Night Owl Cards

(Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of Larry Fritsch Cards. This is merely another tired nostalgia piece from night owl). The Larry Fritsch Cards catalog arrived in the mail the other day. It shows up maybe a couple of times a year. But this time it filled me with such joy and nostalgia that I had to announce it on Twitter. What I received back in return were a couple of nods from doddering folk like me, a couple of "huh?"s, and mostly silence. Twitter isn't the right place for something like this. So, I'll do it here. The Larry Fritsch Cards catalog, for the entire 1980s and into the early 1990s, WAS my internet for cards. This is how I obtained cards that were not the latest and greatest at the local store. Not that Fritsch Cards didn't have the latest and greatest, too. It's just that it had everything , at least to my way of thinking then. Before online shopping, before Amazon and ebay, poor ancient folks like me would run to mail-order ...