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Al CrisafulliKevin, I grew up in Mahwah, NJ.
My first prewar card was a T206 Rube Waddell portrait that I bought from Dollars and Sense in Ridgewood, NJ in 1980 or so. I was maybe 9 years old, and I fell in love with T206s and 1950-52 Bowmans. The owner of the store put a bunch of T206s and Bowmans in a shoebox and I'd go in there once a week with my $5 allowance and I could buy T206s for a dollar and Bowmans for .50.
Thus my first 20 or 30 prewar cards were T206s, and I've had them for 25 years now.
-Al