Oddest combination sports card shop and...

BLUEJAYWAY

Reading in a recent thread about a combination sports card outlet and furniture store got me wondering-how many more odd pairings of a card shop with (fill in the blank) are out there. Since card/coin shops are usually the most common, lets not count them. Ice cream store, gas station are two that come to mind. Others?

Stingray

I have seen a guy at a party store selling complete sets. Have about 3 or 4 baseball sets, mid 80s, at the register.

flcardtrader

Back in the early 90's in Fort Lauderdale.....Auto salvage yard......with cards in the corner.

The owner of the salvage yard was a longtime collector and always dropped big $$$'s when he came into the LCS I worked at. I visited his yard to pick up a steering column for my 85 Chevy Eurosport. I got the steering column and walked out with some 87-88 Fleer BSK as well.

dontippet

I remember going into an antique shop in the late 80's / early 90's asking if they had baseball cards. The owner said that he would never get into baseball cards. A year or so later, I happened back into that place, and sure enough, he had some cards in his display case.

DanBessette

2 of my regular vacation card shops are out of guys' houses. Is that unusual?

stevegarveyfan

I don't know if it's still there, but a few years ago there was a combination sports card store/adult bookstore southeast of downtown Fort Worth. He actually had a pretty nice selection of cards, and I never had time to go through his entire stock. I think he had some really old sets there.

ldferg

Barber shop

justmichael

Around the corner from my house there is a hardware store with two display cases of 60's and 70's singles.I didn't get a chance to take a good look at them because of a household emergency but I plan on taking a walk there soon.

ga5150

Our town has a cigar shop with display cases of cards and some SLU's.

lawnmowerman

<< <i>2 of my regular vacation card shops are out of guys' houses. Is that unusual? >>



Only if they lock you in the basement and tell you to make funny noises while you look at their cards.

elsnorto

I would imagine card/comic stores are even more common than card/coin, no?

My regular store, when there was one, did the card/comic thing.

Going back to the mid-80's, there was a fishing/card shop I went to as a kid. They mostly sold the latest wax and few modern rookies out of one display case.

Still, it was the perfect joint when I needed some Mister Twisters and 1987T Bo Jacksons.

Back in the day, before card shops really took off, a lot of guys ran their card business out of their houses. I still remember my Dad taking me over to some card shop/garage to pick up a 1976 Topps football set for my birthday one year and thinking maybe, just maybe, he wasn't as hardcore as he let on.

Snorto~

SDSportsFan

Back in the 1990s, there was a combination card shop/Italian restaurant named Papa Dante's in Converse, Texas (a suburb of San Antonio). I haven't been in there in years, but the Italian restaurant is still there (and it's supposed to still be pretty good).


Steve

Time4aGansett

In the early 90s in Wakefield RI there was a card store/video store. Also a dealer I knew once sold sports cards in a rented spot in a shoe repair shop in East Providence RI.

vintagefun

In the late 70s/early 80s my dad used to frequent a local liquor store that had a table in the back full of rubber banded team cards. I used to buy the Cowboys and Raiders and it was always an assortment of years from 73-78. I have a lot of Billy Joe Dupree and Cliff Harris cards to name a few, but there were never any Staubach or Stabler. Oddly enough, when he retired it was turned into a card shop.

And in the late 80s/early 90s I worked at a card shop that was right next door to a pizza shop, and while not physically one space, they had the same owner and ran cross promos. It was a great job. Free food while I worked. Good deals. And when it was slow, I would either sort or price. I also had a tendency to rip at least half my paycheck.

Good times.

robert67

Klif50

Coins of Laurel (Laurel, Maryland) where I worked from 1976 - 1982 started out as a coin shop and tobacco shop. We sold pipes, cigarettes and custom blend pipe tobacco. I could be buying a coin collection and when I finished that I'd go over and help someone pick out their first pipe and then let them sample the different blends of tobacco until they found something they liked. Both sides stayed busy. Later on we added baseball cards and then expanded into another store front with comics. I came back about 4 years later when I was in town on business and the coin side had died, the higher end baseball cards had moved out to their own store front and the coins had mostly been replaced by africian art and items. I came back a couple of years after that and they were back with the coins but it wasn't like the old days of lines of people (especially during the gold and silver run up) or all the folks with boxes of baseball cards and everyone wanting to buy the new boxes of Topps, Fleer and Donruss. Not so much the T cards and older stuff since it wasn't pretty and glossy like the new stuff.

hammered

<< <i>I don't know if it's still there, but a few years ago there was a combination sports card store/adult bookstore southeast of downtown Fort Worth. He actually had a pretty nice selection of cards, and I never had time to go through his entire stock. I think he had some really old sets there.

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Lol that's hilarious
Don't think I'd be able to shop there
I'd be too worried customers would go from the private video booths directly to searching the card boxes

SidePocket

This isn't card shop related but when I went back to my hometown of Jamestown NY to visit my dad the first building I saw heading into town advertised "Beef and Ice Cream". Later I drove past a combo "Used car lot and driving range".
Not to mention all the gas stations were closed on Sunday as I was trying to get back to Buffalo to fly home. Gotta love small town America!

DanBessette

<< <i>In the early 90s in Wakefield RI there was a card store/video store. Also a dealer I knew once sold sports cards in a rented spot in a shoe repair shop in East Providence RI. >>



Where in east providence? I grew up in riverside until 1991.