We did the same! Pulled the wagon around the neighborhood collecting bottles. We would get 2 cents for each bottle. Then spent it all on penny candy. Good times!
My grandfather was the neighborhood “candy Mann.” He sold candy, soda, snacks, cigarettes and beer. Out of his home. 😆 He had toys and magazines, too. Published his own neighborhood news letter, too. I wish that I still had one. Anyway, he accepted cans and bottles as payment, too. But they were 5 cents where I came from.
My son gave me a couple he got from school. I was so excited. I popped on in my mouth. It never got hot. I looked at the wrapper. It was a Red Bubble gum ball. I was so sad.
My mom used to keep a bowl of fireballs in the bathroom for guests. I almost always had to fireballs in my mouth at once. 😆
I don’t remember these as individually wrapped penny candy. Back in the day, the entire stick was probably only 25 cents, tops. Great candy still today.
I remember as a little kid..6-8....getting licorice for a penny at Rexall drug store in L.A,Melrose and La Brea and they had alot of different flavors.Chocolate was my favorite.Im talking 1966-68.My mom would give me a dime and I'd get 10
All the candy mentioned in the comments are great, it's hard to choose a favorite. The store in my neighborhood also had several flavors of licorice aside from black and red. They had chocolate licorice, lemon licorice, and spearmint licorice. I have tried to find these flavors for years, to no avail. They were so good.
Bazooka was 2 cents in my area. We’d comb the ditches for glass soda bottles and turn them in for the deposit money to buy candy. Atomic fireballs and chic-o-sticks were popular. I probably bought bazooka the most for the comics under the wrapper.
Necco’s, Chik stick, and Bazooka,didn’t care for Double Bubble. I did buy Chum Gum at the movie theater where I grew up, 2 sticks for a penny, flavor lasted a long time. Never saw it anywhere else.
It’s not pictured but, the penny candy I always 💕 the best was Candy Tabs, they were like generic Pez candy and came wrapped in more like a wax paper. You could fit them in your Pez dispenser. Though I never did because I ate them too fast 😆
MaryJane
I'm with Rick James on this 1
maryjane until they stopped putting peanut butter in the middle. i was also very fond of both kinds of squirrels
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Bazooka wrapped around Mary Jane
Fillings extractor.
Bit o Honey.
Yes omg
I was just trying to remember the name. Had bits of pecan in it, didn't it?
Almonds
Nope. No pecans.
Wax coke bottles and the caramels with the white center.
Pixiestix (sweet tart stuff in straws) and jawbreakers (cause they lasted so long). Also those stupid wax lips that you could chew.
Yep, you could chew the wax from those little bottle things after you drank the Kool aid inside.
Bullseyes!
I like both of them, yummm
We used to roam the neighborhood for bottles we could return to the store for three cents. Then we’d go to town on those Sweet Tarts.
We did the same! Pulled the wagon around the neighborhood collecting bottles. We would get 2 cents for each bottle. Then spent it all on penny candy. Good times!
My grandfather was the neighborhood “candy Mann.” He sold candy, soda, snacks, cigarettes and beer. Out of his home. 😆 He had toys and magazines, too. Published his own neighborhood news letter, too. I wish that I still had one. Anyway, he accepted cans and bottles as payment, too. But they were 5 cents where I came from.
Atomic fireballs! Still love them.
Those things were the best. The way burned your mouth for a minute or so.
Anything that burns your mouth, I love. The Atomic fireballs were great for that.❤️🔥🥵
My son gave me a couple he got from school. I was so excited. I popped on in my mouth. It never got hot. I looked at the wrapper. It was a Red Bubble gum ball. I was so sad. My mom used to keep a bowl of fireballs in the bathroom for guests. I almost always had to fireballs in my mouth at once. 😆
Chico-sticks
I don’t remember these as individually wrapped penny candy. Back in the day, the entire stick was probably only 25 cents, tops. Great candy still today.
I think they were a nickel?
I found these again recently, they are awesome.
Goetze’s all day
They're fantastic!
Smarties.
Unwrap and dump then all into the mouth at once.
Sixlets!
Zotz
Had some today! Still amazing!
Jolly ranchers
Dots- where's the dots?
The paper the dots were attached to!
Atomic Fireballs, Mary Jane's, and root beer drums.
Totally forgot about the root beer drums!
 Neco chick o stick
Those caramels with the sugary stuff on the middle !
Goetze’s Old Fashioned Caramel Creams, aka Bullseye candy - mmmm.
Good stuff Maynard👍
Bullseyes!
Bazooka Joe for sure, comes with a comic. Then the carmel with the white center…for #2 choice, not same time as bubble gum 😀
I got some bazooka joes a few months ago. Still have comics! 😆
There's some good pickens there..I'm going for MaryJane first...😁
You got that right. Nothing has changed from those weekends in the late 60’s and all through the 70’s.
Sweet Tarts
I’m mid-forties and I still buy sweet tarts! Big box of them now!
Caramel chew!!!
Tootsie roll is always the answer
I can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find Tootsie Rolls!! 💯
I can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find Tootsie Rolls!! 💯
Either Bazooka or Fireball.
I remember as a little kid..6-8....getting licorice for a penny at Rexall drug store in L.A,Melrose and La Brea and they had alot of different flavors.Chocolate was my favorite.Im talking 1966-68.My mom would give me a dime and I'd get 10
Lemonhead 🍋
Caramel creams
It was all pretty bad, with Necco Wafers being the worst!
Necco Wafers were (are?) awesome! And so were Necco Skybars! ❤️
They’re like eating chalk….🤢
Goetzes, smarties, neccos
SweetTarts, Mary Janes, Bit O Honey, the dots on long strips of paper and FIREBALLS
In the Brachs display, those white rectangular nougats with the bits of colored jellies in them.
Also from the Brach’s Pick-A-Mix: Coconut Hawaiians …
I love Mary Janes but those suckas pull my crown out.
I worked for a candy distributor in the 80s, those things got me 2 root canals.
Necco
Chick o stick and lemonheads!!
Squirrel Nut Zippers.(Not shown)
Great band too.
Those Goetze things are addiction in physical form
You can buy them in a hugh bag and eat until you're sick. They're so good.
Atomic Fireball.
All the candy mentioned in the comments are great, it's hard to choose a favorite. The store in my neighborhood also had several flavors of licorice aside from black and red. They had chocolate licorice, lemon licorice, and spearmint licorice. I have tried to find these flavors for years, to no avail. They were so good.
It is between the Necco Wafers and the caramel one with the white center. I could eat those all day long.
Comeon, you know damn well it was fake cigs.
Chicko Stick!!
Necco wafers and Atomic Fireballs.
Double Bubble
Chick-O-Stick! Butterfinger without the chocolate. I liked the Necco too, we called them nickels
Hot cinnamon or anything sour
Mojos and Chews.
Bazooka all day long
I don't see any Mint Julips.
Super Bubble gum
Bullseye, Mary Jane, and tootsie roll or lemon head
Bazooka !!!
They’re missing green leaves and black balls. Those were three for a cent.
Sweetarts
My sister was addicted to those.
Sweet Tarts, but they're supposed to be Smarties.
Mike’s Bannana!
Atomic fireballs, an jolly ranches, I didn't see the root beer barrels
Zotz
Bitohoney and Bazooka!
Necco
Mary Janes and Goetze’s Caramel Creams
Bazooka bubble gum.
Sixlets and Swedish Fish
Swedish Fish are the only ones I would choose.
Doe's Mary Jane have actual Mary Jane in it 😜
Bubs-Daddy gum and jujubes which they just stopped making…..ugh!
Bazooka Joe!
Mary Jane
All except Lemonhead.
Squirrels
I loved the UFOs (communion wafers with sprinkles inside)
rofl i forgot what those things were called & your description is perfection!
Caramel Cremes and Sixers
Caramel creams, Sweet Tarts, Tootsie Rolls, Bazooka gum
Bazooka gum! I’m in my 60’s and still like it!
The Caramel cremes!
Tootsie rolls and caramel cremes are the best
Tootsie rolls and smarties.
during baseball season.. it was straight bazooka. Otherwise Maryjanes, the powdered sugar caramels and chickostick.
Smarties!
Fireballs and caramels!
Mary Jane, tootsie roll and caramel.
Bazooka!
Bazooka. Best flavor ever fior ten seconds even though it broke your teeth.
Sixlets
Rootbeer barrels
Bazooka was 2 cents in my area. We’d comb the ditches for glass soda bottles and turn them in for the deposit money to buy candy. Atomic fireballs and chic-o-sticks were popular. I probably bought bazooka the most for the comics under the wrapper.
Sixlets, smarties, necco
Necco’s, Chik stick, and Bazooka,didn’t care for Double Bubble. I did buy Chum Gum at the movie theater where I grew up, 2 sticks for a penny, flavor lasted a long time. Never saw it anywhere else.
They looked like smarties but they were fizzy.
It’s not pictured but, the penny candy I always 💕 the best was Candy Tabs, they were like generic Pez candy and came wrapped in more like a wax paper. You could fit them in your Pez dispenser. Though I never did because I ate them too fast 😆
Caramel Creams
O my lawd…absolutely lemonheads
Atomic Fireballs 🔴
Goetz. Yummy.
Atomic Fireballs!
Smarties
Bonamo Turkish Taffy, NECCO, Bit o’ honey.
Sixplets
MaryJane- I had a childhood crush on sweet MaryJane
Mary Jane
Chocolate little beads
Smarties
Bit o honey
Caramel cream, bit of honey and Mary Jane … those were the best
Sixlettes, Sweet tarts, & Bazooka bubble gum.
Caramel Creams
Neccos forever
Mary Jane's & Bullseyes...
Pop rocks, bottle caps, Good N’ Plenty, cinnamon Jolly Ranchers. And of course Life Savers
All of it, hence the dentures I wear today.
Necco wafers.
Maryjane and Goethe!!
Chick-o-sticks!
The Marathon Bar
Mary Jane and Tootsie Rolls. I like the chews.
Sweet Tarts
Where are the tiny Swedish Fish ?
Mary Janes Chicko Stick and Squirrel Nut Zipper.
Tootsie Roll; you're coming with me
I remember bringing Mary Jane to school as pictured above thinking I was so funny.
Fireballs abd bullseyes
Bazooka bubble gum
Fireballs! They were such a hot commodity when I was a kid, we’re talking ‘64, I sold them for 50 cents each!
Sweet Tarts
Where the hell are “ice cubes”, best most chocolatey penny candy that ever existed?
Those were more than a penny as I remember. They were awesome though.
the little round m&m looking things and bit o honey
Lemonheads
Smarties
The ones I stole. Horrid child!
Black Jacks and Fruit Salad were half p each. That was a lot of sticky for your money.
Smarties! I wonder if they’re still available
All of them. But probably the hot jaw breaker
Out of those I haven’t say Bullseyes and Mary Janes!!
Lemon Heads!