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As some of you know, I'm related to the Billy Sullivans (Jr. and Sr.), which is why I collect their cards and memorabilia. I started collecting 30 years ago, and by now I have almost every issue they were part of (that I know of, anyway). But for all that time, one card in particular has eluded me, an R329 Clopay Foto Fun card of Billy Jr. from 1938. I have been looking for it for 30 years, and never even saw one for sale until this week, when I spotted one on eBay and snagged it. It is a definitely a peculiar issue, where the card owner had to actually develop the picture themselves from a negative, and then put it in a sleeve designed to look like a picture frame. I don't know who Bob Sturgeon was (and kind of wish he hadn't written his name on the sleeve frame), but I am grateful to him for preserving the card of my grandfather.

In a slightly strange twist, I got a new garage door a couple of years ago, and it was made by Clopay. Yes, the same company that put out the Foto Fun card in 1938. They are still in business, and are now one of the biggest manufacturers of garage doors in the US.