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Posted 8 months ago
MattyG
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I have a pile of old 70's Collectors Weekly newspapers I purchased at an estate sale in like a 10 box paper lot for a dollar. Within the mass lot were loads of goodies and nothing was trash and maybe 40 or 50 CW editions included. Since i'm on this website I had to run outside to fetch this and figured I would post my birth week issue. I was born Earth Day '72 on the beach in Cali.
Anyone have a collection of these?
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Would love to have that 1st issue of Bottle News, was anyone here a charter sub
Great find! That's actually the paper that inspired the CW website name, and we have a few issues here in the office... :)
Thanks Hunter, seems like you guys would enjoy looking at them more than me. If the site want's them for whatever, there yours for the asking. I even have some stamped SAMPLE in red on the cover, like a promo
wowsa, I'll send you an email and we can discuss! Thanks Matty :)
Thanks for the love Bellin68, mustangtony, and kerry10456.