Penny Candy

In the 1950's, a really nice woman opened a store in our neighborhood and I thought I had died and one to heaven. Mr Womack's new store had two at least 30 foot glass cases stacked up and so full of candy that the choices were just too much for a small child to pick the right ones. In fact most of the time unless you had a favorite, you would just tell her you wanted a nickel's worth of candy. If you were rick a dime's worth. She would go down the line and fill a small sack. Here are some of the one's I remember the best:

• Jaw Breakers. You could eat on a jaw breaker for an hour. I'm sure that trying to crunch one also hurt my teeth.
• Wax tubes filled with sugar water. Some were shaped like little coke bottles.
• Supper Bubble. Much better than Double Bubble but Double bubble had little comics in them.
• Malted Milk Balls. two for a penny. After a while they made smaller one's in a tube of cellophane.
• Dots on wax paper.
• Pixie Sticks. One time I breathed when I poured one of the lime one's in my mouth. I think I coughed for a week.
• Caramels.
• Necco Wafers. Sugar pressed into a candy and wrapped in a wax paper.
  
• Licorice. I just loved the black and a lot of the girls liked the red. Later they had cherry but it was just red when I was little.
  

I'm sure there are a hundred kinds of candy that I just don;t remember the name of. I would go out and pick up pop bottles to change into candy. What were some of your favorite?

The price I paid is that today I have a mouth full of crowns because the candy and poor brushing habits but hey, it was the way we lived back then.

MUD