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Posted By: Dave Williams

We lived way out in the country, miles from any store, but in the summer we'd talk mom into letting us go to the Schierer Dairy Store, and that's where I bought my first packs in 1971. My sister brought it home to me, and I opened it and liked the Steve Carlton card in there, and promptly became a Cardinal fan for life. Of course I took scissors to it so it would fit in my wallet in the picture section. I wish I had that card back, I've no idea what happened to it.

I also would occasionally get to go to a friends house in a subdivision, and we'd walk all through that subdivision picking up soda bottles (5 cents) and if you were real lucky, a milk bottle (20 cents). A pack was 25 cents so with any luck my friend and I could each get a pack or 2 at the grocery store.

In 1975, a clerk let me walk out of the store with about 20 opened packs of Topps, the glue must have come undone, and the cards were just laying in the box, it was the best day of my young life at that time.