Ok, I am going to trip down memory lane here......
When I was little we had a summer home on Cape Cod and each week when I got my allowance I would take my bike (with training wheels) and ride to the general store (any mother now a days would never let their kid go this far alone ) and buy penny candy. I remember leaving the store with the little brown bag full of paper dots, liquorice laces, rootbear candy etc. *sigh*
I remember going through a couple bracelet phases in elementary school. One was 'gimp' (I think that's what the name of it was). You made gimp bracelets out of long, plastic, flourescent coloured string-thingies. And then we went through a phase of making bracelets with that thicker thread and making knots (like friendship bracelets).
I don't recognize much of the candy you mention though, except the bottle caps and candy cigarettes. The candy I remember is Gobstoppers and Runts (I think that's the name? Gosh, it's hard to remember now) and Nerds. And Chicklets gum.
Can't find picture of a Wheelo. You held it in your hand and it had a wheel that had pegs on either side of it, you moved you hand up and down and this wheel would move around this "J" shaped thing.
Lekker, Gobstoppers were great, they first made them real big but then made them mini versions and ick, wasn't the same lol.
Jane, the kids still buy paperdots, what a way to make money, little itsy bitsy dot candy on paper. I do remember the paper not really coming off the candy but we ate it anyway.
Bazooka gum is still around as well.
Remember the TV show, The Banana Splits? The Groovy Ghoolies, Captain Cave Man, Zoom, ohh so many..
SP I have Fraggle Rock on DVD fo the kids to watch!!
OOOOh I loved my sticker collection, candy cigarettes and Abba Zabba, shoe laces with pictures on them, play with an old CB radio my friends and I would play Dukes Of Hazzard or Bj and the Bear!! Capt Kangaroo and HR Puffinstuff. Turning in bottles at The Sentry market in Lake Oswego we would buy lemonheads Boston Baked Beans and bubble gum records with bands like ABBA on the front!! hahahaha Running around in the summer from house to house (our parents never knew where we were) in beach cover ups made of 2 towels sewn together!!! hahahaha Aawh those were the days my green machine big wheels was the fastest on the block and had a sticker or Luke Skywalker on the front to make it go faster!!
TG, Oh yeah I remember all those how about Sigmond the SeaMonster (Kroft Hour), LOL@ HR Puffnstuff (Jimmy and his darn talkin flute ), but what brings me further back is I used to watch Popeye, Heckle & Jeckle, Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Grape Ape, Huckleberry Hound, Casper, Atom Ant, Augie Doggy, Flintstones, jetsons, Magilla Gorilla show....... Oy I could go on forever.
What happy times, Saturday Mornings to me was the best time ever. I remember when the Brady Bunch had their cartoon airing saturday mornings, usually they started new ones in September, boy was I anixous and excited for them to start.
Leenie I can remember fighting with my older sister on Saturday mornings I wanted to watch cartoons and "land of the lost" and she wanted to watch American Bandstand!!! She knew all the names of the dancers they were in her Tiger Beat magazine! hahahahaha
Then at night my other sister would always want to watch "little house on the Prairie" and we wanted to watch Brady Bunch or Happy days.
"GGGRRRaaape AAAppe" LOL
I still have my Banana Splits folder from school! hahahaha
I feel deprived! My mom never let me watch cartoons because she thought they were too violent! My brother and I finally convinced her to let us watch The Jetsons and The Flintstones, but that was it!
) and buy penny candy. I remember leaving the store with the little brown bag full of paper dots, liquorice laces, rootbear candy etc. *sigh*
how about Sigmond the SeaMonster (Kroft Hour), LOL@ HR Puffnstuff (Jimmy and his darn talkin flute 
My brother and I finally convinced her to let us watch The Jetsons and The Flintstones, but that was it!
