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.

This weekend, Dubble Bubble holds its sixth annual competition to find that one person in the United States who blows ‘em big -- chewing gum bubbles, that is. The former titleholder, 11-year-old ...

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 ...