Oldtimers on this board?

[Volod]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

I can see All Star cards in this pack between the panels

Al - I think Dave Hornish did some impressive research a few years ago to pretty well establish that the Red Backs and CM All-Stars were packed together in the caramel candy packs, as well with the Team cards (probably the undated), while the Blue Backs and ML All-Stars were likely together in packs with the dated Team cards later on the 1951 season. But, those cello packs of yours - who knows? Can you see the All-Star cards well enough to tell if they are CM or ML?

[bmattioli]

1971 Topps Baseball. The kid across the street I used to hang with received a full box as a gift one time and I swore someday I would buy one myself when I grew up..

[MBH65]

71 Topps baseball wax packs at a little old mom and pop shop were my first when I was 5 years old. Got $1 allowance every week and bought 10 wax packs every Friday. I also remember getting some of those 71 baseball cello pack cardboard boxes for a quarter at the Kresge store about 20 miles away when my mom would take me with her.

[mortimer brewster]

1971 Topps football. Bought them, pitched them, traded them, defaced them then in November of 1971 took them to the playground and threw them up in the air and watched the little kids run after them.

[judgebuck]

My mother bought me my first pack of baseball cards in the summer of 1957. I began collecting in 1958 and hit it hard from 1958-1963.

I remember getting the TV Westerns, Zorro, Topps Civil War, Wacky Plaks, etc.

[Leon]

Fun reading so this was moved from the postwar side. A large portion of our members fall into the 60s-70s-80s Topps eras....

[Touch'EmAll]

At the bus stop in 1972 the big kids had new cards we all were checking out - so cool. Next year, 1973 I started getting packs, begged my mom every time we went to the store. I rode my bike to the local Toy City that had the 3 pack clear cellos I would go thru looking for the best players. Ahh, simple times.

[riggs336]

My mother bought me my first cards in 1953, but I didn't really start collecting until 1955.
I spent a lot of allowances chasing those last four '55 Topps numbers.

[Keith H. Thompson]

in Rochester, MI, and although I was fanatic about the Detroit Tigers, the local convenience stores did not carry baseball, but did carry wartime sets of airplanes, naval ships. I had to do this on a nickle a week allowance or an occasional gratuity from a visiting relative. I hope I still have those cards.

My Detroit Tiger collecting activity was confined to cutting out pictures and box scores from the newspapers and scrapbooking. Things picked up in 1941 when I had an early morning Detroit Free Press paper route. And I mean early, I was through by 6:15 AM, rain, sleet or snow.