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Posted By: Mike Ernst

Small town western Nebraska (Scottsbluff) corner grocery store from 1955-1959, then at 16th and Van Dorn in Lincoln from 59 through 61, when I became too sophisticated to continue with a boy's hobby. (I was then 14)
One thing I remember from 1955---buying a nickel pack (7 cards) and in the back of 1955's was a 1954 card!! Really bummed me out! Still have it--the green background 54 of Yogi Berra.
How they got a 54 card in a 55 pack--who knows?
The other thing I remember--scrounging to be able to afford a nickel pack at least once a week--and Bobby Forrest, who lived a block away, and whose dad was the Cadillac dealer, would buy two boxes with the money his parents gave him. I know that I have treasured mine more than he did his, mostly because they were hard to come by.