The Old Brick and Mortar Card Store

[bigwinnerx]

Funny, never heard of AJs and thought "It's Vienna how hard could it be to find it?"

So I loaded up Google Maps and placed my little guy in the 3D mode and sure enough, couldn't find it. Until I started zooming around the view a bit. Took someone's note of "a small little store" and sure enough, found it.

Picture should leave enough area awareness.

[Wite3]

When I sold my 1993 Chevy Cavalier in 2008 (after 200,000 miles), I cleaned out the glove box...it literally had 100s of ripped out yellow book pages. Wherever I visited, I would tear out the baseball card store page, make calls, and visit. Found some great stuff.

Still do it sometimes. In Vegas about six months ago and went to a store about 4 miles off the strip going west on Maryland I think that had some decent vintage and was willing to work on price. Picked up a psa2 t206 crawford batting pose, a '33 goudey, a bunch of early bowman for a decent price. He had a huge zeenut collection that he purchased when pawn stars turned it down. Not sure how much longer the store will be there because he was trying to expand and compete with Blowout Cards and Dave and Adam's to become the west coast dealer in wax. Risky.

Going to be in Colorado in a month and looking forward to ripping out a couple pages from my hotel room's yellow pages!

Joshua

[sox1903wschamp]

I visit a shop every few months for supplies in the Minneapolis area. Been doing that for 10 years. The owner and his Wife are nice. I check out his 50's and 60's selection but the only time I ever purchased cards was about 5 years ago when he had just purchased a cache of raw 62 BB Highs.

He had multiples of most of the Rookie cards (most above #581) and they were very nice. I picked out the nicest of each and most upgraded my set (which is around NM). A very cherry Twins team card and an awesome #598 (last card) were the highlights. Probably should have purchased them all but chose the best copies. The prices were reasonable, maybe around ex-mt pricing. Got lucky because I was in the store like the next day after he purchased. They were all gone in a few days.

[ullmandds]

michael...where is the store you frequent in mpls? apple valley?

[sox1903wschamp]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

michael...where is the store you frequent in mpls? apple valley?

No Pete. I know the store your thinking about. This one is in Richfield. Uncommon Sportscards, 66th and Penn. Sort of a hole in the wall but I like it for supplies.

[ullmandds]

thanks michael...i've found a few vintage cards in stillwater at antique mall...occasionally at har mar mall when they have sportscard shows...that's about it!!!!!

[RobertGT]

I will give a quick shout-out to the owner of one brick-and-mortar store who has a clue about current market value: Randy's Sportscards outside of Quakertown, PA. Although you won't find a lot of pre-war stuff at his shop, Randy is always getting in stuff and he knows how to turn merchandise by setting his prices at or below eBay prices and then working you a deal on top of that. Beyond that, he's just a good guy.

Randy sets up at the National and a lot of regional card shows so I'm sure he is known to many on this board.

I agree that most card-shop owners are stuck in the pre-internet days (80s) and are just wasting everyone's time with their joke museum prices. Randy is not one of those guys.

Disclosure statement: I am not an employee of Randy's or associated with him in any capacity, other than being a pretty regular customer of his.

Rob