Good Old Days

I just read  apost at SWG blog, he was talking about sweet milk in cans. That made me think of penny candy and gum. When I was a child growing up, we use to go to the corner confectionery and got penny candy and gum. A penny bubble gum, was big as a quarter back then. A penny candy was as big as a 10 cent piece now. For a dime, you could get sick as a dog on candy and junk. Ice cream was a nickle and cokes were a nickel. We also had a penny cookie, they were about 4 inches wide and a fourth of an inch thick, and yes, it was a penny. Lance crackers were a nickle and you got 6 of them in a pack, now you get 6 for 55 cents. The movies in Savannah were 10 cents and sometimes you got in for free, with bottle tops. The State and the Avon always had a double feature, it was 15 cents to get in and had some great candy and drinks for a nickle. I know people were not making great money, but everything was cheap, gas was 17 cents a gallon and we had price wars every week. Smokes were 20 cents a pack, a carton were 1.80, they are 70.00 a carton in New York now. An old girlfriend of mine is in Savannah for our 40th year graduation party. Linda still looks good, maybe I will go. Eric made me think about some of the old things of yesterday, thanks buddy, Cat