'67 Collectors: Do you think it's too late to reply to this ad?

dude

This is an ad in the 1967 issue of Street and Smith's Official Baseball Yearbook that I still have from when I was a kid.

TheCARDKid

Besides buying cards for a whopping 4 cents a piece, I'd love to order their catalog for 25 cents offering cards from 1910-1966. Can you imagine the Ruth's, Gehrig's, (Wagners?), etc that they had?

BTW, do you know what the free set of "Full Color Hall of Fame cards" are?

ejguru

Dude--Order a set for me too!!

uniship

Dude, that was awesome. I love looking through old magazines with the baseball card ads in them. Thanks!

gemint

I love/hate those ads. I've got one from the 1971 S&S edition that offers the complete set from that year for about the same price.

FB

I'm not sure that I'd be that thrilled... That Robinson looks like its been trimmed!!!!!

dude

FB,

Yes, it sure does look trimmed!

I can remember reading this ad in this magazine in '67 and thinking that $13.90 for 600 cards was a lousy deal. The cards only cost a penny a piece plus you would get a stick of gum for every 5 that you bought.

riccaboni

It is a real shame you can't buy 1989 Topps by the set for that cheap anymore...

skylaneflyer

Gentlemen,

What Dan did not tell you is that is when I bought my set that's on the Registry.

Glad to see the board coming back to the good ole days.

Sky

Vargha

I remember thinking similar thoughts as a kid about how the cards were marked up almost 200%!! I even remember the ads that offered the entire collated sets fron 1-5 years previous to the year the ad was placed for only a few bucks more. I'm sure we all regret not just buying one complete set each year.

purelyPSA

A funny note...The owner of a local card store here in town has an 8 page catalog from a fledgling card company. In the catalog (published in '64), you can buy any card you want. High # 52 Topps cards: .25 each. The kicker is, in an aside, the seller notes that Mantle cards from that year are $1.00. Whoa.

purelyPSA

Make that "a fledgling dealer".

qualitycards

I remember those ads too in the mid 60's as a kid. Only problem is with a quarter a week for allowance, $13.90 was like a million dollars. ...jay

SKY - Its good to have you back on the boards!

dude

Jay,

That's very true for me also. I was 8 at the time and was on a 25 cent week allowance also. If I was real lucky, my grandfather would slip me a dollar once in a while and I would spend most of it on cards. Those were the days.

dom

Jay and Dan,

I was in college at the time and had even less money than you guys. If I tried real hard, I think I could scràpe together enough to send away for that. Will the post office deliver my check for 4¢?



Ditto Jay...welcome back sky.

Scoop

I also remember those adds, especially the ones on the bottom of the Bazooka Joe comic you got in your 2-for-a-penny bubble gum.

Jay and Dude, your parents were pretty well off. I only got a nickel allowance (only if I did all my chores) which went strait to buying the next wax pack. I also collected empty coke bottles for .02 apiece, and mowed lawns for a quarter....anything to earn enough to buy my next pack.

riccaboni

I'm quite young to ever realize what it must have been like with those cards available like that, I can imagine though reseeing those adds must almost knock the wind out of those who first saw them so many years ago. The oldest I can relate to is the 1987 WWF set, which I pretty much started collecting when I was three in 1990. I used to go down to the local Wawa and my mom would buy me a pack or two and maybe a pack of 1990 Bowman.

Ian

zardoz51

In 1967 I was in high school working at a local supermarket after school for the huge money I was paid (1.60 per hour), in order to keep my green 55 Chevy BelAire on the road. I distictly remember stocking the candy stands at each checkstand with boxes of the latest series of 5 cent wax packs. Who was to know?

Anyway, 12.95 was a fair bit of money. That was a full tank of gas and enough money to go to the movies with a date, as well as burgers at the local A&W.

Buckwheat

By 1967, I was 14, and already thought cards were kid stuff, and had burned or thrown away all I had. I do remember 1965, though, when I was collecting a lot of cards. My best friend's Dad was a candy wholesaler. Every so often, we would go down to his wharehouse, and he would give us a pack of 5cent cards. But even better, he would let me buy a box of 24 packs for the wholesale price of 90 cents. I believe there were 6 cards per pack, but maybe only 5. In any case, it was less than a penny a card!

If only we had a time machine, and could go back and do it over again!!

Guffy

I bought the 1969 set from Wholesale cards from a similar ad two years later. I was eleven years old and I still have it. I used to buy their catalogues too. I can remember ordering t-206 cards for 50 cents each and I didn't even know who I would get. They would just send you a card. I also remember ordering a 1955 Bowman Whitey Ford for about 50 cents. Back then, there were no price guides so their catalog sort of served that purpose. For the Topps sets from the 1960's they typically sold cards that ended in zero (star cards) for 10-15 cents. I think commons were a nickel.
As for 1967, I ordered the Mickey Mantle card through their company and got it about a week before the cards were issued in my home town. For one week, I was king of the playground.