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Originally Posted by jchcollins
As a kid who started collecting in the late 80's, it was generally unheard of to find even 1950's and 60's Topps cards in super great shape. There were multiple card shops in virtually every town back then, but the ones that carried vintage usually had lower grade stuff at best. I remember being excited not because of the card's condition, but because "Hey, that's Hank Aaron."
In more ways than one today maybe the loss of that sentiment about collecting is really to blame.
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I started collecting in 85 as a six year old kid and wasn't paying any attention to the older cards. Some years later I would see cards in the cases at shops and none were nice.
I do think there are some cards out there that clearly survived in great condition but how many is clearly up for debate.