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I adored Bazooka Joe bubbly as a kid and I would have kept all my gum and those cool mini waxy comics in a bag like this, strapped to my Raleigh chopper!
Oddly there's no mention of Joe on this Gordy packaging.
Did you like Bazooka Joe? Did you have accessories like this bag?
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Postscript
Ed's Skates
Woodsy,
I culled this picture off the Internet. The heavy metal skates slid in-&-out to adjust to the length of your shoe.
Once you had a good fit ('good fit' is a relative term when talking about these skates), you used the key to tighten the skates so that they didn't slide open.
Then you tightened the leather straps around your shoes. I had a pair of these as a kid, and BTW...
...they sucked! 😄
Ed
From Vegas Base
I sure do remember Bazooka Joe! And that damn gum probably killed more teeth than anything else on the planet! SFZ
ReplyDeleteHee hee, you can get them in boxes at our local Spar garage shop in the US section SF! I got some!
DeleteBazooka Joe - most definitely a part of my childhood, along with PF Flyer tennis shoes, skate keys, candy cigarettes and a host of others from what is now The Lost World (our youth). However, I never knew that accessories like this existed.
ReplyDeleteMe neither, Ed!
DeleteBut I really remember those Bazooka Joe mini comics!
Along with other Childhood treats like Bag of Gold bubble gum, in the fabric bag with the yellow thread drawstring.
...and lengths of bark covered wooden sticks, capped with bands of gold foil. When you chewed them, the yellow fibrous interior lasted of liquorice!
Anyone else remember those?
What are PF tennis shoes and skate keys Ed?
DeleteAh, yes, sticks of natural liquorice. Very chewy Looey! Delicious. Definitely still around.
DeleteWoodsy, ”PF Flyer’s” were a popular brand of what we called back then, ‘tennis shoes’. I don’t hear that term much any more - ‘sport shoes’ seems to be the preferred term. Skate keys were what we used to attach those big, clunky, ill-fitting metal roller skates to our tennis shoes 😄
DeleteI wonder if that's what Melanie sang about Ed! You've got a brand new pair of roller skates, I'll give you the key?!
DeleteAh, tennis shoes. They used to also be called pumps here and if they were black gym shoes, plimsolls! Never heard any of those now.
DeleteYes, that's exactly what she was singing about Woodsy!
DeletePhoto sent
DeleteTa Ed. Skates blogged! They look like torture devices!
DeleteNow that you mention it Lewis, Bag of Gold gum sounds awfully darn familiar! hmmmmm
ReplyDeleteBags of gold, I think they were called Golden Nuggets maybe, little pieces of chewing gum in that classic drawstring mini sack! Oh wow. And I reckon retro sweet shops still stock 'em!
DeleteGolden Nuggets it was.
ReplyDeleteBazooka Joe Bubble Gum was always the best gum for blowing bubbles with.
ReplyDeleteIt was softer, somehow, and sweeter than Wrigleys chewing gum and seemed very American (ie 'cool') at the time.
I loved it.
It was quite delicious. Did you like Anglo Bubbley as well Mish?
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