BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???

Subject: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Jul 12 - 07:52 PM

Okay, as a reformed collector who occasionally falls off the wagon I am a big fan of "American Pickers"... Just wish that them boys would settle down and have their shows at the same time every week... Kinda have to hunt for them...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Jul 12 - 08:05 PM

Hail's Bails, Bobert. I grew up with the stuff them boys are payin' good money fer. We'd jist toss it in the dump when we wuz through with it. Ah kin provide the addresses of some good dumps, includin' the one our house sat on.

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Jul 12 - 08:13 PM

Of course!

It's an exciting show, and by watching it I don't get half as dusty as the picker duo, and I don't have to come up with the money when they close the deal.

However, they never seem to find any cool banjos.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Jul 12 - 08:15 PM

There are no cool banjos...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 06 Jul 12 - 08:15 PM

I enjoy their banter. I enjoy the office lady. I like the truck and some of the places they see. Pretty cool show all in all.

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: olddude
Date: 06 Jul 12 - 08:48 PM

hell ya, although I don't know where they get their prices. Around my parts most of the stuff wouldn't sell at half of what they pay ...

great show

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Wesley S
Date: 06 Jul 12 - 09:43 PM

I like it too. But I wonder if they've ever left a place and called in the team from "Hoarders". It's a thin line y'know.

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Jul 12 - 09:44 PM

My Mom and Grandmother could not pass an antique or junk shop.......Yeah, I watch it but see, Dan and I will watch damn near any of these stupid ass things from gold mining to gator poaching to crab fishing to "Duck Dynasty" which might be one of the all time funniest things I have ever wasted my time watching. I did draw the line at the "Full Metal Jousting".......................



Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Jul 12 - 11:48 PM

What *I* wonder is how they get a camera team into some of those barns & attics they risk life & limb climbing around in.
There are some seriously strange 'collectors' out there.

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Jul 12 - 08:38 AM

I also watch Pawn Stars, not to be confused with "Porn Stars.". You never know what will "walk through that door."

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Jul 12 - 08:45 AM

Before my Betty Ford visit I was a scavenger... There was always some urban renewal program going on in Richmond, Va. and there were a number of us who would break into boarded up buildings and scour them for anything collectible... Several pieces of furniture that I still have came from those days... Not to mention a lot of the stuff that crams my office with another 20 - 30 boxes of stuff for which I have no room...

BTW, before the latest move, I had an auction house come and haul off a 12 foot trailer and pickup truck's worth of the stuff which, BTW Part 2, brought a little over $2000...

So, for me, "America Pickers" is a little like methadone... LOL...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 07 Jul 12 - 09:04 AM

Those guys need a high level tolerance to dust and mould spores..


My mrs is seriously addicted to "Storage Wars".

But these profiteering oriented programs always gloss over [ie completely ignore & omit]
whenever any personal documents indicating original owner or next of kin
may be found in the bargain treasure trove 'abandoned' storage lockers...???


All sorts of ethical issues which would make a more interesting but perhaps much less popularist TV show ?

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 Jul 12 - 03:02 PM

Carried on Canadian television, along with "Canadian Pickers" (two from Calgary) who were on the back roads of Newfoundland in one I saw last night.

As an old partly reformed junk hunter and addict of country auctions, I watch. I have seen them walk by some good items, but I have lost touch with which items are "hot", so I shouldn't judge.

Every magpie, pack rat and squirrel has preferences, so do junk (er, collectors of items of historical and cultural significance) addicts.

I need those guys to come by my house....

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: frogprince
Date: 07 Jul 12 - 03:41 PM

Hafta confess to being hooked on both "Pickers" and "Pawn Stars". But sometimes..."and there it was! a rusty, bent spoke from a 1913 Harley wheel; I just had to have it!"...do people actually pay money for some of that stuff?

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 07 Jul 12 - 03:58 PM

The show about the Louisiana pawn shop is good too.

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 07 Jul 12 - 04:04 PM

"Carried on Canadian television, along with "Canadian Pickers" "

Canadian pickers not available in your country. Damn! But is available on line for you people living in Canada!

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 Jul 12 - 05:01 PM

My daughter is married to a "restorer" who has just completed work on a 1948 one ton truck he found as a wreck on a nearby farm. He is now getting it proved as roadworthy.
Finding some of the parts took time and long searches on the net and correspondence with others who search the junk yards. He found a couple of hard-to-get parts at a car parts collector in Maryland. Getting the proper headlamps was another long search.
(His first effort was restoring an old Porsche 356 to new. Then there was the Triumph with those multiple carbs that only worked if the moon was in the ascension.....

Yes, people do pay money for that stuff. No accounting, huh?

The popularity of these programs shows that a lot of us have the bug; we have the diagnosis that the disease ic chronic, it is always there although sometimes in dormancy.

Found some good stuff at a city warehouse, including a number of those kerosene lanterns that they once hung at road repair sites, never used and thus in new condition. Now four-six of them could be wired to make a lighting fixture for the rumpus room or cottage.
I once made a collection of those old railroad hand lanterns for the same purpose. Never did make it, so the lanterns are in my basement somewhere...... along with some of those road repair lanterns that I didn't trade off.

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 Jul 12 - 05:06 PM

Rapparee, your dump sites. I used to sneak into small town dumps. Found a good settlers chest in one, and got a lot of good wood (mahogany, walnut) for repair work.

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Jul 12 - 05:21 PM

Speaking of dumps, any ol' country boy who knows his way around the woods has run into a fallen down house at one time or another... Back then folks didn't take their trash off to a landfill so if ya go downwind about 50 to 100 feet you can usually find where they disposed of their stuff... Good pickin', sho nuff... I gotta a lotta nice old bottles I've found back in the woods...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: olddude
Date: 07 Jul 12 - 05:30 PM

I still am a picker ... now it is more pocket watches but I still cannot pass up great art ... have hundreds of paintings also ... when I die my kids will have to go through all that shit LOL .. it is payback tee hee :-) what is worse is I burden my friends also ... My poor Amish watchmaker is working on five more for me ...

At least when I die my watches will all have the right time of death

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jul 12 - 05:33 PM

We used to dig up God alone knows how many old bottle as we spaded up the garden. We'd put them up on posts or something and throw rocks at them. I may have broken USD 10,000 worth of old bottles in my youth.

The dumps I know of now have homes and buildings on them, but if you can get permission and are willing to dig a few feet down I'll bet you could uncover 'most anything. My brothers and I once dug a hole -- just because it needed digging -- and removed the entire roof of a Model T Ford in doing so (along with MUCH other debris).

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Jul 12 - 11:34 AM

I bought the old (1930s industrial style) Ford dealership back about 7 years ago to rent out, which I have been fortunate to do...

There is a piece of property across the road from it that runs about 300 feet along the creek and directly across from the main building is a concrete pad about 100 x 40... I am told that way back when the pad wasn't there and junk cars were pushed into a pile along the creek and if the stories are correct there are dozens of cars buried under that concrete pad...

I kinda believe it 'cause if you look down into the creek at the edge of the pad you can see an old engine block and a rear differential half in the creek and half in the embankment...

Yeah, I've been tempted to bust up some concrete and do so diggin'... Maybe one day???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jul 12 - 03:38 PM

You know, if they keep picking it will never heal.

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jul 12 - 03:39 PM

I see ads now saying they are starting a NEW pickers show....wanna guess how it's gonna be done?

Right.... competition and conflict. I am SO tired of every 'reality' show turning into us against them.... cooking, designing clothes, tattooing, gold hunting, truck driving, motorcycle building, ... who remembers the 'junkyard building' series? Or the making of little robots? (they turned a game for kids & dads into a high tech obstacle course with explosions!).

Is it really true that most Americans wont watch unless someone is arguing, fighting, getting "voted off", getting injured or beating someone else to a 'prize'?

On 'pickers', I want to see the STUFF, not two or three teams fighting for the stuff.

phooey!

Subject: RE: BS: Any 'American Pickers' Fans???
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Jul 12 - 03:43 PM

I'm with you, Bill, but America has become one big gladiators ring and no one is happy unless someone wins and someone else loses...

Sucks!!!

B~