Sunday, June 23, 2024, Civic Center, Orland Park, IL
As late as I was to Madison Saturday morning, I was as early to Orland on Sunday. Easy load in. Only one dope got in my way while I laid out my binders.
I have a little extra space in Orland that I filled with two 5,000-count dime boxes ranging in years from 1976 through 1984. I don't bring out those boxes very often. Surprisingly, the most cards I sold came from the 1980's. There were guys and gals in that dime box all day.
I finished setting up at 8:30 a.m., pictured above. Nice thing about this show is that Rich, the promoter, does not allow anyone in the room until closer to 9 a.m. I had a good half-hour to kill. I was tired and jet lagged. I killed the time just staring into space.
Rich let customers in around 8:45 a.m. As usual, they all went over to Record Store Steve's tables. Steve just happened to cut me off on the drive to the Civic Center. Nice driving Steve! According to Rick, Steve had a bunch of pre-War stuff on his tables today. I soon became very busy and was unable to check it out. I think Rick bought it all anyway.
My regulars started to come by... there was Andy and Chris then Awesome Mike, who not only purchased a bunch of cards but gave me some money to take my son Kolby out to lunch when I bring him back to Michigan State this fall. Thanks Mike!
Will and Joe soon arrived with much needed coffee and sustenance. Thanks guys! Will also purchased a large pile of 1977 Topps baseball. Gil just about cleaned out my 1960 Topps binder and commented on how dead my binders are. Sorry Gil! I'm trying to load them as fast as I can!!
A customer I met last month, pulled some more 1971 Topps baseball. He also brought over his buddy who purchased a bunch of basketball from the 1970's. Rick purchased some 1972-73 Topps basketball.
One of my regular hockey guys purchased a bunch of hockey cards from the 1970's. Another regular purchased a pile of cards from the 1970's. A husband-and-wife team purchased some 1965 Topps baseball. A nice lady purchased a bunch of Cubs from many different years. My pal Phil purchased a bunch of cards. Thanks Phil!
Quite a few folks purchased cards and I ended up with another solid Orland show, as usual. I love this show! Real nice crowd today. Seemed like a larger crowd than last month.
Then Jeff Peterson brought over two guys who had a shoe box of mostly vintage cards for sale. I ended up spending most of my earnings with these guys, picking up all sorts of O-Pee-Chee hockey from the 1960's. Thanks Jeff, I owe you big time!! Occasionally, I can find some O-Pee-Chee from the 1970's but this is the first time anyone brought over O-Pee-Chee from the 1960's and all Blackhawks to boot!! Awesome!!
I went home with very little money after both shows this weekend but I was over the moon with my purchases. What a great buying weekend!!
We went over to the sub shop after the show where I went with a beef. I was tired and really feeling the jet lag but a great weekend all in all. A huge thank you to everyone who bought and sold me cards!! Sure was a fun weekend!!!
Next up is the show at the DuPage County Fairgrounds on Saturday, June 29, 2024. I am still trying to figure out what to bring out. I will probably go with two display cases of graded vintage cards along with all of my baseball binders. I am still working on that 1967 Topps binder which I would like to talk about a little bit.
I was only one year old in 1967. My older brother was buying cards then but my mom threw them out by the time I started collecting. I first started purchasing 1967's when I began to attend card shows in Hillside, Illinois, in 1978. I did not have a whole lot of money then because I was just 12 years old but I do remember purchasing semi-stars like Gil Hodges and Tommy John. I found a lot of cards in the dime and quarter boxes at shows.
In the 1980's, I largely sold cards at the flea market at the old Twin Drive-In Movie Theater in Wheeling, Illinois. I occasionally set up at card shows. My inventory back then was largely made up of cards from the 1970's which I had in binders. I remember that I made one binder of cards from the 1960's, including several pages of 1967 Topps.
It was not until the early 2000's when I was able to obtain a large quantity of 1967's and make a single binder from that year. The problem was that I had a very easy time purchasing cards numbered from 1 to 300 but finding cards numbered above 300 proved difficult.
I remember the first time I brought that binder out to a Fred Copp show where customers who went through it kept asking where the rest of the cards were at. I did not have them and just could not find them.
To this day, I still have a degree of difficulty obtaining cards higher than number 300. As I work on my current reload, I probably have more cards above number 300 than ever before but still scarce compared to most every other year. Which leads me to believe that the 1967 Topps baseball set is one the most difficult post-War set to complete outside of 1952 Topps and certainly the most difficult set to complete from the 1960's.
At most every show, folks ask me for 1967 Topps high numbers. I so rarely have them. I will have some soon once I complete this reload but I do not expect them to last very long. I may have the binder fully reloaded by the show this Saturday in Wheaton. If not, I will have them for certain in Oak Creek on July 6. Make sure you check with me the next couple of shows because the '67 highs just won't last, they never do!
Anyway, hope to see you Saturday at the DuPage County Fairgrounds!
A couple more photos from Orland...
As late as I was to Madison Saturday morning, I was as early to Orland on Sunday. Easy load in. Only one dope got in my way while I laid out my binders.
I have a little extra space in Orland that I filled with two 5,000-count dime boxes ranging in years from 1976 through 1984. I don't bring out those boxes very often. Surprisingly, the most cards I sold came from the 1980's. There were guys and gals in that dime box all day.
I finished setting up at 8:30 a.m., pictured above. Nice thing about this show is that Rich, the promoter, does not allow anyone in the room until closer to 9 a.m. I had a good half-hour to kill. I was tired and jet lagged. I killed the time just staring into space.
Rich let customers in around 8:45 a.m. As usual, they all went over to Record Store Steve's tables. Steve just happened to cut me off on the drive to the Civic Center. Nice driving Steve! According to Rick, Steve had a bunch of pre-War stuff on his tables today. I soon became very busy and was unable to check it out. I think Rick bought it all anyway.
My regulars started to come by... there was Andy and Chris then Awesome Mike, who not only purchased a bunch of cards but gave me some money to take my son Kolby out to lunch when I bring him back to Michigan State this fall. Thanks Mike!
Will and Joe soon arrived with much needed coffee and sustenance. Thanks guys! Will also purchased a large pile of 1977 Topps baseball. Gil just about cleaned out my 1960 Topps binder and commented on how dead my binders are. Sorry Gil! I'm trying to load them as fast as I can!!
A customer I met last month, pulled some more 1971 Topps baseball. He also brought over his buddy who purchased a bunch of basketball from the 1970's. Rick purchased some 1972-73 Topps basketball.
One of my regular hockey guys purchased a bunch of hockey cards from the 1970's. Another regular purchased a pile of cards from the 1970's. A husband-and-wife team purchased some 1965 Topps baseball. A nice lady purchased a bunch of Cubs from many different years. My pal Phil purchased a bunch of cards. Thanks Phil!
Quite a few folks purchased cards and I ended up with another solid Orland show, as usual. I love this show! Real nice crowd today. Seemed like a larger crowd than last month.
Then Jeff Peterson brought over two guys who had a shoe box of mostly vintage cards for sale. I ended up spending most of my earnings with these guys, picking up all sorts of O-Pee-Chee hockey from the 1960's. Thanks Jeff, I owe you big time!! Occasionally, I can find some O-Pee-Chee from the 1970's but this is the first time anyone brought over O-Pee-Chee from the 1960's and all Blackhawks to boot!! Awesome!!
I went home with very little money after both shows this weekend but I was over the moon with my purchases. What a great buying weekend!!
We went over to the sub shop after the show where I went with a beef. I was tired and really feeling the jet lag but a great weekend all in all. A huge thank you to everyone who bought and sold me cards!! Sure was a fun weekend!!!
Next up is the show at the DuPage County Fairgrounds on Saturday, June 29, 2024. I am still trying to figure out what to bring out. I will probably go with two display cases of graded vintage cards along with all of my baseball binders. I am still working on that 1967 Topps binder which I would like to talk about a little bit.
I was only one year old in 1967. My older brother was buying cards then but my mom threw them out by the time I started collecting. I first started purchasing 1967's when I began to attend card shows in Hillside, Illinois, in 1978. I did not have a whole lot of money then because I was just 12 years old but I do remember purchasing semi-stars like Gil Hodges and Tommy John. I found a lot of cards in the dime and quarter boxes at shows.
In the 1980's, I largely sold cards at the flea market at the old Twin Drive-In Movie Theater in Wheeling, Illinois. I occasionally set up at card shows. My inventory back then was largely made up of cards from the 1970's which I had in binders. I remember that I made one binder of cards from the 1960's, including several pages of 1967 Topps.
It was not until the early 2000's when I was able to obtain a large quantity of 1967's and make a single binder from that year. The problem was that I had a very easy time purchasing cards numbered from 1 to 300 but finding cards numbered above 300 proved difficult.
I remember the first time I brought that binder out to a Fred Copp show where customers who went through it kept asking where the rest of the cards were at. I did not have them and just could not find them.
To this day, I still have a degree of difficulty obtaining cards higher than number 300. As I work on my current reload, I probably have more cards above number 300 than ever before but still scarce compared to most every other year. Which leads me to believe that the 1967 Topps baseball set is one the most difficult post-War set to complete outside of 1952 Topps and certainly the most difficult set to complete from the 1960's.
At most every show, folks ask me for 1967 Topps high numbers. I so rarely have them. I will have some soon once I complete this reload but I do not expect them to last very long. I may have the binder fully reloaded by the show this Saturday in Wheaton. If not, I will have them for certain in Oak Creek on July 6. Make sure you check with me the next couple of shows because the '67 highs just won't last, they never do!
Anyway, hope to see you Saturday at the DuPage County Fairgrounds!
A couple more photos from Orland...
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