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Todd,
Thanks for sharing the 1952 Woolworth photo. I've seen it many times over the years, but confess it always brings a smile to my face. What I always wonder, though, is whether they sold this sea of first series cards soon enough to stock subsequent series. Maybe this is why the high numbers are so scarce: most stores still had a backlog of early series when they came out. I didn't start collecting until later in the 50s (1957 to be exact) and I never saw a Woolworth's (or any other store) with more than a handful of boxes on display.