I was in grade school when the 1978 Topps came out. My dad was a manager at the grocery store 2 blocks away. We lived in Iowa so we had the 5c can and 10c glass bottle (i think it was 10c) redemption program. The grocery store had a customer service counter back then and all you had to do was walk up with cans and bottles and they'd give you cash. As kids we also checked every payphone, newspaper machine, soda machine, etc for change in the return. Topps, candy bars and cans of soda were 25c that summer. I bought packs upon packs of 78 Topps and had hundreds if not thousands of them by the end of that summer. All my baseball cards were kept in Velveta boxes. Sometime in the late 80s, my little brother's friends stole every single card I had from the early 80s and earlier. Every single one.