I get the tiny Sen Sen Billy Joel sung about and the Cowards violet square candies...

Do you remember those?

This is an amazing store. And old fashioned 5 & 10, you can spend hours in it. The website does not do it justice. We would take the kids, give them $5 and after a couple hours they would walk out with a bag loaded with stuff. You can take a virtual tour, but it still doesn't do it justice!

http://www.vidlers5and10.com/

For the link Bob!

Cool store Julie, wish it was closer!

I forgot about Sen-Sen I used to like them. The Violet I thought were a bit strange tasting. The thing I order for myself or stop at Cracker Barrel for are Horehounds different tasting but I love them. Cracker Barrel does carry a few of the old fashioned candies.

Like eating perfume..those violets.

I like the horehound too but first had those as an adult...there are trace "pockets" of dark molasses that I like in those..

Friends of my parents when I was a kid always had a pack of Necco wafers, his in his shirt pocket hers always in her purse. What a treat to get one when they visited.

With Necco's I always wanted the grey ones.

Me --- the light brown...

I asked my husband what he remembered...he said

The Remco Bulldog Tank.!!! Wha??

I said CANDY.....!!
He said the piece of gum that came with baseball cards...


Got me to thinking about toys and fads
Remember these?

My mom like them weird things

They are so ugly

Weren't they supposed to be good luck?

They were so ugly, they were cute,

I have a folder with trolls doodled all over it

luvsgrtdanes said:Weren't they supposed to be good luck?

Yes I think we were to make a wish on those 😊
I KNOW the inventors wish came true.

Rosie,
Thank goodness my Mom liked to take pictures. Make memories easier to remember.
I remember Sen Sens but not the Violets.
My troll doll had long long blue hair! Better luck I thought, lol! And I had a rabbits foot!

Bob,
I cracked up over the candy ''watches!'' Sooo different from the candy necklace and bracelet!
So many familiar and unfamiliar candies!

Ronnie,
Yep, a whole packet of Neccos were fun!

Jolana,
I love that! (Your folder.)

Most candy is too sweet for me now, but I still like salted nut rolls. Now I want a package of Neccos.

When we were little my mom would get orange turkish paste. We could only get it in summer, and boy was it good. There was a candy shop not far from me that carried it but it closed, can only get it now on the boardwalk at the shore

Now what is that?
I missed out on a lot!

Rabbits feet! Yes! Can you imagine that now...a rabbits FOOT with a chain thru it. WHY AND HOW in the world...... I had a bunch tho.

And I also had a long necklace with a watch on it....that was the thing...we all had those.

I also had a purse in the shape of a big cone...with a draw string top.. oh how I loved my purses and a new wallet for christmas... Nothing smelled as good as a new (vinyl??) wallet...except a new doll...the face and the hair..... What I wonder is HOW my dolls got blue ink on them...
IT WAS NOT ME!! And...that ink.....it was some powerful stuff.....

Ronnie is that the same as Turkish Delight?

I do remember these wee tins...mwybe about as large as the older 50 cent pieces....
And they had a peel off top..and came with a wee spoon...with some kind of paste like sweet something in those.m