Just got here.....How long have you collected? Poll

[RichR]

Collected in the late 80s early 90s in middle and high school. I got back into cards in 2004. I really became interested when I saw the vintage Cracker Jack cards for the first time!

[ChiefBenderForever]

First packs in 1978. Only years I didn't buy anything were 1992-1995. In 1998 started putting together a 34 Goudey set and took 10 years to complete it. So as far as pre world war 1 goes I consider myself fresh meat as I really branched outside of T206 only in the past year.

[steve B]

First pack 1969 -Jackson rookie!
About a pack a year till 73
Started collecting a bit more seriously when I moved to a town with a card shop in 1977 (Halls Nostalgia in Arlington Ma.)which is when I counted from.
I've been more or less active since then, but not always in pre war since I collect almost everything.

Steve

[HBroll]

I have been collecting since 1982 so its been about 28 years now.

[carrigansghost]

I was into 50-70's as a kid in my younger years of the 70's. Just started "vintage" 3 years ago.

Rawn

[mark evans]

I collected 1961 Topps baseball as a kid, then lost interest until discovering eBay in 1998. Have been collecting pre-war, as well as 50s and 60s, since.

[joeadcock]

Started consistent pre world war II collecting in 2003.

First pre war card was about 1975, at Flea Market in Miami, with my father. He bought me a 1933 Goudey, T206 Lajoie, and a Playball, at $1 each.

Great thread.

[Jim VB]

I've posted this before, but we have lots of new members. You old-timers can skip it.

As a little kid (say 4-11 years old) we lived in NYC. My dad worked at the A&P Grocery Chain's Factory located at Bush Terminal in Brooklyn. In his job as Superintendent of Shipping & Receiving, he had responsibility for the daily trash hauler (no recycling back then!)

Another tenant on the route was the Topps Factory (also in Bush Terminal.) The driver/owner and my dad became friends (and maybe he just wanted to keep the A&P as a customer), so once he found out my dad had kids, he would stop by nearly every day with uncut sheets that Topps was tossing out. Some were really disasters, but most had just minor flaws. During the Spring/Summer, my dad would come every night with a pile of these huge (OK, they were "huge" to a kid) uncut sheets.

My older brother and I spend countless nights sitting at the kitchen table, with scissors, cutting sheets into cards. (I know. I know...)

I was born in 1955, but my brother is 9 years older, so this went on from probably 1953 or 1954 through 1963 or so. Then it just suddenly stopped, and I never knew why. About a year ago I found out from Dave Hornish that this stoppage coincided with Topps moving their facility from Brooklyn to Duryea, PA.


Oh to have those sheets back!

So I collected as far back as 1959 or 1960, but took some time off. This time around, since about 1985 or so.

[Jantz]

I collected as a kid from 1973-1979, then when I went to high school I stopped completely until 1994. Why 1994 you might ask? Thats when the OJ Simpson saga began. My father and I were watching the white bronco on tv going down the interstate when my father looked at me and said "Don't you have some of his football cards from when you were a kid". I dug them out of the attic, thumbed through them and within a week started collecting again.

Collected mostly modern until two & a half years ago when I bought my first T206. Since then, I've never looked back.

Other than buying T206s, one of my side projects is to finish my 1979 Topps baseball set from when I was a kid. I'm close to being done and it has been fun putting it together. I may finish another one of my 70s sets, but I'm undecided at the moment.

Jantz