Oldtimers on this board?

[todeen]

Originally Posted by raulus

Used to ride my bike down to Safeway after school. Rip some wax and watch the kids with serious cash play pac man. 1987 Topps was pretty fly!

Originally Posted by KJA

I remember turning 8 and getting into cards thanks to 86 Topps football, Jim McMahon card in particular, my favorite player at the time. Didn't really start collecting baseball until 88 Topps. Those set designs really bring back lots of fond memories.

Goodness, don't we all feel young. You're the only two in the 80s! But I'm the first to admit my first pack of cards was 1991 Topps at just 5 years old. I didn't know nothing about nothing! A couple years later I learned the name Ken Griffey Jr, and Lord have mercy, I owned a couple! And then I was hooked!

Going back to the present conversation, I believe my mother worked at a drugstore soda fountain: Newberrys. It was either in Walla Walla, or Spokane. I would need to look into that a bit more. Eventually she went to work at JCPenneys, and she met my father selling tires at the Penneys auto store. He set up a kegger just so that he could invite her.

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[BioCRN]

Originally Posted by todeen

Goodness, don't we all feel young. You're the only two in the 80s! But I'm the first to admit my first pack of cards was 1991 Topps at just 5 years old.

1982/83 is when I first started to collect, and I got up to speed with hobby knowledge by 1985.

The amount and types of pills in my daily day/night medication pill box says loud and clear I'm no longer young, but given most of the talk on this thread I don't think I'm part of the old timers club yet.

That's fine. I can wait.

[John1941]

I bought my first packs in 2016 if y'all want some perspective.

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by John1941

I bought my first packs in 2016 if y'all want some perspective.

.. how much did a nickel pack of 6 cards ( with bubblegum ) cost in 2016 ? It's okay , we're sitting down.

[John1941]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

.. how much did a nickel pack of 6 cards ( with bubblegum ) cost in 2016 ? It's okay , we're sitting down.

$2 + tax for 12 bubble gum-less cards, which increased to $3 + tax for 16 cards after a few years - which is one reason why I quit buying packs in 2019. (That and an increased focus on vintage.)

[jchcollins]

1986 for me, (yawn...) down at the Cashion's grocery and some I think at the 7-11 the town over.

But within a year I had found the shops, and was immediately hooked by everything "old cards" after convincing my mom to plunk down I think $15 for a sharp 1966 Topps Sandy Koufax. With each passing year, I became more interested in cards like that and less interested in the current wax.

[hank_jp]

At the age of 8 the 1952 Topps baseball cards came out and boy did I love those big cards. I bought the 5 cent packs and can still remember the chewing the pink gum. We would flip for cards, place them high up on a wall and let them spiral down - if your card landed on any other card on the floor you got to keep them all. But, the cards we didn't take chances with were for the team we rooted for. I wanted those Brooklyn Dodger players and would without thinking trade a Mantle for a Duke Snider, just as any Giant fan would do the same for one of Mays. I also bought the 1953's and 1954's, but it wasn't all baseball cards for me by a long shot.
I wanted to get as many Frank Buck Bring 'em Back Alive cards featuring wild animals from Africa as possible. The same goes for Look 'n See, Rails and Sails, Wings and later on Flags of All Nations and the President set. The artwork was in glorious color and on the card back one could learn about as much as an 8 year old brain could absorb.
These days I still enjoy collecting with my son, Scott and we are focusing mainly on the signed 1933 Goudey set (over 75% complete) and the signed 1952 Topps master set (over 92% complete and yes, I would trade a signed Snider for a Mantle now).
Also I thank Scott for gifting me that Look 'n See set I so enjoyed all those years ago.