Card knowledge "youngin's" don't know

[swish54_99]

I remember when I first realized top loaders. Just stuffed the cards right in them, no penny sleeves and not worried about dinging a corner on the way in. And when I ran out of top loaders, I'd cut up my 9 card pages to make my "own" top loaders to put the cards in.

 

[BBCgalaxee]

I stuffed a single pocket (album page) full of this card, maybe got like 8 or so into it.

 

[finestkind]

When people actually traded cards without a price guide.

 

[magicpapa]

When people actually traded cards without a price guide.

And it was NEVER about the

 

[BBCgalaxee]

I forgot to mention this one, which is perfect for FCB.

Prospecting 25 years ago wasn't buying a few cards of a prospect.

It was buying 100 count bricks of a prospect!

Card magazines like Tuff Stuff and SCD regularly had multiple ads from dealers selling rookie cards in lots of 50, 100 and 500.

 

[DeliciousBacon]

I forgot to mention this one, which is perfect for FCB.

Prospecting 25 years ago wasn't buying a few cards of a prospect.

It was buying 100 count bricks of a prospect!

Card magazines like Tuff Stuff and SCD regularly had multiple ads from dealers selling rookie cards in lots of 50, 100 and 500.

And much like prospecting today, it was a great way to throw money away, as anyone who paid actual money for Todd van Poppel RCs can tell you.

 

[wallyscards]

This thread made me think about when a Topps employee was arrested for stealing a garage full of 1986 Topps Minis. That one always makes me laugh.

 

[wallyscards]

Who remembers when the hottest card around was the 1982 Donruss San Diego Chicken? I have some old SCD's and I think it's on every dealers buy list.

 

[Will Style 13]

Who remembers when the hottest card around was the 1982 Donruss San Diego Chicken? I have some old SCD's and I think it's on every dealers buy list.

Pretty sure that was on a want list of mine years ago. I'm not sure if I ever got a copy.

 

[joey12508]

You mean like this!

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Yes, those are 1952 Topps packs at Woolworths and a whole bunch of 1953 Topps product in the other photo.

That Woolworth store picture says Fordham road store, I have been in it way back when I lived in "THE BRONX"

Made me remember going in there for a egg cream. lot of youngins don't know what that is.

 

[DaClyde]

Made me remember going in there for a egg cream. lot of youngins don't know what that is.

I just picture someone sucking the guts out of a Cadbury egg.

 

[joey12508]

I just picture someone sucking the guts out of a Cadbury egg.

lol that's funny

 

[BBCgalaxee]

I'm really near the location of that Fordham road former Woolworths store.

Maybe I'll ask the current tenants if I can check out their basement

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[BBCgalaxee]

This needs a bump.

Donruss didn't start their "Rated Rookie" cards in '84.

On the back of certain '83 cards they printed "rated rookie"

 

[joey12508]

Before ebay I use to buy and sell on yahoo auctions.

 

[finestkind]

I used to make trades in AOL chat rooms.