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Old 03-29-2007, 08:21 PM
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Default Re: Chicagoisms............

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How about the Penny Candy stores? ........ Wax Lips, Dots on rolls of paper, some sort of sweet liquid in a wax tube, can't remember what some of it was called.

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The one in our neighborhood was called the Rose Bowl.....and in the summer time they would have YoYo contests once a week.....Cool.....

Ken

(Roodhouse???????????)

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Yeah, we had all that stuff too. How about Lik-em-Aid (Ade?) Chum Gum and Penny Logs?

Some of the old stuff is still around under a different name. there used to be a candy bar called Forever Yours. Now it's Milky Way Dark.
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