Fun story about these cards from when I was younger, this would've been around the time the Team Rocket set came out (which I believe was still 1st gen, maybe the..4th set they put out?).
Me and 3 of my friends were wandering around town and found this garage sale run by an old lady who used to have a younger grandson (maybe 8 or 9 years old) to come to stay with her from time to time. Grandson was not present, and lady was selling off a bunch of stuff presumably including some of his toys from when he'd visit. We were all huge into these cards at the time and saw a binder on one of her tables. Sure enough, opened it up and it's chock-full of base set 1/Jungle/Fossil holos, rare cards, etc. (for reference, this would've been around 1998 or 99, Charizard from Gen 1 was probably selling for about $150 US-ish, This was one of those 2" binders with at least 27-36 holos alone if I recall correctly, including *all* of the really good/rare ones you'd want).
Friend says to the lady "Hey, how much are these?"
Lady says "2 dollars".
Friend says "2 dollars a card?"
Lady says "2 dollars for the album".
I guarantee you've never seen 4 kids run home for 2 dollars faster in your entire life. Friend won the footrace and ended up flipping all of the cards on eBay within 6 months - amazing how that was such a crazy find at the time but still nothing compared to the return if he had held onto them.
