Classic late 1970's early 80's Card Shop

[danmckee]

I just had to post this as a reminder of the good ole collecting days when eye appeal meant everything and cards weren't treated like pieces of fine art.

I recently bought the contents of an old coin/card shop and this was in there!

Too Funny!

[D. Bergin]

Looks like part of that labels been redacted.

[danmckee]

He probably just reused an old case.... The "To be colored" is the classic part!

[danmckee]

Used to be common practice to color the worn corners on 1971s with a sharpie

[buymycards]

Coloring the corners of a beat up Ed Spezio card would increase the price from it's current value of a nickel, up to the recolored value of a dime.

:)

[Rickyy]

yep.. when I collected the 71 cards as a kid... colored the corners in too...after it was dinged. innocent days and times...

Ricky Y

[JollyElm]

I used the same method touching up some 68's. Hopefully, this one will come back a 10 now...

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[vintagebaseballcardguy]

I used the same method touching up some 68's. Hopefully, this one will come back a 10 now...



385423Is that the Black Corner parallel /50? [emoji12]

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[Stampsfan]

I used the same method touching up some 68's. Hopefully, this one will come back a 10 now...

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OK that's funny!!!

[LuckyLarry]

"to be colored" hilarious!

[hcv123]

I used the same method touching up some 68's. Hopefully, this one will come back a 10 now...

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as a rare 1968 over 71 overprint!!

[Leon]

as a rare 1968 over 71 overprint!!

They won't see the coloring.

[yomass]

You need to start a go fund me page to get a new keyboard.
and if you bought out an old card shop, I have dibs on the 84 Donruss pile.

[LarsenMN]

70's early 80's card shop? Did such a thing exist? We used to have Shinder's cards, comics and magazine shops here in Minnesota. The last one closed in downtown St. Paul over a decade ago. It was a perfect place for dad's. Kids would look at cards and the dad's would be looking at Penthouse's and Playboys in the ADULT ONLY section. Sadly, I was just a kid.:)

[steve B]

Yes they did exist.

My local was Halls Nostalgia, I think they'd barely been open a year when I moved there in late 77. There was also by 80-81 an antique shop inside a sewing store that had cards. I got a couple pretty nice 50s commons there.
And in 81-82 I went to Chicago and visited a place in a suburb south of the city.
There were a few others sort of local to me. Fenway sportscards, One in Stoneham? And there was also a coin place in Boston that was doing cards, but seemed way over priced.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

I'll take the Buchner Gold Coin, recolored or otherwise!

[mr2686]

70's early 80's card shop? Did such a thing exist? We used to have Shinder's cards, comics and magazine shops here in Minnesota. The last one closed in downtown St. Paul over a decade ago. It was a perfect place for dad's. Kids would look at cards and the dad's would be looking at Penthouse's and Playboys in the ADULT ONLY section. Sadly, I was just a kid.:)

I'm sure the Dad's were just reading the articles. LOL

[mintacular]

Back before people took cards so damn seriously, when it was simply a hobby

[nolemmings]

70's early 80's card shop? Did such a thing exist? We used to have Shinder's cards, comics and magazine shops here in Minnesota. The last one closed in downtown St. Paul over a decade ago. It was a perfect place for dad's. Kids would look at cards and the dad's would be looking at Penthouse's and Playboys in the ADULT ONLY section. Sadly, I was just a kid.:)

A guy named Phil Bolsta ran a one man card shop in St. Cloud late 70's. I think mostly he was just liquidating his own stuff, which was extensive. When I moved to Phoenix in '81, Bob Wilke already had The Shoe Box up and running for awhile. I have great memories of each place.

[bbnut]

Peninsula Sports Cards on the Peninsula in the S.F. Bay Area has been going strong since the late 70's. The only ones left, I think. They have 3 shops from Belmont to San Jose. GREAT shops! Knowledgable, friendly, and good-sized. The original owners (Walt & Steve) are still in charge. I remember back in the 80s buying a 1970 topps pack from them and pulling a Bench.

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[Leon]

I'm sure the Dad's were just reading the articles. LOL

That's all I read :).

[jchcollins]

Neat. Oh how I lament the loss of multiple LCS’s. As a kid in the late 1980’s, they were plentiful. I have 3-4 that I remember fondly just from my hometown in the suburbs of Charlotte, NC. One mall even had a Woolworth’s that had a vintage card counter! Something like that would be unheard of today.


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[dodgerfanjohn]

I can’t remember exactly when they started but Burbank Sportscards SouthBay Baseball Cards, and Beverly Hills BAseball Cards have been around a very long time. Maybe since the mid 80’s

All the places in LA that were open in the early 80’s are all gone. The ones I particularly remember were Kenrich in Temple City and I don’t remember the name but he used to be in the shopping center at Montebello Bl and Beverly Bl next to the Woolworths in Montebello.

[Rich Klein]

IIRC -- Rob started doing baseball cards as part of Burbank Coins in 1981. Took a while for the Coins to go away totally and the cards to take totally over.

[yomass]

Beverly Hills Baseball Card Shop is still going strong. It's located on Robertson Blvd. between Pico and Olympic. They do a good amount of trade in the shop and also quite a bit of online business. Matt Federgreen, the proprietor, has been around since the 1980s and is very knowledgeable and a pleasure to work with. It's worth the time to visit if you are ever in the neighborhood.

[Leon]

IIRC -- Rob started doing baseball cards as part of Burbank Coins in 1981. Took a while for the Coins to go away totally and the cards to take totally over.

And I think with approx 42 million cards (according to Rob) in stock they are one of the larger dealers. I never really frequented card shops back as a kid in the 1960s and 1970s as we usually went to 7-11 or other stores to get our cards.. If I recall correctly they had them at our Little League Parks too.