Rick Probstein interviews Bill Mastro

[molenick]

Is this viewable other than on Instagram (says the old guy without an Instagram account)?

[CTDean]

Originally Posted by molenick

Is this viewable other than on Instagram (says the old guy without an Instagram account)?

I'm an old guy without an Instagram account and I just clicked the link in the first post and watched the interview.

[molenick]

Thanks. When I clicked on it the first time it wanted me to log in....but when I just clicked on it now, it went right to the interview.

[GaryPassamonte]

Originally Posted by molenick

Is this viewable other than on Instagram (says the old guy without an Instagram account)?

Michael- I don't have an Instagram account either, but was able to watch anyway.

[molenick]

I found it very interesting (after the first two minutes of looking at an office ceiling). I recall the days when Lifson and Mastro sold cards out of a motel room at Willow Grove shows in the mid-to-late 1980s. A friend and I used to go to their room and look through plastic sheets (or was it boxes?) of T206s picking out ones we needed for our sets (as I recall, nice condition commons were $20-$25...this was well after the days of the $0.15 T206). I never cared about the backs, I was just looking to fill in gaps in my sheets back home. If anything, I didn't want a rare back because that was more expensive. I don't remember them ever setting up at the show itself, but I could be mistaken about that.

Every now and then Rob would show me something more exotic, and somehow I would go from not knowing what I was looking at to buying something I had never seen before that day. He was a very good salesman (I am not saying that in a negative way). I think he knew that the friendly sales method worked better on me than Bill's sometimes more direct approach.