1975 Topps Information Sought

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by steve B

The minis were at least briefly available in Dalton Ma.
Although it's possible the store got them from a wholesaler or someone he knew in NJ.

A small town in the Berkshires, interesting.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by toppcat

A small town in the Berkshires, interesting.

I had one packs worth I'd bought new. Had no idea about them until I moved to a town with a card shop in late 77.

I suspect he really did get a box from someone in NY/NJ.
The store I went to as a kid got raided by the FBI at one point. It was where everyone local got their "football cards" something that totally baffled young me. Why was the FBI interested in football cards. I had a whole boxful. Was I in trouble?
No, these are different foot ball cards.
Well how do I get them, how may in the set? It's not those wonder bread ones is it?

Soooo many questions. That also went unanswered until about 3 years later.
Tried getting one for the collection, but they were not easy to get, being used for "accounting purposes" by the issuer.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by steve B

I had one packs worth I'd bought new. Had no idea about them until I moved to a town with a card shop in late 77.

I suspect he really did get a box from someone in NY/NJ.
The store I went to as a kid got raided by the FBI at one point. It was where everyone local got their "football cards" something that totally baffled young me. Why was the FBI interested in football cards. I had a whole boxful. Was I in trouble?
No, these are different foot ball cards.
Well how do I get them, how may in the set? It's not those wonder bread ones is it?

Soooo many questions. That also went unanswered until about 3 years later.
Tried getting one for the collection, but they were not easy to get, being used for "accounting purposes" by the issuer.

My grandparents had a summer cottage on Big Pond in Otis until around 1974. We would go to the diner/coffee shop in town (Hall's) and they always had a few boxes of cards out on the counter. Usually they had the current baseball set and last year's football cards and sometimes the secondary issues like the previous year's Tattoos left over as well. Only place I ever saw cards up there as a kid.

[steve B]

A lot of the towns were pretty small.

My "neighborhood" store was on the end of town near Pittsfield, right in with some subdivisions, and a couple hundred yards from a park that was used for little league.
There was another that had them a couple streets over from school but I only went there once or twice.
K mart had a vending machine, and another chain had rack packs usually in a 4x4 display just piled loose. Mom found me a Hank Aaron card there that I really wanted in 74.

The smaller towns - not like Dalton was huge or anything, may not have had much since the stores were pretty far away from where kids would usually be.