Your LCS when you were a kid

[Gwynn545]

Pacific Trading Cards... They had everything!!! Packs of cards from the last decade at least, I bought 1972 Topps in 1980's, they had seemingly every other set, decals, Food issues, and another of my passions: Posters!!
I always wondered if Mr. Cramer himself was working the store back then!!

 

[mrmopar]

For me, I mostly bought cards at the various small grocery stores on Bainbridge Island, WA, but the couple shops I did get to visit as a kid were all quite far away for a kid (drive, ferry ride, more driving). My favorite was Pacific Trading Cards in Edmonds, WA, before they became a "major" card maker. I would beg my parents to stop there every time we visited my sister, as the shop was somewhat on the way to her place. I also enjoyed Golden Age Collectibles in the Pike Place Market and The Paperback Exchange in the Belltown area of downtown Seattle, when I was able to cross the ferry for the trip. All burned into my memory as great childhood card shops. I believe Golden Age may still be around. it was the last time I was at the Market, but that has probably been 10 years or more.

 

[mrmopar]

He was in the early-mid 80s, as I remember seeing him numerous times.

Pacific Trading Cards... They had everything!!! Packs of cards from the last decade at least, I bought 1972 Topps in 1980's, they had seemingly every other set, decals, Food issues, and another of my passions: Posters!!
I always wondered if Mr. Cramer himself was working the store back then!!

I remember buying a 1933 Goudey Rogers Hornsby there on one trip. I think I paid around $15 for it. It was loved, but not too bad. I still have it.

 

[predatorkj]

Well, we had K-Mart and Stop-N-GO. That's where most of my cards came from as a child. We did have plenty of shops. I got to go to several of them at least once but it was usually only once. My folks used to go for a ride every Sunday and they'd drive all over town just checking different things out. So if we happened by one, they sometimes would stop. But I'd get maybe one or two cards(favorite was when I got a Bagwell UD rookie and an 87 topps Will Clark rookie from one of these stops). But they never spent much money on cards for me at shops because they were just too expensive for something my mom figured would end up in the trash.

There was a shop in Llano Texas that I used to frequent when I stayed there during the summers at my grandparents house. My grandfather would drop me off over there when he went to the grocery store and the feed store in town. Believe it or not they had a hell of a selection for being open during pre-ebay years and out in the middle of nowhere. They sold comics, comic cards, and sports cards. At that time I was into basketball and purchased a nice chunk of cheap cards. But it was fun.

 

[21ccl]

Walmart.