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Originally Posted by quirky3
Great memories, Senior! Our largest grocery store was the A&P, but "John;s Store" was a few blocks away and that's where we got baseball cards (with bubblegum), necco wafers, candy cigarettes, etc. The local dairy was one block away - they had popsicles for 5 cents.
One of our neighbors always made caramel apples for Halloween. One year I made a "Little Bo Peep" costume and used my little red wagon dressed as the lamb, and my brother's hockey stick wrapped in crepe paper for a shepherd's crook.
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Did anybody actually chew that gum that came with the baseball cards? If you dropped it on the sidewalk it would shatter like glass. If you did try to chew it, you were in danger of ripping up your mouth. The cards were great, though. However, by late summer, you opened a pack and went through them saying "Got him" "Got him" "Got him", and so on. In all my years of card buying (Topps cards only), I never got a Stan Musial.