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Originally Posted by akleinb611
Damn. So now, Ron's gone, Dave Mediema died recently, and I'm feeling more and more like an endangered species. Alan Kleinberger
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That's because we are! The hobby knowledge those two took with them is literally incalculable. That's something you don't hear much about when an old-timer passes--the singular, specialized, once-in-a-lifetime information that only decades in this pursuit of ours can bestow, and when we're gone, it's gone. Little of this stuff gets written down in books, so it disappears. Not to put myself in the same category as these legends, but when I go, a book, or at lease a booklet, worth of knowledge and anecdotes to do with my collecting and dealing niches of WaJo and Washington material, much of it about things I've only seen once or twice in my lifetime, the rarest of the rare--and there has been an amazing amount in that category over my lifetime, is lost. When I go up in flames, poof! Sad but true.