He huffed. His cheeks puffed. He blew. The bubble grew. Rumor has it that 10-year-old Lionel Gallardo of Allentown had the biggest bubble in a contest at the Whitehall Wal-Mart. But it was hard to … ...

The bubble gum blowing contest divided all ages into groups to see who could blow the biggest bubble. Judges measured the bubbles. Juanita Ferber-Friday, who took home second place, ...

But when Tina Radke saw the Dubble Bubble National Bubble Blowing Contest display, she bought a bag of gum and ran home to get her son Nathan to enter the contest. That was in June of 2003.

That was the venue for the annual bubblegum blowing contest at the West Texas Fair & Rodeo in Abilene. Entries were down from last year, according to organizer Carey Parsons. Last year they ...