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tbobI remember buying both 1 cent and 5 cent packs of 1958 Topps cards at Wyberg's drug store on Hennepin Street in Minneapolis as a young kid and wondering why some of the cards had the team and player's names in yellow instead of white. We would often go ahead and buy 30 penny packs to get the 30 pieces of great pink powdery slab gum along with the cards as opposed to buying 6 nickel packs and getting 48 cards but only 6 pieces of gum. We would scour the neighborhood for bottles and cash them in to get the pennies, nickels and dimes to buy cards.
I remember also a kid named Tommy Dragonmueller (no kidding) who had some 1957 cards neatly arranged in shoeboxes by team and we were amazed, we had never seen those cards before.