was them.♥

[@barbarachippel3142]

They still have them but not for a penny!

[@leoclyde1861]

This made me remeber my father. thank you. he told fond stories about the genreal store and buying candy from barrels.

[@dwill123]

In 1962 Penny Candy was a kids first introduction into economics. Budgeting a 25 cents weekly allowance or walking the neighborhood looking for empty soda bottles to return to the grocery store. Or the luck of the day finding a nickel on the street. Next stop the Penny Candy store. 5 cents worth of candy back then could kill your appetite for dinner. I miss those days.

[@chrispaul7849]

gawd did I love my penny candy in the sixties... bazooka, double bubble, licorice, fireballs, pixie stix. Not much I didnt lust after :) ... thanks for your channel, it's such a time machine back to when life was truly innocent for a kid.

[@Nezmund]

Back in the sixties in Des Plaines, Il. there was Wells Food Store, a small market, dedicated to selling penny candy to us kids on the way home from school. Carl Wells was the store owners son. He was a grade ahead of me. We thought his dad had the best job ever. My favorite candy I guess were the red cinammon coins. They were red,with a jujube like texture, about as big as a 50 cent piece and tasted like hot tamales. I also loved Good n' Plenty and just about anyting except malted milk balls. Anyone familiar with Des Plains; Wells Food Store was located on the southwest corner of Oakton Street and Webster Lane. It's been well over 50 years ago, but pretty sure that was the exact location.

[@toddjensen8570]

Oh the good ol days...how nice it would be to go back!!

[@reglook1]

Remember (anyone) In the grocery store a huge display of Brocks candy, with white paper bags? I would get a huge handful of carmels and cream carmels all the time. Then my Mom said those are not free! What a downer.

[@gerrydixon619]

Ah the memories! I am from the UK born in 1950, but like my cousins here in the US, I have fond memories of childhood candies (we call them sweets). We had the good old Woolworths (affectionately called Woolies) and I remember the Pick and Mix so well. Also, we loved Black Jacks, Tom Thumb drops, coconute mushrooms, Jamboree bags, Liquorice dip sticks, Pineapple and Lemon drops that would take the skin off the roof of your mouth and Wagon Wheels. Gone are the days when children appreciated the weekly supply of goodies. My dad would come home on a Friday night with a slab of toffee, no wonder we all ended up with tooth fillings, but the excitement when he pulled out that paper bag was wonderful. We were poor but appreciated the little gifts along the way.

[@dayzemae9015]

I have pulled out many a filling and caps with tootsie rolls.💕 just loved them.

[@sheryljones5207]

This brings some good memories back. Wish it could have continue

[@annettemalaski1967]

Five Below still offers "Penny candy" not for a penny but close. They have cut down on the varieties but it is still around.

[@mabella3437]

Also CVS sell my beloved FLYING SAUCES and other penny candies which are NOT a penny of course!

[@mabella3437]

I am 60 years old. I could remember riding our bike or just walking to a corner store to purchase penny candies with our allowance with my siblings. My first favorite was the FLYING SAUCES later known as the sattilites dishes!! Decades later I purchased a whole carton and ate the whole thing within a few hours and i weigh only 120 pounds!! It was also about THE MEMORIES!! Thank you for the memories and blessed new year!!

[@lesdabney2144]

Please do Woolworth's. Your videos are great! Always a walk down memory lane. Thanks for them!

[@randompage429]

I would spend summers with my grandparents and my “papa” would take us around the corner to a little shop for candy. My favorite were the cherry sours!

[@Sakja]

In my neighborhood in the 50s, there was a little market that sold penny candy, also a drugstore. One man sold penny candy in his basement for kids on their way to school. I'm sure there were others. I really enjoyed Squirrel Nut Zippers, Boston Baked Beans and Dots. I used to really like Tootsie Rolls back then.

[@jarrodbarkley9061]

In his basement???!!!! 😬

[@Sakja]

@Robin There have always been freaks but he was okay.

[@gulfgypsy]

Bit-O-Honey, Tootsie Rolls, jellied orange slices, little wax bottles filled with a sugary syrup, Pixie Stix, wax lips, bubble gum. A nickle bought a lot of treats -- Ten cents and you felt like you were on top of the world. I remember the Woolworth's candy aisle!! In fact I recall back into the 80's, the commissary on base still had bins of 'you scoop' wrapped candies. They were much more expensive that in the 60's, but still a treat. I'd generally get a scoop every other time when I did our shopping. Emptying the bag into an old cut glass bowl I'd had forever. Nice for a little sweet treat after dinner.

[@hzlrobin3656]

Being a kid back then was great and my favorite candy was and still is licorice.

[@deedeebrecca8645]

For those of you born in the 1940's/1950's and leave your stories in the comment section on these videos,you are greatly appreciated.

[@sharoncrawford7192]

Born in 1956. My experience with the store was mostly in the 60s. I was to little to walk to the store until into the early 60s. My sister was 2 yrs older and always went with me. Usually a couple of our friends in the neighborhood too.

[@janismacolley2395]

My Grampa started a grocery store in his garage in Hilliard IL when I was young and when we'd come into town for a visit you better believe he made sure to give me and my big brother a small paper sack so we could fill it up with candy! He was such a wonderful guy and I miss those days!!

[@annek1226]

We always liked the candies that were two for a penny and a few were even a better buy! We always had to watch and make sure the neighborhood bullies weren’t around because they would take our bags of candy treasures away from us when we left the store! They enjoyed making us cry! My favorite was the candy dots on the paper strips!

[@sharoncrawford7192]

Remember the candle necklaces and bracelets.

[@bettymiller1929]

I remember as a kid going to this little old store and getting penny candy... it was so exciting! The town was so undeveloped that they still had wooden sidewalks like on old westerns

[@sr633]

In 1948 pretzel rods were a penny each. My favorite snack.

[@sharoncrawford7192]

Yes, I remember those too.

[@gerberjoanne266]

One favorite I can think of is Bazooka bubble gum. Part of the fun was the little comic strip that was included just inside the wrapper.

[@buxxbannerspov30]

Everything costs more...and it's gets smaller every year....I remember when a candy bar was a nickle...and a Three Musketeer was "Big enough to share with a friend"

[@frandistabile4723]

I am a new subscriber and absolutely love your channel. So many wonderful memories. When I was growing up we had a candy store on every block in the Bronx, New York. Woolworths was the best. How I miss those days! Thank you for the memories and I still love tootsie rolls and Mary Janes today as well as many other candies. My mouth never grew up. Lol

[@normankeel5898]

I remember my mom buying my brother and I candy at the neighborhood convenience store that the clerk would put in those brown paper lunch bags. She passed away when I was 10 and looking back now those bags still bring even more joy.

[@ianhillman4007]

Thanks for all your great videos. Really makes me feel better taking these wonderful trips down memory lane with you, especially during these very trying times we are all living through.

[@davidlightfoot348]

Those were the days! Walk home from school, find a penny on the ground, and you're in business! I once bought 100 Pixie Sticks at one time, and my mom wasn't too happy about it.

[@florarix7091]

I remember these places from when I was a child in the 50's. A stick of licorice for a penny or 2 cents for a tootsie roll pop. I remember gas at 8 cents a gallon and 25 cents for a loaf of bread. Life was much different than today. More family oriented. Just a nicer way of life.

[@jons.6216]

Pretty much every candy shown in the images are ones I've always enjoyed including Root Beer Barrels, Mary Janes and Necco Wafers - despite how some people feel about the latter of the three!

[@marycarson2923]

Used to get a blue square it was mint and hard 3 for a penny but I can't remember the name anyone remember it?

[@Mathada1957]

@@marycarson2923 were they clear blue? I remember them being that way.

[@Donna-zc9ii]

@@marycarson2923 Ice Blue Mints. You can still buy them. They are individually wrapped so were good to keep one or two in your purse for a refresh if you needed it. You can get them on Amazon, Old time Candies etc. I liked the red wrapped ones that taste like anise.

[@summerrose4286]

My husband's and my dad's favorite candy is Necco wafers. I like them, too.

[@smflatt]

I grew up in the 50s-60s. Back then we had a confectionary, as we called them then. They were packed with penny candies of all imaginings! There was an even larger one a short bicycle ride away but we could only go there when we though get could get away with crossing the RR tracks, a forbidden practice!❤️️☺️

[@ourbabe0604]

There was an Index 5 and 10 where I grew up, in the late 70’ and early ‘80’s. They had a huge self-serve candy counter full of “penny candy.” Oh the memories!!

[@smileybubbles9894]

The Ben Franklin 5 &10 Butterscotch discs.. root beer barrels... And yes coffee candy‼️🍬🍭🍬🍭🍬

[@smallfootprint2961]

In my day, I never heard of kids "loading up a bag full of candy," but penny candy is why I was willing to go to the store for my mom. I'd get a penny candy. It was such a big decision.

[@peterpuller7984]

Early 70’s I remember, jolly ranchers, tootsie roll, bit o honey, abba zabba, malt balls, wax candy, bazooka Joe bubble gum, neeco wafers, Charleston chews, pixie sticks and so much more all for 1 cent. Full size candy bars and a bottle of soda were 5 cents each. What a great time to be a kid. Lord take me back!!!!!!

[@markw208]

Great memories, but all that candy caused a lot of cavities 🦷 😔. But it was a great time and so many choices, most of which are long gone, all the best, unique ones.

[@bluejae4850]

Mom and Dad rarely went out, but when they did they’d call our favorite babysitter. Dad would give my sister and I some change and tell Mindy she could walk us to the corner grocery to spend it at the candy counter, if we were good. We were ALWAYS good! Such sweet memories.

[@bobwitkowski6410]

I remember all that and the same Hershey bar we buy today for $1.00 sold for a nickel.

[@marycarson2923]

They sure were I remember the bar for a nickel and baseball card with gun for a penny we used to put them on the spokes of our bikes sounded great 👍😀

[@ethelnewberry9296]

Bob Witkowski: I must ask, please...where... in the United States of America in the year 2021, are people able to buy a Hershey Bar for just One Dollar ($1.00?) LOL!!!

[@TheDonna1959]

I remember penny candy growing up as a kid in the 1960's. We lived in Manhattan, New York. There was a corner mom & pop store. You could grab a handful of penny candy & it would be placed in a small brown paper bag. I loved Bazooka Bubble Gum. It had the little comic inside of Bazooka Joe. Cracker Jacks was not penny candy, but another great memory too. Candy coated popcorn with a prize inside.

[@FortunaZKat]

I remember getting bazooka 2/1¢. Then in one summer it went to 1/1¢ then 1/2¢. Before that my 25¢ allowance would buy a whole bag of different candies.🍭🍬

[@michellepost3098]

I was born 1960, our small town in Kansas had a mom and pop store, and it had lots of penny candy. Kids today don't seem to like candy much. In modern grocery stores, those Brachs candy centers are cool. You choose what you want and how much, and are charged by its weight. I always liked how Bazooka gum smelled and tasted, it was unique.

[@johnlopez3996]

I remember when my grandfather would give us a quarter and we felt like the richest persons in the world because of all of the penny candy that we could buy. That small brown paper bag full of candy was a sign of an accomplishment.

[@kellysadventurouslife]

I remember riding my bike to our little neighborhood market and buying Tootsie rolls, Bit-O-Honeys, and Bazooka bubble gum. Oh, the good ol’ days of finding a treasured penny on the sidewalk, getting change for recycling cans or spending some of your allowance on penny candy!

[@harrybriscoe7948]

there also used to be 1 cent gum machines

[@leeclark4495]

In the 1950's the small neighborhood grocery stores all had the penny candies in open dishes behind an enclosed glass counter. You decided what you wanted but the store clerk picked it and put in in a small little brown bag. They would never have the penny candy out in the open for the kids to pick themselves, except for the 5 cent wrapped candy bars or packs of gum.