What are your favorite card/hobby stores from your youth?

[judsonhamlin]

The old Route 1 Flea Market in New Brunswick had a bunch of small dealers with older cards. Then John Broggi opened JKJ in Highland Park. ah, the good old days.

[bnorth]

Lived in a small town with only one card shop. He had it in his basement for years and then moved to our mall till he closed. Owner was a great older guy who also traveled all over the US to shows in the late 80s-early 90s. He picked me up a ton of oddball Wade Boggs cards back in the day.

Growing up in a rural area hunting and fishing was also a big thing. There was a dealer who lived in a really small town about 60 miles away. He sold guns, fishing equipment, and baseball cards. Hard to get better than that.

[CobbSpikedMe]

Originally Posted by judsonhamlin

The old Route 1 Flea Market in New Brunswick had a bunch of small dealers with older cards. Then John Broggi opened JKJ in Highland Park. ah, the good old days.

I used to love Rt 1 flea market! It was huge and had everything. It's the flea market they go to in the movie Mall Rats so you can see how large it was from the outside.

My local card shop when I was in high school was run by a total loser. My friend worked at the Dollar Video near his shop and he would come in all the time and rent porn then go back to his store. I stopped going there after we witnessed that. I used to get cards from a dealer in the Packard's Flea Market in Hillsborough, NJ when I was younger. Picked up my 1960 Topps Koufax there and would stare at his Pete Rose RC in the case. It was one of those cool glass cases where you pushed the button and the rows of cards would go around and around.

Great memories from back in the day.

[jiw98]

I did the 6 mile walk into a small village of around 250 people to buy cards from Oslund's market. Great times, rip open the packs, stuff all the gum in my mouth and head home.