re: What special goodies did you and your elementary school baws bike to the nearest 7-11 for

Posted by RockAndRollDetective

Baton Rouge

Member since Mar 2014

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Posted on 8/15/17 at 8:59 am to Old Sarge

Snickers bar
Dr Pepper
Football cards
Wacky Packages
Creem magazine

This post was edited on 8/15/17 at 9:02 am

Posted by CCTider

Member since Dec 2014

24837 posts

Posted on 8/15/17 at 9:01 am to Old Sarge

quote:
a large orange soda

No Dr Pepper? Half-assed Texan.

Posted by CCTider

Member since Dec 2014

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Posted on 8/15/17 at 9:02 am to kook

Damn, I wish I could still find a screwball. Those were the shite.

Posted by Kadjin

edge of the basin

Member since Oct 2013

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Posted on 8/15/17 at 9:05 am to Old Sarge

Fireballs, BB tubes, candy cigarettes, those wax coke bottles, and occasionally a bread for mom.

Posted by TigrrrDad

Member since Oct 2016

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Posted on 8/15/17 at 9:11 am to Old Sarge

Space Dust candy - the demand for that stuff on the black market in elementary school was off the charts and only one place had it.

Posted by cajunangelle

Member since Oct 2012

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Posted on 8/15/17 at 9:17 am to LSUCouyon

quote:
4 mule team and wagon picked us up at da bayou bank in da 50s. Bikes were rare.
Momma made da treats. Popcorn balls, fudge, pralines.

pralines rock above ALL and you are so damned old.

Posted by cajunangelle

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Posted on 8/15/17 at 9:33 am to RockAndRollDetective

Posted by MottLaneKid

Gonzales

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Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:01 am to Old Sarge

Topps Baseball cards with powered gum.

Hershey bars with almonds.

Whatever video game they had inside that dark hole.

Always enjoyed an orange sunkist can.

Posted by LaTxTransplant72

Houston

Member since Jan 2016

30 posts

Posted on 8/15/17 at 12:34 pm to Old Sarge

Big Gulps, Big League Chew, MAD Magazine, those kites with eyes (the black ones were way cooler than those bunk white hawk looking ones!), balsa wood airplanes (with and w/o rubber band propeller), and of course whatever 2 video games were currently in store....... how I miss the 7-11! Solid post!

Posted by Old Sarge

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Member since Jan 2012

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Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:13 pm to G Vice

quote:
Orange Push Up ice cream

Oh yeah

Posted by RogerTheShrubber

Juneau, AK

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Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:14 pm to Old Sarge

Grape Nehi, sunflower seeds, playboys

Posted by lsuwins3

Member since Nov 2008

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Posted on 8/15/17 at 10:36 pm to RogerTheShrubber

Dad would give us a $1.00 or $2.00 to buy him smokes and the rest went for candy.

I realized I could make a fortune making my own cinnamon toothpicks. Bought the cinnamon oil at K&B Drug . Learned the hard way you need to wrap them well when you store them in your front pocket. Right after we played with the mercury from a broken thermometer.

Loved the plastic football Icee cups too. Had to pull out the one for the game you were watching.

Posted by tonydtigr

Beautiful Downtown Glenn Springs,Tx

Member since Nov 2011

5835 posts

Posted on 8/15/17 at 11:15 pm to lsuwins3

quote:

I realized I could make a fortune making my own cinnamon toothpicks. Bought the cinnamon oil at K&B Drug . Learned the hard way you need to wrap them well when you store them in your front pocket.

Yeah, I ruined my 8th grade science book by putting some home made cinnamon toothpicks wrapped in waxed paper between the pages. That cinnamon oil bled through a bunch of chapters, but it sure smelled good.

This post was edited on 8/15/17 at 11:16 pm