1948: Candy Train Wreck
A train wreck spilled candy into the streets of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on August 8, 1948. According to the newspaper article, excited kids "made off with arms full of candy." Known as the Candy Train Wreck, over 30 cars derailed in the accident; no one was injured.
I guess that is what my folks would call 'the good old days'.
This one I've never heard of. So I looked online and the candy is described as either Hershey's or Mounds Bars. Someone on Facebook who actually participated as a child said it was Mounds bars. Either way, I would have been a happy child if I had been there. Alas I wasn't born yet and I wasn't born near there. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteI have a newspaper.com subscription but I did not read the story, just the little blurb. Mounds bars. I would have been in heaven, lol.
DeleteI remember as a youngster seeing an overturned truck. Unfortunately, the road was littered with potatoes, and not candy!
ReplyDeleteI was driving to work one day on the freeway into downtown Detroit. Everything came to a halt and we had to exit. A garbage truck had turned over an dumped its load. Yuck!
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