I'm 11 years younger than you, and on the opposite side of the world so I don't remember the same candies. But I remember going to the dairy and getting a 5c bag of mixed lollies if you wanted a surprise, or carefully picking 1c worth of your 5 favourites. They were loose in their own container under the counter so you could look at them all and decide. We had lifesavers and candy cigarettes, and some different things.
I've always dreamed of visiting your beautiful country! Tell me, exactly what is a lolly? Is it what we would call a lillipop, or a sucker? A ball or circle of candy on a stick?
A lolly is what you would call a candy. Could also be called a sweet here. Or even a sweetie, but I think that's more UK. So a candy cigarette, jelly bean, jelly baby, jaffa, jet plane, lifesaver, barley sugar, milk bottle, gobstopper could all have been in mixed lollies. (I don't know how many of those you would know)
Jet planes
That helps me so much! Let's see, I don't recognize a jaffa, but every thing else I've seen in stories. Thank you! So "lolly" is just a sort of generic term for small candies of all types.