Pack of Wrigley's gum for 4 Cent's

MGLICKER · January 28, 2015 5:45AM

Was the cheapest thing that I recall buying for under a nickel.

....except of course for Bazooka Gum for a cent. That Bazooka Joe was quite a character!

Smittys · January 28, 2015 5:53AM

Two for 1 Penny Candy (RED HOT Silver Dollars my favorite)

Timbuk3 · January 28, 2015 5:54AM

I remember a pack for $.05 !!!

MGLICKER · January 28, 2015 6:13AM

Only recall a nickel Coke once. It was a small buffet in town. Everywhere else it was a dime.

hammer1 · January 28, 2015 6:20AM

Cigarettes a quarter, out of machine. That's the only way we could buy them. Way to young to go into a store.

MGLICKER · January 28, 2015 6:21AM

<< Cigarettes a quarter, out of machine. That's the only way we could buy them. Way to young to go into a store. >>

Yeah.....and they included 2 cents in change.

CaptHenway · January 28, 2015 6:53AM

We had lots of "penny candy" up at the corner store. And pretzel sticks at 1 cent each.

291fifth · January 28, 2015 7:34AM

Remember the tiny flavored drinks that came in the wax bottles? Those bottles made quite a mess on the sidewalks!

MGLICKER · January 28, 2015 7:39AM

<< Remember the tiny flavored drinks that came in the wax bottles? Those bottles made quite a mess on the sidewalks! >>

Argghh. One slow Summer day I took a package of 6 of the little six packs (or whatever they were) cut off the tops and poured all the contents into a large glass. Drank it quickly.

Not recommended.

winky · January 28, 2015 8:05AM

How about sen sen breath mints, anyone remember those??

keyman64 · January 28, 2015 8:17AM

Under a nickel?...nothing, ever.

I remember pay phones taking a nickel, dime or quarter for a phone call. Then they all went to 25 cents.
I remember 40 cent cans of Coke from a machine.

Outhaul · January 28, 2015 8:48AM

I do remember Sen-Sen. Every kid who smoked knew about Sen-Sen.

I also remember 5¢ Hershey Bars, 5¢ Cokes, penny candy that was really a penny. And vending cigarette packs that had 1¢ change inside the cellophane because the pack was only 24¢.

My beverage of choice was Moxie. Not the sugary one, the real Moxie. None of my friends liked it so I never had to give up "sips." I also love black licorice. None of my friends liked it so I didn't have to give any up.

How about an ice cold glass of Za-Rex? Junket pudding? All that stuff was pennies back then.

Cheers,

Bob

Outhaul · January 28, 2015 8:50AM

Oh, yeah, I also remember when you saw ¢ all over the place. That disappeared as well.

Cheers,

Bob

rhedden · January 28, 2015 9:03AM

<< How about sen sen breath mints, anyone remember those?? >>

My great grandfather gave me some of these in 1981. Blech! Still haven't forgotten them. If that was fresh breath, what exactly did you eat before it? Let's just say that my generation preferred Bubbalicious gum by a wide margin.

Outhaul · January 28, 2015 9:04AM

Beeman's Pepsin Gum. Yum!

Justlooking · January 28, 2015 9:12AM

Do you remember these?

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chumley · January 28, 2015 9:43AM

my corner store had a large dill pickle barrel and you could fish one out for a nickel

hammer1 · January 28, 2015 10:01AM

<< my corner store had a large dill pickle barrel and you could fish one out for a nickel >>

Candy stores had those big dill pickles encased in a green wax coating.

fcloud · January 28, 2015 10:10AM

All kinds of penny candy, and some two for a cent when I was a kid. The store owner was a coin collector, too, and everything he thought was good went into a different box than the cigar box he used for the candy counter.
Candy coins two for a cent
black licorice one cent
red licorice one cent
rolls of paper with little colored sugar dots on them for a cent
Bazooka gum one cent each
Wax lips one cent each
Wax filled with sugar water one cent each
Wax moustache one cent each
There was a lot more.

Also, things like one pack Reese's PBC for a nickel
Smaller Hershey bars for a nickel
Nestles Crunch for a nickel.

Twinkies were 12 cents.

I could go on but I won't.

Thanks for the childhood memories...

MGLICKER · January 28, 2015 11:05AM

Mickey's Banana Flip!!!!

Worth a kings ransom.

66Tbird · January 28, 2015 11:18AM

I go here and drop a 50 every year for my mom. Keeps her happy all year.

http://www.oldtimecandy.com/decades/1950s-candy

Overdate · January 28, 2015 11:30AM

I remember when gasoline was so cheap they priced it down to the fraction of a cent.

Really, all gasoline prices ended in .9

Can you imagine that happening today?!

ksammut · January 28, 2015 11:56AM

5 cents for a pack of Topps baseball cards.

lkeigwin · January 28, 2015 12:48PM

A pickle from the barrel was a nickel. Most all candy and gum (5 sticks) too.

For a penny you'd get a gum ball. Some candies like Mary Janes were two cents.

Red pistachios were a nickel. You had to work the tumbler for the best shake.
Lance.

rhedden · January 28, 2015 1:01PM

You buy a candy called Mary Janes these days, you're in for surprise.

Baley · January 28, 2015 1:07PM

Yep, better eat just one and wait an hour before having any more

I remember the penny candy on the bottom shelf of the aisle at 7-11 and other corner stores, it was all the singles (bubblegum, jawbreakers, pixie stix, bit-o-honey, etc)

The nickel items were the small (fun size) chocolate bars and the like, the full sized candy was a quarter, I remember when it went to 30 cents (outragous inflation!)

Nowadays (40 years later), where the kids shop, the penny candy is 7 cents each/ 15 for a dollar, the fun size are a quarter, and the full sized bars are 80 cents or so.

cucamongacoin · January 28, 2015 4:47PM

I remember 16 oz Kist soda or RC cola @ 4 cents and the bottle deposit was 3 cents, that and a 7 cent Hostess fruit pie was Heaven!

MGLICKER · January 29, 2015 12:57AM

.....and those little balsa gliders for a dime.

More fun than a $75 video game...........I think.

sparky64 · January 29, 2015 1:03AM

......and cereal prizes were cool, usable and actually hidden IN the cereal itself.

Outhaul · January 29, 2015 1:40AM

I remember gas at 17.9¢ per gallon. The gallon dial used to go many times faster than the $ dial.

Cheers,

Bob

MGLICKER · January 29, 2015 1:44AM

<< I remember gas at 17.9¢ per gallon. The gallon dial used to go many times faster than the $ dial.

Cheers,

Bob >>

....and the old land yachts got about 8 MPG.

cucamongacoin · January 29, 2015 3:45AM

This one still gets 8-10 MPG, I remember filling her up for $3 or so...

cucamongacoin · January 29, 2015 3:47AM

This one still gets around 8-10 MPG, I remember filling her up for about $3...

hammer1 · January 29, 2015 5:29AM

<< ......and cereal prizes were cool, usable and actually hidden IN the cereal itself. >>

Best cereal prize for me was a little (4") green frogman. Had a chrome cap that you would pop off the bottom of his left foot. Then you would put baking soda in the hollowed out leg, replace chrome cap, that had a small hole in the middle of it. Place in bathtub, and he would propel himself, underwater, around the tub.

johnny9434 · January 29, 2015 5:33AM

<< Only recall a nickel Coke once. It was a small buffet in town. Everywhere else it was a dime. >>

i remember that one as well. a coke and a hershey bar for about a quarter to

CaptHenway · January 29, 2015 5:38AM

I remember nickel COkes in the vending machine up at the gas station and nickel pay phone calls.

ambro51 · January 29, 2015 7:10AM

To put it another way..I remember working hard on a golf course mowing raking and digging for $1.85 an hour!!!

yellowkid · January 29, 2015 7:19AM

There was a brand of gum, three sticks for one cent, one chew and the sugar was gone. Cigarettes $2 a carton, onboard ship a buck. Soda, or "tonic" as we called it in Boston was 10 cents in a machine. A bottle of tonic in the house was a rare thing in the 50's.

MGLICKER · January 29, 2015 12:04PM

<< To put it another way..I remember working hard on a golf course mowing raking and digging for $1.85 an hour!!! >>

Not bad. Got paid $1.65 an hour doing cleanup at a restaurant. It was owned by a partnership of 6 attorneys. They all liked to stop in after work.

At 30 cents a boss, I didn't hang around long.

Veep · January 30, 2015 12:40AM

I made 90c per hour sweeping, dusting and washing windows at a knick-knack shop. Then I'd go mow a lawn with a reel type mower (no gasoline) and crawl along the sidewalk and around trees on my hands and knees with clippers that gave me blisters. For that, I was paid $1.50 and a cold drink of Dr. Pepper.

rawmorgan · January 30, 2015 1:17AM

Those little individual cartons of milk or chocolate milk were .05 cents in grade school. For 0.95 cents you got a good cooked meal (we had a lunch lady who took pride in her cooking) and milk. And at the end of the week if you saved the nickle from the dollar change you could splurge for a .25 cent ice cream. On a side note my dad took the bus to work every morning so we got SBA dollars for lunch money. Every day I had to explain to the lady at the register that it was a dollar coin not a quarter.

ricko · January 30, 2015 1:35AM

I remember all those old things... penny candy and nickel candy bars...and they were bigger then too...also 'seems' like they tasted better...Cheers, RickO

MGLICKER · January 30, 2015 1:45AM

<< I remember all those old things... penny candy and nickel candy bars...and they were bigger then too...also 'seems' like they tasted better...Cheers, RickO >>

Yeah. Worked in a drugstore in the 70's. Hostess stuff was delivered every second day. Unsold ones were removed. No they have a shelf life of 3 or 4 months.

Fresh is no longer fresh.

epcjimi1 · January 30, 2015 2:12AM

In '72, age 14, worked at KFC for $1.10 / hr, Nixon than raised the minimum wage to $1.25, I was grateful. Always brought home buckets of chicken that hadn't sold by closing time.

Then my parents moved to south bay area in Cal., I got hired at age 18 at Raychem, in Menlo Park for $7.85 /hr! That was good money for a kid just out of high school back then.

And yep, in the early sixties, nickel candy bars, penny gumball machines that dispensed a lot more than one, Baskin Robbins 31 Flavors ice cream cones were ten cents, then they JACKED the price to twelve cents a cone, which made me have to scavenge an extra bottle for the two cent deposit. Oh yeah, you got a free cone on your birthday, too. I had a lot of birthdays.

johnny9434 · January 30, 2015 5:06AM

<< I remember nickel COkes in the vending machine up at the gas station and nickel pay phone calls. >>

yes and the rotary dial as well

Boosibri · January 30, 2015 5:33AM

You guys are old farts

MGLICKER · January 30, 2015 5:47AM

<< 

<< I remember nickel COkes in the vending machine up at the gas station and nickel pay phone calls. >>

yes and the rotary dial as well

>>

Nah, Henway had to get Sarah to patch through the calls.

Type2 · January 30, 2015 5:48AM

"WoW" I can remember all that as well but not the smoking mint thing I never did it. But remember my mom away going to the five and dime and my day saying he can't beleve how high gas was .28 cents and I ask my mom for a dime for penny candy, latter the lines for gas odd and even my dad had 4 old cars so if he need gas he would chang plates.

CaptHenway · January 30, 2015 5:51AM

<< Those little individual cartons of milk or chocolate milk were .05 cents in grade school. For 0.95 cents you got a good cooked meal (we had a lunch lady who took pride in her cooking) and milk. And at the end of the week if you saved the nickle from the dollar change you could splurge for a .25 cent ice cream. On a side note my dad took the bus to work every morning so we got SBA dollars for lunch money. Every day I had to explain to the lady at the register that it was a dollar coin not a quarter. >>

When I was on the Safety Patrol in 8th grade (1963-64) I got light duty because of my bad leg and sold the milk cartons for four cents each out of a cooler in the boiler room during lunch hour. I vaguely remember them being only two cents when I was in first or second grade, but I wouldn't swear to it.

Outhaul · January 30, 2015 7:35AM

The Four Yorkshiremen

Cheers,

Bob

Pack of Wrigley's gum for 4 Cent's

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