Classic late 1970's early 80's Card Shop
 

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!

Looks like part of that labels been redacted.

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

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

Coloring
 

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.

:)

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

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

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

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OK that's funny!!!

"to be colored" hilarious!

PSA will label it
 

as a rare 1968 over 71 overprint!!

They won't see the coloring.

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.

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.:)

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.

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

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

Back
 

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

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.

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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That's all I read :).

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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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.

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.

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.

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.