T206 Reference / Reflections.....Tuesday Nite Trivia

[tedzan]

Hi Steve

I also collected Coins along with Stamps, but when the neighborhood Diner installed a Baseball Pin-Ball machine, most of my coins were "dumped" into that machine.

I got back into the BB hobby in 1977. I recovered all of my Sportscard collection (1947 - 1952 Bond Bread, Bowman, Topps cards) from my parent's attic. I attended
small BB card shows in Malls in New Jersey....acquiring cards to complete my sets.

Then in March 1981, I went to the Willow Grove Show in Pennsylvania, and my fascination for T206 cards began.

Thanks for reminiscing, Steve.


TED Z

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[tedzan]

And here are my "pride and joy"......my daughter, Zoe, and my classic 1957 T-Bird.

This is the 50th year since I acquired this classic in 1972. It's 312 cubic inch V8 (245 Horsepower) engine still "purrs like a kitten".
It has a 4-speed transmission (which includes Overdrive).

Zoe has a sentimental attachment to this car. She has fond memories from her youth, when we would remove the convertible hard
top and drove over to the Jersey shore during the Summers of the 1970's.



TED Z

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[rats60]

Baseball cards were my first hobby. I did collect stamps, but it was when I was a little older. Cars came along much later.

[tlhss]

I started with stamps as well. Mostly US, and like Ted, stamps from Greece (my grandparents were immigrates from Samos).

I'm not sure I was a baseball card "collector". I bought cards with collected glass pop bottle deposit money. They were played with, traded, used and abused. I still have them, but they are very well loved So even the cards I buy now are used and well loved, since that's what I remember from my youth.

Having relatives that served during WW1 and WW2 sparked an interest in military history. I still collect and research items that vets brought back with them, along with divisional and unit histories. While serving in France during WWI, Harry Truman often wrote to his fiancé Bess Wallace. In one correspondence he wrote, “I heard a Frenchman remark that Germany was fighting for territory, England for the sea, France for patriotism, and Americans for souvenirs.”

Tim

[tedzan]

Kali Spera, Tim

My parents grew up in Smyrna, then lived in Thessaloniki, before arriving in New York from Greece.

Back in my very young days (in the 1940 - 1950's), I too, would collect empty soda bottles and redeem them.
Two cents for a Coke bottle and a nickel for the larger soda bottles. I purchased a lot of wax-packs with those pennies and nickels.


Thanx for the memories,

TED Z

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[tedzan]

Originally Posted by rats60

Baseball cards were my first hobby. I did collect stamps, but it was when I was a little older. Cars came along much later.

I stopped collecting Sportscards in the Fall of 1952.

Moved on to Girls.....and got interested in Comic books, since my first girlfriend collected Comic books.

Thanks for posting.


TED Z

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