Bubblegum cards

Bubblegum cards are not what they used to be. In my youth, if you had pocket change you bought yourself a pack of cards. They were not collector items. Embedded in the cards was this distinctive stick of gum with a powdery covering that made the cards smell of bubblegum. Most kids would look at the cards and stack them in their rooms. Summer would come around and we would grab a few clothespins and attach the cards to the wheel frame of our bicycles and the cardboard card would  make a load sound as the card hit the spokes of the wheel. We thought our bikes sounded like motorcycles, but mostly we were obnoxious with our clattering through the lanes of our houses. Suburbia got rid of lanes, kids used to flock in lanes and use their imagination. Now they are regulated to homes and the video games take them to worlds never found in lanes. We had Pong back then, but that didn’t keep us entertained for long, until Pac-Man showed up in local convenience stores, and the kids disappeared from the lanes and loaded the machines with continuous quarter after quarter. Bubblegum smell brings me to those days, and this fun site collects the cards of those serene times in the 70’s when you didn’t have to get plastic sleeves for your cards, they were spoke food for all to taste as we popped wheelies with our own custom made bicycles that fueled our imagination.