Interesting comment on Net54 types

[itjclarke]

It's a bummer because shops used to be Mecca for me as a kid growing up in the SF Bay Area. However it was also a lot more amazing at that age to see a 1969 Topps Reggie Jackson (sub any year or HoFer) at a shop, than to see 3-5 pages of them offered as BINs on eBay. I don't know if the shops (Papa's in Menlo Park was our favorite) were as grand as I remember, but do know the instant gratification of an on line purchase can take much of the romance out of it. That said I stll love a great card wherever and however it came from!!!

[drc]

You can buy new packs at the Rite Aid on my block

[itjclarke]

Ha, I just bought some new packs from Target as stocking stuffers. Went for the most generic looking of the Topps packs, since I thought they'd be my beat bet for gum. Expect I'll be dissapointed when they're opened.

[olrac44]

While my local card shop has not carried my card needs for quite some time, I still go in there once a month and buy some packs, supplies, whatever to try and give them some local support. They are up the street from a high school and an elementary school, and kids come in there to buy candy and some buy cards, the owners have always been able to remember every kid's name and you can genuniely see how excited the kids are to come in there and get something after school. So if my few bucks that I spend there a month is a little investment in the quality of my community I think it's totally worth it.