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Old 01-24-2017, 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by darkhorse9 View Post
These are all great stories.

I'm hoping you find room to write a bit about the mail order dealer that got me into vintage. Jim Elder from Odessa Florida.
Elder had a lot of ads in hobby publications in the mid to late 60s, especially Sports Trader and Sports Collector's News, both of which I have complete runs of. In 1968 there was a controversy over his prices that led to a series of long letters to the editor in SCN, which are an interesting peek at the then-insular world of the hobby in the late 60s. I'll see if I can write something about that at some point.
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