Seattle area sports card shops (1990s and beyond)

[JollyElm]

On a side note, let me ask a question. Many of us non-Seattle-ites (is that a word?) only know the city from movies and the TV show 'Frasier.' If it is as rainy as it seems, how does the humidity affect cards? Coming from New York, the subject of Kellogg's 3-D cards often arises, as the extreme heat and then cold of the seasons makes seemingly every single one of them curl up and crack over time. Does the precipitation up your way kinda screw with cardboard in an unexpected manner??

[perezfan]

If your house or place of storage is climate controlled (heat in the winter/AC in the summer), all should be ok.

I was worried about this when I moved from SD to SEA, but it has not been an issue after 15 years. The bigger worry is whether the mail arrives rain-soaked or dry.

[williamcohon]

Remember Triple C?

[ALBB]

wow, thats a cool assembly of business cards, I know Ive been to a couple years back

[conor912]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

On a side note, let me ask a question. Many of us non-Seattle-ites (is that a word?) only know the city from movies and the TV show 'Frasier.' If it is as rainy as it seems, how does the humidity affect cards? Coming from New York, the subject of Kellogg's 3-D cards often arises, as the extreme heat and then cold of the seasons makes seemingly every single one of them curl up and crack over time. Does the precipitation up your way kinda screw with cardboard in an unexpected manner??

I moved to Seattle 12 years ago and worried the same thing, but as it turns out, despite the rain, humidity is actually extremely low, if that makes any sense. I grew up in Boston and the humidity there in the summer is infinitely worse. I always wonder about places like Hawaii....if I lived there I probably wouldn’t even bother with paper collectibles.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by conor912

I moved to Seattle 12 years ago and worried the same thing, but as it turns out, despite the rain, humidity is actually extremely low, if that makes any sense.

It sounds like Seattle has a "dry rain". Even so, I suggest never leaving your raw cards laying on the backyard grass overnight.

Brian

[todeen]

Originally Posted by conor912

I moved to Seattle 12 years ago and worried the same thing, but as it turns out, despite the rain, humidity is actually extremely low, if that makes any sense. I grew up in Boston and the humidity there in the summer is infinitely worse. I always wonder about places like Hawaii....if I lived there I probably wouldn’t even bother with paper collectibles.

I lived in Thailand for 2 years. No one has a dryer - everything is "air dryed." All my clothes smelled like mildew after a month. You know ice-breakers gum with the cooling crystals? They put that stuff in their baby powder. I wouldn't collect paper items there either. Yet some of their biggest collectibles are stamps and currency.

[JollyElm]

When I go to shows out here in California, the Kellogg's cards from the 70's always look beautiful. No curls or cracks because of the dry climate. I haven't ever actually bought any (big fear of eventual east coast type cracking), but usually ask the sellers where his/her cards came from. Most of the time the answer is that they grabbed 'em out of cereal boxes they opened as a kid, or from a local collection they bought. That gives me hope to maybe start collecting them again. But buying off of ebay will still be very problematic. No matter how nice they look, it's always a ticking time bomb if you don't know whether or not the cards ever spent time in a New Jersey attic during the summertime.