Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Their mouths were stuffed with three pieces of sugar-free bubble gum. Each child chewed ...

Sometimes they came in waves, sometimes one at a time, but one 10-year-old made sure no one crowded his turf his bubble gum-blowing turf, that is.Steven Estrada, 10, of Basalt and many other kids ...

Hard to believe, but 100 years ago, bubble gum didn't exist. No bubble-blowing contests, no loud bangs from the back seat of the car on a long drive, no way for parents to hand over a few coins and ...

Diemer was working in Philadelphia for the Fleer Candy Company in 1928 when he accidentally stumbled upon the winning formula. He made it pink, he said, because that was the one food color he happened ...