Favourite brands of bubble gum!

[Wolfman]

Must have been Pink Owl then:



An excellent chew to be sure!

I believe it was in a box of a presidential candidate like Hubert Humphrey, but can't be positive. Maybe he smoked cigars, and got a kickback to his campaign. 😆

JP

[Hepcat]

Hah! Just seven years ago you categorically denied that the ones you remembered were the Presidential cigars!

No, it wasn't a presidential cigar. Just like the ones pictured, like the gold dragon, but brown. I don't recall the name for it either.

What pains me now though is seeing the five cent price tag on those cigars. The only store at which I ever saw these Swell cigars as a kid in the 1960's in my hometown of London, Ontario was Steve's Variety and Gift Shop in Wortley Road Village:



But they were bloody fifteen cents each so I always admired and coveted them but never bought any!

[Wolfman]

Hah! Just seven years ago you categorically denied that the ones you remembered were the Presidential cigars!



What pains me now though is seeing the five cent price tag on those cigars. The only store at which I ever saw these Swell cigars as a kid in the 1960's in my hometown of London, Ontario was Steve's Variety and Gift Shop in Wortley Road Village:



But they were bloody fifteen cents each so I always admired and coveted them but never bought any!

Lol. I don't even remember there being a discussion about these. I guess my memory is improving with age.

JP

[Wolfman]

Still can't recall the flavor.

JP

[MonsterBaker666]

Bazooka, bubble gum, cigars, bubble gum cigarettes,  gold mine bubble gum nuggets, and that hard as a rock slab of gum that came with every pack of bubble gum cards.  Good times.

[Hepcat]

I've added these partially cut Shelby's Super Duper Blo Bubble wrappers from the early 1950's to my collection oif bubble gum items in the last few months:









Not only are Shelby's Super Duper Blo Bubble wrappers very cool in their own right, but they bear a very close resemblance to the Big Bubble Riddle wrappers issued during the same time period by Hamilton Chewing Gum Ltd. which was based in Hamilton a leisurely ninety minute drive from my home town of London, Ontario. The similarity was not a coincidence. Hamilton Chewing Gum Ltd. was founded in 1930 by John F. Wilsdon the son of Shelby Gum founder John J. Wilsdon. So while the two companies were legally completely independent entities, there was a very real connection.

[Hepcat]

I've had this Bozo gumball machine for perhaps fifteen years now:



But when I saw this unused O-Pee-Chee warehouse stock one on Etsy a few weeks ago I was enraptured:











My heart opened immediately and my wallet quickly followed. My plan is to fill it with the gumballs from my old machine now that it's arrived.

[Hepcat]

Here's a Parkhurst Zip Bubble Gum box that a collecting buddy of mine just acquired:





Anyone who ever bought the Parkhurst Hockey cards issued until 1963-64 will attest that the gum included beat any other gum issued in card packs (Topps, Fleer, Leaf, etc.) hands down! It was juicy, (cherry) flavourful and absolutely delicious!

But either Parkhurst had stopped offering penny Zip Bubble Gum by the time my awareness of penny candy began in 1958 or Parkhurst wasn't able to carve out a niche for Zip in O-Pee-Chee's home turf of London, Ontario. So I don't remember ever seeing penny Zip Bubble Gum; only Bazooka, Dubble Bubble and black licorice flavoured Black Cat (the last being uncommon).