Whatever happened to these long-time dealers?

[akleinb611]

Okay, here are a couple of early dealers, both of whom I know are long gone from the hobby. I'm curious about their current whereabouts.

Bruce Yeko - any collector over the age of fifty (okay, sixty!) will be familiar with his name. He ran an outfit called Wholesale Cards, located in Connecticut. Yeko was THE dealer of the Sixties and Seventies. He took over the inventory of dealer Marshall Oreck (who was a member of the family behind the vacuum cleaner empire!) and published the best card dealer catalog of that era. A very good argument can be made that Yeko, rather than Woody Gelman or Larry Fritsch, was the most important dealer of that generation. Not only did he have complete runs of all Topps and Bowman sets available, but many of the rare 1950's and 1960's regional issues all came from his holdings. If you own a mint 1960 Lake to Lake Dairy Milwaukee Braves card, it came from Wholesale Cards. Yeko faded out of the hobby in the early Eighties and took up a second career, recording original cast albums of Broadway musicals whose runs were too short for an "official" album release. As of ten or fifteen years ago, he was still involved with this. Anyone have an update for him?

Second - Bruce and Scott Oran, two brothers who specialized in selling Topps and Bowman commons of the Fifties and Sixties. I filled in many a set buying from them. They operated during the golden age when Mantle, Mays or Musial might cost a bit extra, but anyone else was a common. Some of their ads can be found in the TCMA flyers of the Seventies, but again, I think they moved to Florida just around the time the hobby really took off in 1980. Anyone know anything about them?