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Welcome Gipper. I have about a half of a set of 1980 football but not much else. I do have a few Fran Tarkenton and a Ahmad Rashad RC. That is the extent of my football but if you need some 1980's I can help out!
It was in the Fayetteville Mall, which was on East Genessee St, so yep, probably one and the same. The mall was torn down years ago. I haven’t been back in probably 20 years, so I’m not sure what’s there now. As far as I remember, that was the only one in Fayetteville during that time. There was one in Manlius as well, but I never went there as it was too far for me to walk.
I guess I was right about that being one card store of many in that town. The one I was referring to was farther East on East Genesse Street on the other side of the road from the Fayetteville Mall and about a block for the turnoff to Manlius.. I had no idea there was one in that long since demolished Fayetteville Mall.
Yeah, Carousel took a lot of business from all the smaller malls. At one point it was discussed to make Carousel the largest mall in the US and have it take over from the mall of America. I know those plans fell through, but I remember as a teenager that mall being our go to once it opened and we stopped going to Great Northern. We hardly ever went to Shoppingtown, Dewitt was never a place we decided or had any other reason to go to. I drove through Syracuse this past summer, didn’t stop but at least drove through, and it saddens me how the place I grew up truly declined. The Carousel plaza has definitely changed though and looks like it is at least still going strong.
I am pretty sure that is the last one, he is still hanging in there though.
Do you guys remember Twilight Book and Game on Salina St in Syracuse? I used to go there a lot. I remember buying packs of 1984 Topps and Donruss looking for Mattingly There were five or six card stores north of Syracuse I would go to buy all of the late 80's to early 90's junk. Southpaw in North Syracuse is still there but I buy most of my stuff online now.
Yeah, I would go to Twilight when I was playing MTG. We would play tournaments there. I don’t remember them having a great sports card selection.
I absolutely remember Twilight on North Salina Street. I used to go in there alot in the late 80s. I think there was a 2nd Twilight in Utica as well. There was a card store near Twilight that I used to buy a lot from (maybe on Park St) but that went out of business after the owner was caught stealing from mailboxes!
I did, I was actually in the store after they hit the second time. Then I saw the story about the third break in on Syracuse.com. He became a huge target when boxes started selling for $400 or $500, I guess.
That's funny, I mostly bought baseball cards there, I don't remember non-sports cards. I did buy toy soldiers, BattleTech stuff and war games there though. They got mad at me once when I tried to buy a bunch of Yankees and Giants out of their set building inventory. Which I understand now, but at the time I was pretty irritated.
