50 years ago in card Collecting

[jefferyepayne]

Great stuff fellas!

I'm sooo jealous of you guys that were going to shows in the 70s. I was collecting big time as a kid back then but my world was very small and the thought of traveling to go to a show was just not something my family I could pull off so I never even considered it.

I sure wish I had figured out how to get to even a local card show as that might have been the difference between me staying engaged with the hobby instead of taking a 25-year break before returning. Oh, the cards I would have today if I had stayed engaged! Instead, my buddy and I occasionally went to flea markets and local antique shops looking for things without a huge amount of success. I did leave my childhood with a few beat up T206's and some 50s-60s baseball and football cards but that was about it pre-70s.

I guess I'll just have to live vicariously through your stories about these great early shows.

jeff