Good Card Shops?

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Posted By: Glen V

I have a business trip to Phoenix. Does anyone know of any good card shops there?

Since there can't be too many, how 'bout starting a list of all vintage stores?

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Posted By: benge610

Sorry Glen, don't have info on Phoenix; but it did get me thinking about if there are any (vintage) good shops in the Chicago area?(besides the National, guys; I'm going to be out of town). I guess I may have answered my own question though, the Rosemont has good shows every 5-6 months.

Ben.

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Posted By: petecld

The ony place left to find anything in pre-1950s vintage in Chicago is AU Sports in Morton Grove and even they don't have a HUGE selection.

The one store in the south suburbs near never had any pre-1950s cards until the Topps T206 buybacks came out. I know, that's sad, but what are you gonna do.

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Posted By: benge610

Morton Grove isn't too far to go when the occassional fix between Sun-times shows is necessary. Re: my previous post on Rosemont shows and "good" used in the same sentence; I had second thoughts about that, but I figure "the larger the show, the better chance I have seeing vintage material of interest to me"; there sure is a helluva lot of other stuff. BTW am I missing anything good (T,E, 19th cent.) in any of the "smaller" shows in the area? I used to drive around and check them out, but got tired of seeing 95% new crap, so restricted myself to the two Rosemont's and Sportsfest.

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Posted By: petecld

I still go to some of the smaller ones looking for vintage cards and I do this because I am glutton for punishment. I rarely find anything. Here and there a "new" T206 will appear. Rarely do you find much.

I would stick to the Sun-Times and larger shows. Even those are a disapointment sometimes.

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