Mike: C'mon, jersey!
You got to keep up with the old man.
Mike: So this is like a viewing coffin?
Jersey jon: Yeah, but why's it got a glass lid?
Mike: Just to- for viewing, isn't it?
Jersey jon: I think this was a tuberculosis coffin.
It's sealed up like a drum.
Danielle: Oh this is the cutest room ever!!
What's happening!!
Robbie: ...Comes off. Look at that.
Danielle: Whoa-hah!
Jersey jon: Whoa...
Mike: Every time he sees a broken chair or a dresser,
you know, he gets the jersey-jitters,
he's like... [jersey jon impression]
"I gotta look at that stuff, I gotta check it out, man,
you know, hey..."
danielle: Look at that leg and that toe point!
Bob: Can you do that?
Danielle: Wung... Uugghh...! Bob: [laughing]
danielle: ...No I can't.
Jersey jon: That is crazy...
Mike: Are you sure it's ronald mcdonald?
Kind of looks like danny bonaduce.
Jim: [laughs]
mike: It's kind of break-dancing...
[mike & jim laughing]
♪♪
[phone ringing]
robbie: What's shaking, jersey!
[jersey & mike laughs]
jersey jon: What's going on, robbie?
Mike: Dani d, what's up?
Danielle: Hey! How are you guys doing?
[mike chuckling]
robbie: ...Goin' on?
Mike: Hey, we're wondering if you could...
Settle a gentleman's disagreement for us.
Robbie: Okay.
Mike: Okay, so what's more difficult - a pirouette,
or a "coupe"?
Danielle: [laughs]
robbie: [sighs] first off, it's pronounced coupé.
Jersey jon: Robbie, how do you know that?
Robbie: Dude, I have girls that used to dance,
and I've been hanging around danielle too much.
Haha!
Mike: Well that leads into our second question,
which is...
Jersey jon: I heard you're picking a dance studio.
[jersey & mike laughing loudly]
robbie: Man... Yeah, yeah, yeah... Listen...
Jersey jon: How's that chick pick going, dude?
Robbie: [burps loudly]
danielle: God, I love you.
Robbie: [burps again] danielle: [burps] ooh...
Robbie: At the end of the day, I'll bring home the goods,
and it ain't gonna be freakin' tutus.
Robbie: [makes fart noise] danielle: [laughs]
mike: I got one more question for ya, seriously.
I mean, I'm not kidding ya.
Danielle: [sighs]
mike: Like, what would be more difficult,
an "ashammay" or a "grand buttay"?
Robbie: What the hell are you guys talking about, man?
[jersey & mike laughing loudly]
robbie: You think I got time for this ,
I got stuff to do, I gotta go.
Mike: Alright later!
Jersey jon: Bye, thanks robbie!
Robbie: And it's "grand jeté."
see you guys.
Jersey jon: [still laughing] I love busting his chops.
Awesome!
Mike: Alright, so where are we going today?
Jersey jon: Oh... Alright, we're going to a
chicken ranch or a chicken farm...?
Mike: What?
Jersey jon: A chicken farm.
Mike: Okay.
Jersey jon: It started in 1925 and it's been around up to like
into the '80s, now jim, the grandson,
is running it now and fixing it all up.
Mike: What's he doing, what's going on there?
Jersey jon: I think they got like a grain store...
Mike: Yeah.
Jersey jon: And they got a gift shop on the top,
so they're making a, you know, going concern out of the place,
you know, pretty cool.
Mike: [laughs] so do they have anything old?
Jersey jon: Yeah, the outbuildings are full.
Sounds like it's good, I still can't open these damn pictures.
Mike: [laughs] to be honest with you,
I think you're kind of starting to get the hang of this...
Like yeah.
Jersey jon: Yeah, I'm working on it, man.
Mike: Yeah, you know.
Jersey jon: Watch it.
Mike: I got you, I got it.
♪♪
jersey jon: Here it is, here it is, watch this truck, man!
Mike: Stop, dude, settle down, grandma.
Jersey jon: I don't want to get killed on this pick.
Mike: I drive tens of thousands of miles a year, dude.
Jersey jon: Yeah, yeah, yeah,
well I'm in the car now, so.
Mike: [chuckles] get the flyer.
Alright... Precious cargo.
Jersey jon: That's right, joi-sey's in the house.
Mike: C'mon, jersey!
Get to keep up with the old man.
Jim!
Jim: Back here!
Mike: Hey-hey, how're you doing?
Jersey jon: How're you doing, jim?
Mike: Man, this place looks like it's got some age to it.
Jim: Yeah, how're you doing?
Mike: Hey, I'm mike.
Jim: Mike, jim.
Mike: It's nice to meet you, yeah.
Talked to danielle, yeah...
Jersey jon: You talked to danielle.
Jim: I did talk to danielle.
Jersey jon: Hi, I'm jon.
Jim: Jon, I'm jim.
Mike: Yeah, he's going to give you a list.
She might have went over anything from advertising,
since you guys ad a business here for so long,
anything advertising -related.
Jersey jon: I like tools, blacksmith stuff.
Jim: Oh we got a lot of old tools and stuff.
Mike: How long has this structure been here?
Jim: Uh this one here was 1942, it was built.
Mike: When I walk into an old building,
I'm surrounded by its character.
And immediately, I can tell that this building
and jim have a strong sense of pride.
Jim: My great-grandfather bought this property in 1925...
Mike: Okay. Jersey jon: Wow.
Jim: ...For 700 bucks.
Jersey jon: Wow!
Mike: Yeah, how much land's here?
Jim: 5 acres.
Mike: Okay.
Jim: And my grandfather started raising chickens,
and he did that for about 40 years.
At one point there was 50,000 chickens here.
Mike: No way. Jersey jon: Whoa.
Mike: So how long has this been a feed store then?
Jim: About 1962.
After my mother passed away, I expanded it a little bit,
'cause it need- you know, it needed more income.
Mike: What do you mean, like the product, you mean?
Jim: Yeah, yeah.
Mike: You're expanding product, that means business is good.
Jersey jon: You got a lot going on here.
Jim: Yeah, we're about 6 times busier than
we were last year, so.
Mike: That's pretty cool.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Jim: I inherited this property about a year and a half ago.
And it was in disarray, so we've been cleaning things up and just
trying to grow the business to generate income to fix up the
dilapidated buildings on the property
and make a profitable farm here.
Jim: Not a lot has been done on this property for about
40 years, you know, just kind of patching things together...
Mike: Yeah.
Jim: ...As my grandparents got older,
and my mother came and tried to help
and took over the business in 2000.
You know, even she couldn't do a lot,
so I actually quit my job and came down here and
started helping her, you know, clean things up and...
Mike: No kidding.
Jim: ...Giving her a hand with her animals,
she had a lot of animals.
Jim: My mother was diagnosed with cancer in 2016
and she was given 3 months.
She made it 30 months.
In that entire time, she was on chemo and she would get up
every day and do what she had to do, no matter how she felt
or what she was going through.
So she was tough, she was probably the toughest person
I ever knew in my life.
Off-camera customer: See you next week.
Rosanne: Alright, you have a good week.
[chuckles]
off- camera customer: ...Same time... Same place.
Jim: All of these buildings are just packed with stuff.
Mike: So were they collectors or this
was all just generational stuff?
Jim: It was depression era, and they never
wanted to throw anything away.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Mike: Okay.
Jim: And then my mother started collecting on top of that, so.
Mike: Oh really.
Jim: Yeah.
That's why I called you guys, because uh...
I have a bunch of things you'd probably be interested in.
Jersey jon: Oh yeah.
Mike: Yeah, absolutely.
♪♪
danielle: So bob seems like a pretty cool dude.
Robbie: Bob.
Danielle: Bob.
Robbie: Okay.
Danielle: He inherited a dance studio from the 1940s,
and that's like super cool.
So I'm really stoked.
They did all kinds of dance there - ballroom,
tap, ballet...
Robbie: Got me going here, I'm all jazzed up now.
Danielle: [laughing] that's not what I expected to hear!
We're getting close, we're getting close, I feel it.
Robbie: Close?
It's right here.
Danielle: It's a barn, just a big ol' barn. Look at that.
Robbie: I think this is the guy right here.
[honks horn]
bob: He finally made it.
Danielle: You bob?
Robbie: Yeah.
Bob: Yes, ma'am.
Danielle: Hey bob! Danielle.
Nice to meet ya.
Bob: Glad to know ya.
Danielle: This is robbie over here.
Robbie: How're you doing?
Danielle: Let's get you out of the street, I guess, huh?
Bob: How're you doing, robbie?
Robbie: Thanks for having us out today, thank you.
Danielle: How ya been?
Bob: Great.
Danielle: Hey, this is what we got that we're looking for.
Bob: Really.
Danielle: We kind of went over all that on the phone.
Robbie: So what's the story behind this?
Bob: Well, this building was in mays landing, new jersey.
Robbie: Okay...
The building itself... Was from where?
Bob: Mays landing, new jersey, which is halfway between here
and atlantic city.
Danielle: It wasn't even here.
Bob: It wasn't here.
It was a chow hall in world war I.
Robbie: Okay.
Bob: My grandfather took it apart...
Robbie: Yeah?
Bob: Brought it here, reassembled it,
and it became a machine shop.
Danielle: What year did he take it apart and bring it over here?
Bob: Before my time.
Danielle: Okay.
Bob: I was born in '37, so it was still here all my life.
Danielle: Okay, in the '30s or before. Okay.
Robbie: It was... Wow.
Bob: Oh yeah.
And then after he passed away, my uncle was on the road with a
dance troupe, so that's where the
dance studio began after he came off the road.
Danielle: Amazing...
Robbie: So this became a dance studio.
Bob: Right.
Danielle: I can't wait to see it.
Bob: Come on.
Danielle: Alright.
Bob: Follow me.
Bob: My aunt marge and uncle bill taught any
realm of dancing that there was at the time.
Bob: Don't break your neck.
Danielle: Alright.
Bob: From little kids up to adults,
and they made a living out of that.
Robbie: This was the stage right here.
Bob: This is the stage.
Robbie: Oh there's the curtains right here.
Danielle: So the audience would be on the other side there.
Bob: You got it.
Danielle: There were barn doors that were cutting off
the stage from the audience.
Bob: In winter time, they left it closed like this so my aunt
could teach on the stage, my uncle could teach
out there in the main ballroom area.
Robbie: Oh wow.
Danielle: Smarty-pants.
Robbie: Look at the colored lighting.
That's what they used.
Danielle: Incredible.
Bob: And you see there's lighting all back here,
the drops are falling down.
Robbie: So what was your job?
Bob: I took care of anything that needed
to be done mechanically, so to speak.
Bob: I started working there as a kid,
because I grew up right there on the property.
I'd help them with the recitals, with putting up decorations and
backdrops and changing the curtains and all that things.
Danielle: I really am digging this place.
Robbie: Oh yeah.
Danielle: This is incredible.
I'm so interested in this curtain back here,
it's so pretty I'm just, I can't take my eyes off it.
Bob: [laughs]
danielle: Look at that.
This is a vintage theater curtain if ever I saw one.
And obviously you're waiting to get rid of this, right?
You're- you're pretty much letting loose of anything?
Bob: Yeah, pretty much so.
Danielle: Okay.
Bob, I'm looking over there and there's another
one over there to match it, right?
Bob: Well, it fed in from both sides.
Danielle: Sure.
Danielle: So when the curtains would close,
you could get the vision of a blue sky,
and you could get the red and white stripes,
or you could get the red, white, and blue,
or they could close them even further,
and you'd have just black.
It was brilliant and they were hand-stitched.
Danielle: Look at that hand-stitching.
I'm into it.
I dig it.
Bob: You dig it.
Danielle: What do you got to have for this one?
Bob: I have no idea.
Danielle: Well...
Bob: What's it worth to you?
Danielle: Obviously there's mildew and there's wear,
and there's tears, but I think that really
only gives it character.
Danielle: People pay a lot of money to have this
esthetic recreated.
This is original.
Danielle: Can I buy all the rigging as well?
Bob: If you'd like it.
Danielle: Okay.
So for the curtains, the clips, and all the rigging,
how about 250?
Bob: Sounds alright to me.
Danielle: Alright.
Bob: 'cause I can't use it.
Danielle: Yeah!
Alright.
Bob: I don't think I can dance in that.
Danielle: Day's starting out good, robbie.
♪♪
mike: Oh wow.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Mike: So is this like an antique shop now?
Jim: No, this is my way of getting organized.
I got a little overwhelmed with the clutter.
I know nothing about antiques, so getting someone who
knows something in here to tell me what I have, um...
Mike: Alright, you did a good job...
Jim: Thank you.
Mike: ...Of organizing this.
Mike: Jim wasn't trying to create a retail space,
but sometimes when you have such an amazing room,
and you have all of these items, it just kind of curates itself.
Jersey jon: What's with this thing?
Mike: What's- yeah, I was going to say,
what's the history of this?
Jim: This I found downstairs below us.
Mike: So this is like a viewing coffin?
Jersey jon: Yeah, but why's it got a glass lid?
Mike: Just to- for viewing, isn't it?
Jersey jon: I think this was a tuberculosis coffin.
When tb was rampant, this was a coffin they
used to seal the body in.
Mike: To me the most awesome thing when you
see something for the first time, is the conversation,
the back and forth, the social part of collecting and sharing
knowledge and all of that.
Jersey jon: It's sealed up like a drum.
I think they thought people were still catching tb
with this stuff.
Mike: You got to remember too, that when people passed away,
it would not be unusual for them to have a body
in the house for a week.
Mike: You know, both of us could be right in some way,
I don't know.
But I love that kind of exchange.
♪♪
jim: I believe that it came from my grandmother's grandfather's
furniture store, that he had from 1880 to like 1960.
Mike: Your grandmother's grandfather.
Jim: He started it and then my grandmother's
father took it over, and...
Mike: Was that local?
Jim: Yeah, right in town.
I- I heard it was one of the biggest ones between
boston and new york.
Jim: When my grandmother's father passed away,
a lot of the pieces came here that were in the store.
Jim: When I found this, it was in this...
Crate downstairs below our feet.
Mike: Oh really, this is the original crate to that?
Jim: Yes.
Mike: No kidding.
Jim: It has the handles on the side for pallbearers,
I assume.
Jersey jon: Wow!
Like a shipping crate...
Mike: So this thing's like new-old stock.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Mike: Actually, what they call "dead stock."
jim: Yeah. [group chuckling]
jim: It's definitely unique.
I just wanted to share it with a few special customers
that are really into the old stuff.
♪♪
robbie: While mike and jersey jon are out picking in
massachusetts, dani and I are down in new jersey.
Danielle: What you got over there?
Robbie: Look at this...
Danielle: Oh I see what you're looking at.
Robbie: ...This looks like a stage light.
Danielle: Need help?
Bob: Use your muscles.
Robbie: Let me get over the top of this...
Alright, I got it.
Danielle: Oh, beautiful.
Robbie: Alright, so bob, tell me the story behind this.
Bob: I have no idea, just been here forever.
Robbie: It's got a little damage to it right here on the top,
I'd have to figure out what's going on with that.
But uh... Look at that switch.
Robbie: The switch on the side pretty much dates it...
Robbie: God, it's amazing, isn't it?
Find the right shade for that baby.
Robbie: A stained glass shaded lamp is rare in itself,
but to find one that has a stained glass base...
Danielle: Yeah...
Robbie: Look at that.
Robbie: You can see that it's all held together
by copper inlay.
This is handmade.
Robbie: 150.
Bob: Sounds good to me.
Robbie: Alright.
I appreciate ya.
Robbie: It might not look like much now,
but imagine it lit up - absolutely amazing.
Robbie: Dani, check these chairs out.
Danielle: Beautiful chairs!
Robbie: Look at the slide mechanism on that.
[chair squeaks] danielle: Heck yeah.
Robbie: Yeah and the back... The "v .F .W."
that's where these came from.
Was this a v.F.W.?
Bob: No.
Robbie: Okay.
Bob: Chairs came from all different places.
Robbie: But they're all the same chairs.
Bob: That was the era.
Some of them came from another dance studio over in vineland.
Robbie: Oh okay.
They have an unbelievable look to them.
I'm going to show you something.
This is the kicker...
This is the kicker right here.
I mean, look at that chair.
Now the key is...
Bob: Yeah.
Robbie: Hold on here.
Danielle: Is it sit-able?
Robbie: Hold on here...
Bob: Is it comfortable?
Robbie: Yeah...
Danielle: I mean, as comfortable as a wooden chair can be,
I'm sure, but...
Robbie: Yeah it's... They're actually...
For the age of them, they're built great.
Danielle: I would get them all, robbie.
Robbie: The girls are always screaming for
inventory in the shop.
Danielle: Usually if somebody is buying a chair,
they're buying a set of chairs, right?
So you have multiple sets, or you have enough for
someone to buy them out for a banquet hall.
Robbie: Dani's right.
We wouldn't just sell one, most people want 2,
they want a set of 4, maybe even a set of 6.
Robbie: I think there's 30 there,
but we don't know, you know, I'd have to count them all.
Bob: Oh yeah.
Robbie: But $12 each.
Bob: It's alright with me, I'm trying to clean the place out.
Robbie: Alright.
Appreciate it, bob.
♪♪
robbie: He keeps looking at me.
Bob: [laughs]
robbie: He looks like my brother, almost.
Bob: Oh my god.
Robbie: Yeah.
He- he keeps looking at me.
Mike: Is this stuff you're going to sell back here?
Jim: Some pieces I'm going to sell,
any spencer history or family history I'm going to keep.
Or anything that I would use for a display piece or something.
Mike: Yeah, absolutely.
Because jersey was telling me you guys
have like a gift shop or something.
Jim: Yeah, we have a country store at the top of the hill
that's been there since... 1962.
Jim: Back in the day, our country store was a place
that people would drive hundreds of miles to come to.
I know it was special to many people in this town.
It closed in '99 when my grandmother passed away,
and remained closed for 20 years until my girlfriend
doreen and I reopened it in 2019.
Jim: We tried to make it a very unique community-based place.
We really support local artists and have
a lot of local products.
Jersey jon: How do you say that... Le...?
Jim: Le-roo.
Jersey jon: Le-roo?
Jim: Le-roo.
Jersey jon: Is that your relatives or?
Jim: French name.
It's from the early 1900s.
Jersey jon: Yeah?
Jim: And on the backside it says, "f. Collette & sons,"
and that was a pharmacy in spencer...
Jersey jon: In spencer?
Jim: ...In the early 1900s.
Mike: Oh it's got 2 separate names.
Jim: Lheureux I don't know what he did,
someone told me he may have been a doctor.
Jersey jon: It's a smaltz sign, it's a,
like a ground glass that goes into the black paint
and it gives it some reflection when light hits it.
And this is gold-leaf lettering on here,
and it lasts for a long time.
This is probably like an 1870s to 1890s sign.
Mike: Yeah, it's early.
Jersey jon: It's killer.
Jim: I was a little surprised by the age and the value
placed on the sign I had.
Jersey jon: Is this something you might consider selling?
Jim: No, I don't think so, I'm trying to really hold
onto all the spencer history.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
I certainly appreciate where you're coming from.
Jim: Generations of my family grew up in spencer,
so its history is my history.
Mike: See this would command more money locally here,
since you're so close to boston.
Jersey jon: Hey jim!
Jim: Yeah.
Jersey jon: Would you sell this?
Jim: Sure.
Jersey jon: It's a little machinist chest for a
machine shop like a, like a tool chest.
Jersey jon: It looks complete, missing some
hardware, which is no big deal.
But it's got a loose drawer front which is still there,
and it has the flap that folds up,
which is always missing on these machinist chests.
Jersey jon: Um...
I'm think $50.
Jim: How about 60?
Jersey jon: Uh...
How about 55?
Jim: Sure.
Jersey jon: Alright man, that's great, thank you.
Jersey jon: It's a smaller one, it's not really big,
so it has potential to be a machinist chest again,
or ladies like them for jewelry.
Mike: So you're kind of jumping into what we've
been doing for a long time.
You're getting into the antique business,
in a roundabout way.
Jim: Yeah, yeah.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Jim: I would sell 90% of this.
Jersey jon: "us 1917"...
Jim: This is 1914 here.
Jersey jon: That's cool.
So this is probably world war I mess kit stuff for the army.
Jim: Oh that's cool, I never even noticed that.
Jim: I thought it was just old regular silverware,
so I was pretty fascinated that it had the us emblem on it.
And that it was probably from a mess kit from a soldier.
Jersey jon: Inf - infantry, maybe?
That's neat, I like this stuff.
Um... You want to sell this stuff... The cutlery?
Jim: Uh, well you'll have to tell me what it's worth,
'cause I have no idea.
Jersey jon: Well... They're not in great condition,
and some's got a lot of rust to deal with and,
who knows what else,
there was probably a canteen with this set,
or a tin plate or whatever. So...
I'm thinking like 20 bucks for the bunch.
Give it a shot.
Jim: Alright, 20, 25 and it's yours.
Jersey jon: Alright, that sounds good.
I appreciate that, man.
Thank you.
Jim: No problem.
Mike: Everything that caught my eye or I probably would
have bought, jersey already grabbed it. [laughs]
so I'm like a diesel engine on this pick,
I'm slow and steady.
Jim: Yeah, there's more stuff upstairs if you want to see it.
Jersey jon: Oh yeah.
♪♪
bob: This was the light setup.
Danielle: Ohh wow!
Bob: Old-school.
Robbie: Look at how they plugged stuff in,
look at this!
Danielle: [laughs] bob: Oh yeah.
Robbie: That's a fire waiting to happen.
Holy cow!
Danielle: Are we going in here?
Bob: We're following you.
Robbie: We're following you.
Danielle: Oh holy cow, look at this.
Bob: The audience seating area and ballroom.
Bob: Back in its day, it was a very busy place,
it was used for dance parties for the military,
they used it for wedding receptions,
they used it for anything that they might want
to rent a property for.
In its day, it was beautiful.
Robbie: Look at, on top of the stage.
Danielle: [gasp!] yeeaasss...
Robbie: Wow.
Bob: That was a symbol for the dance studio.
Danielle: Okay.
Bob: They even had that symbol cut into their kitchen floor.
Danielle: Man... Robbie: Wow...
Danielle: We got to get that back out into the world, right?
Bob: You could put it to better use than I can.
Danielle: Well... How do you feel
about 50 bucks on her?
Bob: Probably do.
Danielle: Okay.
Danielle: Some things are great for the shop.
You find things you love, you have the emotional affair with
it, and then you can sell it and move on to the next.
Robbie: Let me ask you this, bob.
Bob: Yeah.
Robbie: When's the last time you saw those curtains...
Go open?
Bob: It had to be in the late '80s.
My uncle passed away, and my aunt continued
running the studio.
Because she had arthritis so bad,
she would pose the dancer in the position that she wanted them to
be in, she pretty much sat in a chair most of the time.
Robbie: At that point.
Bob: Yeah.
Bob: Because of her having arthritis so bad,
she couldn't do anything anymore.
So it closed down.
♪♪
jim: Hey, come on up here, guys.
Mike: This place just keeps going, man.
Jersey jon: Now we're talking.
Mike: So obviously this is a space you have
not cleaned out yet.
Jim: Well yeah, I kind of stored stuff up here,
but my mother put stuff in the back there and then built
this wall with no door.
I don't know why she did that.
Mike: Jersey, there's a lot of chairs here.
Some of them almost have a windsor look to them.
Jersey jon: Alright, let me look at those things.
Mike: Yeah, look at those.
Jersey jon: Get out of there.
Mike: Jersey's in the furniture business, man.
Jersey jon: Whoa...
Mike: So every time he sees a broken chair or a dresser,
you know, he gets the jersey-jitters,
he's like, " I got to look at that stuff,
I got to check it out, man, you know, hey."
jersey jon: Agh!
Jim: I don't know why she didn't leave a door.
Mike: Any piece of furniture, he's like a dog on a bone.
Jersey jon: Windsor style, but busted.
Ugh...
It's like a larkin.
That's cool.
Alright jim, come over here, take a look at these things.
Like this hoop back chair is a windsor chair,
busted up pretty bad.
Jim: In pretty rough shape.
Jersey jon: Oh it's horrible.
But everything needs work back here,
it's probably why they're here.
They got this chair here, I'll put it over the rail,
this is a larkin number 1.
It's probably the only one back here that's in decent condition.
It's an oak chair from 1890s, you see the
design there at the bottom.
Jim: Yeah?
Jersey jon: That's actually pressed into the wood with a big
press, they would steam it, and they would press
it into the wood.
Jim: So what's something like this worth?
Jersey jon: Um, I'd do like 25 bucks.
This furniture used to be really great in the '80s.
I sold a lot of it.
Unfortunately, it's taken a nosedive in value.
Jim: I'm thinking I could get $40 for this at a yard sale.
Jersey jon: Yeah, but I just pulled it out of here, dude.
Jim: [laughs] well.
Jersey jon: I'll do 30 bucks on it.
Jim: Alright, 35.
Jersey jon: Ugh...
Alright, 35 bucks.
Jim: Deal.
Alright.
Jersey jon: Thanks, brother.
Jim: What are you finding over here?
Mike: When I'm digging through some of this stuff,
I'm automatically thinking about what should stay here,
what shouldn't.
Mike: I found you a sign.
Jim: Oh nice.
Mike: For your general store that you were talking about.
Jim: Oh that's cool.
Mike: So.
Jim: I didn't even know those were back there.
Mike: Yeah, those are nice.
Floor varnish stain.
Mike: He's told me his mission and how he wants
to move this place forward.
These signs connect to that.
Mike: So there you go.
Jim: Nice.
Mike: But this piece I love and the only reason I love it,
I mean, it's obviously missing the top,
is this color.
It's almost kind of a robin egg blue-green thing going on it.
And it's an early pine tool chest.
I love it. But...
Jim: I... I like that too.
Mike: You like this too?
Jim: Yeah.
Mike: Oh man, well how much do you like it?
Jim: I like it a lot.
Mike: I like, I like it for like-
jim: I think my girlfriend would like the color.
Mike: I like it for like 25 bucks,
you like it for more than that?
Jim: [laughs] um...
Uh there's probably a couple more of those around,
so I'll do, I'll do 25.
Mike: Yeah, and the top's gone.
Jim: Yeah.
Mike: So I appreciate it.
But I love the color.
Mike: When you walk into these rooms,
they're just crowded with household items.
Mike: Are there buildings on the property that
have older things in them?
Like a lot of stuff to me, I look around,
some of it's '60s, '70s, '80s, some of
it's contemporary, you know.
And then every once in a while, you'll see some like,
you know, horse tack that's older.
Jim: My mother was trying to set up a little indoor flea market
on this side and do a museum on the other side.
Mike: Where was she buying most of her stuff at?
Jim: Well she got to a point where she was taking so much
stuff and everyone knew she was, that they would just-
stop by with truckloads and just leave them out front,
you know.
Mike: Ahh...
They're like cleaning out a house.
Jim: Yeah.
Jim: My grandparents grew up in the depression,
and it was kind of a depression era mentality
to hang onto everything.
Because you may need something someday.
And my mother definitely inherited that.
Mike: This is like 1970s hugh...
Jim: Yeah, this is the flea-market-y side.
Jersey jon: Jim, I want to show you something over here.
Jim: Yeah?
Danielle: Bob?
I did find something over here that I'm pretty excited about.
Bob: How excited are you?
Robbie: How- what!!
Danielle: Pretty darn.
Bob: Oh my god, that's with the... Fans.
Danielle: Okay. Yes.
Danielle: The moment I laid eyes on those ombre hot pink
burlesque fans... Ugh!
My brain exploded.
Danielle: These would be fans that burlesque performers
would use on stage...
Bob: Definitely.
Danielle: ...To cover themselves.
But these are wrecked, man, they're in rough, rough shape.
Danielle: You have to treat fans very delicately.
I personally keep mine in a rifle case.
Danielle: The most I can offer for them right now is 50 bucks.
Bob: You got a deal.
Danielle: Man, you made me so happy.
Danielle: Now bob says that he doesn't know that they
ever did burlesque here...
But I'm telling ya...
Somebody was having fun with those fans!
♪♪
danielle: Ooh...
Bob: Ooh?
Danielle: Oh this is the cutest room ever!!
What's happening!!
Robbie: What?
Danielle: This paper, look at that.
Parisian ballet extravaganza, gaiety theater,
ladies of the chorus.
Robbie: She gets excited easily.
Danielle: Ohhh...
Robbie: Dani, I seriously think you need to
take that wallpaper home.
Danielle: How do we take the wallpaper home?
Robbie: Just peel it off there.
I mean if it's...
Danielle: Is it okay with you if I do that?
Bob: It's fine.
Danielle: Okay, here we go. Let's see...
Bob: Probably better if you started at the top.
Danielle: Probably...
Robbie: Yeah, I think if you started top,
we'll just get a ladder and pull that down like that...
Bob: There's 2, there's 2...
Danielle: Whoa-hah!
Robbie: Look at that, wow look at that!
Danielle: Yes she did!
Robbie: Yeah.
Bob: You're hired. [robbie & bob laughs]
danielle: You'll never regret it.
Danielle: I realize well duh, it was made with flour paste,
or oat paste, and would allow you to take it off
and reapply it if necessary.
Robbie: Wow, that is absolutely amaze- look at that.
Robbie: Underneath, there was more wallpaper
and it was square-dancing.
Danielle: Turkey in the straw.
Robbie: Wow!
Jim: More dance.
Danielle: Red wing, golden slippers.
Robbie: Unfortunately, because that was underneath
that wallpaper, that's not going to survive.
But just to see it, absolutely amazing.
Danielle: Do you remember this wallpaper under here?
Bob: No I do not remember that one.
Danielle: It was always this wallpaper?
Bob: It could have been changed when I was in the service.
I don't remember what was under covers.
Robbie: You were- you were in the service?
Bob: Yes sir.
Robbie: What service?
Bob: United states air force, drum and bugle corps.
Robbie: Really.
Bob: Washington, d.C.
Bob: I was in the drum and bugle corps from '60 to '64.
The reason I wound up in the drum and bugle corps,
uncle sam was knocking at the front door for draft purposes.
Bob: I play soprano bugle.
Danielle: He was a bugle boy of company b!
Oh my gosh...!
Bob: Oh, air force drum and bugle corps.
Robbie: Yeah...
Danielle: I love it.
Bob: We were about 60 members, and we performed
for john kennedy...
Danielle: Wow.
Bob: President.
We performed for his inauguration parade.
Danielle: Stop!
Robbie: You were there? Bob: Yes.
Robbie: Wow! The snow that day,
I remember seeing pictures of it.
Bob: Oh yes.
The streets that the parade was on was nice and clean,
because they plowed it.
We were on the side streets, in knee-deep snow.
Robbie: Yeah.
How old were you then?
Bob: I guess I was around 22.
Robbie: Thanks so much for your service.
I mean, that's an incredible story,
that's amazing.
Robbie: Man, what a life that bob's led.
He played at kennedy's inauguration.
Danielle: Can I just buy the whole wall worth of wallpaper?
Bob: Why not?
Danielle: What about $10 a strip?
So...
1, 2, 3...
4, 5, 6, 7...
Robbie: 100 bucks.
Danielle: Yep, that's about 100 bucks.
Robbie: 100 bucks for the whole wall.
Bob: Sounds good to me.
Danielle: Yes!
Danielle: How do you do?
Robbie: If it had motorcycles on it, I'd be all over it.
Danielle: Love it.
Bob: [laughs] danielle: I love it.
Robbie: Or cars.
Danielle: It's so cool!
Robbie: Or hot rods.
Jersey jon: Jim, I want to show you something over here.
This anvil.
Jim: Yep.
Jersey jon: It's a fisher, made in trenton, new jersey.
Jim: Oh that's cool.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Jim: Your neck of the woods.
Jersey jon: Yeah, exactly.
And it's a number 100, so I'm assuming
that's a 100- pound anvil.
Jim: There's a date on this side,
I can see.
1891.
Jersey jon: 1891.
And here's the biggest issue with this thing -
it's pretty beat up.
You want always to have a nice sharp edge because you need that
edge to fold metal over and you can't even do that on this.
It's cool, um...
Jim: It's on a cool stand too.
Jersey jon: Yeah, the stand is homemade.
It's definitely neat.
Jersey jon: This is a piece that's really bad condition,
but it's new jersey, it's a fisher anvil.
Jersey jon: I'd go to 150 bucks on it.
Jim: Sure.
Jersey jon: Yeah?
Jim: Yeah, I think that's fair.
Jersey jon: Agh, thank you so much, man.
Jim: Alright then.
Jersey jon: I appreciate it.
I'll give it a good home, I love this thing.
It's going bak to jersey.
Mike: Alright, I got this piece right here... Oilzum.
I noticed you have a few of these,
these were made in...
"wor-chester", mass.
Jim: "woh-stah", mass.
Mike: Wohstah, mass.
Jim: Where are you from?
Mike: Wohstah!
I'm from iowa.
Jersey jon: He's a corncob.
Jim: [chuckles] mike: Wohstah!
We got probably 3 of those things.
But here's, here's the biggie, I mean,
in this corner to me.
So this is a columbia, this is not a deluxe bike from that
time period, it doesn't have a springer fork,
it doesn't have a taillight, it's missing the top of the
light, and this is a delta torpedo light.
The fenders aren't in great shape,
but the rest of the bike seems to have weared pretty good.
It does have the horn unit in the tank,
usually that's gone.
And it looks like it's original paint.
Mike: This is a post-war bicycle.
An inexpensive bicycle from day 1.
Mike: Something like this in this condition...
It's worth about...
150 to 200 bucks.
Jim: Well I like 200 better than 150.
Mike: Well that's the retail number on it.
I'd be player at uh...
Like 120 bucks.
Jim: If you think that's a fair price, then...
Mike: Yeah, columbia had a bike in their line during this time
period that was called the columbia five star superb.
And it was deluxe.
Mike: Columbia made some pretty elaborate stuff...
This is not that bike.
But to an entry level collector, if having original paint and
you know, me being a bicycle lover -
I'm not going to leave this thing here.
Mike: You got this oilzum can, and then you've got that oilzum
can, and then I saw another one behind you.
You got 3 of them.
How about 35 apiece on those?
Jim: Is that fair?
I don't know anything about...
About the cans.
Mike: Yeah, yeah, from this time period,
this is much later in this company's career.
These are '60s.
Mike: I never get tired of finding anything oilzum.
These are inexpensive, and again,
for somebody that's just starting out or wants to create
a space that looks authentic in a garage,
this is perfect stuff.
Mike: So I'll do 120 bucks on the bike,
and 35 apiece for the cans.
Jim: That sounds fair.
Mike: Alright, alright man, thank you.
Jim: Thank you.
Mike: Appreciate ya.
Jim: It's possible that was my aunt's bike.
She did say that there was a- a bicycle of hers
here that was kind of fancy.
Mike: Alright.
Here put it against here.
It's got a good look to it, right?
Jim: But she'd be fine with me selling it.
♪♪
robbie: Bob, I wanted to ask you about these.
Bob: They're from, from the bugle corps I was in.
Robbie: But you didn't play the drums.
Bob: I didn't play the drums.
Robbie: Yeah, this was the cover that went on the drum and...
Bob: On- on a bass drum.
Robbie: Yeah.
God, it's just got a little...
So cool, I mean, the eagle was on that thing,
it was...
Bob: That's why they were thrown away,
basically, because...
Robbie: Yeah.
Bob: ...They were worn out.
Robbie: Washington d.C..
Bob: Um-hm.
Robbie: So would this have been during the time
that you played...?
Bob: Oh yeah.
Robbie: ...For kennedy?
Bob: Oh yeah.
Robbie: Wow.
Robbie: These drum heads were the piece everyone
saw during the parade.
Robbie: Would you sell these?
Bob: Might as well.
Robbie: Now because the eagle's gone on this one...
Bob: Um-hm.
Robbie: It's still cool, but this one's got a little
bit more eagle on it.
Um...
Bob: ...Eagle got wore out.
Robbie: I know, he got wore out, he sure did his job.
75 bucks apiece.
Bob: Sounds good to me. [laughs]
robbie: Alright, appreciate it.
Robbie: The drum and bugle corps.
Was dissolved in the early '60s.
To have a piece of american history like this,
it doesn't get any better.
Robbie: I want to ask...
Bob: Yes?
Robbie: I was digging through this stuff over here...
Here it is right here...
Is- is it real?
Bob: It is real.
Robbie: "no parking midnight January 19
to midnight January 20, 1961."
bob: "...'61."
yep.
Robbie: Jfk.
There it was right there.
Bob: You got it.
That was on the light post along the street when we
were going back after the parade was over.
Robbie: Okay.
Bob: And it was dark, nobody was around,
knife, came off, it came home with me.
Robbie: I've seen reproductions of the sign.
Bob: Have you really?
Robbie: Yes, yeah.
That's why I asked if it was real.
Bob: Oh it's real.
Robbie: Yeah. Um... 275?
Bob: That's a good deal for me.
Robbie: Alright, appreciate it.
Bob: That was a good time to take it down.
Robbie: Yeah, there you go.
Robbie: Kennedy was one of those presidents that was so popular
back then, that they actually reproduced this sign.
This one's real.
Robbie: Wow, look at that, dani.
Danielle: [gasp!] robbie: Ha!
Danielle: Ohhh...
Robbie: Look at that.
Bob: Heh-heh-heh...
Danielle: Wow...
Robbie: Wow!
Danielle: Look at that leg!
And that toe point!
And his toe point too!
Bob: Can you do that?
Danielle: Let's see, can I do that? Wung!
I can.
Bob: But hold it.
Danielle: Okay, but hold it?
Robbie: Yeah, you got to hold it.
Danielle: Wung!
Uugghh...!
[bob & robbie laughing]
danielle: No, I can't.
Uh, this is beautiful.
It's still got some life left in it.
Bob: Throw me a price.
We're going to get rid of the building.
Danielle: How do you feel about 40 bucks?
Bob: Sounds good to me.
Danielle: Heh!
Yaas, alright!
What's in here?
Bob: The building we'd like to sell.
A lot of the things that are in there,
we can't pass them on, we have no children.
We got enough accumulations of our own things at our house.
Robbie: Let me ask you about this thing,
it's buried in here.
Ugh...
Let me put it over... Here.
Let's get this thing outta here...
Yeah, it's just a coca-cola ice box.
Bob: Yep.
Robbie: So this is a non-electric machine,
basically is what this is.
Bob: Name's on the top or bottom.
Robbie: Yeah right there, coca-cola.
So basically all they did was throw ice in this...
Bob: You got it.
Robbie: ...And that's why people want them.
They want it for their patios. 400.
Bob: Sounds good to me.
Robbie: Alright, appreciate you, buddy,
thank you so much.
Robbie: Man, this room is like...
There's so much history in this place.
Every little piece of the room you go to,
there's something different going on.
Bob: Oh yeah.
Bob: It became a place for us to store things also.
Robbie: It's an old neon clock.
Where did it come from?
Bob: Things that were collected over the years,
I guess.
Robbie: 400?
Bob: Alright with me.
Bob: So it's about 40 years of accumulating things.
Robbie: What the heck?
Bob: Wanna go sailing?
Robbie: Wow.
It's a viking ship candle holder.
Bob: Yep.
Robbie: 45 bucks.
Bob: I can't use it.
Robbie: Appreciate ya.
Robbie: This place is packed.
Not just stuff from the dance studio,
but from his family.
Robbie: So this just stuff you guys were going to...
Put in the garage sale?
Bob: Yeah.
Robbie: This has just been the catch-all for everything.
Robbie: 2 flashlights.
Bob: Um-hm.
Robbie: A signal gun, navy signal gun.
The lock and actually it's got the key,
that's the big plus to it.
Look at that.
Bob: Um-hm.
Robbie: And the little 22.
$75 for everything, that work for ya?
Bob: Better than a yard sale.
Danielle: The reality is, there's no one else
for it to go to.
There is nobody else in the family to take it.
Danielle: Hey bob.
Bob: Yo.
Danielle: This frame over here.
Bob: What do they call that, a plaster frame?
Danielle: Yeah.
It's pretty garfed up, but it still displays beautifully.
How about 40 bucks on it?
Bob: Sounds good to me.
Danielle: Good enough.
Bob: Another thing out of here.
Bob: If robbie and danielle can use any of these things,
I'm not a dancer, I'm not a collector of things that are in
there, so if it works for them, it works for me.
Danielle: These are dated 1938, 1937,
1939, and so on and so forth.
For all of these different dances and all of these
different productions.
Danielle: These types of books are kind of like
the connective tissue of dance.
Danielle: So this is a semi-classical dance right here.
Bob: Um-hm.
Danielle: And it shows you each step.
So this is the choreography for all of the dances
that your aunt and uncle did.
Danielle: This is their entire life's work,
and it's all labeled by year, by performance.
Danielle: I don't know, but I really feel like we should
take those out of here.
We need to put those in a proper place.
Bob: I'm not a dancer.
It's just family history that's...
In my mind, but nobody else would be interested in it.
And it's been there for a long time.
Danielle: Is that them?
Bob: I believe so.
Danielle: Man. Amazing.
So I would like to take that home,
and I think it'd be great to take this collection home.
It's really difficult to price something like this,
I mean, I've never seen somebody's entire life's work
and collection with their photos and the provenance to it
bob: Right.
Danielle: And so it's really hard to value it because
it is in really rough shape.
So I'm just, I'm going to offer $250...
Bob: Sounds good to me.
Danielle: ...For this- alright.
I'm really happy to see these things live on.
Bob: Yeah.
Danielle: I want to be able to tell their story because what
they did mattered so much to the community there,
and to all these kids who took classes from them.
That's the most important part of this for me.
Robbie: And thanks for having us today,
bob, this was awesome.
Danielle: This has been great.
Bob: Very good.
Robbie: It's been a great day.
Bob: Glad to have met you all.
Robbie: What else you got there?
Bob: Glad to get rid of some things.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: This was beyond a pick.
This was a dance through history.
Robbie: Man...
Danielle: Ah well, I really appreciated all of this.
Bob: Appreciate it.
Danielle: And I didn't even realize how
powerful this day would be.
Danielle: Woo...
Robbie: Your story's... Been incredible.
Thank you.
Bob: Sorry I didn't have any motorcycles.
Robbie: That's alright.
I thank you for your service,
and this history that you gave us.
It's been a great day, honestly.
Awesome.
Bob: I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Danielle: Yeah, means everything to us.
Bob: It's good to see those things go that my aunt and
uncle used for years in their teaching.
The fact that they're going to go to other dancers,
it sort of carries on their legacy,
so to speak.
Bob: Have a good one, guys!
[honks horn] danielle: Bye, bob!
Robbie: Thank you!
Bob: Drive careful!
♪♪
mike: So was this the chicken condos?
Jim: Yeah, that was the chicken condos.
Mike: How many birds at one time would you have in this building?
Jim: Well, there was 50,000 chicken on the
farm here in the '50s.
Mike: Really!
Jim: They did really well during world war ii.
They were selling the eggs actually to the military.
Mike: Oh okay.
Jersey jon: Wow, really? Jim: Yeah.
Mike: So who would have built this?
Jim: My grandfather built this, around '42.
Jersey jon: Okay.
Jim: The same time as the feed store.
Mike: Ooh yeah...
Jersey jon: Woo...
Got some ammonia in here.
Jim: Every floor had chickens.
Mike: Oh yeah...
Dang!
Jim: This building was emptied, and then my
little ol' mother filled this whole place in about...
5 years, by herself.
Mike: Wow.
Jim: I'm trying to clean out the building so I can
work on them, you know.
For many years, nothing was done to them,
so they were in disrepair.
Mike: So this is a lot of old, like stuff that she would have
considered, to sell for like, a yard sale.
Jim: Yeah, everything had value to her.
Jim: The plan for the property is to make it a destination.
We want to have something for everybody here.
Mike: Alright, I'm not seeing anything that'll
light the world on fire in here.
Jersey jon: Yeah... No...
Mike: He said there were 50,000 birds in this
building at one time.
You know, one chicken will produce 8 to 10 pounds
of manure a month.
How do I know that?
From iowa, man.
Mike: So is every floor like this?
Jim: Yes.
Mike: Can we, can we get to the second floor?
Jim: Yep.
Mike: Which way do we go for that?
Mike: The chickens are gone.
Jim: Watch your step.
Mike: The manure is gone...
But you will never remove that... Ughm!
Mike: It's a totally different smell in here.
Jim: Ugh.
Mike: So this is all people just bringing stuff to her?
Jim: Yeah, it got pretty bad.
I would chase people out of the yard.
They would show up with pickup trucks full of stuff.
Mike: Wow.
There's ronald.
Wow, where'd you guys get ronald at?
Jim: I don't know, she found him or someone dropped him off here.
Jersey jon: That is crazy.
Jim: Needs a paint job.
Jersey jon: So this would be like out on the sidewalk
in front of the mcdonald's or something?
Mike: Somebody would do something with him.
You want to sell this thing?
Jim: Yes.
Mike: Ronald mcdonald is right up there with like
the kool- aid guy, mr. Peanut, tony the tiger.
If hamburger joints had a mount rushmore,
ronald mcdonald's face would be very prominent.
You know, it's like the george washington of hamburgers.
Mike: How heavy?
Jersey jon: It's...
Not too bad, right?
Not busted in the bottom.
Mike: When I was a kid, when I went to mcdonald's,
I needed my 4 things - sugar, grease, fun,
and special sauce.
[laughs] the big mac had the special sauce.
Mike: Are you sure it's ronald mcdonald?
I mean, it kind of looks like danny bonaduce.
Jim: [laughs]
mike: 2 all- beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese,
pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.
[laughs] mike: What do you think, jersey?
Jersey jon: Oh man, I don't...
How do you price ronald mcdonald?
He's like...
Mike: 2- 250 bucks.
Jersey jon: Wow. Jim: 250.
That sounds fantastic. [group laughing]
mike: Alright. Jersey jon: Yeah.
Jersey jon: That's awesome.
Mike: Alright, here we go...
Jim: [laughs]
mike: Too bad we can't just open the window
and throw him out...
Alright... Got him?
His foot is- is...
His shoes are so big.
Jim: [laughs] mike: Got him? Alright.
Let's set him down, let's check him out.
He's kind of break-dancing.
[break dance music]
[mike & jim laughing]
mike: I love him.
Mike: Mcdonald's is a heritage brand.
I mean, you show his face, you're in the jungle in borneo,
you know, the guy's going to know who ronald mcdonald is.
Somebody's going to want this.
Mike: Got it, jersey?
Jersey jon: Yeah, we got ronald out here, man.
Mike: Alright.
Jersey jon: This thing is crazy.
Mike: Well... [laughs]
jersey jon: Yeah.
Jim: I feel like my mother was born in the wrong era.
I think she would appreciate all the work I've done and the
direction we're heading, in holding onto the history
that's here and telling the stories.
Mike: Alright.
Here, grab that, I'll chuck it in.
Jim: I guess in some ways, it helps me to avoid realizing
that she's gone, you know.
I was an only child and...
It was a hard loss.
Jim: Thanks guys.
Mike: Good luck with the property.
Jim: Alright, I appreciate it.
I appreciate you coming, helping me out.
Mike: Thanks for sharing your family's history with us.
Jersey jon: Thank you, man, appreciate it.
Really appreciate it.
Mike: Yeah, you dig out anything else,
you got my number.
Jim: Alright, take care.
Jersey jon: Yeah, give us a call.
Mike: Thank you.
Jersey jon: Thank you.
Mike: Jim's work ethic and dedication came from his mom.
He has a vision and a plan for the future of this property.
Mike: See ya down the road!
Jersey jon: See ya later!
Jim: See ya later!
Thanks again! [honks horn]
danielle: [making excited fidgety noises]
robbie: Got to get a little souvenir!
Jersey jon: We're going to the chicken ranch!
[jersey & mike laughing] mike: Alright what...
Jersey jon: We're going to the chicken ranch!
Mike: Okay.
Danielle: You don't have to live in new york,
chicago, or la...
la! [laughs]
mike: Hey, jersey looks like chris kristofferson.
Off -camera: Yes.
Jersey jon: Kid rock, chris kristofferson, as
long as it's all good...
Robbie: These signs were put up all over...
Off-camera: Uh-oh.
Danielle: Ah!
Why though!