notice what the advert wanted, mostly regionals and of course the ultra rare "gowdys" which are the rarer version of goudeys and little known by todays collectors!
(just massively kidding on that last bit, it is a typo in the below listed hotel buying trip advert. the adverts were sometimes called into the paper via phone rather then sending "advertising copy" to the paper so you could get some interesting spelling results.
post 1960 items and even earlier topps cards were not always a big priority in most of the adverts for hotel buying trips from that era, rob lifson was highlighting his desire to purchase regionals. (regionals and premiums were the status stuff in the hobby at that moment in time along with e and t cards). bowmans were pretty exiciting also. but the advert does not even mention them.
i remember frothing over dan dee, glendale, and rodeo meats back then.
you will find 1 or more adverts similiar to this in every paper in the country in 1975 and 1976. hotel buying groups or individuals showed up in every city with over 100,000 metro and in many smaller cities. the hotel buying groups also showed up in many canadian cities and even some in venezuela. often different groups would show up in the same town throughout the year. sometimes you got skunked because of arriving late.
regards,
jsq
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Originally Posted by Tim Kindler
Sam, who started this thread, and to everyone who has contributed to this thread, Thank You.  It is really cool to read about interesting topics, perspectives, and educational items about the history of card collecting. Thanks for my time well spent reading everyone's thoughts. This is why I spend time here each day!
A big +1!
Detroit Free Press, August 30, 1975
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