How old is your father?
64
And I'll bet you still need him and still feed him!
I still have all of my old hockey cards from the 70's.
Being from CA, I never had hockey cards, but I had tons of baseball and football cards. Unfortunately, I got rid of all of them at the latest when we moved in the mid-80s.
Funny story: sometime last year, a guy in my office was cleaning out his garage, and he brought in a box of older cards. Most of them were just scattered loose, but he had an unopened pack of 1975 Topps baseball cards, which was the first year I collected baseball cards. He debated between selling it, unopened, on eBay or opening it to see if it had anything good. He eventually said I could decide, so I opened it. The list of
luminaries included:
Bobby Darwin
Jim Spencer
Morris Nettles
Luke Walker
Ed Goodson
Ray Fosse
Ed Halicki
Along with Brewers and Twins team cards and a card commemorating the A's third consecutive World Series Win.
The stuck of "gum" was broken into a bunch of pieces and yeah, I gave a shot at chewing 45-year old gum that was probably stale back then. It basically disintegrated into gritty sludge in my mouth and tasted like chemicals. I spit it out after about 15-20 seconds.