It’s seven years since I first posted this. Yes, I still have all those dinosaurs! Only now I don’t care how much money I could get for them. They ain’t goin’ nowhere!
Most of my family has passed on; very few of us left. Little gifts that grandparents, aunts and uncles, and my mother and father gave me… well, sorry, but you just can’t put a price on that.
Handling my now-expensive Sphenacodon, I can almost reach back and touch the summer of 1960.
I used to have a complete collection of Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine from the 1st issue in 1951 to about 1970. When I joined the Air Force, I figured I couldn’t take all those boxes of magazines with me so I (gulp!) threw them all out. Had I kept them, they would have been worth a fortune. Oh well.
Ee-yahhh! What a horrible story! The whole collection!
I’ve always appreciated that you hung onto these. I wish I had kept a few things from my youth.
After my mother passed away, my dad went through my brother’s and my stuff since we had moved out and he tossed them. Included in the “trash” were several Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris baseball cards, plus a bunch of Dodger greats!
*Sigh* My mother threw out my complete set of 1963 baseball cards. I had to do a lot of hard trading to get the last few cards I needed.