As a child, remember popping down to the Penny Arcade for a dollar bag of mixed sweets, enough to feed you for a whole day.
Childhood was full of the best ever sweets imaginable including brown sugar candies, pineapple creams, peanut brittle, all-day suckers and licorice the length of your arm.
There were marry-me and English toffees, chewy gooey caramel pecan squares, butterscotch praline, cherry nougat, coconut ice and lollipops as big as your head.
Maybe you could extend the dollar by a few cents for a single scoop of ice-cream and if you were really lucky two scoops in a waffle cone.
Made with real fruit and milk straight from a cow, the ice-cream would melt in your mouth and drip down your chin, leaving a sticky mess for mum to wipe off with her hankie.
The young and young at heart can still have those experiences, with every flavour of ice-cream and type of candy conceivable available across many stores in Echuca Moama.
