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T Eand Austin Street. Drug Store on the corner. Started buying packs in 1964. Went nuts with cards fron 1965 until 1968. I was not user friendly to my cards. They were flipped, cut up for games or tossed on the floor. My mother would clean my room when I was sent off to sleep-away camp during the summer by throwing out my cards.
In 1965, I was wiped out in a game of colors- the game where you would take your stack of cards and put it on the table in succession, until someone put down a card whose color matched the proceeding card. After getting wiped out, I learned there was a trick to the game-every time you win, you separate the winning card from the deck, so that you would not have two cards in succession with the same color. From then on, I was the one who wiped out the other kids. I never divulged my secret, until now.
In 1968, I was 13, my hair was growing real long, and baseball cards no longer seemed so cool, especially when talking to girls. By 1970, I no longer made those trips to the drug store for cards. I did, of course, steal a condom from another drug store, Rexall, down Austin Street. I worked there briefly. The condom was wishful thinking on my part.
I was not quite through with cards though. In about 1973, I walked into Little Nemo's, a nostalgia-type store, and bought a shoebox of t206s for $15. Ah yes, those were the days.