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Message:: [QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 3938738, member: 92655"]Gary.... I had been disillusioned with our hobby and ran a similar thread a while back. I was like you and started my Whitman books in the late 1960's. Marveling over every God sent wheat sent I received from the lunch lady's cash register. I was all in until it came time to raise a family. I took something of a twenty year hiatus and returned some years back befuddled and confused at what our hobby had become. Like yourself, I feared that coin collecting was now an old man's hobby and worried what may become of my collection when I leave this party....... Well, I started attending a few shows and was happily surprised at the number of events scheduled for youngsters at the shows and the number of youngsters attending the shows. Still yet, they were overshadowed by those of my generation. Yet they were still there. But here's what really got me the last month or so. I generally visit my dealer during the week while he is rather slow. I sit at the counter and we tell fishing lies. Last couple of months, I have gone to visit him on three separate Saturdays. And in each instance his place is busting at the seams with teenagers plugging holes in their Whitman books. No kidding. It has absolutely refreshed my belief in the future of coin collecting..... Go to your local dealers place next Saturday and see if you aren't wading through youngsters.[/QUOTE]