So many memories...mostly generic. Places i used to buy the packs...B&B downtown...the corner store...the local Pathmark grocery store with the tray packs. The only time i can recall getting a particular card in a pack was in 1980 coming home from a birthday party (9 years old) with a bunch of the other kids in the back of a station wagon opening up the goody bag that had a pack of baseball and a pack of hockey. The baseball pack had nothing special and I was not a hockey fan at that point. I opened up the hockey pack and asked one of the other kids about the players. Pretty soon every kid in the car was offering me the world for this guy named Gretzky. Partially because I figured I had something nice and partially because I wanted to spite the rest of the kids I did not trade the card.
Tom C
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