Where were the cards for all those years?

[mattsey9]

Originally Posted by timn1

A whole lot of them were thrown out during those decades, but a bunch were sitting in Grampa's attic, which is why that story still works on some folks.

Seriously, in 1973, when I was 14, my uncle (born 1922) gave me all his childhood cards from the 1930s, which he had kept in attics etc for all the intervening years. It worked that way for a while. Now "Grampa's Attic" is mostly an ebay scam, although once in a while there really is a find--

Tim

It happened to me too. I was ten years old in 1979 when my father took me downstairs in the basement of his parents' house and gave me his collection of 58 & 59 Topps cards he'd saved as a kid. I only wish my grandfather had kept cards when he was younger. He tells me he remembers seeing the Goudey cards of the 30's when he was a boy, but they just threw them away and kept the candy.