Nostalgia

[Fleer57]

Most pointless post ever.

Just thought i'd post some pics to take a lot of you back to the good old days... when cards were made of card, and we actually used to read the back of them, making us the most informed generation in the category of superstar middle names.

Patrick Aloysius Ewing. That is all.

 

[90sRulz]

Collected em all...stopped...all got ruined being thrown around in old shoe boxes...years go by...got the itch again when I could afford to buy boxes...bought them all again

Remember when upper deck was what the rich kid got weekly, you got once a month?

 

[Fleer57]

I was allowed to buy one pack every time my mum did the weekly shop. Usually nba hoops, couldn't afford anything else. I remember getting some money for my birthday once, and buying an entire box of skybox 93/94 (see above). Buying a whole box was just unheard of back then. I pulled a Shaq center stage - sold it for $60 (had a BV of $110 back then). I stopped collecting between 95 and about 2003 then discovered ebay and went full junkie because I had money. Then i stopped again and have only just started again now. Something bothers me about modern cards. The fact you basically just buy packs that are guaranteed to contain absolute gold - it takes the "golden ticket" feel away from it, when everyone had a level playing field. These days people with the most money pull the best cards. I miss the 90s.

 

[mat2323]

yep the 90's ruled, sucks now, unless you have a huge income to throw around the cards now days are starting to price out alot of collectors, a sad sad thing, shame panini, shame

 

[A_Iverson_I]

The pic of the Skybox pack in your sig reminds me of one Xmas when me and my bro shared a box and I pulled a Penny Center Stage and he was po'ed lolol as he collected Penny and he basically got jack shit!

 

[MJ23BULLS]

I remember the first time i saw the NBA, i was watching WWF Royal Rumble on video my uncle taped for me and straight after the wresting was the 1988 Dunk COMP!!!

From that day on i was mesmerized, i saw some guy jumping in the air and doing these amazing dunks, (look at the hang time, look at the flying motion)

Needless to say i was hooked on all things MJ after that, i had any and all posters i could find and started watching any NBA games i could..

Then in 92' the NBA went global and Basketball cards took off big time...

As i was already following the NBA, i knew which players to collect and was making a killing trading scrub players for stars before everyone worked out who was who...


I put together a huge MJ collection up until 95', then not long after that it was impossible to find any shops still trading so i gave up...

I went to the U.S in 2011 and started collecting again after that!

 

[Fleer57]

My obsession with NBA probably started when my sister's boyfriend at the time got me the Three Peat vhs. I must've watched it 50 times. Then MJ's Playground, then all the other MJ videos, then started watching "NBA Action" on tv. I still have a letter I wrote to santa asking for a Shaq card. I'll scan it in and post it here when I find it

Interesting in the poll above that nobody is ticking 1995-2000. How did the NBA manage to just DIE after the big boom? I know they stopped showing it on tv but that must've been as a result of dropping interest. Did that generation just grow up, start going to high school and stop thinking cards were cool? I can't recall anyone at high school being seen with NBA cards, but primary school was like a card convention every day.

 

[taffster74]

I started collecting in 1995 - back when the boom was still big in sydney - every newsagent sold nba cards, most department stores sold cards, most video shops sold cards, there were card stores in every major shopping centre ( Fairfield, liverpool, parramatta, campbelltown, ashfield, burwood, blacktown, penrith, City, Miranda, Hornsby even). Heck Parramatta had three card stores at one stage. The bust didn't really hit sydney until about 1998 or so. And everything was available.

 

[drobfan8]

Those were the best days.

When people put base sets together and called it an achievement.

My first pack of cards was from 93/94 Skybox and I pulled a Shaq/Zo Showdown series

I also could never afford more than a pack here and there, I got a few Upper Decks but never got anything great (what a base set list though).

I put together my first complete base set, it was 95/96 Fleer even got all the Hardwood leaders. What kid wouldn't love a pack that gave you two inserts per?

One of the best cards I ever pulled was a 97/98 Topps Generations refractor Shawn Kemp out of a vending machine. Awesome!!!

Now when I get the urge to bust, I go old school.

Over the last few years I've busted.

93/94 Skybox
93/94 UD SE
94/95 Flair
95/96 Flair
95/96 Fleer
97/98 Topps
97/98 Topps Chrome

Such good fun

 

[pugzyboy]

I can remember playing basketball for 4 teams as a youngster so all Saturday I was just a stadium rat hanging around for my next game.
Mum would give me $10 to last the day for lunch and drinks but there was a vending machine which sold packs of upper deck and I used to just spend it all there. This would of been mid 90's I feel.
I wish I had kept everything I had but old mumsie threw them out when I moved out

Never had the chance to buy a box until 6 months ago when I started to collect again, now im hooked lol.

 

[banzini]

My first pack was an 89-90 Hoops pack from Granny May's - used to find them in Westfield shopping malls in SA.

 

[Wattsup]

Any Melbournites remember the Hoops store in Knox City? I used to save some money and go there and buy a pack of 91/92 Upper Deck when I could, they were the hottest thing since sliced bread at the time! I remember pulling a Jordan Hologram and being as happy as, the crotchety old bloke running it didnt share my excitement, probably as he wouldnt get the chance to pull it!
Also used to duck into some American jeans shop the year before and but a ludicrously high priced pack of NFL score when I could too, can now nearly buy the whole base set of that series for what a pack cost back then....

 

[Fleer57]

my dealer (and i don't use the term lightly) was US Gear in Carillon Arcade in Perth. Anyone remember that place? I remember saving up for weeks to buy a Shaq NBA Hoops allstar card that was sitting in their display for ages.

 

[angpin]

I remember back in 93-94 going to a shop in Bourke St Melbourne, can't remember the name but it was on the first floor opposite Myers in the Mall. The shop was always packed, particularly around lunchtime with guys dressed in suits and I'd watch mesmerised as they traded cards as if it was the stock exchange. The noise, the atmosphere, the buzz, it was electric and feverish as these men worked out their trades. Ah....the good old days!

 

[Shaunao1983]

the skylight card you pictured were the NBA cards my dad would buy me and my two brothers once a week. think it was upper deck 1994 or 95. we were obsessed with these cards. dad would open all three packets, separate them and make a three bundles and we would choose one each. what is a set like that worth these days? it had all the commons plus the final cards and some other cool inserts.

 

[Fleer57]

the skylight card you pictured were the NBA cards my dad would buy me and my two brothers once a week. think it was upper deck 1994 or 95. we were obsessed with these cards. dad would open all three packets, separate them and make a three bundles and we would choose one each. what is a set like that worth these days? it had all the commons plus the final cards and some other cool inserts.

was 93/94 upper deck and the whole lot of skylights is worth about $3... $2 of that is the jordan. lol.
The whole set of 93/94 upper deck is valued at $113.20

 

[Shaunao1983]

was 93/94 upper deck and the whole lot of skylights is worth about $3... $2 of that is the jordan. lol

what does the Jordan rookie card pictured in your avatar sell for?

 

[Fleer57]

The jordan rookie (fleer 57) at 8.5 which is what I have sells for around $1,200. If it was BGS 9 you could triple that... and 9.5 you could probably trade it for a nice car. lol

 

[Shaunao1983]

bloody hell are there any unopened boxes of that series out there?

 

[Fleer57]

yeah but they sell for the same amount. an unopened pack goes for several hundred.