http://www.nj.com/columns/times/index.ssf?tomgloverGo ahead, be a kid again and visit the penny candy counter at a typical 1940's "corner store!" The above link takes you to the TIMES web page, and directly to my "Sentimental Journey" columns. The TIMES, along with other newspapers all over the world have gone digital with all the latest news and features. If you are old enough to remember "penny candy," clicking on the link above will take you back to those wonderful innocent years of your youth. If you were fortunate enough to grow up in the "boondocks," or as it is less sarcastically known, "the country," you will once again take off your shoes and walk barefoot to the "corner store." The link leading to today's column will only be available for about 2 weeks when it becomes part of the TIMES' paid archives, so click now and gorge yourself on "Mary Janes," bolsters, "Kits," and other childhood delights from the 1940's!
TOM....THE BOASTERS WERE MY FAVORITE, BUT FOR A DIME YOU COULD WALK OUT WITH HALF THE STORE. HA! I RECALL BUYING CIGARETTES FOR A PENNY A PIECE IN THE 30S. MANY SMOKERS WOULD PICK UP BUTTS OFF THE STREET. WHAT A MISTAKE THAT WAS. IT SURE WAS A TOUGH PERIOD.
ReplyDeleteRalph: How well I remember! "Pop" Hogan had a deli on the corner of Newkirk and Hamilton Avenue back in my young years. We used to buy a cigarette from him also for a penny each.
ReplyDeleteTom Glover
A former store on Hamilton Avenue
ReplyDeletesold individual cigs for like a nickle in my Trenton High days.
My Burg Olmerta Code forbids me
from saying anymore :))))