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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Dave
My favorite store was Beckers on Main Street in Irvington, NY. Went by there recently and nothing was left but the awning. I still remember sitting out front flipping cards ('71). I'd lose my four packs and head home for dinner. Great memories. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Shop EZ convienence store a few blocks from my home. Scrounge up as much change as I could and head down to buy not just baseball cards but Star Wars cards also. A few years later I think all my money went into the Donkey Kong machine at the Kerr McGee gas station. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
As a kid I'd get up early on Saturday mornings, and bicycle along neighborhood streets and along a road, looking for soft drink bottles. This is before the days of plastic bottles or even aluminum cans. Coke bottles would fetch a 4 cent deposit, RC products 3 cents. If I could find 6 or 8 bottles, then I could bicycle over to a small family owned grocery, cash in the bottles, and buy Topps wax packages at 5 cents each. On a good day I'd get 7 or 8 packs. I can still smell the produce in that store, I can still see dirty, slightly muddy bottles in my bicycle basket. And I need a sip of water right now, I can still taste that gum. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: fkw
1977 Ride my BMX bike down to the local 7-11 or Walgreens with a handful of coinage from the fountain around the corner from my house. I can remember when Walgreens had the cheapest Baseball packs for 15 cents. Id also find my Wackypacks there too. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: barry arnold
Frank Wakefield, |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: John S
Struthers Newstand in Struthers, OH. Dad would take me when he was buying his can of Copenhagen and I would usually get a pack of cards. When I was a little older I would go to a place called Wittenauer's Pharmacy. I think the packs were 15 or 20 cents when I started buying (1977). I remeber being frustarted at the annual price hikes. Once I reached high school they were at 50 cents a pack for Topps Baseball and Football. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: bruce Dorskind
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Dave Williams
We lived way out in the country, miles from any store, but in the summer we'd talk mom into letting us go to the Schierer Dairy Store, and that's where I bought my first packs in 1971. My sister brought it home to me, and I opened it and liked the Steve Carlton card in there, and promptly became a Cardinal fan for life. Of course I took scissors to it so it would fit in my wallet in the picture section. I wish I had that card back, I've no idea what happened to it. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: T E
and Austin Street. Drug Store on the corner. Started buying packs in 1964. Went nuts with cards fron 1965 until 1968. I was not user friendly to my cards. They were flipped, cut up for games or tossed on the floor. My mother would clean my room when I was sent off to sleep-away camp during the summer by throwing out my cards. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Pcelli60
Several Queens (Corona/Flushing) candy stores and one little drug store..Springtime and topps wax packs- those feelings you can NEVER get back....... |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Mark Evans
I grew up in Norfolk, Va. I collected seriously for only one year - 1961 - and bought most of my cards at People's Drug Store. Like others, I relied on deposits from discarded soda bottles and change I could cajole from my dad, who thought I was wasting money. I figure the entire set cost me less than $10. Thankfully, my mom never tossed it out. It resides in a loose-leaf binder in Ex-Mt and brings back wonderful memories. Mark |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: rob
Campwoods sweet shop, next to Liptons suPermarket...Ossining, NY. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: david poses
another westchester boy on the board. i got my packs at the rye smoke shop. once my brother and i convinced my mom to buy us a whole box of topps wax packs. we got home and tore open the packs and stuffed the gum in our mouths. i think my brother had 10 pieces in his mouth by the time we saw our first reggie jackson card. nice. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Anonymous
When visiting our cousins in Dolton, IL, I bought some at a small store near there named Panozzo's (the family of Chuck Panozzo from Styx owned it), using money given to me by my grandmother. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Brian Weisner
I started buying 1975 Topps cello packs at the 7/11 on the way to my Dad's office. I used to go to work with him on Saturday and do odd job's around the office and the sales floor. Depending on how long I worked and how well I performed, I was rewarded with 3-5 packs of those beautiful celophane beauties. I remember the day I found a 1976 Thurman Munson on top, who at the time was my favorite player. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: barrysloate
I vividly remember I bought my first pack as a six-year-old in August, 1958, and that there was a Ted Williams All-Star in the pack. I didn't know what that meant, but saw that the card was different from the others and had all those pretty stars on it. My biggest pack buying year was 1960 when I was a second grader. I would go regularly during lunch with a quarter to buy five packs around the corner on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst, on the south shore of Long Island where I grew up. The candy store is long gone and I do not remember the name. There was a sporting goods store down the road that my dad took me too, Weiss's Stationery, and on a recent trip to my old neighborhood, discovered it was still in business! Imagine that, 45 years later. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: T E
Those were the days... |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Kenneth A. Cohen
My first recollection is of buying 1958 cards at the checkout counter of Peoples Drug Store, long since subsumed into the CVS chain. In relation to my house, it was located pretty much at the outer limits of where a 7 year old could ride his bike without adult supervision, about a mile or so away. (Today a 7 year old couldn't go 20 feet.) Growing up in Alexandria VA I was an avid Senators fan. The following year I can remember sifting through the top and bottom cards of a bunch of 1959 Topps clear cellophane 10-card packs and finding a Harmon Killebrew on top of one of them. I snapped that sucker right up. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
I think that is because New Yorkers are baseball card hogs. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Bob Pomilla
Mostly in a little candy store on Bryant Ave., just off the Cross Bronx Expressway and a couple of candy stores on 174th st. Still have the memories of hitting my father up for a quarter when he'd arrive from work and then scooting around the corner for five packs of Topps. This was the late 50's-early 60's. After all these years, the remembered thrill of opening a pack still makes me smile. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Bill Stone
In 1955 I lived in Burbank, California --our new house was in a former avacado orchard and my brother and I would go and " harvest" the crop, sell the avacados to the neighbors and then take our money down to a little neighborhood grocery store where I would buy as many packs of Topps as I could. My brother would usually buy a huge dill pickle out of a jar on the counter and I would get a Hires rootbeer. We would come home and I would sit outside and open each pack , sorting the players into their teams --hoping to get a Frank Sullivan ( a Burbank boy) or in my case always hoping for a Dale Long , the hero of the Hollywood Stars ( remember this was before the Dodgers came west) but inevitably I would always seem to get one Wayne Terwilliger and one "Spook" Jacobs in every pack!! When the avacados were not a source of income we would go up to the new construction taking place all around our neighborhood and pick up bottles. On Saturdays we would go around the neighborhood and pick up newspapers and store them in a friend's garage and once a month his dad would take us to a recycling plant where we sold the papers --it was a nice little set of businesses that always seemed to give us plenty of money to buy cards . |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: jackgoodman
Jake's Liquor Store, Palisade Avenue, Englewood, New Jersey. The name wasn't entirely accurate because they were primarily a soda fountain, news stand, and carried toys (I remember Hartlands behind the glass case). But I guess they sold liquor and tobacco and thought that was a better draw for customers (and a rumor I heard later on was that Jake was also the town bookie - but who knows?) |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Matt E.
1971 I was 10 years and I used to ride my red Schwinn with fat tires and double wire baskets on the back loaded with the larger pop bottles to a place we called THE DELL in Tiffin, Ohio. I would buy 3-4 packs of Topps and a few Marathon Bars. Then literally take one to two steps outside the door and open the packs and sit and eat the candy bars. I do remember the candy bar had a ruler on the back for some reason. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Mike Ernst
Small town western Nebraska (Scottsbluff) corner grocery store from 1955-1959, then at 16th and Van Dorn in Lincoln from 59 through 61, when I became too sophisticated to continue with a boy's hobby. (I was then 14) |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
We had four stores to choose from........corner pharmacy and soda fountain store, Klinsky's Candy |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Hey Mike, it's cool to see another Lincolnite here amongst all the New Yawkers... the only thing at the Van Dorn location you talk about now is a Mexican restaurant, a hair salon, a pet store and a fire station. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: CLAUDE
Well, I didn't buy BB packs as a kid growing up in Bellevue,Nebraska but, instead, bought TONS of Wacky Packages at the locak Hinky Dinky supermarket in the mid '70's instead. My friends all did the BB cards but I stuck to my guns and literally 'stuck' the Wacky Pack stickers all over my room (dresser, head board, closet wall!). Wish I had done the baseball too!!! This thread IS really cool and carries us all back to a simpler time...cool to go back there even for a couple minutes!!! |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Todd Schultz
1966, Mankato, Minnesota, at the Ben Franklin dime store. It was a two-block bike ride down Black Eagle Drive, then over about 200 yards to the Tempo mall, which had a Tempo department store, the Ben Franklin-shared with Rexall Drug, Red Owl grocery store, a hardware store, Dan's Barber shop (still there), Fat's Liquors and a 24 Hour Martinizing place. As a Twins fan, I was thrilled to pull a Sandy Valdespino in my first pack. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: barrysloate
Claude- that may be the best baseball card photo I have ever seen. Can you share what you know about it. Is it actually in color from 1952, or has it been colorized? And look at those uncut sheets hanging in the window- not to mention a million unopened packs. Clearly all the cards are 1st series. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: CLAUDE
No, I posted a copy of the original here a while back that was black & white....someone here on the boards photo-shopped it and added color!! Looks really nice in color! I had just a copy of the photo...the original sold in an auction for a good sum I believe last year sometime. Someone even commented on the sheets and identified a few of the players in the earlier post of the photo. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Scot Reader
The Foothill Little League snack bar in Upland, California. We got a clear plastic token after each game that we could redeem at the snack bar. Some kids used their tokens for "donuts" which were really deep-fried Pillsbury biscuits doused in cinnamon and sugar (admittedly, they were pretty tasty). But a token could also be exchanged for a 1977 Topps baseball wax pack. I thought it was especially cool to find cards of Mariners and Blue Jays in their inaugural season. My greatest prize at the time was the colorful card of "The Bird" Mark Fidrych which sported on front both the red A.L. All-Star banner and the Topps Rookie All-Star trophy. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Peter Thomas
on route 9 Boston/Worcester Pike - 1 block from east Natick elementary and 1 block from home with lots of pop bottles to be found along the way to get 49 Leafs. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Brian Weisner
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: davidcycleback
There was a dime store at the neighborhood mall. They had baseball, basketball, hockey and football packs. I would also buy Bazooka gum the size of a slab of concrete. I could chew the entire piece, but my mouth would be sore. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
I figured you were trying to "bust my chops".....so, I just had to bust yours, just in case. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Brian Weisner
Hi Ted, |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Gary Nuchereno
Elek's, Gartley's,Mehltotters and Mcgee's corner stores were |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: ockday
For me,in the early 60's, it was 2 stores on Kings Highway in Brooklyn..Joe's Variety Store and Nat's luncheonette. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Steve
I have been lurking for about 6 months but loved this topic and found it interesting how many different people mentioned 1977 as the first year they bought cards. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Ray Piskadlo
Brothers Bakery in Kearny, NJ. And when I was visiting family in the Poconos, the ShurSave supermarket at the intersection of 940 and 115 in Blakeslee, PA (5 min north of Pocono Raceway). |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Bob
My first pack was a 1958 Topps purchased at Wyberg's Drug Store on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was astounded when a friend of mine showed me his collection and there were some cards I had never seen before, turns out they were the 1957 series which looked soooo different from the blah 1958 series. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: barrysloate
Bob- I always liked the 1958's, because like you they were the first cards I bought. I can actually remember a day in kindergarten when an older kid showed me his cards and I'm pretty sure they were from 1957, but the memory gets foggy at some point. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Judson Hamlin
No, I've never had Campari, but I did read the US Supreme Court case involving Falwell and Flynt. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Rich Klein
In Clifton New Jersey in the basement 3rd series 1968 |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
The Lin-den in Linden, New Jersey; O'Johnnies in Clark, New Jersey. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: howard
A grimy no-name candy store somewhere around 21st st on 9th ave. in Manhattan. The owner was a grizzly old guy who I recall was pretty nice. I used to go in and buy a jaw breaker and with whatever money I had left over I would buy baseball cards or Wacky Packages. I bought the entire '72 Topps set there but they were eventually tossed by mom. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: martindl
Great topic. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: bobw
We lived on East 15th Street and Avenue U in Brooklyn NY and we had 2 candy stores to buy packs from. One was next to the subway station and another one was one block over by East 14th St. One day, the guy under the subway charged us 2 cents tax for each pack and we never went back to him again. The other store got all our business from then on. I remember in 1970 buying tons of Topps first series and never getting a Dick Selma card to finish the series. I never finished the series until I went to a mid 1970's Paul Gallagher card show in a church by Lincoln Center and finally buying one. |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Billy Stair
I spent my entire weekly allowance at the Sterling store on the square in the small town I grew up in. I still remeber 1971-1975 and buying those packs and fortunately I still have many of the cards!!! |
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Where'd you buy those packs as a kid?
Posted By: Joe Jones
I bought my 1989 topps packs at a local baseball card store at 8 years old in south east Michigan. Too bad that store did not have any prewar material . |
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