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Some of the special effects in Return of the Jedi actually look pretty low tech to you now, even though you remember being blown away by them when you first watched them. Conversation I had with an 1. How can Du Hast become popularIts in German9. Luftbaloons did in 1. Rock Me Amadeus a year or two laterHow should I know that. I wasnt even born yet. Technically she was born by that time, but way too young to remember when it came out. Talk about making me feel old. Working in a stores mask dept. Halloween in 9. 3. Bbpress Wordpress Theme. These two kids, approx. I said to them Yeah, its like the mask on the cover of Quiet Riots Metal Health album. Too bad we dont have a red leather straight jacket too. The kids looked at each other then back to me, then one of them, totally straight Quiet who The first day in my life I ever felt old. Its just been downhill from there. Telling a junior at work I didnt like the new cover version of Bananaramas hit Cruel Summer, and her saying to me that she didnt know it was a cover Same goes for that song which samples the Dream Academys Life in a Northern Town. While being the guardian while their mother was on her honeymoon, I was driving around in 1. Dont Stand So Close To Me came on the radio. I had a moment of nostalgia and shouted, Its THE POLICE and they both shouted, Where Where as they were looking for a cop car. I went to Tower Records to find an 8. Several big name bands that I listened to in highschool are making their comeback tour together and are playing at a local club with an occupancy of under 4. Tickets are available at the door the night of the show. I am 2. 8 and work with mostly high school age kids and someone at my job got a new funky hair do. The boss at work is 3. Pat Benatar or Joan Jett. None of the HS kids knew what we were talking about They all said, Whos Pat Benatar I just about diedI saw a Commodore 6. It looked ancient The fact the hardly any of our cartoons are on tv anymore and seeing The Smurfs on the Cartoon Network. Moog Macs. I was babysitting my little cousin, she was watching re runs of Mork and Mindy on Nick at Nights Tv Land. When I realized what she was watching I exclaimed, That was my favorite show when I was little My cousin looked at me in horror and said that Tv land only ran classic old shows and that if I saw the orginal episodes I must be really old. You listen to your all time favorite music on an oldies station. Wasnt that our prom themeYou remember when JAWS came out the first time. You go to rent The Princess Bride at Blockbuster and the clerk says, Is that a new one Ive never heard of it. You remember when loading a computer game involved a cassette or floppy drive and a nap to pass the time. In the video shop the other day I noticed that the DVD section was getting bigger. This reminded me of when I was a child and the video shop had Beta videos Upstairs and the VHS cassestes downstairs. I wonder will VHS outshine another competitor or will people in 1. CDs, CD roms and DVD disks all mixed up as they all look the sameWhile I was working in a car wash, I overheard a mother talking to her son about carcell phones. The son was amazed to learn that people didnt always have car phones, and that they used to have cords. He was serious too. I was network administrator at a university, and asked out one of the girls at the college to a Chicago concert. I mentioned, during the lull before the concert, something about REO Speedwagon. She had never heard of them. I thought that the guy in the seat next to us was going to have a heart attack. When you look at your cd collection and theyre all Greatest Hits. Hearing REMs The One I Love, a song popular when I was a college freshmam the year being 1. Classic Rock station My 1. My aunt and I were chaperones. We brought over The Breakfast Club, thinking they would enjoy after going nuts over Shes All That Not only did they NOT relate to any of the movies emotional angst, but they were quite bored with it and make jokes about the way Molly Ringwald dressed. That made me feel old, but also madThey just dont know what the real teen stuff is I was in a christian book store when a couple of teenagers who were looking at some CDs made a slight noise when they came upon the Stryper CD. I realized the noise they were making was laughter when they talked about how old the band was. Needless to say, it made this 3. I feel old when I talk to the 2. I used to take photos of fav bands off the tv. Drive Inn Dusk to Dawns were great At my first job they has mobile phones as big as bricks with a black box attached with a cord which was carried around. I want to send a fax calling for OZ to Japan was the pits Telex machines were state of the art. One PC at work to be shared amongst 2. They had floppy disks the size of LP records. Step Sequencer Program here. I feel OLD In Communications class, my friends all almost 1. I just turned 1. The scary part was, all the commercials aired in 1. I mentioned the commercials to someone else in high school last year, and she had absolutely no idea what I was talking about, and shes the same age as me. Scary At my brothers best friends graduation party, which was 4 days before our high school graduation, one of my brothers friends bought over the old Nintendo console, and a few games, Contra and Super Mario 1, 2, and 3. All the kids at the party that were over 1. Another thing about that party, we put on a compilation with ELO Electric Light Orchestras Black Days, White Nights, which was in Billy Madison, and George Harrisons Ive Got My mind Set on You, amongst other songs from the 8. Not only were we listening, we were actually singing alongOnce again, the little ones had no idea what were were listening to, and thought us older kids were strange. That sure made me feel old My boss told me his daughters didnt know how to run a record player. Early this year in 2. I bought the Superman DVD pack. Being 2. 5, I grew up with the Christopher Reeve movies, and I used to work at this Best Buy only about 4 years earlier when I was 2. When the kid at the counter saw what I was buying he said Suuuuperman in a saracatic way. Still I erroneously figured he was my age or at least around my age, 2. So I said, Yeah dude, theyre really cool especially the first one, got a directors commentary and everything, you should check it out. Why Sports Card Values from the Late 8. Early 9. 0s Are Low. Its a familiar scene in sports card shops someone walks in enthusiastically with a faded box or two under their arms. They confidently toss them on the glass display case, look up at the card shop owner and ask, How muchll you give me for these expecting high sports card values. Seeing the mix of Fleer team logo stickers and Upper Deck holograms tattooing the box, the shop keeper knows the customer wont be leaving the store happy or with a new found wad of cash. But he opens the box anyway, out of courtesy. Before the shop owner even has a chance to take a handful of cards out, the customer amps up the sales pitch, Ive got tons of Hall of Famers in there. That Nolan Ryan where hes wearing the tuxedo. Ive got two of them. Same with the Upper Deck card where theres three pictures of him. Those were some great cards back when they were first released, but they arent going to put anyone through college today, let alone buy a ham sandwich. Sports card values from the late 1. The shop owner continues to thumb through the cards politely as the collector, now completely overcome with visions of forthcoming riches, points out cant miss rookies like Greg Vaughn, Gregg Jefferies and Kevin Maas. I know some of them didnt quite pan out, but they should be worth a little something still, right asks the collector. Nope. As the shop owner nears the bottom of the stack, the collector reaches in and grabs one card. This card is awesome Check it out, Michael Jordan taking batting practice with the White Sox. The last time I looked in a price guide, these bad boys were selling for 2. Same with the Dream Team Jose Canseco. The collector knew his stuff. The only problem was, the last time the 1. Upper Deck Baseball Michael Jordan sold for more than a dollar or two was back when Saved by the Bell was still on the air and Reebok was rocking the Foot Locker with pump shoes. The shop owner carefully puts the cards back in the box and thanks the customer for bringing them in. So, what can I get for them the collector asks. Sorry, I cant use them. What do you meanIve already got more than I can use. But I paid a lot for these cards back in the day. I understand. So did I. But theyre not worth much anymore. How muchThe dance goes back and forth for a couple of minutes. The shop owner just wants to tell the guy that if he wanted to get rid of the cards, he might as well use them for kindling. But he holds back and continues to try and let him down nicely and educate him about real world sports card values. The collector is shocked and cant understand it. For all these years, hes been careful to keep the corners sharp and not creased. But the fact is, very few sports cards from the late 1. In fact, many are hard to give away today. But not all hope is lost for those looking to cash in on their sports card stashes from the era. Supply and Demand 1. To put it bluntly, everyone who wants a 1. Upper Deck Baseball Michael Jordan has three of them. Even if they were just one per box, tons are out there. Literally. Today, they can be found for pennies on the dollar. This is the same with almost every sports card made between 1. When sports cards began to emerge as collectibles, more people started to buy in. Soon after that came price guides, which placed specific values on collections. The hobby then enjoyed exponential growth. Everyone was suddenly dreaming of Jose Cansecos and Todd Van Poppels working like stocks. Sports card values were supposed to see steady climbs, eventually culminating in cashing in for college tuition, new cars and lavish weddings. Baseball cards of shirtless Jose Cansecos were worth 2. Heck, 1. 98. 6 Donruss Jose Canseco cards were going for more than 1. The 1. 99. 1 Upper Deck Baseball SP1 Michael Jordan was selling for 2. But in this time of card shops on every corner, everybody was forgetting about one of the most basic rules of economics supply and demand. When millions of people were buying sports cards in the late 1. With few exceptions, there were always enough cards to go around. Collectors could easily buy single cards by the brick. You wanted 1. 00 1. Upper Deck Todd Van Poppel rookie cards for every member of your football team No problem. Heck, you could get 5. It seemed like everyone was stashing sports cards and lots of them. Supply and demand were in line, so prices were strong. The mass supply should have been a major tip off that made the continuous growth of sports card value impossible. As the hobby hemorrhaged collectors, supply now far exceeded demand. The hordes of cards didnt disappear, they merely sat in closets for years, gathering dust. Now many sports card collectors are looking to get something for their cards. Theyre nostalgic not so much for the players on the fronts of the cards but rather the rush of bumping elbows at card shows as they built equity for the future. The hobby was filled with investors and not collectors. Thats not a knock on anyones reasons for buying cards. We were all told that sports cards were easy money. Whos going to turn down easy money, especially when it was fun to collect. Supply has long since caught up with demand. Pallets of unopened cases and shoe boxes of childhood collections are common. If youre looking to sell you late 8. The cards are worthless because nobodys buying. Dont blame the card shop owner for not wanting them. They wont be able to sell them, so if they take them off your hands, theyre merely adding to a potential fire hazard. Modern Perspectives on Sports Card Values. Some of the only sports cards from the early 1. Donruss Elite inserts. The first serial numbered cards in the hobby, they were limited to 1. Imagine, just 1. 0,0. Today, cards limited to just one copy are fairly easy to find. And cheap too. Cards limited to 1. Just last week a couple of one of a kind Albert Pujols printing plates went for about 3. Thats how much the hobby has shrunk. Twenty years ago, a print run of 1. Today, superstar cards limited to just 1 can sell for less than the box they came in. This isnt always the case as some of todays cards can sell for hundreds or even thousands of dollars, but there arent many. There are several reasons for this, but it still comes down to supply and demand. Todays hobby base is a dedicated one, but you could measure them in the thousands and not the millions who were buying in 1. Not only were there millions of cards, but they were all meticulously looked after. Vintage Mickey Mantle cards remain valuable in part today because they were originally bought to be played with and studied. As cards gained collectible value, a new breed of collector emerged one who looked after their cards as though they were a fragile antique. Recognizing the red borders of 1. Donruss Baseball were easy to damage, we started putting them in pages and specially made boxes that made sure mint condition was maintained. So not only are there millions of early 1. Finding Value in Your Worthless Cards. Not all hope is lost for those of you who have boxes and boxes of cards that arent worth any money. You may not be able to cash in and take that vacation you were hoping for or even buy a textbook for your daughters first semester at college, but some value can be found. Several sets from the late 1. Okay, maybe not the hideous yellow of 1. Fleer Baseball. But early Upper Deck sets are gorgeous.