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Posted By: Julie Vognar

was San Francisco. Got some really nice stuff, though was not into 19th century yet. I went with a couple, the man of which had his wallet stuffed with cash, and in five miniutes, he was writing checks...Mark Macrae got me invited up into some dealer's room, where people kept showering Goudeys upon me, and someone was waving a '53 Bowman set around, saying "what shall I do with this?" I traded my '75 minis and cash for my (present) bat off, and SAW my first T205s, lying unattneded on some dealer's table, their borders gleaaming gold. "Thoase are pretty," I thought, "but I never saw them before; better not buy them."

I think, on the whole, the eastern dealers were really let down by us (as in my non-experience with t205s) because so many of us were such Rubes. They'd expected a sophisticated card city--and SF wasn't. Hey, come back! We're older and wiser!