Good day, eh. Greetings from the Great White North. I'm late posting this mailday but what better day to get caught up.
Jon over at.A Penny sleeve For Your Thoughts recently had some giveaways during his Take my Stuff Tuesday and Free stuff Friday. I was able to grab a few cards fitting my collecting needs. Correspondence was great as Jon informed me he would be sending by PWE and I was fine with that.
A few weeks later I came home to not one, not two but three PWE's all on the same day. He had mentioned he might find some other cards to send with my "winnings".
Envelope number 1 contained some Monkees cards, baseball (and Blue Jays content), hockey and 2011 ITG Canadiana. Gotta love Stompin' Tom and The Hockey Song.
I has a few cards from this set and glad to add these. I guess I should put this on my "set to be completed" list.
Envelope number 2 contained some Jeter cards and more Canadiana. I wonder why they were classified as Athlete and not Wrestler. Met Dave Thomas ("Coo loo coo coo, coo coo coo coo" ) once at the Gretzky Tournament and got his autograph.
Envelope number 3 had baseball Topps 50th Anniversary and non-sports-Howard the Duck and Desert Storm. Actress, actor and author. America's Sweetheart, Pa Cartwright and this adaptation of one of Leacock's short stories.
The Canadiana set was a cool one. I like the country oriented sets, and wish that more would've been made. They're especially fun when you come across someone and think "Hey, I didn't know they were from there!".
ReplyDeleteYou met Dave Thomas? How was he in person?
This happened in July 1982. Gee, almost exactly 41 years ago. Rick Moranis was lso there as this was during the height of The McKenzie Brothers popularity. As I recall, they were both just sitting at a bench having a refreshing drink.I talked to them a bit and got autographs from each of them.
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