J.W. Porter sounds like a men's clothing store that had been a constant presence in your city before finally going belly up circa 1983. They still have hand-painted signs on a couple of older brick buildings in the downtown area that no one has thought to paint over in the years since. Your dad got all of his pants there.
If you want this link to the past, get ten dollars ready. I wrote a 59 in the corner so you wouldn't forget what year this card is from.
THE PILE
2005 Prime Patches Jason Jennings Jersey/Glove/Shoe Relic (149/150)
2014 Topps Trevor Plouffe Pink Parallel (11/50)
2001 Pacific Peter Warrick Impact Zone
2015 Topps Update Series Brett Gardner Sabermetric Stats Variation
2002 Fleer Tradition Plays of the Week Magglio Ordonez
1976 Topps Kurt Bevacqua Bubble Gum Blowing Champ
2002 Fleer Tradition Jose Vidro Glossy Parallel (067/200)
1993 Topps Chipper Jones Top Prospects
1988 Topps Tom Glavine
1988 Topps 1987 All-Star #2 Don Mattingly and #20 Gary Carter
1954 Topps #83 Joe Collins
1976 Topps Willie Randolph et al.
2014-15 Panini Prizm #163 Julius Erving Prizm Parallel