New Acquisitions Thread.

[Kurri17]

Originally Posted by smellthegum

Here are a few recent pickups...

Great stuff. Love the 74/75 pack, very nice. My favorite year for all four sports sets from Topps in the '70s. Hope I can run across one of those some day.

[smellthegum]

Originally Posted by Kurri17

Great stuff. Love the 74/75 pack, very nice. My favorite year for all four sports sets from Topps in the '70s. Hope I can run across one of those some day.

Thanks! BBCE had 7-8 of them a few weeks ago and I managed to snag the last one. They went fast. 74-75 was the first hockey set I collected as a kid so it was purely a nostalgia purchase. I remember needing only Phil Esposito to complete it. Being in Bruins country during the peak of the Orr/Espo years that drove me nuts because nobody would trade me one! I never did get it and sold off the partial set (along with all the other cards I collected as a kid) at a yard sale a few years later.

[Kurri17]

Originally Posted by smellthegum

Thanks! BBCE had 7-8 of them a few weeks ago and I managed to snag the last one. They went fast. 74-75 was the first hockey set I collected as a kid so it was purely a nostalgia purchase. I remember needing only Phil Esposito to complete it. Being in Bruins country during the peak of the Orr/Espo years that drove me nuts because nobody would trade me one! I never did get it and sold off the partial set (along with all the other cards I collected as a kid) at a yard sale a few years later.

Great nostalgia pick up, and story. I lived in California in '71 until early '73. My first hockey card came out of a card vending machine at a 7-11, a 72/73 Topps, pretty sure it was a Golden Seal. I was eight and already a hockey fan due to the NBC broadcasts. Seemed like the Bruin were always on TV, so they were my first favorite team. We moved to Arkansas in early '73 and I never saw another hockey card until 1984. Pretty sure I was the only kid in my small Arkansas town that had a stick and puck. Have you rebuilt the set? Seems like a must haha.

[smellthegum]

Originally Posted by Kurri17

Have you rebuilt the set? Seems like a must haha.

I never did. I did OPC but not the Topps. More focused on baseball lately but I do hope to get it done one day.

[goldenage]

Originally Posted by smellthegum

Thanks! BBCE had 7-8 of them a few weeks ago and I managed to snag the last one. They went fast. 74-75 was the first hockey set I collected as a kid so it was purely a nostalgia purchase. I remember needing only Phil Esposito to complete it. Being in Bruins country during the peak of the Orr/Espo years that drove me nuts because nobody would trade me one! I never did get it and sold off the partial set (along with all the other cards I collected as a kid) at a yard sale a few years later.

My dad is from Worcester, and my first game was in the Boston Garden in the mid-70s. Got to admit as a 10 year old kid I was scared to death with so many drunk, screaming people around. I got over it.

[smellthegum]

Originally Posted by goldenage

My dad is from Worcester, and my first game was in the Boston Garden in the mid-70s. Got to admit as a 10 year old kid I was scared to death with so many drunk, screaming people around. I got over it.

I only got to one game in the Garden, toward the end if its final year, against the Penguins. I was a guest of the company my wife worked for at the time and we were in a luxury box so it was hardly a true taste of the Garden. My dad refused to take me as a kid because of the crowd you described!