Oldtimers on this board?

[mikemb]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

You fellas are ancient. 1965 Topps for me, as a youngster. Rode my bike down a path through the woods to the 7-11. Which, I see from a map, is still there.

Peter - I am very similar to you. First packs I bought were in 1965. (Though I had 1959-1964 cards in my collection already.). Would ride my bicycle to the corner deli on North Ave. Always went into the phone booth there to pull down the coin return lever and check the coin return slot to try and get some extra spending money.

Mike

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by mikemb

Peter - I am very similar to you. First packs I bought were in 1965. (Though I had 1959-1964 cards in my collection already.). Would ride my bicycle to the corner deli on North Ave. Always went into the phone booth there to pull down the coin return lever and check the coin return slot to try and get some extra spending money.

Was this in the same town/city?

[mikemb]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Was this in the same town/city?

No

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by mikemb

Peter - I am very similar to you. First packs I bought were in 1965. (Though I had 1959-1964 cards in my collection already.). Would ride my bicycle to the corner deli on North Ave. Always went into the phone booth there to pull down the coin return lever and check the coin return slot to try and get some extra spending money.



Mike

I did not realize there were 7Eleven's back in 1965. We would go to the local IGA. They also sold Crane's potato chips there, which had baseball team pinbacks inside.

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[Harliduck]

Local gas station store for me...1979 Topps and I was 9, pulled my hero at the time, Reggie Jackson, out of my first pack. I was hooked. Still have the card. Same store had some "old" 1978 packs, my mom bought them all and brought them home to my brother and I, so technically I also opened 78s. Those seemed ANCIENT to me at the time...great memories.


I do remember a buddy brought a beat up 1959 Topps card to school, first I had ever seen something so old. I was the lucky kid that was able to get the right trade and ended up owning it...may as well been a hundred years old.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

They also sold Crane's potato chips there, which had baseball team pinbacks inside.

i see that Crane Potato Chips were produced in Decatur, Illinois. Were the pinbacks you remember like these from 1961?



Or like these from 1968?







Do you still have the ones you got at the time? Do you still collect them now?

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

i see that Crane Potato Chips were produced in Decatur, Illinois. Were the pinbacks you remember like these from 1961?



Or like these from 1968?







Do you still have the ones you got at the time? Do you still collect them now?

Wow, those pictures bring back memories. We would fill up those cards with all the pins and mail them in to get a baseball. The pins from 1965 and 66 had metallic paint, they were shinier than the 68's. Crane changed the colors up a bit every year too. I wish I still had some of them but I don't.

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[steve B]

Most of you have me beat by a decade or more.

First collecting baseball thing- 67 or 68 Coke caps. Went to a party with my parents and the bottlecaps had pictures inside! Rounded up a few pockets full, but just before we went home mom made me toss them all. No way I was bringing home a bunch of dirty bottelcaps. (I was 4 or 5)

Next a pack of 69 Topps, opened it with dad in the car and he remarked how one of the guys was pretty good. Reggie Jackson. Still have that card.
Next pack was 71. Got a Danny Cater coin which was really cool to me. Still have that one too.

Didn't really start collecting cards until late 73.

[deweyinthehall]

Got my first cards in the spring edition of Dynamite Magazine through Scholastic - 1978 Topps Cecil Cooper, Tony Perez, Al Oliver and Darrell Porter. I was hooked from then on. A friend of mine said something like "you know you can packs of them in the store?" and it was all over.

Can still remember a few cards from my first pack - Rick Manning, Sparky Lyle RB, Luis Tiant, Jose Baez (had to ask my mom how pronounce that one) and George Hendrick.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by steve B

First collecting baseball thing- 67 or 68 Coke caps. Went to a party with my parents and the bottlecaps had pictures inside! Rounded up a few pockets full, but just before we went home mom made me toss them all. No way I was bringing home a bunch of dirty bottelcaps. (I was 4 or 5)

You should then show your mother your present day collection of the Baseball Coke caps and tell her what they're "worth" now!

[steve B]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

You should then show your mother your present day collection of the Baseball Coke caps and tell her what they're "worth" now!

I did at one point.
Western Ct probably had yankees or mets, I have a pretty good collection of Red Sox plus a few others.
Slowly working on having the set from all Boston area bottling plants.

Shes in a home now, and it's hard to tell just how much of anything she gets.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

The pins from 1965 and 66 had metallic paint, they were shinier than the 68's.

Like these then?



Here are some pinbacks issued by a competing brand, Guy's Potato Chips of Kansas, in 1964:



And in 1965:



In any event, those pinbacks all look very cool. I'm sure I would have been buying Crane's or Guy's Potato Chips to get them as a kid had those brands been available in my neck of the woods. And had I done so then, I'd still be collecting them these days!

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

I did not realize there were 7Eleven's back in 1965. We would go to the local IGA. They also sold Crane's potato chips there, which had baseball team pinbacks inside.

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We had 7-Eleven and Stop-N-Go. I also bought my first packs in 1965. In 1967 I started collecting seriously trying to complete each set plus any odd ball sets that the stores carried, 1968 Player Posters, 1969 Stamps & Team Posters, Fleer World Series Cards, etc.