I inherited my older brother’s cards very early. He had lots of 1969-1976’s so those are where my consciousness started. I was born in the early 70’s so 1979 and 1980 is about where I recall actually getting cards from stores. In terms of really ripping tons of product I was squarely in the mid 80’s junk wax era.
My dad had a friend/co-worker whose daughter worked at Topps in NYC. She was so cool and would bring me home free boxes of mid-80’s wax every once and a while. Carrying heavy wax on the train all the way to CT, how insanely amazing she was! To a young kid it was like heaven getting free boxes of cards!
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