Burbank Card Show...

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Jewish-collector

I wasn't at the Burbank show, but that's the way most, if not all shows are now days. Lots of shiny stuff in slabs.

+1 Same with Dallas Card Show. 500-600 tables and maybe 10-15 with any vintage (pre war)....

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Leon

+1 Same with Dallas Card Show. 500-600 tables and maybe 10-15 with any vintage (pre war)....

That's amazing, so little vintage at such a big show. BUT...happy to see the hobby passing down to a new generation, and why shouldn't they have their own cards of their own heroes? I do, however, remember the first generation of "Becketteers" in the mid 90s who would drag a chair near a trash can so they could riffle through new foil packs faster than your eye could follow, picking out inserts, refractors, etc., and leaving piles of cards they had no use for filling the cans and on the floor. That blew my mind, throwing away all those cards, but they were smart, entrepreneurial kids cashing in on a craze, and it looks to me like much the same going on today. That was almost 30 years ago, I wonder how many of those "kids" have any involvement in the hobby and what has happened to their generation of cards?

[obcbobd]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

That's amazing, so little vintage at such a big show. BUT...happy to see the hobby passing down to a new generation, and why shouldn't they have their own cards of their own heroes? I do, however, remember the first generation of "Becketteers" in the mid 90s who would drag a chair near a trash can so they could riffle through new foil packs faster than your eye could follow, picking out inserts, refractors, etc., and leaving piles of cards they had no use for filling the cans and on the floor. That blew my mind, throwing away all those cards, but they were smart, entrepreneurial kids cashing in on a craze, and it looks to me like much the same going on today. That was almost 30 years ago, I wonder how many of those "kids" have any involvement in the hobby and what has happened to their generation of cards?

To each their own, but I can't say it seems that those kids with the slabbed cards lunchbox and I even are participating in the same hobby :-)

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by obcbobd

To each their own, but I can't say it seems that those kids with the slabbed cards lunchbox and I even are participating in the same hobby :-)

Exactly how I felt 30 years ago. What became of them and their hobby, and what will become of today's shiny collectors/flippers and their?

[Exhibitman]

Same as happened to us: they get older and more experienced and move to vintage cards. Then after about 20 years they get nostalgic for their shiny cards and buy them back for a small % of what they were worth in the day. Like me paying a buck for a 1990 Leaf Frank Thomas, or busting a 1981 Fleer wax box at under two bucks a pack (pre-surge prices).

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by obcbobd

To each their own, but I can't say it seems that those kids with the slabbed cards lunchbox and I even are participating in the same hobby :-)

+1. That's how I felt then and now.