# What Happened To The Card Table?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 9, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126 "2010-07-09T18:28:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/1 "2010-07-09T18:28:21Z")
I wanted to go by a card table. You know a simple table that has four legs you unfold and it sets up and you can play cards at it.
Well I went to K-Mart, Walmart, Sears, Target and JC Pennys and NO CARD TABLES.
All they could show me was a 6 foot folding banquet table. At Target the people looked at me like I was from Zargon when I asked if they carried them.
I know they exist cause I see them on Google Shopping.
All they had were these tables that weren’t temporary, they didn’t fold, and they were huge.
Did card tables go off to die somewhere and no one told me?
🙂
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/2 "2010-07-09T18:30:42Z")
I got one at Target just last year. Was only $15 and is a great little table.
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/3 "2010-07-09T18:30:42Z")
I’ve got two card tables, one from Wal Mart and the other from Target.
One’s even this nice wood stuff.
Were you being freaky with the sales peoples again Mark? 😉
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/4 "2010-07-09T18:35:35Z")
It’s just you or your shopping area. Card tables are not hard to find. They may be out, but that’s another story.
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/5 "2010-07-09T18:52:24Z")
Maybe you should have asked for a bridge table? That’s what I’ve always heard them called, possibly because there’s a lot of bridge players in my family.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/6 "2010-07-09T18:56:25Z")
Try ordering online. I found several inexpensive places to order tables from. I know I saw card table and card table sets that were reasonable.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/7 "2010-07-09T18:58:34Z")
Are you looking for one of those plain flat ones, or those which have slots to put your chips and cards and drinks into?
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/8 "2010-07-09T19:04:10Z")
> [@Oakminster](#):
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> Maybe you should have asked for a bridge table? That’s what I’ve always heard them called, possibly because there’s a lot of bridge players in my family.
Funny, we always called them bridge tables . . . even though nobody in my family plays bridge. Could it be a regional thing?
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### Author:  [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/9 "2010-07-09T19:07:22Z")
Don’t ask them where the card tables are. Ask them where the folding chairs are. Or the ready-to-assemble furniture. You’ll then stumble across them.
I’ve seen lots.
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/10 "2010-07-09T19:10:40Z")
I live in Chicago, I called them “card table,” and the closest I could find was at Target and it was a six foot table that folded in the middle. We used to use those things, when I worked in a hotel and the banquet dept would use them.
The only portable tables all those stores had were TV trays. It must be a Chicago thing. I will have to order it online.
I checked where the folding chairs were. No card tables only stationary tables that had to be assembled.
I was looking for the plain old flat card table. I guess if I find one online, it’ll save me from dragging it on the subway 🙂
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### Author:  [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/11 "2010-07-09T19:12:05Z")
Target has them in their cheap furniture area; usually a table and 4 chairs runs about 25-30 bucks.
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### Author:  [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/12 "2010-07-09T19:59:50Z")
I got one at Big Lots recently. They had sets with chairs or just the tables.
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### Author:  [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/13 "2010-07-09T20:04:39Z")
I’ve seen them at both Walmart and Big Lots: Walmart is as a set, though. Table and four chairs.
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### Author:  [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/14 "2010-07-09T20:41:22Z")
I looked online - they called them folding tables.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/15 "2010-07-09T21:09:28Z")
> [@Markxxx](#):
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> I live in Chicago, I called them “card table,” and the closest I could find was at Target and it was a six foot table that folded in the middle. We used to use those things, when I worked in a hotel and the banquet dept would use them.
I’m in Chicago as well and I got mine at the Target on Howard up in Skokie. It was near the disassembled chairs, as \*\*melodyharmonius \*\*said.
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### Author:  [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/16 "2010-07-11T18:56:44Z")
> [@Markxxx](#):
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> Did card tables go off to die somewhere and no one told me? 🙂
If card tables go extinct, where would the kids eat at Thanksgiving?
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/17 "2010-07-11T19:22:41Z")
I just bought one at Meijer, but my wife said Target has them commonly.
It was $25 and is square and quite large.
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### Author:  [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/18 "2010-07-11T19:33:42Z")
I’ve bought them at Target and Walmart also. They’re called “folding tables” around here.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/19 "2010-07-11T19:50:55Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#):
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> I’m in Chicago as well and I got mine at the Target on Howard up in Skokie. It was near the disassembled chairs, as \*\*melodyharmonius \*\*said.
Skokie is a suburban city, isn’t it? Maybe the problem is that **Markxxx** was looking in a Target store in Chicago. The stores in the big cities may not have some larger items that are present in the suburban stores.
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### Author:  [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-card-table/546126/20 "2010-07-13T03:02:33Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#):
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> If card tables go extinct, where would the kids eat at Thanksgiving?
We can put some newspaper on the floor…
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