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Old 10-10-2024, 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by irv View Post
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

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