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Post Number: 2421
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:00 am: |    |
His name is actually Rick Wenner so it's a different family. I know it's a little hard to read. |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 4803
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:02 am: | |
I thought Ken was the oldest one, but then I thought, what the heck, maybe I missed one. |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2422
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:06 am: | |
There was a younger Werner brother Matt too. They were all really good hockey players |
Eastburn
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Username: Eastburn
Post Number: 556
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:08 am: | |
Z, did Doug Martinelli have an older sister named Donna? |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2423
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:16 am: | |
EB: Not sure, he was good friends with my brother and I used to be a bat boy for their Wish Egan team but I didn't know anyone else in his family or where they lived for that matter.
He was a star tailback from St. Ambrose during those years. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2424
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:20 am: | |
JC: Yes, Franks was located on Boulder in between Manning & Tacoma.
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Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 4805
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:26 am: | |
Yep, that's the building I remember. We used to walk over there after Blue Birds at Mary Diegal's house. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2425
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:33 am: | |
She lived on Manning just a few houses away right? This was one of those sawdust butcher stores. They would cut everything fresh for you. Ground the hamburger when you ordered it. They would keep a tab for families on a little spiral notebook kept in old cigar boxes.
My only gripe with this store was they would never get in the high numbered Topps cards which it turns out over the years have usually a greater value as they were a limited issue. I think George's was the place to the high numbered Topps. |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1699
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 1:26 pm: | |
Ahhhh yeeeessss, George's Party Store, aka The Beer Store...baseball cards galore, a pack of 10 with a large gum for a dime...and Mr. Freezes...and Hershey Bars before they went small for a nickel...Bazooka Joes for a penney, and on and on and on. Never bought beer there though.
BTW, did Bob G have an older brother named Kevin who would have gone to NDHS? |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2427
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 1:40 pm: | |
Sorry, don't know that either 7, as it was these guys were 7 years older than me. I just saw some Topps cards in the store and they are putting the flat piece of gum in the them again. Maybe it's left over from the old days still. Hey, once it gets stale it's stale right? |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1700
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 3:14 pm: | |
My son still laughs about the time we bought some old cards from Gibraltar, and I tried to chew the old gum. Bluck! |
Campfire_girl
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Username: Campfire_girl
Post Number: 43
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 5:08 pm: | |
I still have my complete set of Topps 1972 cards - at one time they were worth something - don't know anymore. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2428
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 5:21 pm: | |
That set still books for around $1800 Gem mint. The 71' set is the one to have it's very condition sensitive though due to those black borders chipping |
Campfire_girl
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Username: Campfire_girl
Post Number: 44
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 5:47 pm: | |
WOW - I'm selling those ASAP. Yes, definitely mint, in plastic - or whatever - individual sleeves. Betty's got the 72 minis complete set and I know those are worth even more. I'll have to check on the 71's - time to cash in! |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1701
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 7:14 pm: | |
CHA CHING! |
Maxcarey
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Post Number: 228
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 7:23 pm: | |
Books for is one thing. An actual price will probably be about half that. Might be better off breaking up the set and selling off the big names. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1702
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 7:40 pm: | |
How much for a '67 Willie Mays with chipped edges and creases? |
Diane12163
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Username: Diane12163
Post Number: 478
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 8:19 pm: | |
I used to have a fair smattering of Topps cards and also Bazooka. I recall the gum always being stiff as a board and it would break. It was hard to chew fresh let alone stale. The cards always smelled like the gum. This roommate I lived with up there for a while had these long boxes filled with Topps and Bazooka baseball cards from like the 40'sor 50's up and all in pretty excellent shape. He had I think 1000 cards altogether. Plus he has old tickets from TS that were uncut, in other words with the stub still attached. He has I think in the 10-20 count of those.
Does everyone have their turkeys and stuff for Thursday yet? Wal Mart's was a madhouse down here tonight. Parking was not an issue because there essentially was none. I can just imagine "Black Friday", and who came up with that morbid moniker? |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 4811
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 8:47 pm: | |
It's Black Friday because traditionally, it's the day that the stores' accounting systems become profitable, or 'in the black' |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1703
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 10:09 pm: | |
It's a better name than Bleak Friday.
Anyway, I loved that the cards smelled like the gum. And the talk of gum and turkey and all those cards from the 40s and 50s have me drooling all over my keyboard. Plus Walmart's reminds me of root beer popsicles of which I think I still have one in the freezer, a.k.a. the ERBPR. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2429
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:07 pm: | |
Topps first issued their cards in 1951 that's what makes the 51 Mantle so valuable plus the fact it was hie rookie year. so if there are 40's cards they must be a different company, like Goudey or Playball. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2430
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:09 pm: | |
Max is right on getting about 1/2 bv on the sale of cards. The 71's if mint would probable get more like 70% due to the scarcity of good condition ones. |
Diane12163
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Username: Diane12163
Post Number: 479
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:14 pm: | |
Most likely. He never mentioned the other companies to me, just Topps. He had some other teams in his collection but, mostly DT. He also had some other memorabilia like really old concert tickets and still with the stub attached. He had some coins and pennies from as far back as 29. He has books, too from the 30's up of all sorts of agriculture, survival and business topics and all are in really great condition.
Gonna go pop some M&Ms now. |
Diane12163
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Post Number: 480
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:33 pm: | |
Almost Thursday! |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1705
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:38 pm: | |
M&Ms are good. I much prefer Hershey's chocolate to Nestle's myself, although, I really don't understand why you're eating them so late. You'll be up half the night. |
Diane12163
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Username: Diane12163
Post Number: 481
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 11:57 pm: | |
7andkelly----Gee Pops, I don't have school tomorrow. :P |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2431
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 8:51 am: | |
7 you might still have to go back to work next week. The 67' Mays books for $21.00 in VG condition. It sounds like yours is in poor condition. You're better off keeping it. |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1706
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 10:39 am: | |
I've got a few pages of 71's in a binder. In my spare time (hahahahaha), maybe I will pick out the big names, and get them on ebay. |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2434
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 10:50 am: | |
Pete Rose & Nolan Ryan are the key cards in that set. Around $75.00 BV each |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 4816
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 10:51 am: | |
What's on the agenda for all the SJSers for this long weekend.
My life is pretty much a long weekend, so all I've got is dinner tomorrow at Kate's house with her in-laws. After that, life as usual. |