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I'm sure many of you have had this thought. Thought I would share a few inspirational images.

very cool, its something i have often wondered about. What was the thought process of this as a kid.  I know, i was the wierdo not buying candy and instead using that dollar on cards. 

Oh, wow. What I wouldn't give for that Wings display... recently I ranked it 2nd in my countdown of top 30 favorite non-sports sets ever.

REALLYYYYYYYYYYYY cool pictures. THANK YOU for sharing :)

If you had $100 in your pocket back then, it was probably at least a weekly paycheck.

Ha. My first job after high school in 1986 I started working in a factory for $3.99/hr and we were paid weekly. Those checks didn't seem so at the time but were they ever small. 40 hours X $3.99 = $159.60 gross pay. I don't remember but let's say my portion of health care and such was just $10 per week, that moved my taxable gross to $149.60 per week. Let's use a tax rate of 28% or $41.89. That would leave my weekly paycheck at $107.71!

WOW, really really awesome!

Very cool and nostalgic photographs indeed.

I can certainly relate directly to the last picture. Those are 1974 Topps boxes in that photo. I actually still have one of those display boxes in my collection from buying the whole box at our local Jewel back then. I kind of have a thing for the old packaging. My collection includes a wrapper from each year of Topps Baseball going back to 1960 only missing '61 and '62 and some odd junk wax years in the 90's. Fifties wrappers are much tougher to find and significantly more expensive.

That's awesome !! I love seing the store displays . Thanks for sharing !!