Prewar Cards

[quinnsryche]

I am almost 44 now and in 1976 my father (Pat Quinn) along with Don Steinbach, Mike Keasler and later Roger Marth opened the first (to the best of my knowledge) baseball card store. As a 10 year old, I was exposed to a myriad of cards from all time periods. Stacks of T cards rubberbanded in glass cases, goudeys in stacks, complete sets of all types in cabinets. Truly amazing to think back at what I actually held in my grubby little hands back then. Saw the only complete set of 1949 Bowman PCL, the original 1919 White Sox team set, Topps, Bowman, Goudey, Playball complete sets multiple times over, items sold TO Barry Halper, teenage Mastro, Lifson, Medema, Forman all come through the shop and card/autograph shows in Chicago. Not to sound brash but almost nothing I see today I haven't seen at on time or another in the past 35+ years. Funny thing is, because I was around it so much, I never really cared much about it until I was in my mid 30's and none of it was available anymore! Oh well, it was quite a time anyway.