Fun with Bazooka Bubble Gum - Life in America 0225am 4.7.24 indeed.... a penny a piece of gum was pretty much well within most people's grasp.............. great song, also........
A HUGE part of my childhood. My premier 1 cent candy at the store whenever I was fortunate enough to find a penny on the street. For a while, I collected all the Bazooka Joe comics that came with the wrappers. I still love it today whenever I can find it.
As a child in the late 50's and early 60's we had a store that was right on the way to our elementary school. It was a house which turned one of its main rooms into a small candy store. The store was run by an Asian woman named Mary. Of course since it was on the street all the kids used to walk to and from school, it was VERY popular. Was never into bubble gum, jaw breakers, hard candy, or licorice. I liked chocolate candy bars like Snickers, Baby Ruth, 3 Musketeers, Hershey bars, etc. But I did buy Outer Limit cards which came with bubble gum. I would just give the gum to another kid. The neighborhood corner store...now just a memory.
In my home town, we had Sam Williams Luncheonette. It was on the path to our grade school. All us kids stopped there on the way home,if we had the coin. Candy necklaces, buttons,wax soda bottles filled with flavored syrup,candy cigarettes, licorice whips,all for just pennies. Good days.
We had a 5 &10 store around the corner and down the street that sold all types of candy and gum. If you were lucky enough to have a quarter you could fill your pockets with gum, candy and wax.
@@swingman5635 hmmm. &What wld they have to have today??!! Carrot & celery sticks? Yogurts & go hurts?! Trail mixes?! All the stuff mom's put in their lunchboxes today. 1970 moms put the penny candy stores out of business!!!!!! Plus, No one walks to skool anymore. They all take a bus!
I sent away for the squirting camera and a fake mouse. The camera leaked water from everywhere except where it was supposed to and the mouse was too fake looking to scare my sister as I had hoped. Ah the good old days...
Way back when ... there was tons of penny candy (especially gum of all sorts). There'd be stores where I swear most shelf-space went to candy ! We'd get brown paper bags and literally fill them with candy. Every- thing came to 1 penny, a nickel, or ten cents tops. Great candy and selection I don't see anymore.
When my best friend and I were ten, we both managed to stuff 25 pieces of Bazooka Joe in our mouths. We laughed so hard that we nearly wet ourselves AND choked to death. Fun times.
I was a teen ager in the late 40's and 50's, and Double Bubble was the only Bubble Gum that I chewed. I don't think there was any other bubblegum at that time. Another gum I chewed was Teaberry back after WW2 was over in 1945, 1946, and onward. I remember it came in a pink wrapper and tasted like a sweet fruit. I haven't seen Teaberry in probably thirty-five years. The price was $.05 for a pack of gum in those days. There was also a dance called the "Teaberry Shuffle." I chewed so much gum back then that's the reason my teeth are so bad in today's world. A couple other interesting gums were Clove, and Black Jack. Two more quick stories about gum is that I slept overnight with it in my mouth. It's a wonder I didn't swallow it and choke to death. Last but not least, is when my kid's were growing up, my two girls did the same thing, but their gum would fall out their mouths, and get stuck in their long hair. That was one Hell of a job to remove bubble gum from two little girls on a school morning. Life is so interesting, isn't it. Up's and downs, and rounds and rounds. Thanks for listening, EN. posted 7/28/'21.
Topps Bubble Gum was also the premiere baseball card company for my youth and early adulthood. I collected the cards from roughly ages 8-16 but sold them to a collector for around $20. Little did I know that some individual cards would be valued at more than $20 a few decades later. The bubble gum was tasty and slightly addicting.
@@elizabethbowie9753 Hey Elizabeth, - thanks for the feedback. Those gumballs (sour apple was my favorite) were individually wrapped in cellophane and cost a penny each. I bought one the other day - for 25 cents ! 🙄
Yes, I was trying to remember the name of Wacky Packs, loved those! About 3rd or 4th grade I think. Teacher also confiscated resin balls we all had, I think they were called "clankers"(??)
Definitely love Bazooka growing up back in the 60s. Especially when getting them and all the candies when going trick or treat on Halloween. Very cool indeed✊🏾
I had to get permanent crowns in 4 molars in the late 50's from chewing bubblegum. Loved the taste of the 50's bubblegum. Had to switch to sugarless gum which was awful.
@@jilledmondson6894 Try xylitol gum such as Xyloburst. It's actually good for your teeth and the flavor is as good as regular gum although like Bazooka Joe it has the problem in that it doesn't last very long. You can get it in bubblegum flavor.
The next Recollection Road should be on comic books. Those were very popular back in the 60's. I remember Archie, Jughead, Veronica, and Betty. One of my best friends had a huge stack of those comics and we would spend hours on the back porch reading those.
Hi!..I was at the grocery store today and they had Bazooka gum at the checkout line. I picked up one and was about to buy it I read the label and saw it is no longer American made folks. It said Made in Tunisia!! I put it back on the shelf.
Chewing gum, candy and soda pop were a rare treat for me in the early 60s , my Dad said I'm not paying for a dentist. I didn't get any cavities until I left home and earned my own living. It only took three visits and six fillings for me to give up the sweets. I'm 64 yrs old now and still have all my own teeth and very rarely enjoy the aforementioned treats. I'm glad my Dad said no to most of the sugar stuff when I was young. Life in America 👍
Who else saved up a bunch of little comics in the hopes of ordering one of the "Prizes", but never did? Lol, I think I still have them comics saved up somewhere..
I remember getting Bazooka bubble gum as a child for a special treat for a good report card. When you opened up a piece of gum your fingers had white powered sugar on them. Then you could read the comics while chewing your Gum. A blast from the past!! ❤😊❤😊❤😊
Topps also had a novelty item called Wacky Packages, which included two parody stickers depicting funny food and soap products, including picking on their own Bazooka gum ( Badzooka). There was also Stove Glop (parody of Stove Top Stuffing), Mold Power (parody of Gold Power detergent), and Dums (parody of Tums chewable tablets). There was more. You got a stick of bubble gum with it too.
@@silentwitness4843 Nope! It was a Topps product. Topps from what I remember specialized in bubble gum and cards, and bubble gum and stickers. Wacky Packages, a parody of household products, was one of their products.
Yeah I remember this Bazooka Bubble Gum mate. Pretty sure we got it here in Australia when I was a kid in the late 60s.I liked it. It was imported by the then Aussie gum company, Scanlens. Great times. Great vlog.👍🇦🇺🤪
Finally an episode that I can really relate to. I was born in 1970, and my buddy and I used to walk to 7-Eleven to get candy. I used to love Bazooka gum. I thought the comics were pretty funny. By the way, my name is Joe.
I literally had a show box full of Bazooka comics! Alas, it was lost in the move when I was in the third grade. It was my favorite because our local grocery had FIVE pieces for a penny on their candy counter! I would always fall back on them as the "best value". My father would give me money to go to the store (on my bike) and buy him a pack of cigarettes and I could spend the change on the penny candy counter. Better days, my friend!
We had an apartment in Manhattan NYC in the 50's but we also had a house in Brooklyn. On nearby Cortelyou Road there was a variety store named STAN'S. Also nearby was several candy stores complete with every imaginable candy including of course Bazooka My favorite candy was the Sky Bar from Necco with four compartments of different candy fillers. The candy stores were located exactly of the approaches to school making sure that we were sugared and coke/Pepsi caffeined up to be as unruly as possible. We were a handful all of us. Some of the girls were worse than the boys...what great memories.
They changed the "And His Gang" in the title of the comics when urban gangs and gang wars became such a deadly menace. I remember the outrage in the media, from people who said the change was just pandering to political correctness.
LOVE THIS BUBBLE GUM BEST GUM EVER MADE . ONE OF MY COUSINS ON MY DAD'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY BOUGHT A BUNCH OF BAZOOKA JOE I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW MUCH HE BOUGHT BUT HE HAD ORDERED IT ON LINE IT CAME FROM ISRAEL WHAT WAS SO NEAT ABOUT IT THE CARTOONS IN IT WERE IN HEBREW INSTEAD OF ENGLISH I STILL HAVE THE COMICS FROM THE PIECES OF GUM THAT MY COUSIN GAVE ME
It's so cool to see the characters again - they were in my brain somewhere, but I couldn't have told you before I saw this. I also remember one of the questions/answers that they had: Q: What's the best thing to do fast? A: Nothing. For some reason I still think of that from time to time. Lover this channel! 💖
I just loved Bazooka bubble gum growing up in the sixties. When I went trick or treating, Bazooka gum was my favorite treat in my pillowcase. Sure, chocolate was good, but, back then, I could spend hours chewing. In fact, I chewed bubble gum right into my thirties.
OMG I forgot about squeeze Bazooka until I saw it at 5:48! I loved that stuff, I still remember the weird texture of it. That I personally loved, but I wouldn't be surprised if others were repulsed, lol.
I used to buy em for 5 cents a piece in the morning in the early 90s and sell em at school for 10 cents a piece. Made my lunch money back and then some.
Bazooka bubble gum was not my first choice but but when my pockets were empty and was the case most of the time I settled for Bazooka the gum was a hard as a brick and even dangerous at times and I knew guys who would roll around on the ground when I read the comics aloud they didn’t do it for me but the times were simpler or maybe it was just those I hung with
I also liked to chew the gum. Like alot of old things,I wish that I would have saved all them old comics instead of throwing them all way! So so many things that when you get older you wish that you would have saved.. Thank you again for an excellent video..
Loved this gum and the comics that came with it. My other favorite was the gum that came with Topps trading cards, except there was too much of it to make a decent wad.
This video reminds me of something. I have an idea you could do for another video and that would be to review all of those crazy ads they used to put inside comic books. Remember the x-ray glasses you could buy to see thru stuff?
I loved Bazooka Bubblegum as a child back in the 70’s!!!
Me too. Used to blow bubbles with it .
60s here!
I still remember that wonderful scent as you unwrapped it! They should make perfume that smells like that!
So did I! 👍
@@QueenBee-gx4rp yes! 😄
We used to get a piece of Bazooka Bubble Gum at the barbershop after a haircut!
Same here I used to look forward to that. Wow how far we come from just the simple things in life 🤔
I had forgotten that. It made it all worth it!
Same here I also looked forward to the Bazooka gum after the haircut
Now all I get is a beer.
@James Cricket I WISH I had a name THAT cool!
Something I could always afford as a 7 year old in 1967.
Fun with Bazooka Bubble Gum - Life in America 0225am 4.7.24 indeed.... a penny a piece of gum was pretty much well within most people's grasp.............. great song, also........
I probably chewed more Bazooka bubble gum in my youth in the 60s than anything else. I loved it! Bazooka Joe forever!
...and you've got the fillings to prove it?
Very. Nice. Happens. Very. Great. Bye
Yes! 👍
@@bluesky6449 😄😄😄
I also go back to the 60s with it! Maybe contributed to my lower partial now in my 60s. We had so much junk in the 1960s it was probably everything.
I loved this gum. The only bad thing about it that the flavor didn't last long.
But you could blow amazing bubbles with it 🤓
@@nonamegame9857 yep
One of their engineers invented a way to make the flavor last 100 times longer. Corporate fired his butt immediately.
Buy 100 pieces for a dollar. Flavor lasts a long time,but not your jaw.
@@earlleegrace3318 lol
A HUGE part of my childhood. My premier 1 cent candy at the store whenever I was fortunate enough to find a penny on the street. For a while, I collected all the Bazooka Joe comics that came with the wrappers. I still love it today whenever I can find it.
As a child in the late 50's and early 60's we had a store that was right on the way to our elementary school. It was a house which turned one of its main rooms into a small candy store. The store was run by an Asian woman named Mary. Of course since it was on the street all the kids used to walk to and from school, it was VERY popular. Was never into bubble gum, jaw breakers, hard candy, or licorice. I liked chocolate candy bars like Snickers, Baby Ruth, 3 Musketeers, Hershey bars, etc. But I did buy Outer Limit cards which came with bubble gum. I would just give the gum to another kid. The neighborhood corner store...now just a memory.
In 1st and 2nd grade at the same time our candy store was directly across the street from the elementary school 👍👍
In my home town, we had Sam Williams Luncheonette. It was on the path to our grade school. All us kids stopped there on the way home,if we had the coin. Candy necklaces, buttons,wax soda bottles filled with flavored syrup,candy cigarettes, licorice whips,all for just pennies. Good days.
We had a 5 &10 store around the corner and down the street that sold all types of candy and gum. If you were lucky enough to have a quarter you could fill your pockets with gum, candy and wax.
@@nonamegame9857 Strategical business location.
@@swingman5635 hmmm. &What wld they have to have today??!! Carrot & celery sticks? Yogurts & go hurts?! Trail mixes?! All the stuff mom's put in their lunchboxes today. 1970 moms put the penny candy stores out of business!!!!!! Plus, No one walks to skool anymore. They all take a bus!
Greatest birthday gift ever was in 1st grade from my best buddy, a box of 100 pieces of Bazooka.
I sent away for the squirting camera and a fake mouse. The camera leaked water from everywhere except where it was supposed to and the mouse was too fake looking to scare my sister as I had hoped. Ah the good old days...
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine." 🤣
Lol
Run a little Faster! Jump a little Higher in your P.F. flyers!!!
Reminds me of the disappointment I felt with the sea monkeys.☹️😂
@@nildarodriguez3974 I remember those! 😂😂
Opening it without damaging the comic was always a challenge.
At my age I couldn't chew this gum without fear of loosing my teeth!😂 but liked it back in the day 🤗😉 this and Cracker Jack!
Remember the prizes in Cracker Jack? Always hated the peanuts, used to pick them out.
@@samanthab1923 you missed out. I don't think the very VERY few "things" they have in them now even qualify as peanuts
Sheila Anne yes the prizes were great!!!! Today you get only a tattoo and the taste of the cracker jacks is not the same☹️ but I loved the peanuts 🤗🥂
@anthony chihuahua have to agree they do not taste the same🙃
anthony chihuahua I know! Tastes change. As a kid I wouldn't eat the crust on pizza!
Thanks again Recollection Road for another great video.
I remember it being rock hard. Tough to get the chew started.
I loved chewing Bazooka bubblegum and reading the Bazooka Joe comic strip as a child in the 60s!
I love it! Brings back memories. Loved the comics.
Nice one. Something so simple yet memorable.
I worked at Topps in the eighties , I remember going into the gum curing room at getting the gum when it was soft and warm.
I rememberr Bazooka gum as being hard unless it was very fresh.
But ya chewed it anyway....!!
Hard as rocks!
@@nancydemoss7904 You had to suck on it to get it pliable.
Yeah took a while to get it chewing plus you could read the lil comic as you chewed .
Like the gum thay came with baseball cards. Hard until you chewed it a bit.
Way back when ... there was tons of penny candy (especially gum of all sorts).
There'd be stores where I swear most shelf-space went to candy !
We'd get brown paper bags and literally fill them with candy. Every-
thing came to 1 penny, a nickel,
or ten cents tops.
Great candy and selection I don't see anymore.
Anybody remember Clarks Teaberry Chewing gum. That was my favorite.
It was very popular in the 60's
Teaberry gum commercial!! I was SO proud as a little girl that I could copy that same shuffle dance ..LOL
@@michellerjackson5776 I remember that commercial well☺
Blackjack gum - remember that ?
@@jackiereynolds2888 loved Blackjack gum!
When my best friend and I were ten, we both managed to stuff 25 pieces of Bazooka Joe in our mouths. We laughed so hard that we nearly wet ourselves AND choked to death. Fun times.
Double Bubble was my favorite. No comics but it was a bit softer to chew and tasted better.
True, I agree.
Fleer's "Double Bubble" had comics. One of the characters was a fat kid named "Pud". LOL
Oh MAN, was Double Bubble good back in the day!
I was a teen ager in the late 40's and 50's, and Double Bubble was the only Bubble Gum that I chewed. I don't think there was any other bubblegum at that time. Another gum I chewed was Teaberry back after WW2 was over in 1945, 1946, and onward. I remember it came in a pink wrapper and tasted like a sweet fruit. I haven't seen Teaberry in probably thirty-five years. The price was $.05 for a pack of gum in those days. There was also a dance called the "Teaberry Shuffle." I chewed so much gum back then that's the reason my teeth are so bad in today's world. A couple other interesting gums were Clove, and Black Jack. Two more quick stories about gum is that I slept overnight with it in my mouth. It's a wonder I didn't swallow it and choke to death. Last but not least, is when my kid's were growing up, my two girls did the same thing, but their gum would fall out their mouths, and get stuck in their long hair. That was one Hell of a job to remove bubble gum from two little girls on a school morning. Life is so interesting, isn't it. Up's and downs, and rounds and rounds. Thanks for listening, EN. posted 7/28/'21.
Topps Bubble Gum was also the premiere baseball card company for my youth and early adulthood. I collected the cards from roughly ages 8-16 but sold them to a collector for around $20. Little did I know that some individual cards would be valued at more than $20 a few decades later. The bubble gum was tasty and slightly addicting.
Topps was also a store chain. Started as a five and dime then expanded to clothing and records ...
i remember my mother giving me a penny to buy a bazooka joe at the store back in '61 and i would always give her half
Cool, LOL. (smile)
Fruit Stripe was delicious.
I liked those round-green sour apple gum balls.
It was delicious, for about 10 seconds.
@@jackiereynolds2888 I remember my best friend who loved those big grape gumballs!
@@elizabethbowie9753 Hey Elizabeth, - thanks for the feedback.
Those gumballs (sour apple was my favorite) were individually wrapped in cellophane and cost a penny each.
I bought one the other day -
for 25 cents ! 🙄
@@nance64 I can't think of any other gum that lost its flavor as quick as Fruit Stripe!
Ever notice when these companies "modernize" these icons they destroy them?..
Yes, they do. 😢
Yes among other things! Like Removing them off boxes and such! Because people whine about it! I'm sorry not sorry! It makes me sick!
Very sad, but true.
Yep. They take something iconic and turn it into something totally forgettable.
Growing up in the 70's, I love the gum especially reading the comics. My friends and I would read each others comic.
I chewed my fair share when I was a kid back then, I threw the comic strip away after reading it though. 🍬
@@Acejustforalaugh Depends on where i was. In the house i threw it in the garbage, outside you're right i probably threw it on the ground. ✌
Growing up in the 50's; there was Bazooka and Double Bubble both a penny.
and Black Jack gum
@@marydesmond9595 Used to chew Beeman's, Clove, Teaberry and Doublemint also.
In Elementary school, during the 70s trading Bazooka cartoons and Wacky pack cards.
Getting caught and having the teacher confiscate them.
My brothers were big fans of Wacky Packs. Do you remember Freakies? Monster magnets that came free in the cereal.
@@samanthab1923
Freakies ???
Yes, I was trying to remember the name of Wacky Packs, loved those! About 3rd or 4th grade I think. Teacher also confiscated resin balls we all had, I think they were called "clankers"(??)
Nick Hill Ralston Purina Cereal came with free refrigerator magnets. Weird monster creatures.
S K Click-Clacks! Also had a fourth grade teacher take yo-yo's away.
My brother saved up his Bazooka wrappers and sent them in and got a pocket knife, must have been around 1965.
Awesome video! You have amazing content!
Great video and thank you again for the trip down memory lane.
Definitely love Bazooka growing up back in the 60s. Especially when getting them and all the candies when going trick or treat on Halloween. Very cool indeed✊🏾
I remember when Bazooka Bubble gum was just one cent for a single piece.
ya back when ya bent over to pick up a penny now yow ya walk over it
And Hershey's kisses at 3 for a penny 🤓
Back until the 1980s pennies were nearly 100% copper..
Today pennies have less than 1% copper...they are worthless no valuable metal at all
@@horseathalt7308 till the middle half of 1983 when they became zinc.
@@miked1765 same with dimes and quarters 95% silver until the 1960s..who stole that silver.....the bagel eaters did.
My dentist is worth millions because of this stuff !
My teeth are gone, and bazooka is probably the main reason for that, plus the sugar rush you got was incredible.
Do you remember what year some people gave out toothbrushes at Halloween?
I had to get permanent crowns in 4 molars in the late 50's from chewing bubblegum. Loved the taste of the 50's bubblegum. Had to switch to sugarless gum which was awful.
@@jilledmondson6894 Try xylitol gum such as Xyloburst. It's actually good for your teeth and the flavor is as good as regular gum although like Bazooka Joe it has the problem in that it doesn't last very long. You can get it in bubblegum flavor.
You can still buy this, and a cartoon is in it. I always liked the smell of it, and the taste, it is unique.
This stuff loses all flavor in like 30 seconds. I still love it.
I saved the comics to get a heart necklace. My teeth hurt just thinking about chewing bubble gum. Bazooka was the best bubble gum of the 60s and 70s.
The next Recollection Road should be on comic books. Those were very popular back in the 60's. I remember Archie, Jughead, Veronica, and Betty. One of my best friends had a huge stack of those comics and we would spend hours on the back porch reading those.
Sergeant Rock, Sergeant fury, Superman and bizarro Superman 👍👍👍
The Archie comics were my favorite, right up to my early teens. Alot of my paper route money went into those comics,lol.
@@nonamegame9857 Oh yeah....for sure!
Little Lulu, Baby Huey, Casper, tons of Archie and occasional Superman
Hi!..I was at the grocery store today and they had Bazooka gum at the checkout line. I picked up one and was about to buy it I read the label and saw it is no longer American made folks. It said Made in Tunisia!! I put it back on the shelf.
Chewing gum, candy and soda pop were a rare treat for me in the early 60s , my Dad said I'm not paying for a dentist. I didn't get any cavities until I left home and earned my own living. It only took three visits and six fillings for me to give up the sweets. I'm 64 yrs old now and still have all my own teeth and very rarely enjoy the aforementioned treats. I'm glad my Dad said no to most of the sugar stuff when I was young. Life in America 👍
OMG! I just discovered your channel! I took a look at your library of videos and love all the topics you explore in them. I subscribed of course!
Early 70's I remember it cost one cent and had the comic/tattoo.
That's right! One cent 😧
Oh, the tattoos! I'd fogotten about that!😄
Who else saved up a bunch of little comics in the hopes of ordering one of the "Prizes", but never did? Lol, I think I still have them comics saved up somewhere..
Totally!! :)
Haha yeah
my little brother saved up 500 comics through his youth & sent them in and got a really Cool Pump Tent.. That had a Bazooka Joe Logo
I remember getting Bazooka bubble gum as a child for a special treat for a good report card. When you opened up a piece of gum your fingers had white powered sugar on them. Then you could read the comics while chewing your
Gum. A blast from the past!! ❤😊❤😊❤😊
In 1960s I Love Chewing Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum as a Kid.
Bazooka bubble gum had a unique smell and taste. When I was a kid I used to sniff the wrapper while I was chewing the gum.
I used to lick the wrapper.
I used to not care about my mother's warning that I'd "pull out my fillings". Now that I pay for them I care.
That is exactly why I didn't buy them on amazon just now. Sad. Didn't have fillings in the early 70's, so was fine back then. Now? not so much.
We were warned not to swallow our gum.
I had a filling pulled out by Hubba Bubba gum. My parents were pissed off.
@@whackamolechamp so what...stuff happens when you're a kid.I bet your parents didn't mind about the money they spent on booze and cigarettes.
I can still smell it now!
I still love Bazooka bubble gum. Bought a pack last week, gone in no time.
Bazooka Bubble Gum... wow! what a memory!
Great video thanks!
There was a family owned convience store and a gas station that sold bazooka bubble gum not too far away from my house back in the 1990s.
We had a similar idea in Australia
The bubble gum was called Big Charlie
Soft and sweet Very popular with kids growing up in the sixties
Love Bazooka gum, Bazooka Joe & the little waxed paper comic strip which used to be inside the wrapper… so cool!
It takes me back a long time ago
At just a penny, a few pieces of Bazooka were always easy to come by with change we found under Dad's recliner. Good times!
Topps also had a novelty item called Wacky Packages, which included two parody stickers depicting funny food and soap products, including picking on their own Bazooka gum ( Badzooka). There was also Stove Glop (parody of Stove Top Stuffing), Mold Power (parody of Gold Power detergent), and Dums (parody of Tums chewable tablets). There was more. You got a stick of bubble gum with it too.
We used to stick them on our school lunch boxes and folders
That stuff was from Mad Magazine, right!???
@@silentwitness4843 Nope! It was a Topps product. Topps from what I remember specialized in bubble gum and cards, and bubble gum and stickers. Wacky Packages, a parody of household products, was one of their products.
Bazooka was my fave gum in the 60s.... Man, love these vids,
keep em coming and I hope you are making a lil off your efforts.
Part of the wall next to my bed was plastered with those small Bazooka Joe cartoons
I'm sorry to say that it never occurred to me to save them as a kid. Wish I had.
@@donaldwycoff4154 I wish I still had them.
@@getoffmydarnlawn
I know right.
And the underside of my bunk bed was plastered with ABC (already been chewed) pieces of Bazooka.
I always bought this gum. Love it today.
i remember getting my bazooka pocket knife... it was amazing!!! ....and lasted about 2 weeks
Yeah I remember this Bazooka Bubble Gum mate. Pretty sure we got it here in Australia when I was a kid in the late 60s.I liked it. It was imported by the then Aussie gum company, Scanlens. Great times. Great vlog.👍🇦🇺🤪
Great bubble gum. My favorite forms of the product were the soft version in the squeeze tube and the Tootsie roll log of gum.
When I woke up, my pillow was gone!
Still funny after 50 years..
Loved the gum. Loved the comics. I actually got several neat little books redeemed from them.
Finally an episode that I can really relate to. I was born in 1970, and my buddy and I used to walk to 7-Eleven to get candy. I used to love Bazooka gum. I thought the comics were pretty funny. By the way, my name is Joe.
I literally had a show box full of Bazooka comics! Alas, it was lost in the move when I was in the third grade. It was my favorite because our local grocery had FIVE pieces for a penny on their candy counter! I would always fall back on them as the "best value". My father would give me money to go to the store (on my bike) and buy him a pack of cigarettes and I could spend the change on the penny candy counter. Better days, my friend!
We had an apartment in Manhattan NYC in the 50's but we also had a house in Brooklyn. On nearby Cortelyou Road there was a variety store named STAN'S. Also nearby was several candy stores complete with every imaginable candy including of course Bazooka
My favorite candy was the Sky Bar from Necco with four compartments of different candy fillers. The candy stores were located exactly of the approaches to school making sure that we were sugared and coke/Pepsi caffeined up to be as unruly as possible. We were a handful all of us. Some of the girls were worse than the boys...what great memories.
They changed the "And His Gang" in the title of the comics when urban gangs and gang wars became such a deadly menace. I remember the outrage in the media, from people who said the change was just pandering to political correctness.
It probably was.
LOVE THIS BUBBLE GUM BEST GUM EVER MADE . ONE OF MY COUSINS ON MY DAD'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY BOUGHT A BUNCH OF BAZOOKA JOE I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW MUCH HE BOUGHT BUT HE HAD ORDERED IT ON LINE IT CAME FROM ISRAEL WHAT WAS SO NEAT ABOUT IT THE CARTOONS IN IT WERE IN HEBREW INSTEAD OF ENGLISH I STILL HAVE THE COMICS FROM THE PIECES OF GUM THAT MY COUSIN GAVE ME
One cent when I was a lad. Sent off for stuff, never got it. But love the comic,fortune.
It's so cool to see the characters again - they were in my brain somewhere, but I couldn't have told you before I saw this. I also remember one of the questions/answers that they had: Q: What's the best thing to do fast? A: Nothing. For some reason I still think of that from time to time. Lover this channel! 💖
Great content as usual. Be awfully cool if you produce an episode of the Red Barn hamburger franchise that had up to 400 restaurants in the 1970's.
I saved up those comics to send in for the t shirt prize, I still have that tee shirt!
But does it still fit................
Sure does bring back memories from some fine easier times
1 piece? No problem. You always had to cut it up and share it with your pal/best friend.
I just loved Bazooka bubble gum growing up in the sixties. When I went trick or treating, Bazooka gum was my favorite treat in my pillowcase. Sure, chocolate was good, but, back then, I could spend hours chewing. In fact, I chewed bubble gum right into my thirties.
OMG I forgot about squeeze Bazooka until I saw it at 5:48! I loved that stuff, I still remember the weird texture of it. That I personally loved, but I wouldn't be surprised if others were repulsed, lol.
bazooka actually tasted good too, i was a very picky kid
I’m collecting my comics to frame them all together
I used to buy em for 5 cents a piece in the morning in the early 90s and sell em at school for 10 cents a piece. Made my lunch money back and then some.
Bazooka bubble gum was not my first choice but but when my pockets were empty and was the case most of the time I settled for Bazooka the gum was a hard as a brick and even dangerous at times and I knew guys who would roll around on the ground when I read the comics aloud they didn’t do it for me but the times were simpler or maybe it was just those I hung with
I practiced rolling joints with my comics around 1970 !
My dad brought Bazooka gum from the USA in 90’s. I liked it.
I collected the comic strips and had hundreds of them that I kept in numbered order. Used my duplicates for the prizes.
My favorite!
I loved bazooka bubble gum! I love it today if I can find it.
I missed it and we can get it anymore in this generation
I also liked to chew the gum. Like alot of old things,I wish that I would have saved all them old comics instead of throwing them all way! So so many things that when you get older you wish that you would have saved..
Thank you again for an excellent video..
Man, I love that stuff
COMIC STRIPS 😁😁😁MY FAVORITE PART!!!
I remember this bubblegum so well…
I was born in 89, but growing up I remember singing a little song about it
Ahh, the memories. Remember the comics, and I loved the gum
Pixie sticks, Abba Zabba. Ju-Ju bees were always at the movies.
I loved the bazooka Joe raps!
I collected the comics as a kid in the 70’s. I don’t have them now because I sent every one of them in to get the prizes.
Loved this gum and the comics that came with it. My other favorite was the gum that came with Topps trading cards, except there was too much of it to make a decent wad.
i remember when they also made grape and cherry flavored bazooka joe, it tasted great but wasnt around long.
a dime went a long way back in the day!
This video reminds me of something. I have an idea you could do for another video and that would be to review all of those crazy ads they used to put inside comic books. Remember the x-ray glasses you could buy to see thru stuff?