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Category Archives: 1970’s
WigWag
After covering the US Marathon bar and its secret origins as well as its UK namesake and the bar that inspired it (CurlyWurly), I’m going to round it out with the WigWag.
Collecting CurlyWurly
I’ve long been uncertain of how the name of this bar should be written. Is it two separate words as in Curly Wurly, one word but with an oddly-placed capital like CurlyWulry, or is it simply a single name like … Continue reading
Posted in 1970's, Chocolate
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Mars Mixes it Up – A Tricky Trinity of Timeless Brands: Part Two
A quick recap on yesterday’s Part One: For decades, Snickers bars were sold as Marathon bars over in the United Kingdom, while the US had a its own different Marathon through the 1970’s. But in the early 1990’s the UK … Continue reading
Posted in 1970's, Chocolate, Uncategorized
Tagged 1970's, 3-Musketeers, 70's, candy, collecting, collector, confection, Dutch, Europe, German, history, M&M-Mars, Marathon, Mars, Netherlands, nostalgia, packaging, sweets, vintage, wapper
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Mad about Marathon – The bar that lasts a good long time…
The name of this website is CollectingCandy and no single candy wrapper has been as responsible for my starting to collect candy than the Marathon’s. My love of Marathon is reflected throughout the site. The current Collecting Candy logo is … Continue reading
Posted in 1970's, Chocolate
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Happy Valentine’s Day! – CollectingCandy-style.
Though Valentine’s Day is a holiday intimately intertwined with the idea of roses and heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, it’s not my top holiday for candy collecting. Perhaps next to the monster-adorned packaging for Halloween, or the Santa-&-Snowmen bounty of … Continue reading
Brach’s-in-Bulk – Bite-Size and By-the-Bag – Old-School.
Growing up, one of my favorite spots at the grocery store was the Brach’s bulk candy or Pick-A-Mix area. Decades before the modern bulk candy sections of super-stores, Brach’s kept the old-fashioned general store feeling alive with their candy sales … Continue reading
Posted in 1970's
Tagged 1970's, 70's, Brach's, candy, collectible, collecting, confection, holiday, Jelly Nougat, packaging, PIck-A-Mix, retro, sugar, sweets, vintage, wrapper
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Cereal and Candy: Best of Breakfast Friends
Though I am a candy wrapper and candy box collector, I’m also a cereal box collector. Each hobby has it’s own wonderful quirks and qualities, and sometimes the two of those hobbies crossover. Marketers long-ago figured out that a kid … Continue reading
Tribute to the father of Lemonheads and Atomic Fireballs: Nello Ferrara 1919-2012
On February 7th, Nello Ferrara, the man who brought us Ferrara Pan’s Lemonheads and Atomic Fireballs candies (and probably much more), passed away. Due to this news, today’s post will be a celebration of two of his creations that were … Continue reading
Posted in 1970's, 1980's, Boxed, Hard Candy
Tagged 1970's, 1980's, 70's, candy, collect, collectible, confection, mascot, panned, retro, sweets, vintage
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Hot Tamales – The cinnamon center of my collector-heart.
It was my nostalgic search for a vintage Hot Tamales box (as well as a 1970’s Marathon bar wrapper, but that’s another story) that would eventually lead me to become the passionate candy collector and historian I am today. As … Continue reading
It’s called soft-chunk! Or when Bubblicious was “New!”
Before I get to the subject of today’s post, I wanted to thank everyone for giving CollectingCandy.com such a terrific response yesterday. Thanks for the Tweets, the site mentions, the comments, and the e-mails. I approached that first article with … Continue reading
Posted in 1970's, 1980's, Bubble Gum, Gum
Tagged 1970's, 1980's, 70's, 80's, bubble gum, bubblegum, Bubblicious, candy, collect, collecting, confection, gum, packaging, retro, soft-chunk, sweets, vintage, Warner-Lambert, wrapper
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