1971 Topps Questions

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Originally Posted by tschock

By "local store" I meant local small town (of about 300) all purpose country grocery store where you could bring your own jar and get molasses out of a barrel. I'd walk the block from my house whenever I had some change to buy cards. The only other place I bought '71 cards were at the concession stands at little league games (all wax packs). I don't remember seeing or buying any cello or rack packs at all in 1971, though my exposure to larger stores was a bit limited. So I totally trust what you are saying. Just trying to clarify what I meant by local store.

And the store wasn't much different in 1971 than it was when the picture was taken for this postcard.

That's pretty wild Taylor-no worries, I wasn't taking issue, just kind of riffing. I was ground zero suburbia, I probably had 20 options to buy cards within a 2 mile radius from my house and of course the ice cream truck brought them right to me!

I did a little poking around and it looks like 1971 Basketball wax wrappers aren't all that easy either.