The Rosen '52 find

irv · #1 10-10-2024, 12:21 PM

Don't recall Zip bubble gum at all but, I assume, it was gone by the way side by the time I was old enough to chew it?
Always looked forward to the bubble gum in OPC packs, and boy, did I chew a pile of it.

Balticfox · #2 10-10-2024, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by irv

Don't recall Zip bubble gum at all but, I assume, it was gone by the way side by the time I was old enough to chew it?

Were you old enough to buy the Monkees card issues or the 1967 Philadelphia Gum Super Hero Stickers? These were produced and distributed in Canada by Grant Products to which Parkhurst had been renamed in November 1963 and contained Zip gum.

(Not mine.)

Moreover as late as 1972 the Canadian wrapper of the Horrible Horoscopes cards featured a Zip Bubble Gum side ad:

(Not mine.)

Zip Bubble Gum must therefore have been sold somewhere into the 1970's though I don't remember ever seeing it.

Here's Bobby Burrell's excellent account of the history of Parkhurst:

Parkhurst Products; Bobby Burrell - Hobby News Daily

irv · #3 10-12-2024, 11:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Were you old enough to buy the Monkees card issues or the 1967 Philadelphia Gum Super Hero Stickers? These were produced and distributed in Canada by Grant Products to which Parkhurst had been renamed in November 1963 and contained Zip gum.

Moreover as late as 1972 the Canadian wrapper of the Horrible Horoscopes cards featured a Zip Bubble Gum side ad:

I was only 3 in 67 so no, I wasn't old enough. I remember the Monkees cards, and I believe I had a few, but that's about all I can remember of those. Might have just accumulated them too rather than having purchased them?

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