James Silverton wrote:

>
>> Candy buttons?
>
> Definitely OT I guess, but the post brought back the memory that I
> detested the taste of butterscotch when I was a small child and I still
> dislike it.

I liked those candy buttons, and they were cheap, three or four for a
penny. We used to like the Black Balls and Jawbreakers.


> Another memory was buying chocolate bars from *mechanical*
> slot machines with a drawer that you pulled out after inserting a coin..
> I grew up in Britain and the price was 3 pence (there was a coin for
> that amount), about 5 cents in the US at that time, so that was hardly
> "penny candy".

I remember the different types of pop machines, the uprights with air
cooling and the deep chests with cold water. With the chest type you
had to slide the bottle along and over to the release dodad, and both
types required a good tug to get the bottle out.... without rippng the
ends off your fingers.