I've been trying to think of the last time there was a card show where I live. It's been quite a few years and my memory is not good at picking out dates from that long ago. Back when I first moved into town, in 1994, there were regular shows at the state office building downtown. I went to a couple of those. This was just before I got out of the hobby and by then there could have been shows every week, I never would have known, because I didn't care. When I returned to collecting about 10 years later, I remember going to a show at the same place. But then those shows stopped and I don't remember another one until a couple years later at the community college. I recall going there and buying one card. I think it was the 1971 Topps Ernie Banks, to replace the one I had just traded away. I think that show was about 2005 or 2006. There hasn't been a show around here ever since, thus my hour-plus journeys to find people selling cards in a communal setting. So, a coupl...
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