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.

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.

Blue Jays pitcher Ricky Romero blew one of the biggest bubble gum bubbles you will ever see. ... he has also spent a lot of time working on his Dubble Bubble skills.

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.