Pieere we still have slt water taffy here in NJ.  Does anyone remember SenSen?

Some of those things you think are no longer made might still be around.  We found a few things we didn't know they still made at Jack's Country Store in Ocean Park, Washington - http://www.jackscountrystore.co/ .  If you find yourself in the Long Beach WA/Astoria OR area, it is worth a visit.

So, I wonder how many on the forums have absolutely no clue as to what is being discussed.  Some things might have been regional because I don't remember "Good and Plenty."

Then again, I was raised in the Oklahoma Panhandle (Dust Bowl country) so all of that stuff may have just blown away or got covered up with dirt.  While I was born too late to experience the Dirty Thirties, we did experience similar, but not as bad, dust storms in what we called the Gritty Fifties.

Going on vacation and crossing desert areas, one hung a canvas water bag from the hood ornament of the vehicle just in case one needed to add water to the radiator.

Terry

 When I tell people we had a outhouse growing up in Iowa and a old had pump in the kitchen for our water they look at me and I know they are thinking,, you poor sucker.  When we finally got a hydrint put in the kitchen we were the talk LOL!!! Thats probably a little off topic I guess.

Oh, how about this... do you remember the Bun candy... vanilla, maple, caramel... with unsalted peanuts and covered in milk chocolate?  My grandparents always brought them home from Fort Wayne, Indiana and we could not wait to get ours!  Oh, yum!

And, yes, I DO remember clove gum... and Slo Pokes.  My favs!!!

Sen-Sen came in a small package and they were tiny black squares of licorice flavored something.....they were marketed as breath freshners.

http://www.victoryseeds.com/sen-sen.html.

 The Saturday matinee .25 cents, and at intermission ( usually there were two movies and cartoons) they would have ticket drawings for neat stuff. Not really neat, but it was great to have your ticket called.  And then when we were old enough there was the upper balcony. Not a lot of movie watch"n up there. 

To earn money we could go Night Crawler hunting, we would get .25 cents a dozen, sometimes we would go to the golf course and fish balls out of the creek, .05, .10 and .25 cents for a really good one. 

Has anyone trapped gophers? We could get .25 cents a tail at the municiple airport. 

Oh, wow!!!  I had forgotten about that.  Even into the '70's when I was in my 30's and when there were still glass Coke bottles, that was a favored afternoon treat.  Not odd at all.

Terry