Just an aside here but ............ even today, almost without fail anytime the wife and I go to "Cracker Barrel" for dinner, we don't leave without me buying a pack or two of either "Blackjack" or "Teaberry", and sometimes "Clove" chewing gum. And almost as often I'll grab a pack of the little wax Coke bottles with the sugar water to sip on on the way home. If I've really got a sweet tooth that day I'll even pick up a box of "Goo Goo Clusters" as well. And the very first phone # my family ever had was GArden-5400, around 1955 as I recall. If you were telling someone your number you'd say it like 'G A' 5400. Three short rings and we knew that call was for us. Any other combination of short/long rings was intended for somebody else on the party line. That was on a party line of 5 or 6 other 'users'..... well, we were called 'customers' back then.
I wore "PF Flyers" to school and used up more jars of "Butch Wax" than should be allowed by law. Mama or daddy would adjust our little 8" round screen, black/white TV with the 'test pattern' every night when regular programming ended about 9
m, then again the next morning with that same test pattern about 6:am when the TV came back on with local "Farm News" and weather.
The very first 'high fallutin' set of matching table glasses we ever owned were bought with 'S&H Green' stamps ...... and we were proud of them since before that we had mismatched sets of 'Mason' jars. Well, all the jars actually matched, it's just that some of them had handles and some didn't. You always hoped for one with a handle because without central air conditioning in the house, the jars of iced tea would sweat so bad the outside of the jars would get really wet and slippery. If you dropped it and spilled out the iced tea, you'd have to finish your supper drinking water cause there just wouldn't be any more tea. Come to think of it the same holds true for the very first set of matching plates and saucers we had ....... they were gotten with either "S&H Green" stamps, or maybe it was "Top Value" brand stamps, not real sure.
Oh yeh, I can remember 4 or more on that list, and I really didn't write it. But I very well could have !!!!