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Gold Mine Gum memories... When
I was a little girl, my mother would send my brother and me to get
milk at a little corner store about 5 streets over. We could use the
change to get something if we found something. Of course things were
much cheaper then. They always had a large variety or so it seemed.
Chocolate footballs, fortune gum, and of course gold mine gum. We
thought we were it if we bought these. We would rush to get home so we
could play pirates and treasure. Of course the gum was the hit with
the neighbor kids also. ~ Connie from Tennessee
In the summer of 1969 my Dad accepted a new position
and this required relocating to California from Oregon. A scary
prospect for a 2nd grader. Mom and Dad went down on a short trip to
find a house and when they came home, they had a pile of cool stuff as
a treat for me. They told of this nice little town where we to live
and the neat dime store where they found all of my presents. It was
hard to leave all of my "lifelong" friends but mom and dad were not
lying about the 5 & Dime. I spent all of my allowance there for years.
Of all of the loot that my folks brought back to Oregon that summer, I
only remember that "Gold Rocks" gum was included. It was a favorite of
mine for years.
Somehow, I lost track of it over time (did it stop getting sold in my
area perhaps?) until the other day when my son came back from the
store with, you guessed it, a bag. It brought back a flood of my
childhood memories of August 1969 and the "Summer of Love" in Marin
County, California. ~ Mike from Oregon
I'll never forget eating this candy for the first time. It was back around 1969 and I was ten years
old. I went to a YMCA summer camp and the kids were passing around this gum. They all said it was gold so I was afraid to eat it! I wanted
to but I was afraid it would break my teeth!
Eventually, I figured out it was gum so I went for it. I put a ton in my mouth and I remember
thinking it was the best tasting gum I ever had! I bought bags and bags of it all thru the 60s and 70s. Now my kids buy it although it is
much harder to find. ~ Grace from New York
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