Dubble Bubble and Fruit Stripe are also still being sold in stores and online. Fruit Stripe is breaking the 10-second stigma and apparently offering a longer lasting flavor.

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: January 8th, 1998, 19 years ago today … the day bubble gum inventor Walter Diemer died at the age of 93.

Five, Strident, Orbit, Dubble Bubble, Juicy Fruit, and more! But, why are we doing this? We’re on a serious mission to find the BEST piece of bubble gum in the world!

A box of 1928 Original Dubble Bubble gum. The first marketable bubble gum, Dubble Bubble was invented by Walter Diemer, a 23-year-old accountant with chewing-gum maker Fleer Co. of Philadelphia.

Walter E. Diemer, who invented bubble gum and taught salesmen how to market it by blowing gooey pink bubbles, has died at age 93. Mr. Diemer, who died Thursday in a Lancaster-area hospital, was a ...

Get your bubble gum ready for the Sixth Annual Dubble Bubble National Bubble Blowing Contest set for Saturday at Wal-Mart stores in Marion County and nationwide. Children ages 12 and under are invi… ...