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02-25-2022, 08:51 PM
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Here in Western Washington when I was a kid in the early 80's there was only 1 card shop near Edmonds in Perenville (SP?). It's a half hour drive south, but back then it may as well been a state away for my parents so we went like twice a year and my brother and I would save up every cent we could. Even met Bob Feller there. The owner went on to create Pacific Cards and even printed his own.
By 1990 every little suburb had a shop...up they went, then they left... As for packs we had a small mom and pop my mom would raid in Smokey Point...
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02-25-2022, 09:55 PM
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I remember ordering stuff from Manny's Baseball Land (probably from ads in the Sporting News). It seemed like a dream store and one off-season weekend I convinced my dad to drive me there. It turned out to be a hole-in-the-wall right across from Yankee Stadium. I'm not even sure I was allowed inside, I think I asked for things and someone went in to get them. Based on the size of the ads, I had imagined something bigger. I know it expanded into Stan's Baseball Land, but in the early 1970s it was pretty much a mail order operation.
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02-25-2022, 10:02 PM
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Al's Confectionary on Hodiamont near Plymouth in St. Louis. Bought my first cards there including a Stan Musial 1958 Topps All Star straight out of the pack. That was a great day! Damn, I'm old.
I guess I should explain. A confectionary was a convenience store, usually a little hole in the wall.
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