[timn1]

A whole lot of them were thrown out during those decades, but a bunch were sitting in Grampa's attic, which is why that story still works on some folks.

Seriously, in 1973, when I was 14, my uncle (born 1922) gave me all his childhood cards from the 1930s, which he had kept in attics etc for all the intervening years. It worked that way for a while. Now "Grampa's Attic" is mostly an ebay scam, although once in a while there really is a find--

Tim