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Dave Williams1971 my mom gave me a pack of Topps from the Dairy store. I only remember one card, Steve Carlton. I was a Cardinal fan, and immediately took a pair of scissors to it, so it would fit in the picture section of my wallet.
We lived WAY out in the country in Central Illinois, on a dead end road in a "Hollow" - Bristol Hollow Rd.
I would ride my bike 10 miles to Chillicothe, Ill to a subdivision, and ride through it looking for pop and milk bottles for the deposit, often they were
in the ditch. I could usually get 4 or 5, enough for a couple packs of cards.
Then the Ben Franklin dime store had packs, or the grocery store. I pulled a 72 Johnny Unitas, and was the envy of all my buddies. Of course we also put our names on the backs of those cards so no one could rip them off at school or wherever, I've got dozens of cards with DW or David W on the back.
Those were the days.