In the 1960's, I was working part-time on weekends at a bank in downtown L.A. One lunch, I walked by an old book store that had a huge picture window and 4 rubber-banded stacks of '51/'52 Bowmans in the window as decoration. They were marked at 25 cents each. I told the owner I wanted to buy the cards and he said he wasn't climbing into the window for 25 cents. I told him I wanted all four stacks and gave him $1.
There must have been about 50 cards in each stack so I walked out with probably 200 of them for $1.
It'll never happen again.
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