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Joe Shlabotnik

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3. lol, I used to buy cigarettes from the big kids.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Feb 14, 2012, 11:30 PM

Feb 2012

Actually I also remember going to the store with friends to buy smokes for one of their parents, who said we could keep the change (all perfectly normal and legal then). We bought 2 White Owl cigars with our change. I wish I had picture of us as 'cool' 8 year olds smoking stogies!

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When you had a few dimes as a kid what did you buy? I used to buy those candy cigarettes, [View all] applegrove Feb 2012 OP

Baseball, football, basketball cards. (early to mid 70's) Grantuspeace Feb 2012 #1

Yep, I bought football cards. geardaddy Feb 2012 #13

I had that one! And still have triples on the '72. Grantuspeace Feb 2012 #21

Partridge Family trading cards MorningGlow Feb 2012 #19

I have a couple of them too. Grantuspeace Feb 2012 #22

Italian Ices, from the little store around the corner, under the El! elleng Feb 2012 #2

lol, I used to buy cigarettes from the big kids. Joe Shlabotnik Feb 2012 #3

Orange pop pscot Feb 2012 #4

They need to bring back gum cigarettes. n/t ellisonz Feb 2012 #5

A local variety store in the early '60's used to sell something called a "Surprise Pack" for a dime. Gidney N Cloyd Feb 2012 #6

Booze. cliffordu Feb 2012 #7

45 rpm records unionworks Feb 2012 #8

Candy? I bought the real thing! Bake Feb 2012 #9

Vending machine cigs for 25 cents in my day. Graybeard Feb 2012 #28

Shoot! I thought I was the only one who remembered cigg vending machines! Bake Feb 2012 #36

They sold me the real thing once Rambis Feb 2012 #10

My stepmother (rest her soul) used to smoke Tareytons Bake Feb 2012 #37

Comic books. n/t RebelOne Feb 2012 #11

betchya I bought more! rurallib Feb 2012 #31

Bub's Daddy and Now and Laters and Bottlecaps geardaddy Feb 2012 #12

Potato Chips. My Mom would not buy them . She was ahead of her time. Thought they were junk food. Paper Roses Feb 2012 #14

Bubble gum. Fleer's and Double-Bubble. trof Feb 2012 #15

Little round peanut cartons that guaranteed... jamesatemple Feb 2012 #16

Soda RZM Feb 2012 #17

Wax lips and nik-l-nips... pipi_k Feb 2012 #18

Baseball Cards Populist_Prole Feb 2012 #20

Mad Magazine, comics, that sort of thing. Moondog Feb 2012 #23

Bazooka bubble gum and Monkees trading cards. grntuscarora Feb 2012 #24

Little Golden books for frogmarch Feb 2012 #25

That is so sweet. applegrove Feb 2012 #26

We had those too... pipi_k Feb 2012 #42

Comic books and then more comic books. Graybeard Feb 2012 #27

This message was self-deleted by its author Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2012 #29

Buttered onion roll Ohio Joe Feb 2012 #30

Comic books, Mad Magazine, cherry phosphates, The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2012 #32

Fake tattoos Tabasco_Dave Feb 2012 #33

Hershey milk chocolate bars csziggy Feb 2012 #34

Old Fashioned Taffy (in the wax paper) PassingFair Feb 2012 #35

Lik-a-maid sticks and root beer! RedCloud Feb 2012 #38

Bazooka bubblegum Art_from_Ark Feb 2012 #39

Depending on what time of year it was, & precisely how many dimes I had, it could be...... Bad_Ronald Feb 2012 #40

Zotz MadrasT Feb 2012 #41

Bazooka gum, and baseball cards nt Broken_Hero Feb 2012 #43