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Paul SI can't imagine that Topps sold direct in Los Angeles, if selling direct to a store is what you mean. Those were the days of the great independent Mom and Pops, including liquor stores. There, it is like a convenience store, such as a 7-11, except individually owned/operated. Liquor, chips, magazines, candy racks, everything, and of boxes of baseball cards. Plus sold at supermarkets and anyone else who had a retail license. Such a geographic sprawl like you've never seen, although probably you have! But this was the original sprawl, in the 60's, chronologically earlier than other metro areas. Anyway, that's my take on it.