The line of Hershey’s candy bars from 1978
Vintage Clark Bar & Clark Crispy Bar (1979)
Pixy Stix and SweeTarts candy (1975)
Snik Snak Stiks candy from Mars (c 1974)
Brach’s chocolate-covered cherries: First in the hearts of our countrymen! (1970)
To tell the truth: Brach’s Chocolate Covered Cherries are the nation’s number one brand, because Brach creates them with tender, loving care.
We select plump, juicy, whole cherries — cordial them in rich, velvety creme — then each one is coated thick with Brach’s own real chocolate.
Celebrate George Washington’s birthday with a box of Brach’s Chocolate Covered Cherries! Available in Bingmont flavored & Maraschino flavored.
By the bag or by the box your best candy buy is Brach’s… and that’s the honest truth!
Old-fashioned Hershey’s candy (1976)
Assorted retro candy packaging including Reeses, Rolo, Toffo chewy caramels, and Hershey’s milk chocolate bars.
Retro Brach’s candies (1978)
Branch’s – For all the good things in candy.
Honey and butter and mint and orange. Our pure and real and natural ingredients are used in just the right amounts to make these Brach’s candies exceptionally delicious. But whichever Brach’s candies you choose (the tempting assortment makes it difficult!) you’ll have fresh and flavorful favorites for everyone to enjoy. All the good things in candy are wrapped up in the familiar Brach’s stripes.
Real butter makes richer Butterscotch Disks — Pure dairy butter. it means that extra buttery taste that lasts and lasts.
Real honey makes the sweetest Candy Corn — Clear, golden honey. That’s the difference in the flavor in every fresh, luscious kernel.
Real orange flavor makes tangy Orange Slices — Just-squeezed — orange flavor. Every slice tastes like you just peeled it.
Real oil of peppermint makes our mints mintier — Garden fresh mint flavor. Incredibly cool and crisp. These refreshing Starlight Mints keep your taste buds tingling!
Whatever Brach’s candies you bring home, you bring home the best.
Fearless Fudgie says ‘Everybody likes Kraft Fudgies’ (1971)
They’re gooey. They’re chewy. They’re chocolaty. Kraft Fudgies are the fun-to-eat candies. Take Fearless Fudgie’s advice, and buy a bag of fun today.
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Aplets and Cotlets candy: The non-chocolate alternative (1972)
Aplets & Cotlets are definitely not chocolate. They are made from fruit and nuts. No preservatives added.
Imagine the fresh taste of apples or apricots, surrounded by morsels of walnuts. Yet, they aren’t chewy and they aren’t crisp, either.
Instead, they’re… well they’re Aplets & Cotlets. For more than fifty years, people have been buying and enjoying these appetizing candies. In many families, they’re a traditional gift on special occasions. Many people just keep a dish handy for guests that drop in during the festive season.
Whatever your reason, you’ll find Aplets & Cotlets in gift boxes in candy departments everywhere… reserved for the people who love candy, but like the non-chocolate alternative, too.
Vintage Topps gum brands and varieties from 1975
Bazooka gum, candy pennies, Bazooka bubble gum, Gold Rush chiclets candy bags, Bozo gumballs, Topps baseball & basketball trading cards, Name Droppers, lollipops, Bazooka Big Buddy (flavors shown: Hawaiian, frosty, cherry, grape, raspberry, lemon-lime, fruit) and others.
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Vintage Peter Paul chocolate bars: Mounds, Almond Joy & more (1973)
Party bars/fun size: PowerHouse (caramel, peanuts & fudge), Almond Joy (coconut & almond under chocolate), Caravelle (caramel & crisp rice in chocolate) and Mounds (coconut under chocolate)
Vintage Life Savers Christmas candy (1972)
Kids’ gum brands from the 70s (1975)
Bazooka, Big Buddy, Gold Rush, and more classic gum.
Sweet old-fashioned chocolate candies (1978)
Hershey’s milk chocolate with almonds, foil-covered solid milk chocolate eggs, Kit-Kat snack-size bars, Hershey’s Kisses, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Rolo, and Hershey’s Assorted Miniatures.
Hershey’s Kisses for Christmas – Candy from 1976
A hundred Hershey’s kisses on a factory conveyor belt (1976)
Vintage candy sales for fundraisers in 1970
Mrs. Leland (Mary Leland) Old Vienna Chocolate Melt-a-ways, chocolate Pollywogs (Polly-wogs) in pecans and cashews as well as caramel, and Old-Fashioned rich milk chocolate.
Kraft caramels and candy apples (1978)
Brach’s chocolates: Peanuts & bridge mix (1979)
Brach’s wants you and your family to enjoy the best taste and value in chocolate candy. That’s why we still take those special steps that make Brach’s taste better than other candy.
We roast and blend our own cocoa beans, then we prepare seven different real chocolate recipes to give us the best-tasting chocolate for each delicious center.
Brach’s uses just the right amount of natural ingredients like butter, milk, real oil of peppermint, plump Michigan cherries, and fresh ingredients such as crunchy peanuts, chewy raisins and more.
We double dip our peanuts in two coatings of real chocolate. And only Brach’s Bridge Mix has twelve different centers. No wonder Brach’s is still number one for the best-tasting treat in chocolate candy.
Classic Hershey’s milk chocolate bars (1975)
Vintage Richardson after-dinner mints (1971)
Freeze candy bars and add a stick to make popsicles (1978)
Freeze fun-size chocolate candy bars – M&Ms Mars (1972)
Now’s the time for the candy bars that taste so good frozen — Fun Size Milky Way Bars, Snickers Chocolate Peanut Bars, 3 Musketeers Bars, and Mars Almond Bars! Fun Size Freeze ‘ems — what a shivery-delicious way for candy bars to taste! Hear them ‘‘crackle” when you bite. And they’re frosty-firm, so every bite lasts and lasts.
Get ’em by the big bagful and Freeze ’em! Freeze ‘em, chill ’em — and for still more fun, pack ’em frozen in a cooler to take along on all your summer outings.
Wouldn’t Freeze ‘ems be great at the beach? On picnics? So nice ‘n’ icy ‘n’ neat to eat, you can even enjoy them as you go —wherever you and your family drive this Freeze ’em Season. Sounds like fun? Just try ‘em!
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Hubba Bubba Bubble Gum (1979)
Brach’s Royals candy (1971)
Royals are unique. Chewy caramel outside — creamy nougat inside. Six tasty flavors — Orange, Vanilla, Raspberry, Chocolate, Maple and Butter Chews.
Junior Mints boxes from 1977
Kraft miniature marshmallows (1976)
Old-school Clark Bars and Zagnut candy (1976)
Rally chocolate candy bar (1970)
Retro Kraft candies (1970)
Peanut Brittle, Chocolate-Covered Peanut Clusters, Kraft Fudgies, Chewy Toffee, Butter Mints
70s packaging – M&M Mars candy bars (1971)
Candy shown includes Double Crunch, 3 Musketeers, Mars almond bars, M&M’s plain chocolate candies, Snickers, Snickers Peanut Munch, Sprint chocolate wafers, Peanut M&M’s, and Milky Way.
Vintage 70s Societe Candy (1976)
Retro Brach’s Jots candies (1970)
Milk Chocolate Jots, and also raisin and peanut flavors
Hershey’s Halloween candy packs (1971)
Trick or Treat wrapped candies include Reeses, Krackel, Mr. Goodbar, Hershey’s Kisses, M&Ms, Rally, and Hershey-ets.
Vintage jelly candies – Chuckles (1979)
Vintage Nabisco candies (1975)
Classic packaged candies shown include Pom Poms, Junior Mints, Cortina assorted chocolates, Cortina Thin Mints, Welch’s Cortina chocolate-covered cherries, Sugar Daddy, Sugar Mama, Sugar Babies, and Jujubes Chuckles.
70s Hersheys chocolate candy bars
A retro display of candy that features Hershey’s milk chocolate bar, Hershey’s Assorted Miniatures, Special Dark chocolate bar, Treats solid milk chocolate balls, Herhsey’s Kisses, Rally, Kit-Kat wafer bars, Hershey-ets, Krackel, Milk chocolate Peanuts, and Hershey’s with almonds.
Brach’s Maple Nut Goodies candy (1970)
1970s Valentine’s Day candy: Can we be your Valentine?
This year you can be sweet on everybody. All you need is a little ingenuity and three of America’s favorite chocolates. Snickers bar, 3 Musketeers Bar, Milky Way bar.
Wrap them individually, by the six-pack, or make a fun-size candies Valentine as big as your imagination. We just show you here a few of the thousands of ways we can be your Valentine. Because the ones you make yourself are sweeter.
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