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Penny candies
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my thoughts...of course now they are much costlier!!
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I used to get blackball jawbreakers, 3 for a penny. I always thought that had to be the best bargain ever !! :)
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Empty bottles cost a penny for a refund.Just 5 bottles would buy a chocolate bar or soda fountain drink.This was in the 1950's.
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I used to spend my pennies on Bazooka Bubble Gum and you got a little comic in each package. If the store keeper liked you he filled up a little brown paper bag with a wide assortment for just a penny. Life was great back then.:))
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Fizzy cola bottles 1p jellies they where called :)
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Bazooka Joes Bubble Gum,,With the little Comic Books ;) Best Deal Ever ;)LOL!!
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Stamps and candy come to mind. That was way way way long ago. :) Happy Saturday! :)
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gum
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I remember going to Tingley's Bait Shop and he had rows and rows of candy for a penny.
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"Penny postcards"
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Chewing gum, cookies 2 for a cent, candy, postcards, erasers, etc.
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Aniseed balls 3 for a cent. Fantastic value!
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I know I am probably too young to remember anything, but I remember when Bazooka gum used to just be five cents a piece.
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Bazooka bubble gum...
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I used to love to by penny candy! When you're a kid, candy is the most interesting stuff! LOL!
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Does anyone remember the Penny Arcade?
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A long time ago I lived in Japan. A dollar was worth 360 yen. Now it's worth approx. 100 yen. So a dollar is now worth about 1/3 what it was then. An article in the NY Times puts the average cost of a pack of cigarettes at $7. I remember that in 1960 it was 20 cents. A beer was 50 cents. At that time the average hourly wage was $1. Now it's $6.55. The more we strike to get higher wages and the more we force the rich to pay higher taxes the further we fall behind. It just raises the price of what we purchase in a never-catch-up spiral. If you work for me and get a 5% raise, I want a raise too. How do I get it? I raise the price of whatever it is that we produce. We earn about 6 times what we did 50 years ago and things cost more than 10 times as much. Not much headway there!
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candy, gum, cookies, penny toys
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Interesting little pocket type books that were mostly spy or detective related aptly called... "Penny Dreadfulls." They were originally European and specifically English based and meant to entertain the English sence of macabe, mystery, dread and suspence they do so enjoy.
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One dollar today only has the purchasing power of three cents back then,when an ounce of fine gold cost $32.00 (today gold is close to $1000.00 again)So a loaf of bread was a nickel, a pint of milk 4 cents you could go to the movies for a dime, a dad's take home pay was $7 a week. A penny could go a long way, there was a drug store toy called "a penny whistle" if you ever find one, in a flea market or in your attic, they are worth about $300 to a collector today.
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Hmmm, can I remember paying a penny for candy or is that something that I was told; I collect stamps and have some in my collection that originally cost a penny.
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The only thing I can remember buying for a penny was the tootsie rolls. I think we bought more than that but I just can't remember it all right now. One thing I did buy for 10¢ was a cookie that came in a pack of 2 and it had pink lines down the center. My dad would sometimes stop on the way home and let me go in and get me some....umm umm good.
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I remember being weighed on a scale outside a grocery store, where you dropped a penny in the slot.
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Mexican Jumping beans at Dick's 5& 10 in Chicago. They had faces painted on them. I was 5 and thought they were the greatest.
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twizzler-type licorice, available in red, black, or green. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2303103533_754b0a0cc4.jpg
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a penny... glass marbles, bubble gums
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penny candy
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Spy novellas called penny dreadfulls.
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Candy belly-buttons cost a penny in convience stores in canada
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Also WA state, Shemarq. Hi, neighbor! *waves:
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i also think it's amusing that the item "penny candy" is still used today, but sells for about two bucks...
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various small pieces of candy
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double bubble green apple bubble gum. yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Your average thoughts.
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In January 1800, in Plymouth (England) a penny loaf cost a penny (the standard weight was 3 1/5 ounces! A little bit earlier, in 1660, you could buy a grain ofthe Duchess of Kent's powder for a penny - it was used for the "good success in the recovery of Feavers, Pestilence, Small -Pox, Agues, Surfeits and generally all malignant distempers" And then of course in 1681, you could get the Penny Post! Hmmm... does anyone really care that I have researched this so carefully?
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A newspaper
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Penny candy was the most awesome invention lol you could gather up found change and have a smörgåsbord! "i want 5 of those and 10 of those and 6 of those...."
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When I lived in jersey, u can buy 5 tootsie rolls for just a penny. Ah, those were the good ol' days. Now I'm living with stress in South Florida.
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Postcards.
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Sending a letter, 1st class mail 1 cent.
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Suckers and huge gumballs, and "jawbreakers".
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a dream
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As far back as the 1960s you could still buy penny candy. Usually that was gumballs or something similarly small. The accelerated inflation of the 1970s took everything out of penny pricing.
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Ten penny nails were 10 for a penny
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Big licorice sticks!
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i don't know if it was true because it was in a little house on the prarie book but those candy stick things were like 2/1 cent if i am correct.
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