Do You Remeber When?

Mark Fydrich is the new kid on the block. I watched Phil Rizzuto, Joe Dimaggio, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, etc. etc. and I'm only 39 ( well, I recently celebrated the 32nd anniversary of my 39th birthday)

Alan

I'm almost 40 and all I can remember is this jar my mom kept change in from tips as a waitress and getting to take an Ike or Kennedy to go get a snack at the local gas station. Man those Ike's seemed HUGE as a 7 or 8 year old!

Yes. Yes the did. Interesting that you point that out, as I was eight when I got those first two Eisenhower dollars from my dad.

when I first started collecting I chose the Silver Dollars because of a childhood memory of my Great Grandfather giving all of us kids a Silver Dollar for Christmas each year and I remembered holding that big heavy coin when he would put it in my small hand

Way, way back one of the things I did to make money was to sell papers, score cards and pencils in front of Wrigley Field for aseball games. Then once the game stated, a group of us went around to the other side of the park, one kid would make faces at the guard by the gate there and the rest of us would sneak in. We were to young to realize that the same guard really didn't fall for that all the time, day after day, year after year.
Anyone here remember that at one time in Wrigley field the Bears played there. Also, that was the place for professional, if you could call it that, wresling there too. And even rodios. And we always snuk in free.
Meanwhil back to coins. After the games I would walk down a place called Addison Street and about a half block from the baseball park was a coin store. One day in the window there was 10 Mercury dimes in dish. All were 1916D's and all were $1.50 each. Using all the money I had in the world, I purchased them all. And you have no idea how much a $1.50 was back then. A loaf of bread was $0.05.
And I still remember how everyone thought those new Dimes with that Roosevelt guy on them would never last. Just all of a sudden your change was full of them. Just had to bring back the Mercury lady you know.
I'm still having fun trying to spend $2 bills.

True and the one in set #1 is about EF-40. However, from there on down to set #10 they get lower and lower in grades but who cares.
Also, back then found many 14D lincoln Cents in change and not the ones we made either. Used to erase part of a 4 in a 1944D to make a 1914D then put back in change. Wonder how many are in collections today.

Yeah, kind of goes without saying ... but you did.