Oldtimers on this board?

[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.

[KJA]

I remember turning 8 and getting into cards thanks to 86 Topps football, Jim McMahon card in particular, my favorite player at the time. Didn't really start collecting baseball until 88 Topps. Those set designs really bring back lots of fond memories.

[nolemmings]

1966 Mankato MN, Ben Franklin at the Tempo shopping center. Rode my bike the 2 1/2 blocks, pulled a Sandy Valdespino in the first pack, although it may not have been the first card.
I was thrilled to nab a Twin, coming off their World Series appearance, even if he wasn't exactly the straw that stirred the drink. This is my card, but obviously not the one pulled that day:


On the other hand, this one was pulled around that same time, and I still have it:

[todeen]

Originally Posted by raulus

Used to ride my bike down to Safeway after school. Rip some wax and watch the kids with serious cash play pac man. 1987 Topps was pretty fly!

Originally Posted by KJA

I remember turning 8 and getting into cards thanks to 86 Topps football, Jim McMahon card in particular, my favorite player at the time. Didn't really start collecting baseball until 88 Topps. Those set designs really bring back lots of fond memories.

Goodness, don't we all feel young. You're the only two in the 80s! But I'm the first to admit my first pack of cards was 1991 Topps at just 5 years old. I didn't know nothing about nothing! A couple years later I learned the name Ken Griffey Jr, and Lord have mercy, I owned a couple! And then I was hooked!

Going back to the present conversation, I believe my mother worked at a drugstore soda fountain: Newberrys. It was either in Walla Walla, or Spokane. I would need to look into that a bit more. Eventually she went to work at JCPenneys, and she met my father selling tires at the Penneys auto store. He set up a kegger just so that he could invite her.

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[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!