On the Subjectof Bubble Gum Cards

Posted on 27 April 2010

Some of you might be too young to remember the golden age of bubble gum, where American law dictated that any large pack of gum must include a sizable card or sticker as a sort of prize. It’s a novelty that’s sort of vanished, but I think Big League Chew might do it still. Actually, that’s probably not true either. I just felt like name dropping Big League Chew.

Anyway, Bubblegumcards.org is a strange collection of these vintage treasures. Perhaps not so thrilling for the youth of today, over-stimulated by their MTV and VH-Whathaveyou, but it does stand as an excellent shrine to the wonders of nostalgia.

You can check out the bubble gum goodness here.

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  • http://www.amazon.com/CHINA-Portrait-People-Tom-Carter/dp/9889979942 tom carter

    Big League Chew never had tie-ins with any baseball cards, which is strange since they of all candy should have. Bubble gum cards were an endless sourse of amusement for kids back before video games and internet. What a thrill to go to the corner store and buy a pack of StarWars cards or Wacky Packages or Garbage Pail Kids. And what a bummer it always was to get the same cards you already had. That meant waiting a whole other week for your allowance so you could buy another pack. Ah, the good old days. I still have most of my cards, and the best part – they still smell like gum!!!

  • Russ Schaaf

    The TWG voted to boycott both formats unless the two camps agreed on a single, converged regular.Lou Gerstner, president of IBM, was recruited to apply pressure on the executives of the warring factions. At some point, the pc firms won the day, along with a single format, now called DVD, was agreed upon. The TWG also collaborated using the Optical Storage Technologies Association (OSTA) on the use of their implementation from the ISO-13346 file program (recognized as Universal Disc Format [UDF]) for use on the new DVDs.


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