30 Forgotten Dime Store Candies Every 1960s Kid Bought

30 FORGOTTEN Candies Every 1960s Kid Bought at the Dime Store Turkish Taffy you cracked on the counter, wax bottles, Fizzies, and the nickel Hershey bar: 30 forgotten candies every 1960s kid bought at the dime store, and what became of them. Some are gone. Some changed hands. And some are still made, just not anywhere you'd think to look. From Mary Janes and Squirrel Nut Zippers to Bazooka Joe comics and the Sky Bar a Massachusetts grandmother bought at auction, this is the dime store candy counter, one candy at a time. In this video: Why the Hershey bar kept changing size, and the exact day the nickel bar ended The taffy invented by accident with too many egg whites The 1969 sweetener ban that ended the original Fizzies How one company's collapse scattered Mary Jane, the Clark Bar and the Sky Bar What's really behind the Tootsie Roll, Hershey's Kisses and Mr. Goodbar names Chapters: 0:00 When a Hershey bar cost a nickel 1:48 #30 Beemans, Black Jack and Clove gum 3:12 #29 Clark's Teaberry gum 4:15 #28 Dubble Bubble 4:58 #27 Candy Buttons 5:49 #26 Sugar Daddy 6:25 #25 Charleston Chew 7:29 #24 Zagnut 8:26 #23 Chick-O-Stick 9:18 #22 Black Cow and Slo Poke 10:20 #21 Mary Jane 11:19 #20 Squirrel Nut Zippers 12:23 #19 The Clark Bar 13:20 #18 The Mallo Cup 14:12 #17 The Seven Up candy bar 15:08 #16 Forever Yours 16:03 #15 The $100,000 Bar 16:42 #14 Chunky 17:42 #13 Razzles 18:18 #12 Pixy Stix and Lik-M-Aid 19:19 #11 Wax lips 20:02 The Tootsie Roll, Kisses and Mr. Goodbar name stories 21:44 #10 Nik-L-Nip wax bottles 22:56 #9 The gum in baseball card packs 23:44 #8 The prize in the Cracker Jack box 24:28 #7 Circus peanuts 25:02 #6 Necco Wafers 27:00 #5 The Sky Bar 28:21 #4 Bazooka Joe 29:28 #3 Bonomo Turkish Taffy 30:56 #2 Fizzies 31:46 #1 The nickel candy bar 33:18 Where these candies live on today Research note: Dates and details come from company archives and histories, including the Hershey Community Archives, plus trademark records, trade publications, newspaper coverage, and candy historian Samira Kawash. Where sources disagree, the video uses the best-documented version. Current makers are as of September 2026. Watch next: 25 FORGOTTEN Woolworth's Aisle Treasures Nobody Sells Anymore    • 25 FORGOTTEN Woolworth's Aisle Treasures N...   Which one did you spend your nickel on? The Turkish Taffy, the wax bottles, or the Mallo Cup with the play money inside? Tell me in the comments, and tell me which store. Subscribe to Storefront Memories for a new piece of vanished America every week. #VanishedAmerica #RetroCandy #60sNostalgia