1 00:00:02,469 --> 00:00:06,273 ♪ ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:06,406 --> 00:00:07,941 MIKE: So the way I roll is 10‐pair of underwear, 3 00:00:08,075 --> 00:00:09,510 one pair of socks. Live it. 4 00:00:09,643 --> 00:00:10,811 DANIELLE: That's the way to roll, 5 00:00:10,944 --> 00:00:11,845 I've been telling you that for years. 6 00:00:11,979 --> 00:00:13,046 MIKE: I know. I finally started listening. 7 00:00:13,180 --> 00:00:13,647 DANIELLE: Well... 8 00:00:13,780 --> 00:00:14,281 ROBBIE: Man... Yeah 9 00:00:14,414 --> 00:00:15,415 MIKE: Listen up, Robbie. 10 00:00:15,549 --> 00:00:16,383 DANIELLE: I'm glad that you guys are finally... 11 00:00:16,516 --> 00:00:17,384 ROBBIE: Listen, as long as it doesn't‐ 12 00:00:17,518 --> 00:00:18,118 doesn't smell, that's all I care about. 13 00:00:18,252 --> 00:00:19,219 MIKE: [chuckles] 14 00:00:19,353 --> 00:00:19,987 DANIELLE: I made reservations in Columbus, Ohio 15 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:20,988 for tonight at the hotel. 16 00:00:21,121 --> 00:00:21,722 So don't go on any adventures... 17 00:00:21,855 --> 00:00:22,723 MIKE: Ooh, reservations. 18 00:00:22,856 --> 00:00:23,590 ROBBIE: We're not going to West Virginia? 19 00:00:23,724 --> 00:00:24,491 DANIELLE: Columbus, Ohio, first. 20 00:00:24,625 --> 00:00:25,225 MIKE: Usually the hotels we stay at, 21 00:00:25,359 --> 00:00:26,493 don't take reservations. 22 00:00:26,627 --> 00:00:27,294 ROBBIE: Yeah. 23 00:00:27,427 --> 00:00:27,895 MIKE: So this must be fancy. 24 00:00:28,028 --> 00:00:28,762 ROBBIE: Yeah. 25 00:00:28,896 --> 00:00:29,263 DANIELLE: This one's pretty good. 26 00:00:29,396 --> 00:00:30,030 MIKE: [laughs] 27 00:00:30,163 --> 00:00:30,564 DANIELLE: It's pretty good. 28 00:00:30,697 --> 00:00:31,598 MIKE: Bye. 29 00:00:31,732 --> 00:00:32,699 DANIELLE: Alright. Love you guys. Be safe. 30 00:00:32,833 --> 00:00:33,667 MIKE: Bye. 31 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:34,501 DANIELLE: Watch that lead foot, Robbie. 32 00:00:34,635 --> 00:00:35,836 [honks horn] 33 00:00:40,107 --> 00:00:45,779 ♪ ♪ ♪ 34 00:00:45,913 --> 00:00:48,215 MIKE: [laughing] Remember in high school, when your 35 00:00:48,348 --> 00:00:50,550 girlfriends would call the house, and then I would answer 36 00:00:50,684 --> 00:00:53,453 the phone, and they'd be like, 'oh Robbie,' you know, it just 37 00:00:53,587 --> 00:00:54,888 clicked in my head all of a sudden, I'm like... 38 00:00:55,022 --> 00:00:55,956 ROBBIE: Yeah. 39 00:00:56,089 --> 00:00:57,291 MIKE: Oh my God, these guys think I'm Robbie. 40 00:00:57,424 --> 00:00:58,692 ROBBIE: I still owe you for the time that you freakin' told 41 00:00:58,825 --> 00:01:01,562 3 different girls that I was going to take them to the dance. 42 00:01:01,695 --> 00:01:02,696 MIKE: [laughs] 43 00:01:02,829 --> 00:01:03,897 ROBBIE: Yeah, you don't remember that. 44 00:01:04,031 --> 00:01:06,066 MIKE: On your salary from Chef's Hat. 45 00:01:06,199 --> 00:01:06,900 ROBBIE: Yeah, yeah. 46 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:07,634 MIKE: Remember that? 47 00:01:07,768 --> 00:01:08,902 ROBBIE: A&W root beer. 48 00:01:09,036 --> 00:01:10,270 MIKE: Times have changed, little brother. 49 00:01:10,404 --> 00:01:11,905 ROBBIE: Times have changed. 50 00:01:12,039 --> 00:01:13,874 ROBBIE: Here it is, right here. It's right here. 51 00:01:14,007 --> 00:01:14,508 MIKE: Oh this is it? 52 00:01:14,641 --> 00:01:15,442 ROBBIE: This is it. 53 00:01:15,576 --> 00:01:18,779 MIKE: Alright. Give them a flyer here. 54 00:01:23,650 --> 00:01:24,918 Ah... hey ‐hey! 55 00:01:25,052 --> 00:01:25,652 BRAD: Yeah, hey. 56 00:01:25,786 --> 00:01:26,620 MIKE: Hey, what's going on? 57 00:01:26,753 --> 00:01:27,521 ROBBIE: How're you doing? 58 00:01:27,654 --> 00:01:28,822 MIKE: I'm Mike, this is Robbie. 59 00:01:28,956 --> 00:01:29,690 You guys talked to Danielle? 60 00:01:29,823 --> 00:01:30,590 BRAD: Yeah, I did yeah, hi Mike. 61 00:01:30,724 --> 00:01:31,291 Yeah, good to meet you. 62 00:01:31,425 --> 00:01:32,125 MIKE: Nice to meet you. 63 00:01:32,259 --> 00:01:32,659 Here, man, here take a flyer. 64 00:01:32,793 --> 00:01:33,493 BRAD: Hey Robbie. 65 00:01:33,627 --> 00:01:34,094 ROBBIE: Good to see you, man. 66 00:01:34,227 --> 00:01:34,861 BRAD: Yeah. 67 00:01:34,995 --> 00:01:36,296 BRAD: What do we got here? 68 00:01:36,430 --> 00:01:37,965 Motor scooters, Vespas... 69 00:01:38,098 --> 00:01:38,665 MIKE: Yeah, there you go. 70 00:01:38,799 --> 00:01:39,600 That's the good stuff. 71 00:01:39,733 --> 00:01:40,300 You got any of those? 72 00:01:40,434 --> 00:01:41,368 BRAD: Yeah we... 73 00:01:41,501 --> 00:01:42,703 have some of this stuff around here, yeah, yeah. 74 00:01:42,836 --> 00:01:43,704 Hey, Bruce? 75 00:01:43,837 --> 00:01:44,471 BRUCE: Hey. 76 00:01:44,604 --> 00:01:45,439 MIKE: What's going on, man? 77 00:01:45,572 --> 00:01:47,708 We heard, we heard all about you guys. 78 00:01:47,841 --> 00:01:48,475 BRUCE: Ohh... trying to figure out where 79 00:01:48,608 --> 00:01:49,743 to start with this stuff. 80 00:01:49,876 --> 00:01:50,777 MIKE: We heard all about you guys, all the way from Iowa. 81 00:01:50,911 --> 00:01:51,745 ROBBIE: Yeah. 82 00:01:51,878 --> 00:01:52,446 BRUCE: Hey, nice to meet you. I'm Bruce. 83 00:01:52,579 --> 00:01:53,313 ROBBIE: Good to see ya. 84 00:01:53,447 --> 00:01:54,648 MIKE: I'm Mike. 85 00:01:54,781 --> 00:01:56,116 BRAD: My name is Brad Hunt, this is my brother, Bruce Hunt. 86 00:01:56,249 --> 00:01:57,751 And we're from Cottageville, West Virginia. 87 00:01:58,552 --> 00:01:59,920 BRUCE: Originally, this was my grandfather's 88 00:02:00,053 --> 00:02:02,189 general mercantile. 89 00:02:02,322 --> 00:02:04,291 It was also a United States Post Office as well, 90 00:02:04,424 --> 00:02:05,759 part of the store. 91 00:02:05,892 --> 00:02:07,694 BRAD: It's been closed for a long time, and our mother 92 00:02:07,828 --> 00:02:10,097 passed recently and it's kind of passed to us and... 93 00:02:10,230 --> 00:02:12,132 we're trying to sort through it, clean it out, you know. 94 00:02:12,265 --> 00:02:13,500 MIKE: Figure it out? 95 00:02:13,634 --> 00:02:15,602 So Dani was saying on the phone that, you guys closed in '89, 96 00:02:15,736 --> 00:02:17,404 and then your mom started yard sale‐ing. 97 00:02:17,537 --> 00:02:18,872 BRAD: Yeah, yeah... she 98 00:02:19,006 --> 00:02:20,007 MIKE: [laughs] 99 00:02:20,140 --> 00:02:20,807 BRUCE: Well, the... well she would go to yard sales 100 00:02:20,941 --> 00:02:22,075 and pile all the stuff in here. 101 00:02:22,209 --> 00:02:22,609 BRAD: Yeah. 102 00:02:22,743 --> 00:02:23,844 MIKE: Okay. 103 00:02:23,977 --> 00:02:25,512 BRUCE: Our mother grew up in the Depression, basically, 104 00:02:25,646 --> 00:02:27,047 and she would not get rid of anything. 105 00:02:27,180 --> 00:02:29,883 You know, she said, oh we might need that, we might need that. 106 00:02:30,017 --> 00:02:32,386 BRAD: And in Mom's will, it was handwritten, and in parentheses 107 00:02:32,519 --> 00:02:34,154 ‐ 'lots of junk, sorry boys.' 108 00:02:34,287 --> 00:02:35,255 BRUCE: Yeah. 109 00:02:35,389 --> 00:02:36,356 BRAD & BRUCE: [laughs] 110 00:02:36,490 --> 00:02:37,324 BRAD: In parentheses on her handwritten will. 111 00:02:37,457 --> 00:02:38,125 BRUCE: That's... 112 00:02:38,258 --> 00:02:38,959 BRAD: And she wasn't lying. 113 00:02:39,092 --> 00:02:39,726 There's a lot of junk around here. 114 00:02:39,860 --> 00:02:40,660 MIKE: Yeah. 115 00:02:40,794 --> 00:02:41,728 BRAD: You know, there's‐ there's... 116 00:02:41,862 --> 00:02:42,596 MIKE: I like all that shelving that's in here. 117 00:02:42,729 --> 00:02:43,497 Like that's still the original... 118 00:02:43,630 --> 00:02:44,798 stain on it... 119 00:02:44,931 --> 00:02:45,832 BRAD: That's old original. 120 00:02:45,966 --> 00:02:46,867 MIKE: ...this has been painted, obviously. 121 00:02:46,967 --> 00:02:48,735 BRAD: Uh... yeah, that‐ that's old original. 122 00:02:48,869 --> 00:02:51,038 These were two buildings at one time, that we got made into one. 123 00:02:51,171 --> 00:02:52,339 MIKE: Oh, okay. 124 00:02:52,472 --> 00:02:54,341 BRUCE: This was a harness shop and hardware store, and then 125 00:02:54,474 --> 00:02:56,376 that was a grocery store, and then when Grandpa 126 00:02:56,510 --> 00:02:59,546 bought it back in the late '30s, early '40s... 127 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:01,081 MIKE: So when he bought it, when‐ did he buy a building or 128 00:03:01,214 --> 00:03:02,015 did he buy a business? 129 00:03:02,149 --> 00:03:03,250 BRUCE: He bought a business. 130 00:03:03,383 --> 00:03:05,185 BRAD: The store was started with him and his brothers, 131 00:03:05,318 --> 00:03:06,553 Waldo and John. 132 00:03:06,686 --> 00:03:08,388 And they were the Hunt Brothers, so they opened up 133 00:03:08,522 --> 00:03:11,024 the Hunt Brothers General Store and... 134 00:03:11,158 --> 00:03:12,459 MIKE: Yeah, you can buy a ham in here, 135 00:03:12,592 --> 00:03:13,794 and then maybe some rubber boots. 136 00:03:13,927 --> 00:03:15,295 BRUCE: Right, yeah, appliances... 137 00:03:15,429 --> 00:03:16,696 BRAD: Yeah, or a gun, appliances, um... 138 00:03:16,830 --> 00:03:17,431 MIKE: Yeah. 139 00:03:17,564 --> 00:03:18,398 BRAD: You name it, get a‐ 140 00:03:18,532 --> 00:03:19,032 MIKE: Oh you guys even sold appliances. 141 00:03:19,166 --> 00:03:19,566 BRAD: Yeah, oh yeah... 142 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:20,067 BRUCE: Oh yeah. 143 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:21,201 MIKE: Oh wow. 144 00:03:21,334 --> 00:03:22,469 BRAD: ...yeah, yeah, Grandpa was a Crosley dealer. 145 00:03:22,602 --> 00:03:23,770 MIKE: When you look at these general stores, the way they 146 00:03:23,904 --> 00:03:25,572 were laid out, the way they were customized, the way they 147 00:03:25,706 --> 00:03:27,808 were merchandized, they're pretty brilliant. 148 00:03:27,941 --> 00:03:29,509 Because the length of the counter, the height of a 149 00:03:29,643 --> 00:03:32,245 counter, when you look at all the shelving on the walls and 150 00:03:32,379 --> 00:03:35,515 the spacing of the shelving, how high the shelving is, 151 00:03:35,649 --> 00:03:38,218 I mean, they were done brilliantly and beautifully, 152 00:03:38,351 --> 00:03:40,987 and really, you know, retail is a living breathing thing, so 153 00:03:41,121 --> 00:03:43,390 when somebody walked in there, they had to have everything 154 00:03:43,523 --> 00:03:46,893 from A‐to‐Z, everything from galoshes to cat food, okay. 155 00:03:47,027 --> 00:03:51,031 MIKE: I mean, look at all the detail here, of the cabinetry. 156 00:03:51,164 --> 00:03:52,232 BRAD: Right. 157 00:03:52,365 --> 00:03:53,967 MIKE: And then it all matches the trim on the doors. 158 00:03:54,101 --> 00:03:54,768 BRAD: Yeah. 159 00:03:54,901 --> 00:03:56,103 MIKE: Look at all that detail. 160 00:03:56,236 --> 00:03:57,003 BRAD: Yeah, that‐ that real wide, I mean, that's just stuff 161 00:03:57,137 --> 00:03:57,971 that you just don't make any more. 162 00:03:58,105 --> 00:03:59,239 MIKE: Yeah, fancy leg and everything. 163 00:03:59,372 --> 00:04:00,540 I know, it's gorgeous. 164 00:04:00,674 --> 00:04:01,842 MIKE: If you think about the square footage of a store, and 165 00:04:01,975 --> 00:04:04,144 you think about like, how many products they have to carry, 166 00:04:04,277 --> 00:04:07,214 and then on top of that, you think about traffic flow, like 167 00:04:07,347 --> 00:04:09,416 which way the customer's coming in, which way the customer's 168 00:04:09,549 --> 00:04:12,586 going out, are they going to be trying on boots over here, are 169 00:04:12,719 --> 00:04:14,421 they going to be like filling feed sacks. 170 00:04:14,554 --> 00:04:16,823 You know, you have to have hardware, you have to have 171 00:04:16,957 --> 00:04:18,859 nails, you have to have so many different products. 172 00:04:18,992 --> 00:04:22,462 So, for me when I walk in and I see all that shelving, 173 00:04:22,596 --> 00:04:25,265 I'm already imagining what this place was. 174 00:04:25,398 --> 00:04:30,137 All of these stores were the main heartbeat of the community. 175 00:04:30,270 --> 00:04:31,872 MIKE: This piece looks like it's been here forever. 176 00:04:32,005 --> 00:04:33,039 BRUCE: Oh it has. 177 00:04:33,173 --> 00:04:35,242 That was the original, made by Grandpa, those were 178 00:04:35,375 --> 00:04:37,410 where we kept all the nuts and the bolts. 179 00:04:37,544 --> 00:04:38,645 MIKE: Yeah, yeah. 180 00:04:38,778 --> 00:04:40,046 BRAD: And there's probably still nuts and bolts in it. 181 00:04:40,180 --> 00:04:43,150 New Year's Day around here was the, the family take inventory 182 00:04:43,283 --> 00:04:44,684 day, once a year we took inventory. 183 00:04:44,818 --> 00:04:45,252 MIKE: Uh‐huh. 184 00:04:45,385 --> 00:04:46,586 ROBBIE: Yeah. 185 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,788 BRAD: And mine and Bruce's job was to count the nuts and bolts. 186 00:04:48,922 --> 00:04:49,656 So... 187 00:04:49,790 --> 00:04:51,024 MIKE: [laughs] 188 00:04:51,158 --> 00:04:52,959 BRAD: We‐ we had lots of time spent digging in those drawers. 189 00:04:53,093 --> 00:04:54,027 BRUCE: Not fond memories, actually. 190 00:04:54,161 --> 00:04:54,661 BRAD: Yeah. 191 00:04:54,794 --> 00:04:55,595 ROBBIE: Yeah, yeah. 192 00:04:55,729 --> 00:04:56,429 BRAD: The doors are made out of the 193 00:04:56,563 --> 00:04:57,430 wood of a crate of something... 194 00:04:57,564 --> 00:04:58,331 BRUCE: Crate essentially, yeah. 195 00:04:58,465 --> 00:04:59,533 BRAD: So it was definitely wasn't, 196 00:04:59,666 --> 00:05:01,835 it didn't come out of factory, it was‐ it was handmade. 197 00:05:01,968 --> 00:05:03,103 BRUCE: Yeah. 198 00:05:03,236 --> 00:05:03,970 ROBBIE: Yeah, I think I can get this out of here, Mike. 199 00:05:04,104 --> 00:05:05,138 MIKE: Well, it's wedged, isn't it? 200 00:05:05,272 --> 00:05:06,273 Oh there it's loose over there. 201 00:05:06,406 --> 00:05:07,107 ROBBIE: No, it's just screwed, it's got a couple 202 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:08,542 of screws right here, that's it. 203 00:05:08,675 --> 00:05:09,476 MIKE: Oh okay. 204 00:05:09,609 --> 00:05:10,777 BRAD: It's probably pretty heavy. 205 00:05:10,911 --> 00:05:11,778 MIKE: I mean, is this something you guys would sell or no? 206 00:05:11,912 --> 00:05:12,612 BRAD: Uh yeah. 207 00:05:12,746 --> 00:05:13,647 I don't see why we wouldn't... 208 00:05:13,780 --> 00:05:14,381 BRUCE: Yeah, sell it. 209 00:05:14,514 --> 00:05:15,215 BRAD: Yeah, yeah, it's a... 210 00:05:15,348 --> 00:05:16,383 ROBBIE: Huh. 211 00:05:16,516 --> 00:05:17,884 MIKE: It's got some decent hardware on it, you know, 212 00:05:18,018 --> 00:05:20,086 it's painted with milk paint, it's kind of cool, 213 00:05:20,220 --> 00:05:21,154 the color's decent. 214 00:05:21,288 --> 00:05:23,456 I don't know, I mean, if this was in the shop, 215 00:05:23,590 --> 00:05:26,593 it'd probably pull... 600 bucks. 216 00:05:26,726 --> 00:05:27,127 BRAD: Right. 217 00:05:27,260 --> 00:05:27,694 MIKE: You know. 218 00:05:27,828 --> 00:05:29,462 What do you think? 219 00:05:29,596 --> 00:05:31,198 BRAD: Half of that, maybe? 300? 220 00:05:31,331 --> 00:05:31,998 MIKE: Alright, 300. 221 00:05:32,132 --> 00:05:32,566 BRUCE: Yeah, 300. 222 00:05:32,699 --> 00:05:33,300 BRAD: 300. 223 00:05:33,433 --> 00:05:34,134 MIKE: 300? Is that cool? 224 00:05:34,267 --> 00:05:35,235 BRAD: Yeah, yeah. 225 00:05:35,368 --> 00:05:36,369 BRUCE: That's cool with me, yeah. We're good. 226 00:05:36,503 --> 00:05:37,370 BRAD: We're selling 'cause we needed some money 227 00:05:37,504 --> 00:05:38,772 to help with some of these projects. 228 00:05:38,905 --> 00:05:41,441 BRUCE: Projects... We kind of want to have us a workshop 229 00:05:41,575 --> 00:05:44,277 ‐slash ‐man cave, I guess, where we could come hang 230 00:05:44,411 --> 00:05:45,312 out as brothers. 231 00:05:45,445 --> 00:05:47,047 BRAD: We don't live, we live far apart, 232 00:05:47,180 --> 00:05:51,218 but our heart's down here in this old building, you know, 233 00:05:51,351 --> 00:05:52,652 I always get emotional about it. Heh. 234 00:05:52,786 --> 00:05:53,720 BRUCE: Yeah. 235 00:05:53,854 --> 00:05:55,655 BRAD: But uh... you know, we just want to turn 236 00:05:55,789 --> 00:05:56,690 this place into a place we can... 237 00:05:56,823 --> 00:05:59,826 you know hang out and have woodshop. 238 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:01,194 MIKE: What would that section of the store be? 239 00:06:01,328 --> 00:06:04,197 BRAD: All that, to the best of my memory, was clothing 240 00:06:04,331 --> 00:06:07,100 and household goods, and things like that. 241 00:06:07,234 --> 00:06:08,235 MIKE: Yeah, all about your... 242 00:06:08,368 --> 00:06:09,436 BRAD: All the toilet paper and like the medicines. 243 00:06:09,569 --> 00:06:10,971 There's old medicines up on the shelf too, 244 00:06:11,104 --> 00:06:11,972 been there probably for 80 years... 245 00:06:12,105 --> 00:06:13,073 MIKE: Oh yeah. 246 00:06:13,206 --> 00:06:13,974 BRAD: ...old medicine bottle, Triple‐S tonic, 247 00:06:14,107 --> 00:06:15,075 and all this crazy stuff. 248 00:06:15,208 --> 00:06:15,976 MIKE: [laughs] 249 00:06:16,109 --> 00:06:16,476 BRAD: This, this place literally was, 250 00:06:16,610 --> 00:06:18,111 sold everything. 251 00:06:18,245 --> 00:06:20,447 BRUCE: It was in here if you knew where the hell it was. 252 00:06:20,580 --> 00:06:21,715 BRAD: Right yeah, right yeah. 253 00:06:21,848 --> 00:06:23,250 BRUCE: It was just stuffed in corners everywhere, and... 254 00:06:23,383 --> 00:06:24,217 BRAD: Right. 255 00:06:24,351 --> 00:06:25,418 MIKE: These are like Adidas knockoffs. 256 00:06:25,552 --> 00:06:27,354 I had‐ I think I had these when I was a kid. 257 00:06:27,487 --> 00:06:28,855 BRUCE: Adidos? [laughs] 258 00:06:28,989 --> 00:06:29,856 MIKE: [laughs] Adidos. 259 00:06:29,990 --> 00:06:31,324 Yeah, Adidos. 260 00:06:31,458 --> 00:06:33,860 MIKE: My mom was a single mom, raised 3 kids on her own. 261 00:06:33,994 --> 00:06:36,129 We couldn't afford the name brands, we didn't have the 262 00:06:36,263 --> 00:06:38,565 Converse, we had the Reverse; we didn't have the Adidas, 263 00:06:38,698 --> 00:06:40,734 we had Adidos; we didn't have the... 264 00:06:40,867 --> 00:06:42,168 Nikes, we had the Neekies. 265 00:06:42,302 --> 00:06:43,436 I mean, we... [laughs] 266 00:06:43,570 --> 00:06:45,438 we were, we were pretty low‐buck. 267 00:06:45,572 --> 00:06:47,908 Our brand for our family was the off‐brand. 268 00:06:48,041 --> 00:06:50,844 MIKE: So we got Reverse, and Adidos. 269 00:06:50,977 --> 00:06:51,745 BRUCE: Adidos. 270 00:06:51,878 --> 00:06:52,746 MIKE: But these are made in the USA. 271 00:06:52,879 --> 00:06:53,546 BRUCE: Right. 272 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:54,247 ROBBIE: Found another pair. 273 00:06:54,381 --> 00:06:54,914 MIKE: What do you got? 274 00:06:55,048 --> 00:06:55,515 ROBBIE: Little ones. 275 00:06:55,649 --> 00:06:56,182 MIKE: Oh baby ones? 276 00:06:56,316 --> 00:06:57,484 ROBBIE: Yeah, here. 277 00:06:57,617 --> 00:06:58,084 MIKE: Alright. So it looks like you got a big stack here. 278 00:06:58,218 --> 00:07:00,053 Baby vintage shoes. 279 00:07:00,186 --> 00:07:01,321 ROBBIE: Whoa. 280 00:07:01,454 --> 00:07:04,357 MIKE: These would be what, like, early '80s, late '70s, 281 00:07:04,491 --> 00:07:05,191 is that what you're thinking? 282 00:07:05,325 --> 00:07:05,892 ROBBIE: There you go. 283 00:07:06,026 --> 00:07:07,127 BRUCE: Yep. 284 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:08,495 MIKE: The type of customer that's going to want to wear 285 00:07:08,628 --> 00:07:11,431 this stuff, never lived in this era, but they want a level of 286 00:07:11,564 --> 00:07:13,967 authenticity, they want to wear vintage. 287 00:07:14,067 --> 00:07:15,902 You know, they want something with a story. 288 00:07:16,036 --> 00:07:18,505 If you look at music videos from the '80s, the aesthetic, 289 00:07:18,638 --> 00:07:21,841 the style, the hip‐hop fashion, the urban wear. 290 00:07:21,975 --> 00:07:23,376 These shoes fit into that. 291 00:07:23,510 --> 00:07:24,978 I'm imagining whoever's going to wear these, 292 00:07:25,111 --> 00:07:26,913 is going to be kicking it to the Beastie Boys. 293 00:07:27,580 --> 00:07:28,715 MIKE: How many pairs of shoes are there, Robbie? 294 00:07:28,848 --> 00:07:29,783 We could go through each pair... 295 00:07:29,916 --> 00:07:31,117 ROBBIE: Um... I'm looking through all these... 296 00:07:31,251 --> 00:07:31,985 MIKE: These are nice. 297 00:07:32,118 --> 00:07:34,054 ROBBIE: ...I got 1, 2, 3... 298 00:07:34,187 --> 00:07:35,021 BRUCE: Cool. Red, white, and blue, All‐American. 299 00:07:35,155 --> 00:07:35,722 MIKE: That's cool. 300 00:07:35,855 --> 00:07:37,524 ROBBIE: 15 pairs here. 301 00:07:37,657 --> 00:07:38,825 MIKE: 15 pairs of shoes. 302 00:07:38,958 --> 00:07:39,626 ROBBIE: Yeah. 303 00:07:39,759 --> 00:07:40,860 MIKE: They're all pretty tiny. 304 00:07:40,994 --> 00:07:43,463 MIKE: They're fashionable, but not in a mainstream way. 305 00:07:43,596 --> 00:07:45,899 And I'm freaking out, every box we open up because 306 00:07:46,032 --> 00:07:47,634 they're dead‐stock, they're new ‐old stock, 307 00:07:47,767 --> 00:07:48,768 they've never been worn before. 308 00:07:48,902 --> 00:07:52,305 But the problem is, [sighs] man, the size issues. 309 00:07:52,439 --> 00:07:54,407 I mean, there's not a lot of decent sizes here, 310 00:07:54,541 --> 00:07:58,278 but that is not deterring me from still wanting them. 311 00:07:58,411 --> 00:07:59,713 MIKE: What would you feel... 312 00:07:59,846 --> 00:08:02,082 comfortable selling 15 pairs of shoes? 313 00:08:02,816 --> 00:08:04,284 BRUCE: Make me an offer. 314 00:08:04,617 --> 00:08:05,986 MIKE: Oh my God, I don't know. 315 00:08:06,119 --> 00:08:07,253 They sold all the good sizes. 316 00:08:07,387 --> 00:08:08,621 BRUCE: Right. 317 00:08:08,755 --> 00:08:11,591 MIKE: It's just the little baby sizes left. How‐ 3 bucks a pair. 318 00:08:11,725 --> 00:08:12,459 BRUCE: 45. 319 00:08:12,592 --> 00:08:13,126 MIKE: Alright. 320 00:08:13,259 --> 00:08:13,626 BRUCE: The whole batch. 321 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:14,661 MIKE: Alright. 322 00:08:14,794 --> 00:08:16,396 ROBBIE: Look at that shirt. Freakin' 1970s. 323 00:08:16,529 --> 00:08:17,197 MIKE: Yeah, is that...? 324 00:08:17,330 --> 00:08:17,931 BRUCE: That... bowling shirt. 325 00:08:18,064 --> 00:08:19,466 ROBBIE: Bowling. Polyester. 326 00:08:19,599 --> 00:08:20,633 MIKE: Oh yeah, that feels good, what else you got in there? 327 00:08:20,767 --> 00:08:22,702 BRUCE: We dealt with a dry goods wholesaler down in 328 00:08:22,836 --> 00:08:25,305 Huntington, and Mom would take us down there. 329 00:08:25,438 --> 00:08:27,474 She would buy for the store, but she would also buy 330 00:08:27,607 --> 00:08:29,376 our school clothes at the same time. 331 00:08:29,509 --> 00:08:30,410 ROBBIE: You were the test dummies... 332 00:08:30,543 --> 00:08:31,511 BRUCE: Yeah, we were the test dummies. 333 00:08:31,644 --> 00:08:32,412 ROBBIE: ...you actually got to try, 334 00:08:32,545 --> 00:08:33,380 you got to bring the good stuff on. 335 00:08:33,513 --> 00:08:34,748 BRUCE: Right. 336 00:08:34,881 --> 00:08:35,448 MIKE: Well that's cool, because when somebody walked in here, 337 00:08:35,582 --> 00:08:36,116 you worked here, right? 338 00:08:36,249 --> 00:08:37,450 BRUCE: Right, oh yeah. 339 00:08:37,584 --> 00:08:37,984 MIKE: So when somebody walked in, you were head to toe... 340 00:08:38,118 --> 00:08:38,818 BRUCE: Oh yeah. 341 00:08:38,952 --> 00:08:40,053 ROBBIE: Like, I'd wear these. 342 00:08:40,186 --> 00:08:40,954 MIKE: ...Oh I like that shirt, that's right over here. 343 00:08:41,087 --> 00:08:41,921 ROBBIE: Yeah, it's right here. Yeah. 344 00:08:42,055 --> 00:08:45,959 MIKE: What's upstairs here? Anything? 345 00:08:46,092 --> 00:08:47,560 BRAD: Up here we got some good stuff. 346 00:08:47,694 --> 00:08:49,295 MIKE: Watch your head, Robbie. 347 00:08:49,429 --> 00:08:51,664 BRAD: There's nails that, kind of come through the roof there. 348 00:08:51,798 --> 00:08:52,866 MIKE: Oh look at that. 349 00:08:52,999 --> 00:08:54,300 BRUCE: I got a couple of scars on my head to prove it. 350 00:08:54,434 --> 00:08:55,702 BRAD: Yeah, that's‐ that's kind of our... 351 00:08:55,835 --> 00:08:56,669 MIKE: That's a flagship piece? 352 00:08:56,803 --> 00:08:57,737 BRAD: That's the flagship piece. 353 00:08:57,871 --> 00:08:59,272 That used to be out in front of the store. 354 00:08:59,406 --> 00:09:02,108 Grandpa was a Crosley Appliance dealer. 355 00:09:02,242 --> 00:09:03,143 That's a double‐sided. 356 00:09:03,276 --> 00:09:04,677 ROBBIE: Ugh! 357 00:09:04,811 --> 00:09:06,880 BRAD: Formerly neon sign. 358 00:09:07,013 --> 00:09:08,081 ROBBIE: Man, it feels like it's got every 359 00:09:08,214 --> 00:09:09,516 piece of transformer in it. 360 00:09:09,649 --> 00:09:10,183 BRUCE: Probably does. 361 00:09:10,316 --> 00:09:11,484 BRAD: It probably does. 362 00:09:11,618 --> 00:09:12,652 BRAD: It drew the customers to this building, you know, 363 00:09:12,786 --> 00:09:14,921 it lit up the street, and it was kind of, you know, 364 00:09:15,054 --> 00:09:16,756 what drew people to this place. 365 00:09:16,890 --> 00:09:17,657 MIKE: What's the porcelain like on the 366 00:09:17,791 --> 00:09:18,625 other side of that, Robbie? 367 00:09:18,758 --> 00:09:19,893 ROBBIE: It's chalked out a little bit. 368 00:09:20,026 --> 00:09:22,796 I mean, it needs some serious elbow grease put into it. 369 00:09:22,929 --> 00:09:23,897 BRAD: I think that'll wash off, 370 00:09:24,030 --> 00:09:25,432 I think it's in pretty good shape for its age. 371 00:09:25,565 --> 00:09:26,833 MIKE: The subject matter is great. 372 00:09:26,966 --> 00:09:28,134 I mean, not the appliance part of it... 373 00:09:28,268 --> 00:09:29,269 ROBBIE: Yeah. 374 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:30,270 MIKE: ...but the fact that it says Crosley Radio. 375 00:09:30,403 --> 00:09:31,171 ROBBIE: Crosley, yeah. 376 00:09:31,304 --> 00:09:32,305 MIKE: And the colors are amazing. 377 00:09:32,439 --> 00:09:33,840 ROBBIE: Crosley was one of those companies that 378 00:09:33,973 --> 00:09:37,410 started in the 1920s and ran until about 1956. 379 00:09:37,544 --> 00:09:40,480 They were so huge in America, they were one of the largest 380 00:09:40,613 --> 00:09:43,950 radio manufacturers in the United States at the time. 381 00:09:44,084 --> 00:09:46,086 MIKE: We actually picked a guy in Iowa years ago, 382 00:09:46,219 --> 00:09:47,954 that's all he collected was Crosley. 383 00:09:48,088 --> 00:09:48,955 BRAD: Really? 384 00:09:49,088 --> 00:09:49,989 MIKE: When we were there, I was just amazed 385 00:09:50,123 --> 00:09:51,524 at how many different products... 386 00:09:51,658 --> 00:09:52,392 BRAD: Right. 387 00:09:52,525 --> 00:09:53,259 MIKE: ...that they actually made. 388 00:09:53,393 --> 00:09:54,461 You know, they did everything. 389 00:09:54,594 --> 00:09:56,996 ROBBIE: They were doing anything from appliances to 390 00:09:57,130 --> 00:10:00,700 cars, to actually even helping the war effort in World War II. 391 00:10:00,834 --> 00:10:02,936 They built paratrooper motorcycles. 392 00:10:03,069 --> 00:10:04,237 MIKE: How long ago did you guys take this down? 393 00:10:04,370 --> 00:10:07,140 BRUCE: Probably right after the store was closed, 394 00:10:07,273 --> 00:10:08,708 probably in the early '90s. 395 00:10:08,842 --> 00:10:09,943 MIKE: Yeah. 396 00:10:10,076 --> 00:10:11,311 BRUCE: When Dad started renovating the store building. 397 00:10:11,444 --> 00:10:12,545 MIKE: Okay. 398 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,615 ROBBIE: You know, neon and porcelain signs in general, 399 00:10:15,748 --> 00:10:18,618 it's a time in America where advertising, you know, 400 00:10:18,751 --> 00:10:20,353 they don't do it anymore like this. 401 00:10:20,487 --> 00:10:21,120 BRAD: Right. 402 00:10:21,254 --> 00:10:21,621 ROBBIE: Everything's plastic. 403 00:10:21,754 --> 00:10:22,388 BRUCE: Right. 404 00:10:22,522 --> 00:10:23,022 ROBBIE: And they want L.E.D. 405 00:10:23,156 --> 00:10:23,556 BRAD: Right. 406 00:10:23,690 --> 00:10:24,090 ROBBIE: You know. 407 00:10:24,224 --> 00:10:24,757 MIKE: Or vinyl. 408 00:10:24,891 --> 00:10:25,825 ROBBIE: Yeah, or vinyl. 409 00:10:25,959 --> 00:10:28,094 This‐ the guys that bend this glass every day, 410 00:10:28,228 --> 00:10:30,396 day in and day out, they're making a piece of artwork. 411 00:10:30,530 --> 00:10:31,264 BRAD: Right, oh I agree, I agree. 412 00:10:31,397 --> 00:10:32,599 ROBBIE: Yeah. 413 00:10:32,732 --> 00:10:33,700 Basically what, you know, what it's going to take to get this 414 00:10:33,833 --> 00:10:35,034 back up and going again is, 415 00:10:35,168 --> 00:10:36,970 it's going to need a thorough cleaning on it. 416 00:10:37,103 --> 00:10:39,172 The plus is, it's already got the insulators on it, which 417 00:10:39,305 --> 00:10:41,474 are, you know, you want, you know, the originals. 418 00:10:41,608 --> 00:10:42,442 BRUCE: Yeah, the original stuff. 419 00:10:42,575 --> 00:10:43,209 BRAD: Original, sure yeah. 420 00:10:43,343 --> 00:10:44,544 ROBBIE: Yeah. 421 00:10:44,677 --> 00:10:46,279 I want to say, on the high side of this, this sign hanging, 422 00:10:46,412 --> 00:10:51,718 if it had all the neon cleaned up, fixed, probably 42 to 4,500. 423 00:10:51,851 --> 00:10:52,685 BRUCE: Right. 424 00:10:52,819 --> 00:10:54,020 ROBBIE: It's going to take a little bit 425 00:10:54,154 --> 00:10:55,522 of getting there to get to it. 426 00:10:55,655 --> 00:10:59,626 BRAD: I know what you're thinking, maybe 25? 427 00:11:01,361 --> 00:11:04,430 ROBBIE: [sighs] One thing I love about neon is saving history. 428 00:11:04,564 --> 00:11:05,632 So... 429 00:11:08,568 --> 00:11:09,469 2,500. 430 00:11:09,602 --> 00:11:10,170 BRAD: 25? 431 00:11:10,303 --> 00:11:10,837 ROBBIE: I'll do the 25. 432 00:11:10,970 --> 00:11:11,871 I think we can do it. 433 00:11:12,005 --> 00:11:12,105 BRAD: I think we can do that. Oh, yeah! 434 00:11:16,442 --> 00:11:17,677 ♪ ♪ 435 00:11:17,810 --> 00:11:18,811 BRUCE: Alright Robbie, now that you've got that Crosley sign, 436 00:11:18,945 --> 00:11:20,280 let me take you out here and show you 437 00:11:20,413 --> 00:11:21,381 where everything used to hang. 438 00:11:21,681 --> 00:11:22,715 ROBBIE: Yeah? 439 00:11:22,849 --> 00:11:23,917 BRUCE: 'Course, the façade's changed a little bit. 440 00:11:24,083 --> 00:11:25,418 Dad a little work to it. 441 00:11:25,552 --> 00:11:26,986 The porches were kind of separated. 442 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:28,021 ROBBIE: Yeah. 443 00:11:28,154 --> 00:11:29,989 BRUCE: But right above the... main door... 444 00:11:30,123 --> 00:11:31,057 MIKE: So was this awning on it? 445 00:11:31,190 --> 00:11:32,125 This whole awning right here? 446 00:11:32,258 --> 00:11:33,192 BRUCE: Yes, yes. It was all on it, 447 00:11:33,326 --> 00:11:34,460 but it was 2 separate ones, 'cause it was 448 00:11:34,594 --> 00:11:36,162 2 buildings at one time. 449 00:11:36,296 --> 00:11:36,729 MIKE: Oh really? 450 00:11:36,863 --> 00:11:37,764 BRUCE: Yeah. 451 00:11:37,897 --> 00:11:38,631 MIKE: So this had a separate door over here? 452 00:11:38,765 --> 00:11:39,499 BRUCE: Yes, it had a separate door. 453 00:11:39,632 --> 00:11:41,134 That where the post office was... 454 00:11:41,267 --> 00:11:41,734 MIKE: Okay. 455 00:11:41,868 --> 00:11:42,969 BRUCE: ...years ago. 456 00:11:43,102 --> 00:11:43,770 BRAD: And that's where all the kids in the neighborhood 457 00:11:43,903 --> 00:11:44,804 would come down here and... 458 00:11:44,938 --> 00:11:46,039 ROBBIE: They came and sat on the steps. 459 00:11:46,172 --> 00:11:47,941 BRAD: They came in, bought a Coke, got a Coke order... 460 00:11:48,074 --> 00:11:49,309 MIKE: So at one time, this was busy. 461 00:11:49,442 --> 00:11:50,076 BRUCE: Oh lord. 462 00:11:50,210 --> 00:11:51,411 BRAD: Oh yeah. 463 00:11:51,544 --> 00:11:54,547 BRUCE: Years ago, Main Street Cottageville was actually S33. 464 00:11:54,681 --> 00:11:56,716 So this was the main thoroughfare from... 465 00:11:56,849 --> 00:11:59,986 it starts in Illinois somewhere, I believe, and runs all 466 00:12:00,119 --> 00:12:02,121 the way through West Virginia, over to the East Coast. 467 00:12:02,255 --> 00:12:05,091 BRAD: And it was kind the Route 66 of the East Coast. 468 00:12:05,224 --> 00:12:05,892 BRUCE: East Coast, right. 469 00:12:06,025 --> 00:12:07,327 BRAD: 33 was, back in the day. 470 00:12:07,460 --> 00:12:09,662 BRAD: And at one time, this little town had a car 471 00:12:09,796 --> 00:12:12,365 dealership, a bank, it‐ it had just about every‐ 472 00:12:12,498 --> 00:12:13,566 BRUCE: Barbershop, a restaurant. 473 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:14,567 BRAD: ‐barbershop, it had about everything. 474 00:12:14,701 --> 00:12:15,501 MIKE: Right here in this little stretch. 475 00:12:15,635 --> 00:12:16,736 BRUCE: Right here, this little stretch. 476 00:12:16,869 --> 00:12:18,004 BRAD: Just this little stretch of road here at one time. 477 00:12:18,137 --> 00:12:19,339 And this old store that was, when it was being run by our 478 00:12:19,472 --> 00:12:22,775 grandfather, it‐ it was the last place to be open here, 479 00:12:22,909 --> 00:12:23,743 to buy anything. 480 00:12:23,876 --> 00:12:24,811 MIKE: Okay. 481 00:12:24,944 --> 00:12:26,813 MIKE: The store owner had to understand who 482 00:12:26,946 --> 00:12:28,414 their customers were. 483 00:12:28,548 --> 00:12:30,917 And that was a really easy thing to do for them 484 00:12:31,050 --> 00:12:33,519 because they lived in the community. 485 00:12:33,653 --> 00:12:35,788 BRAD: He wanted to be able to still serve the people that 486 00:12:35,922 --> 00:12:38,558 were all his loyal customers for years, for decades. 487 00:12:38,691 --> 00:12:39,726 BRUCE: That's right, many years. 488 00:12:39,859 --> 00:12:40,827 MIKE: There were so many of these little stores that 489 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:42,629 serviced such large regions. 490 00:12:42,762 --> 00:12:45,398 And the products that they carried were really regional, 491 00:12:45,531 --> 00:12:49,135 from the occupation that most of their customers, you know, 492 00:12:49,268 --> 00:12:52,138 like coal miners or farmers, to steel workers ‐ 493 00:12:52,272 --> 00:12:56,776 so many people relied on such a small little store. 494 00:12:57,410 --> 00:13:00,613 MIKE: Now, the society that we all live in, it's all about 495 00:13:00,747 --> 00:13:02,882 walking into a franchise, walking into something 496 00:13:03,016 --> 00:13:04,417 that's cookie‐cutter. 497 00:13:04,550 --> 00:13:06,352 With all the convenience that we have, 498 00:13:06,486 --> 00:13:09,122 we've stripped away the human element. 499 00:13:09,255 --> 00:13:11,124 Now it is one ‐size‐fits‐all. 500 00:13:11,257 --> 00:13:14,294 Back then, it was a back ‐and‐forth relationship. 501 00:13:14,427 --> 00:13:15,695 BRAD: This was the meat department back here. 502 00:13:15,828 --> 00:13:16,629 This is where we cut meat‐ 503 00:13:16,763 --> 00:13:17,730 MIKE: Oh I see, yeah, I see the saw! 504 00:13:17,864 --> 00:13:18,798 BRAD: And the saws. 505 00:13:18,931 --> 00:13:20,733 Grandpa would get a, he'd buy sides of beef, 506 00:13:20,867 --> 00:13:22,669 and Bruce is a fantastic meat cutter. 507 00:13:22,802 --> 00:13:23,970 MIKE: Is he? 508 00:13:24,103 --> 00:13:25,238 BRAD: He taught Bruce how to cut meat and grind burger and 509 00:13:25,371 --> 00:13:26,806 cut pork chops and... 510 00:13:26,939 --> 00:13:28,608 I mean, it‐ this place was full‐service, 511 00:13:28,741 --> 00:13:29,475 anything you wanted. 512 00:13:29,609 --> 00:13:30,710 MIKE: Yeah, hey. 513 00:13:30,843 --> 00:13:32,045 BRAD: It was fun to have growed up in a store like this. 514 00:13:32,178 --> 00:13:33,513 We were the pop bottle sorters and... 515 00:13:33,646 --> 00:13:34,747 BRUCE: Swept floors. 516 00:13:34,881 --> 00:13:37,216 BRAD: Yeah, and cardboard box busters. 517 00:13:37,350 --> 00:13:39,385 BRUCE: Busters. And the ice cream cooler behind the counter, 518 00:13:39,519 --> 00:13:41,054 and the candy bars, and the old Coke cooler. 519 00:13:41,187 --> 00:13:42,121 BRAD: yeah, right, oh yeah, yeah, candy bars 520 00:13:42,255 --> 00:13:43,489 and ice cream... anything you wanted. 521 00:13:43,623 --> 00:13:45,825 MIKE: We got tavern ham, we got honey ham. How thick you like, 522 00:13:45,958 --> 00:13:46,893 what do you want? 523 00:13:47,026 --> 00:13:47,627 BRUCE: I want it three ‐quarters of an inch, 524 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:48,928 give me 2‐ pound of each. 525 00:13:49,062 --> 00:13:51,330 MIKE: [laughs] Okay, I'll‐ I got some really good chops in, 526 00:13:51,464 --> 00:13:53,099 just cut some amazing filets, 527 00:13:53,232 --> 00:13:55,001 he just cut the cheese back here. 528 00:13:55,134 --> 00:13:56,336 [group laughing] 529 00:13:56,469 --> 00:13:57,503 MIKE: Woo! 530 00:13:57,637 --> 00:13:59,138 God‐dang, dude! 531 00:13:59,272 --> 00:14:00,306 BRAD: Yeah, we'll pass on that. 532 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:01,240 MIKE: God‐dang! 533 00:14:01,374 --> 00:14:02,608 BRAD: Yeah, no thanks. 534 00:14:07,747 --> 00:14:08,815 MIKE: I want to see what the‐ I'm looking at 535 00:14:08,948 --> 00:14:10,883 the back of a counter here. 536 00:14:11,017 --> 00:14:12,852 I want to see what the front of this looks like. 537 00:14:12,985 --> 00:14:15,088 Yeah, you see, you got the change drawer right there. 538 00:14:15,221 --> 00:14:17,724 This has fallen down, it's dropped. 539 00:14:17,857 --> 00:14:19,425 BRAD: Yeah, the shelf's been around there... 540 00:14:19,559 --> 00:14:21,060 MIKE: Let's see here. 541 00:14:21,194 --> 00:14:23,529 MIKE: The counter is the command central for your store. 542 00:14:23,663 --> 00:14:26,099 And believe it or not, a lot of people would think something 543 00:14:26,232 --> 00:14:28,901 like this would be insignificant, but it's not. 544 00:14:29,035 --> 00:14:31,504 It's part of your aesthetic, it's part of your brand. 545 00:14:31,637 --> 00:14:33,740 When somebody walks into your store, 546 00:14:33,873 --> 00:14:35,842 you want them to feel a certain way. 547 00:14:35,975 --> 00:14:37,810 So it's the width of the counter, the depth of the 548 00:14:37,944 --> 00:14:39,912 counter, the height of the counter, what does the 549 00:14:40,046 --> 00:14:42,048 countertop look like, what does that paint on 550 00:14:42,181 --> 00:14:43,549 the front of the counter look like? 551 00:14:43,683 --> 00:14:45,418 MIKE: It's interesting, it's orange. 552 00:14:45,551 --> 00:14:46,886 ROBBIE: Yeah. It's got a great look to it. 553 00:14:47,019 --> 00:14:48,154 MIKE: Yeah. 554 00:14:48,287 --> 00:14:49,088 And then it's got the‐ the paint's starting to alligator, 555 00:14:49,222 --> 00:14:50,456 you know, just separate. 556 00:14:50,590 --> 00:14:52,125 MIKE: I'm seeing that age to it, 557 00:14:52,258 --> 00:14:53,860 I'm seeing all those boards cut up 558 00:14:53,993 --> 00:14:56,229 separately on the top of this thing, it's got‐ it's got a 559 00:14:56,362 --> 00:14:59,832 country store look, you know, but also kind of... 560 00:14:59,966 --> 00:15:01,934 I don't know, maybe a little Urban Outfitters, you know. 561 00:15:02,068 --> 00:15:04,203 I mean, it's got a, it's got a look to it, is what I'm saying. 562 00:15:04,337 --> 00:15:05,705 And that's why I want it. 563 00:15:05,838 --> 00:15:06,973 MIKE: Yeah. 564 00:15:07,106 --> 00:15:07,807 BRAD: I think this might have been the original checkout 565 00:15:07,940 --> 00:15:09,142 counter, I think. 566 00:15:09,275 --> 00:15:10,076 MIKE: Yeah, this is, this is, this is from that time period, 567 00:15:10,209 --> 00:15:11,177 or maybe even earlier. 568 00:15:11,310 --> 00:15:12,678 I mean, this could have been handed down from 569 00:15:12,812 --> 00:15:14,013 merchant to merchant here in town. 570 00:15:14,147 --> 00:15:15,214 BRAD: It probably was. 571 00:15:15,348 --> 00:15:17,083 It's‐ it's probably been in this building as long as 572 00:15:17,216 --> 00:15:19,285 the building's been built, would be my guess. 573 00:15:19,418 --> 00:15:22,622 MIKE: This, what's great about it is, is that it's a nice 574 00:15:22,755 --> 00:15:24,724 size, and the edges haven't been cut off. 575 00:15:24,857 --> 00:15:26,392 A lot of time these counters are really long, 576 00:15:26,526 --> 00:15:27,660 and they'll cut one edge off. 577 00:15:27,794 --> 00:15:29,061 BRUCE: Right. 578 00:15:29,195 --> 00:15:30,029 MIKE: And then they'll just put a piece of plywood on the side. 579 00:15:30,163 --> 00:15:33,166 Uh... 580 00:15:33,299 --> 00:15:34,801 600 bucks. 581 00:15:35,134 --> 00:15:35,935 BRUCE: Well, what do we want to do with those 582 00:15:36,068 --> 00:15:37,770 cabinets that's on top of it right now? 583 00:15:37,904 --> 00:15:38,871 You want to buy those too? 584 00:15:39,005 --> 00:15:39,906 MIKE: I was‐ I was hoping Robbie would buy them. 585 00:15:40,039 --> 00:15:40,606 BRUCE: Oh okay. 586 00:15:40,740 --> 00:15:41,607 MIKE: [chuckles] 587 00:15:41,741 --> 00:15:42,742 BRAD: Yeah. 588 00:15:42,875 --> 00:15:43,910 BRUCE: That's what we used as our display cases. 589 00:15:44,043 --> 00:15:45,444 ROBBIE: The good thing about these display cases are, 590 00:15:45,578 --> 00:15:46,746 they're intact. 591 00:15:46,879 --> 00:15:49,849 The glass is all there, the doors are on the back of them, 592 00:15:49,982 --> 00:15:52,018 and they're great for smalls. 593 00:15:52,151 --> 00:15:53,619 MIKE: Here you go. 594 00:15:53,753 --> 00:15:54,921 BRUCE: Ceramic cat. 595 00:15:55,054 --> 00:15:57,056 BRAD: Yeah, that, that we'll throw it in with the deal too. 596 00:15:57,190 --> 00:15:57,657 MIKE: [laughs] 597 00:15:57,790 --> 00:15:58,591 BRUCE: That's right. 598 00:15:58,724 --> 00:15:59,458 MIKE: You guys going to throw that in? 599 00:15:59,592 --> 00:15:59,959 BRUCE: Yeah, we'll throw that in. 600 00:16:00,092 --> 00:16:00,993 MIKE: Alright. 601 00:16:01,127 --> 00:16:02,762 ROBBIE: I'm thinking 200 bucks apiece, 400. 602 00:16:02,895 --> 00:16:04,430 BRAD: I think it'd be worth a little more than that, 603 00:16:04,564 --> 00:16:05,665 don't you think? 604 00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:07,567 250 apiece? 605 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:09,402 Might as well buy the whole thing, right? 606 00:16:09,535 --> 00:16:10,570 ROBBIE: 500 for the pair. 607 00:16:10,703 --> 00:16:11,337 BRAD: 5. 608 00:16:11,470 --> 00:16:12,238 ROBBIE: 250 apiece, right? 609 00:16:12,371 --> 00:16:13,272 BRAD: Okay yeah, yeah we can do that. 610 00:16:13,406 --> 00:16:14,273 ROBBIE: Yeah, we'll do it. Appreciate it. 611 00:16:14,407 --> 00:16:15,308 BRAD: Yeah I guess, I think that's fair. 612 00:16:15,441 --> 00:16:16,642 MIKE: Okay, now that Robbie bought these 2, 613 00:16:16,776 --> 00:16:17,910 where are youat with this? 614 00:16:18,044 --> 00:16:19,645 I think I offered 6. 615 00:16:20,179 --> 00:16:21,380 BRUCE: Shake his hand before he changes his mind. 616 00:16:21,514 --> 00:16:22,348 BRAD: Yeah, I think we can do that. 617 00:16:22,482 --> 00:16:23,683 MIKE: [laughs] Alright, man. 618 00:16:23,816 --> 00:16:25,451 BRAD: We're not big collectors, trinket guys. 619 00:16:25,585 --> 00:16:26,819 You know, we like guns. 620 00:16:26,953 --> 00:16:27,987 BRUCE: Right. 621 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:29,388 BRAD: We‐ we keep them locked in a gun safe, but... 622 00:16:29,522 --> 00:16:30,990 ROBBIE: Look at that. 623 00:16:31,290 --> 00:16:32,859 MIKE: 'Supertone Ragtime King.' 624 00:16:32,992 --> 00:16:35,061 [Mike playing out‐of‐tune banjo] 625 00:16:35,194 --> 00:16:35,795 MIKE: [laughs] 626 00:16:35,928 --> 00:16:37,230 [Robbie playing tambourine] 627 00:16:37,363 --> 00:16:38,397 BRAD: Yeah, we... got the hillbilly band going on. 628 00:16:38,531 --> 00:16:39,398 ROBBIE: You have the hillbilly band going on here? 629 00:16:39,532 --> 00:16:40,333 MIKE: Who played this? 630 00:16:40,466 --> 00:16:41,434 Did anybody in your family play this? 631 00:16:41,567 --> 00:16:42,502 Did Grandma play this? 632 00:16:42,635 --> 00:16:44,070 BRAD: We had a cousin who was the musician. 633 00:16:44,203 --> 00:16:46,172 None of us were very musically‐inclined. 634 00:16:46,305 --> 00:16:47,773 MIKE: 75 bucks. 635 00:16:47,907 --> 00:16:48,674 BRUCE: 90. 636 00:16:48,808 --> 00:16:49,876 MIKE: Alright, I'll do that. 637 00:16:54,146 --> 00:16:56,516 ♪ ♪ 638 00:16:56,649 --> 00:16:58,317 MIKE: So Robbie look it, this was all the original façade. 639 00:16:58,451 --> 00:17:00,119 So this was the outside of the building. 640 00:17:00,253 --> 00:17:01,420 BRAD: This was, yes. 641 00:17:01,554 --> 00:17:02,788 MIKE: When you walked up, he just pushed, he pushed this out. 642 00:17:02,922 --> 00:17:04,257 ROBBIE: He actually just built a wall there, Mike. 643 00:17:04,390 --> 00:17:05,024 Yeah. 644 00:17:05,157 --> 00:17:06,192 MIKE: That's what I'm saying. 645 00:17:06,325 --> 00:17:07,426 He pushed this out, he pushed this whole area out. 646 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:08,694 See... right there. 647 00:17:08,828 --> 00:17:10,029 BRAD: I think, I think Dad thought it was easier to cover 648 00:17:10,162 --> 00:17:12,798 it up than to try to‐ to scrape all this paint and redo it. 649 00:17:12,932 --> 00:17:14,033 MIKE: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 650 00:17:14,166 --> 00:17:15,401 BRAD: He just, he just thought it would be a faster... 651 00:17:15,534 --> 00:17:17,336 I think maybe our cousin that was helping him do it, 652 00:17:17,470 --> 00:17:18,905 they encouraged that a little bit. 653 00:17:19,038 --> 00:17:19,839 MIKE: Yeah, I love all that. 654 00:17:19,972 --> 00:17:21,140 I mean, that's a big transom window. 655 00:17:21,274 --> 00:17:23,542 BRAD: We have a window, it's back from when... 656 00:17:23,676 --> 00:17:26,145 Grandpa and his brothers were running 657 00:17:26,279 --> 00:17:27,713 this store as the Hunt Brothers. 658 00:17:27,847 --> 00:17:28,548 ROBBIE: Flip that over, Mike. 659 00:17:28,681 --> 00:17:29,582 MIKE: Right now... 660 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:30,550 ROBBIE: It says right here, look at that. 661 00:17:30,683 --> 00:17:31,183 BRAD: Hunt Brothers. 662 00:17:31,317 --> 00:17:32,318 MIKE: Wow. 663 00:17:32,451 --> 00:17:32,785 BRAD: That‐ that's our pride and joy right there. 664 00:17:32,919 --> 00:17:33,252 MIKE: Wow. 665 00:17:33,386 --> 00:17:34,387 BRUCE: Yeah. 666 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:35,154 BRAD: That was painted probably back in the '30s. 667 00:17:35,288 --> 00:17:36,355 ROBBIE: Look at that. 668 00:17:36,489 --> 00:17:37,023 BRAD: It's a miracle it didn't get busted out by... 669 00:17:37,156 --> 00:17:37,556 MIKE: Oh my God, yeah. 670 00:17:37,690 --> 00:17:38,624 ROBBIE: Wow. 671 00:17:38,758 --> 00:17:39,258 BRAD: ...one of these punks around here with 672 00:17:39,392 --> 00:17:40,026 a rock or something. 673 00:17:40,159 --> 00:17:40,493 BRUCE: Rock, or something. 674 00:17:40,626 --> 00:17:41,527 MIKE: Yeah. 675 00:17:41,661 --> 00:17:42,194 BRAD: And everybody came in and out of here, 676 00:17:42,328 --> 00:17:43,129 this is for the shop. 677 00:17:43,262 --> 00:17:44,163 Especially if you lived on the street. 678 00:17:44,297 --> 00:17:44,897 MIKE: This is where they got their Adidos. 679 00:17:45,031 --> 00:17:46,599 BRAD: You did, yeah. 680 00:17:46,732 --> 00:17:48,434 [group laughing] 681 00:17:48,568 --> 00:17:50,303 MIKE: Sometimes, no matter where you live, 682 00:17:50,436 --> 00:17:52,071 it never feels like home. 683 00:17:52,204 --> 00:17:55,574 Imagine if you had the opportunity to go back, 684 00:17:55,708 --> 00:17:59,779 to a building, to a farm, to a place, that still exists. 685 00:17:59,912 --> 00:18:01,580 Would you take that chance? 686 00:18:01,714 --> 00:18:02,915 That's what they're willing to do. 687 00:18:03,049 --> 00:18:06,319 They want to take this space, and convert it into something 688 00:18:06,452 --> 00:18:08,621 that connects them as brothers, 689 00:18:08,754 --> 00:18:11,958 but also it's connecting them to their past. 690 00:18:12,091 --> 00:18:13,859 BRUCE: Actually, this originally was where we 691 00:18:13,993 --> 00:18:16,329 kept all the appliances and things like that. 692 00:18:16,462 --> 00:18:18,965 That whole room over there was where the dry goods were, 693 00:18:19,098 --> 00:18:21,267 where we kept the jeans and blah‐blah‐blah, whatever. 694 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:22,301 MIKE: You guys sold jeans here? 695 00:18:22,435 --> 00:18:23,703 Do you have any more of that stuff here? 696 00:18:23,836 --> 00:18:24,704 Like do you have any dead‐stock? 697 00:18:24,837 --> 00:18:25,738 Any new‐old stock stuff? 698 00:18:25,871 --> 00:18:26,906 BRUCE: Ahh... 699 00:18:27,039 --> 00:18:28,341 I think there's some boxes of some jeans upstairs. 700 00:18:28,474 --> 00:18:29,709 I mean... 701 00:18:29,842 --> 00:18:31,010 MIKE: How old are those, do you know what kind of age they have? 702 00:18:31,143 --> 00:18:31,677 BRUCE: No idea. 703 00:18:31,811 --> 00:18:32,545 BRAD: Oh God. 704 00:18:32,678 --> 00:18:33,379 ROBBIE: Can we take a look at it? 705 00:18:33,512 --> 00:18:34,113 MIKE: Can we look at that stuff? 706 00:18:34,246 --> 00:18:34,347 BRAD & BRUCE: Yeah sure. 707 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:35,448 ROBBIE: Alright. 708 00:18:36,048 --> 00:18:37,049 BRUCE: Back in the corner. 709 00:18:37,183 --> 00:18:39,585 Yeah, there's this, boxes full of them here. 710 00:18:39,719 --> 00:18:41,887 They're... they're bell bottoms. 711 00:18:42,021 --> 00:18:43,356 MIKE: Man, that does got a bell on it, 712 00:18:43,489 --> 00:18:44,423 don't it... look at that. 713 00:18:44,557 --> 00:18:45,925 BRUCE: They're not, they're not even hemmed. 714 00:18:46,058 --> 00:18:47,693 MIKE: 28‐regular. 715 00:18:47,827 --> 00:18:49,295 ROBBIE: There's 12 ‐pair in each box. 716 00:18:49,428 --> 00:18:50,730 MIKE: Yeah, it says here, 12‐pair. 717 00:18:50,863 --> 00:18:52,565 Uh... made in Puerto Rico. 718 00:18:52,698 --> 00:18:54,533 MIKE: These ain't your mama's, or your grandma's 719 00:18:54,667 --> 00:18:56,002 bell bottom jeans. 720 00:18:56,135 --> 00:18:59,305 They started out life as that, but now they are high‐waisted 721 00:18:59,438 --> 00:19:02,108 raw denim, brand new, never touched by 722 00:19:02,241 --> 00:19:04,710 human hands vintage denim! 723 00:19:04,844 --> 00:19:07,246 BRUCE: Uh, here's like a 30‐XL. 724 00:19:07,380 --> 00:19:08,414 MIKE: Okay, so there are different sizes. 725 00:19:08,547 --> 00:19:09,682 BRUCE: Yeah, there's different‐ 726 00:19:09,815 --> 00:19:10,783 MIKE: So this, to me, this tag right here looks like it's 727 00:19:10,916 --> 00:19:12,818 military surplus. 728 00:19:12,952 --> 00:19:14,353 BRAD: I, I think it is military surplus. 729 00:19:14,487 --> 00:19:16,522 BRAD: I think it came from an auction. 730 00:19:16,656 --> 00:19:19,091 It may have been brought in here to be resold. 731 00:19:19,225 --> 00:19:21,227 It never quite made it to the sales floor, I guess. 732 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:22,495 [laughs] It's up in the attic. 733 00:19:34,206 --> 00:19:35,307 MIKE: And they're dated '87. 734 00:19:35,441 --> 00:19:36,108 BRAD: 11, '87. 735 00:19:36,242 --> 00:19:36,609 BRUCE: Okay. 736 00:19:36,742 --> 00:19:37,410 ROBBIE: Yeah. 737 00:19:37,543 --> 00:19:38,377 BRAD: They're not that old. 738 00:19:38,511 --> 00:19:39,445 MIKE: '87, they're made in Puerto Rico. 739 00:19:39,578 --> 00:19:40,246 ROBBIE: Yeah, I think they're all the same. 740 00:19:40,379 --> 00:19:41,247 MIKE: They all have some value. 741 00:19:41,380 --> 00:19:42,515 I mean, they're not real ol, they're 1987. 742 00:19:42,648 --> 00:19:43,816 BRAD: Right, yeah. 743 00:19:43,949 --> 00:19:45,584 MIKE: Obviously. But the cut is interesting, a bell bottom, 744 00:19:45,718 --> 00:19:46,052 you know. 745 00:19:46,185 --> 00:19:46,552 BRAD: Yeah. 746 00:19:46,686 --> 00:19:47,520 ROBBIE: Right. 747 00:19:47,653 --> 00:19:48,821 MIKE: I mean, those are hot right now. 748 00:19:48,954 --> 00:19:50,156 MIKE: The champagne problem here is, is that there's just 749 00:19:50,289 --> 00:19:53,125 so many of them. I mean, you're talking long game on these, 750 00:19:53,259 --> 00:19:54,593 unless you're going to wholesale them. 751 00:19:54,727 --> 00:19:56,762 And that's what I'm already starting to think about in 752 00:19:56,896 --> 00:20:00,666 my mind, because I'm looking at the sheer volume, man. 753 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:02,535 I mean, there's 12 ‐pair, 2 a box, 754 00:20:02,668 --> 00:20:04,804 and I don't even know how many boxes are here. 755 00:20:04,937 --> 00:20:07,073 You know, you see something like this, you understand what 756 00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:09,408 it is, you want to bring it back into the world, 757 00:20:09,542 --> 00:20:11,210 so people can appreciate them. 758 00:20:11,343 --> 00:20:12,044 MIKE: Alright. 759 00:20:12,178 --> 00:20:14,547 17 boxes, you got 12‐pair per box. 760 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,048 BRUCE: A little over 200 of them. 761 00:20:16,182 --> 00:20:18,350 MIKE: Alright. And you got 2 sizes. 762 00:20:18,484 --> 00:20:18,951 BRUCE: 2 different sizes. 763 00:20:19,085 --> 00:20:20,086 The only thing is... 764 00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:21,520 MIKE: The thing is, okay for me, you know I mean... 765 00:20:21,654 --> 00:20:23,355 they need to be sold to like a vintage shop. 766 00:20:23,489 --> 00:20:24,490 ROBBIE: Yeah. 767 00:20:24,623 --> 00:20:25,658 MIKE: You know, somebody that's got a retail store‐ 768 00:20:25,791 --> 00:20:27,026 ROBBIE: That can alter them. 769 00:20:27,159 --> 00:20:28,327 MIKE: ‐that can deal with that type of volume, 770 00:20:28,461 --> 00:20:29,495 because there's only 2 sizes. 771 00:20:29,628 --> 00:20:30,896 There's 28s and there's 30s. 772 00:20:31,030 --> 00:20:31,597 BRAD: Right. 773 00:20:31,730 --> 00:20:32,431 BRUCE: 30s. 774 00:20:32,565 --> 00:20:32,898 MIKE: You know, and that's it. 775 00:20:33,032 --> 00:20:34,266 BRAD: Right. 776 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:35,301 MIKE: So, and then they got to, I mean, this is a lifetime... 777 00:20:35,434 --> 00:20:36,402 ROBBIE: Haul... 778 00:20:36,535 --> 00:20:37,636 BRUCE: Supply. 779 00:20:37,770 --> 00:20:40,139 MIKE: It's a lifetime supply of this one pair of pant. 780 00:20:40,272 --> 00:20:41,373 ROBBIE: Yeah. 781 00:20:41,507 --> 00:20:42,842 MIKE: Right, I‐ I mean, I just, I just don't feel like 782 00:20:42,975 --> 00:20:44,009 I'm the guy to buy them all. 783 00:20:44,143 --> 00:20:45,978 I could buy like, I'd buy this stack, maybe off you. 784 00:20:46,112 --> 00:20:47,947 BRUCE: I mean, we want rid of them, 785 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,882 me or Brad can't get our fat butts in them, 786 00:20:50,015 --> 00:20:51,083 so they're of no use to us. 787 00:20:51,250 --> 00:20:52,084 BRAD: Right. 788 00:20:52,218 --> 00:20:54,520 BRUCE: I'd rather Mike just take it all. 789 00:20:54,653 --> 00:20:56,789 I mean, other than 3 or 4 boxes, because I mean, 790 00:20:56,922 --> 00:20:58,657 what are we going to do with it? 791 00:20:58,791 --> 00:21:00,192 BRAD: It‐ it maybe end up being the hottest 792 00:21:00,326 --> 00:21:01,527 item ever to hit the internet. 793 00:21:01,660 --> 00:21:02,628 BRUCE: [laughs] Yeah. 794 00:21:02,762 --> 00:21:03,562 BRAD: You never know. 795 00:21:03,696 --> 00:21:04,830 BRUCE: 400 bucks for all of them and you, 796 00:21:04,964 --> 00:21:07,500 that throws you in 4 ‐pair for free. 797 00:21:07,766 --> 00:21:08,367 MIKE: Alright, alright, alright. 798 00:21:08,501 --> 00:21:09,001 BRAD: Alright, that works. 799 00:21:09,135 --> 00:21:10,302 BRUCE: Alright. 800 00:21:10,436 --> 00:21:11,971 MIKE: A good pair of jeans is like a good leather jacket. 801 00:21:12,104 --> 00:21:13,939 Okay, a good pair of leather boots. 802 00:21:14,073 --> 00:21:16,475 I mean, the more you wear it, the more relationship you have, 803 00:21:16,609 --> 00:21:18,210 the more broke down they are. 804 00:21:18,344 --> 00:21:21,380 And the rips and the scars and the paint and all that, 805 00:21:21,514 --> 00:21:23,482 man, it just becomes part of your story. 806 00:21:23,616 --> 00:21:26,552 You know, each pair of jeans here is going 807 00:21:26,685 --> 00:21:28,120 to mean something to somebody. 808 00:21:28,687 --> 00:21:29,255 ROBBIE: Oh. 809 00:21:29,388 --> 00:21:30,356 MIKE: Woo! 810 00:21:30,489 --> 00:21:32,158 Alright, I'm in the denim business. 811 00:21:32,291 --> 00:21:32,725 BRUCE: Yes you are. 812 00:21:32,858 --> 00:21:33,826 BRAD: Yes you are. 813 00:21:33,959 --> 00:21:34,994 ROBBIE: Throw them in there. 814 00:21:35,127 --> 00:21:36,028 BRAD: We knew this day would come sooner or later, 815 00:21:36,162 --> 00:21:37,863 where we just have to thin some stuff out, 816 00:21:37,997 --> 00:21:39,498 and we just can't keep everything. 817 00:21:39,632 --> 00:21:42,301 And we're glad that it's going to guys who will repurpose 818 00:21:42,434 --> 00:21:44,336 it and get it into the hands of other people 819 00:21:44,470 --> 00:21:45,204 who will appreciate it. 820 00:21:45,337 --> 00:21:46,205 BRUCE: And will enjoy it, yeah. 821 00:21:46,338 --> 00:21:48,541 ROBBIE: Man. What a day. 822 00:21:48,674 --> 00:21:49,341 MIKE: Thank you, brother. 823 00:21:49,475 --> 00:21:50,643 BRUCE: You're welcome, my man. 824 00:21:50,776 --> 00:21:51,610 MIKE: Appreciate you sharing your family's history with us. 825 00:21:51,744 --> 00:21:52,244 BRAD: Yeah, thank you for coming, yeah. 826 00:21:52,378 --> 00:21:52,778 BRUCE: You're welcome. 827 00:21:52,912 --> 00:21:53,779 MIKE: Absolutely. 828 00:21:53,913 --> 00:21:54,413 Robbie's going to send you a picture of that 829 00:21:54,547 --> 00:21:54,947 sign when it's done. 830 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:55,548 ROBBIE: I will. 831 00:21:55,681 --> 00:21:56,315 BRUCE: Alright, I... 832 00:21:56,448 --> 00:21:56,782 BRAD: Yeah, yeah, fantastic. 833 00:21:56,916 --> 00:21:57,550 We really... 834 00:21:57,683 --> 00:21:58,150 ROBBIE: Appreciate you guys. 835 00:21:58,284 --> 00:21:59,385 Thank you so much. 836 00:21:59,518 --> 00:22:00,452 ROBBIE: The history that these 2 brothers have with this 837 00:22:00,586 --> 00:22:02,221 community, and the stories that they told us, 838 00:22:02,354 --> 00:22:04,123 they're going to live on forever. 839 00:22:04,256 --> 00:22:05,591 MIKE: Keep on keepin' on. 840 00:22:05,724 --> 00:22:06,559 BRAD: We really proud of this town, this whole town, you know. 841 00:22:06,692 --> 00:22:07,493 We‐ we grew up here and... 842 00:22:07,626 --> 00:22:08,594 we're hoping to make it better too. 843 00:22:08,727 --> 00:22:10,262 MIKE: We're all here to take care of each other. 844 00:22:10,396 --> 00:22:10,996 BRAD: That's right, my friend. 845 00:22:11,130 --> 00:22:11,497 ROBBIE: That's it. 846 00:22:11,630 --> 00:22:12,131 MIKE: Alright. 847 00:22:12,264 --> 00:22:13,199 BRUCE: Y'all be safe. 848 00:22:13,332 --> 00:22:13,666 BRAD: You guys take care, appreciate ya, yep. 849 00:22:13,799 --> 00:22:14,733 [honks horn] 850 00:22:15,201 --> 00:22:16,902 ROBBIE: Thanks guys, catch you later. 851 00:22:17,036 --> 00:22:18,304 BRAD: See you guys, thanks. 852 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,077 ♪ ♪ ♪ 853 00:22:25,211 --> 00:22:26,946 [phone ringing] 854 00:22:27,079 --> 00:22:28,147 MIKE: Oh here's Danielle calling. 855 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:28,881 ROBBIE: Yeah. 856 00:22:29,014 --> 00:22:29,648 MIKE: Dani D, what's up? 857 00:22:29,782 --> 00:22:30,716 ROBBIE: Whaddup, Dani? 858 00:22:30,850 --> 00:22:32,518 DANIELLE: Okay guys, are you ready for the 859 00:22:32,651 --> 00:22:34,119 mother of all leads? 860 00:22:34,253 --> 00:22:35,087 MIKE: [laughs] 861 00:22:35,221 --> 00:22:35,888 ROBBIE: Yeah? 862 00:22:36,021 --> 00:22:37,156 MIKE: Yeah, hit us with it. 863 00:22:37,289 --> 00:22:39,425 DANIELLE: You're on your way to meet a guy named Jeff. 864 00:22:39,558 --> 00:22:41,360 He's a retired electric wholesaler, 865 00:22:41,493 --> 00:22:43,862 but he has a passion for coin‐op scales. 866 00:22:43,996 --> 00:22:45,130 MIKE: Okay. 867 00:22:45,264 --> 00:22:47,066 DANIELLE: So for the last 40 years, this dude has picked 868 00:22:47,199 --> 00:22:48,734 every scale he could. 869 00:22:48,868 --> 00:22:50,936 And I just sent Robbie a list of the scales that he 870 00:22:51,070 --> 00:22:53,372 is definitely interested in selling. 871 00:22:53,505 --> 00:22:54,673 MIKE: Does he have lollipop scales? 872 00:22:54,807 --> 00:22:55,474 DANIELLE: Yep. 873 00:22:55,608 --> 00:22:56,442 MIKE: Advertising scales? 874 00:22:56,575 --> 00:22:57,376 DANIELLE: Yeah. 875 00:22:57,509 --> 00:22:58,544 MIKE: Floor model scales? 876 00:22:58,677 --> 00:22:59,411 DANIELLE: Indeed. 877 00:22:59,545 --> 00:23:00,613 MIKE: Countertop scales? 878 00:23:00,746 --> 00:23:01,714 DANIELLE: Abso‐tutely. 879 00:23:01,847 --> 00:23:02,781 ROBBIE: Produce scales? 880 00:23:02,915 --> 00:23:03,882 MIKE: Character scales? 881 00:23:04,016 --> 00:23:05,985 DANIELLE: Yeah, I mean, he has all the scales. 882 00:23:06,118 --> 00:23:07,453 I mean, this guy has more scales than a 883 00:23:07,586 --> 00:23:09,788 West Virginia rattlesnake, he's got scales. 884 00:23:09,922 --> 00:23:11,523 ROBBIE: Man, this guy must be a bruiser. 885 00:23:11,657 --> 00:23:13,859 I mean, he must be built like, I mean, holy cow, 886 00:23:13,993 --> 00:23:16,161 those things weigh like a gas pump. 887 00:23:16,295 --> 00:23:17,062 MIKE: Alright, we're on it. 888 00:23:17,196 --> 00:23:17,863 ROBBIE: We're on it. 889 00:23:17,997 --> 00:23:18,497 MIKE: Send us the coordinates. 890 00:23:18,631 --> 00:23:19,865 Hey, I'm excited! 891 00:23:19,999 --> 00:23:21,433 ROBBIE: My back's hurting already, Dani. 892 00:23:21,567 --> 00:23:23,502 DANIELLE: Alright, you guys be careful out there. 893 00:23:23,636 --> 00:23:24,436 MIKE: Alright, bye, thank you. 894 00:23:29,141 --> 00:23:32,578 ♪ ♪ 895 00:23:32,711 --> 00:23:33,712 MIKE: Alright here, we're coming up on this place, 896 00:23:33,846 --> 00:23:34,747 it says. 897 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,515 ROBBIE: Yeah, it's up here on the right. 898 00:23:37,483 --> 00:23:38,851 MIKE: Oh man, this is cool back here. 899 00:23:38,984 --> 00:23:40,152 Look at that Sinclair sign. 900 00:23:40,286 --> 00:23:41,253 ROBBIE: Ha! 901 00:23:41,387 --> 00:23:43,622 MIKE: See? He's got something besides a scale. 902 00:23:43,756 --> 00:23:45,291 MIKE: He's got a Sinclair sign. ROBBIE: Yeah. 903 00:23:45,424 --> 00:23:46,859 MIKE: You got to get a flyer. ROBBIE: Right here. 904 00:23:46,992 --> 00:23:48,260 MIKE: Alrighty. 905 00:23:52,798 --> 00:23:54,333 ROBBIE: What? 906 00:23:54,466 --> 00:23:55,601 MIKE: Hey‐hey! 907 00:23:55,734 --> 00:23:57,303 JEFF: [faintly] Hello! Back here. 908 00:23:59,571 --> 00:24:00,572 MIKE: Jeff. 909 00:24:00,706 --> 00:24:01,940 ROBBIE: Jeff. 910 00:24:02,374 --> 00:24:03,442 MIKE: Lordy! 911 00:24:03,575 --> 00:24:06,312 ROBBIE: Man, Dani wasn't kidding about you having scales. 912 00:24:06,445 --> 00:24:07,913 MIKE: [laughs] 913 00:24:08,047 --> 00:24:08,881 JEFF: I have a few. 914 00:24:09,014 --> 00:24:10,349 MIKE: Yes you do! 915 00:24:10,482 --> 00:24:11,183 ROBBIE: Just a few, I'd say. 916 00:24:11,317 --> 00:24:11,717 MIKE: What's going on? 917 00:24:11,850 --> 00:24:12,251 I'm Mike. 918 00:24:12,384 --> 00:24:13,052 JEFF: Hi there. 919 00:24:13,185 --> 00:24:13,786 MIKE: This is my brother, Robbie. 920 00:24:13,919 --> 00:24:14,453 ROBBIE: How're you doing? 921 00:24:14,586 --> 00:24:14,987 JEFF: Hi, how are ya? 922 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:15,621 Nice to meet you. 923 00:24:15,754 --> 00:24:16,255 ROBBIE: Good to see you. 924 00:24:16,388 --> 00:24:16,455 MIKE: Here's a flyer. 925 00:24:17,389 --> 00:24:17,956 MIKE: She probably talked about this, 926 00:24:18,090 --> 00:24:18,424 but... see right there. 927 00:24:18,557 --> 00:24:18,958 JEFF: Yep. 928 00:24:19,091 --> 00:24:19,525 ROBBIE: Scales. 929 00:24:19,658 --> 00:24:20,025 MIKE: Scales. 930 00:24:20,159 --> 00:24:20,826 JEFF: Yep. 931 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:22,494 You start with one. And then... 932 00:24:22,628 --> 00:24:23,862 MIKE: [chuckles] Yeah. 933 00:24:23,996 --> 00:24:25,664 JEFF: ...one leads to another, and to another, and to another. 934 00:24:25,798 --> 00:24:28,233 JEFF: What I collect are coin‐operated scales. 935 00:24:28,367 --> 00:24:31,170 The kind you stand on and weigh yourself for a penny. 936 00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:34,206 They were real popular in the early 1900s. 937 00:24:34,340 --> 00:24:37,743 They were in train stations, bus depots, drug stores, 938 00:24:37,876 --> 00:24:41,347 on the sidewalk, near the markets, everywhere. 939 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:42,781 JEFF: That's the first scale I bought. 940 00:24:42,915 --> 00:24:43,749 ROBBIE: That's it right there. 941 00:24:43,882 --> 00:24:44,550 JEFF: Yep. 942 00:24:44,683 --> 00:24:45,351 MIKE: Is that original face? 943 00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:46,151 JEFF: No. 944 00:24:46,285 --> 00:24:47,353 I had to reproduce that face. 945 00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:49,755 MIKE: Oh so you bought it and then you restored it. 946 00:24:49,888 --> 00:24:50,889 JEFF: Correct. 947 00:24:51,023 --> 00:24:53,258 MIKE: I've always loved and appreciated the guy 948 00:24:53,392 --> 00:24:55,728 that collects just one thing. 949 00:24:55,861 --> 00:24:59,098 Okay because, if anybody's ever looking for a part for a scale, 950 00:24:59,231 --> 00:25:01,734 or they want information on a scale, or they want a scale 951 00:25:01,867 --> 00:25:05,371 restored ‐ this is the guy behind the scenes 952 00:25:05,504 --> 00:25:06,605 that you contact. 953 00:25:06,739 --> 00:25:08,040 MIKE: I'm sorry, I'm looking around, man, 954 00:25:08,173 --> 00:25:08,707 I'm just kind of like... 955 00:25:08,841 --> 00:25:09,208 ROBBIE: I'm just, yeah. 956 00:25:09,341 --> 00:25:10,576 JEFF: Yeah. 957 00:25:10,709 --> 00:25:11,710 MIKE: ...I've never, I mean, I've‐ I've seen most of these 958 00:25:11,844 --> 00:25:13,145 scales, but I've never seen so many in one space. 959 00:25:13,278 --> 00:25:13,779 ROBBIE: In one‐ yeah. 960 00:25:13,912 --> 00:25:14,446 JEFF: That's... yeah. 961 00:25:14,580 --> 00:25:15,848 MIKE: Jeff is that guy. 962 00:25:15,981 --> 00:25:19,151 He planted his flag a long time ago, for one reason or another, 963 00:25:19,284 --> 00:25:23,856 and said, I love scales, I'm devoting my life to scales. 964 00:25:23,989 --> 00:25:25,924 Today is going to be a learning experience for Robbie and 965 00:25:26,058 --> 00:25:30,262 I because, we are talking to the Sultan of Scales. 966 00:25:30,396 --> 00:25:32,398 JEFF: Mainly, I like big head Watlings. 967 00:25:32,531 --> 00:25:34,433 Watling was a manufacturer out of Chicago. 968 00:25:34,566 --> 00:25:35,667 MIKE: Okay. 969 00:25:35,801 --> 00:25:37,870 JEFF: I like this particular style, because they're big, 970 00:25:38,003 --> 00:25:39,438 you see the mechanism. 971 00:25:39,571 --> 00:25:41,507 MIKE: But for example though, if they put any kind of 972 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,942 advertising on this glass in the center... 973 00:25:44,076 --> 00:25:45,177 JEFF: Um‐hm. 974 00:25:45,310 --> 00:25:45,744 MIKE: ...like that one you can see that's faded out... 975 00:25:45,878 --> 00:25:46,979 JEFF: Right. 976 00:25:47,112 --> 00:25:48,814 MIKE: ...then you're really covering up the mechanism. 977 00:25:48,947 --> 00:25:49,648 JEFF: Some of it, yes. 978 00:25:49,782 --> 00:25:50,916 But you still see... 979 00:25:51,050 --> 00:25:51,784 ROBBIE: See. 980 00:25:51,917 --> 00:25:53,052 JEFF: The, the weights move... 981 00:25:53,185 --> 00:25:53,886 MIKE: Okay. 982 00:25:54,019 --> 00:25:54,953 JEFF: ...and‐ and the motion. 983 00:25:55,087 --> 00:25:57,156 JEFF: It was a big, big business back then, 984 00:25:57,289 --> 00:25:58,323 at a penny a weigh. 985 00:25:58,457 --> 00:26:00,392 There's big companies that made them, there's small 986 00:26:00,526 --> 00:26:02,961 companies that made them, different gimmicks. 987 00:26:03,095 --> 00:26:06,064 Whether it'd be astrology, be guess your weight. 988 00:26:06,198 --> 00:26:07,433 MIKE: So I see this one says chimes. 989 00:26:07,566 --> 00:26:08,634 What does this do, this actually... 990 00:26:08,767 --> 00:26:09,535 makes music? 991 00:26:09,668 --> 00:26:10,669 JEFF: Okay. 992 00:26:10,803 --> 00:26:12,704 What that did is... if the penny bounced through. 993 00:26:12,838 --> 00:26:13,338 [chimes sounding] 994 00:26:13,472 --> 00:26:15,941 MIKE: That's awesome. 995 00:26:16,074 --> 00:26:17,276 ROBBIE: Huh. 996 00:26:17,409 --> 00:26:18,811 JEFF: And the operators loved it, because it was mechanical. 997 00:26:18,944 --> 00:26:19,978 MIKE & ROBBIE: Yeah. 998 00:26:20,112 --> 00:26:21,647 JEFF: People, even if they got their penny back... 999 00:26:21,780 --> 00:26:23,015 ROBBIE: They'd put it back in. 1000 00:26:23,148 --> 00:26:24,082 JEFF: ...they'd‐ they'd put it back in, 1001 00:26:24,216 --> 00:26:25,617 because they want to hear the chime. 1002 00:26:25,751 --> 00:26:26,852 MIKE: Oh okay, yeah. 1003 00:26:26,985 --> 00:26:29,321 MIKE: It's so interesting to talk to Jeff and learn the 1004 00:26:29,455 --> 00:26:32,491 psychology behind the design of the scales. 1005 00:26:32,624 --> 00:26:34,893 They knew that they had to up the ante. 1006 00:26:35,027 --> 00:26:37,796 You know, they knew that they had to step up their game if 1007 00:26:37,930 --> 00:26:39,398 they were going to get the coin out of your pocket. 1008 00:26:39,531 --> 00:26:42,935 Every time that retailer heard that chime ‐ ding, ding, ding 1009 00:26:43,068 --> 00:26:44,470 ‐ is like, just made [snaps fingers] 1010 00:26:44,603 --> 00:26:45,671 2‐ and‐ a‐ half cents. 1011 00:26:45,804 --> 00:26:47,139 MIKE: You know, but that was a lot of money back then. 1012 00:26:47,272 --> 00:26:48,574 I mean, think about it, for a nickel, you could 1013 00:26:48,707 --> 00:26:50,809 have like 2 huge handfuls of candy. 1014 00:26:50,943 --> 00:26:54,012 I found old signs before which says, 'hamburger, a nickel.' 1015 00:26:54,146 --> 00:26:57,282 It doesn't sound like a lot of money, but it really added up. 1016 00:26:57,416 --> 00:26:58,817 MIKE: Well, you got some soda stuff. 1017 00:26:58,951 --> 00:27:00,786 You got some Coca‐Cola, some Royal Crown. 1018 00:27:00,919 --> 00:27:02,020 ROBBIE: You got some clocks. 1019 00:27:02,154 --> 00:27:03,255 JEFF: Yep. 1020 00:27:03,388 --> 00:27:04,389 MIKE: Okay, so you're taking this apart to restore it. 1021 00:27:04,523 --> 00:27:06,558 JEFF: The motor needs to be replaced on that one. 1022 00:27:06,692 --> 00:27:07,426 MIKE: Okay. 1023 00:27:07,559 --> 00:27:08,527 JEFF: And then put together. 1024 00:27:08,660 --> 00:27:09,661 ROBBIE: Yeah, these are all Cleveland clocks. 1025 00:27:09,795 --> 00:27:11,029 MIKE: I like the black face, I think better with 1026 00:27:11,163 --> 00:27:13,365 the cream colored numerals. 1027 00:27:13,499 --> 00:27:16,134 ROBBIE: Any collector out there that has advertising, 1028 00:27:16,268 --> 00:27:18,504 is always looking for a Cleveland clock. 1029 00:27:18,637 --> 00:27:21,340 They were on dealerships, they were on ice cream places, 1030 00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:23,208 they were in movie theaters. 1031 00:27:23,342 --> 00:27:25,744 It had an advertising marquee on the top of it. 1032 00:27:25,878 --> 00:27:26,845 ROBBIE: Yep, green and pink. 1033 00:27:26,979 --> 00:27:27,679 MIKE: Ooh, that's cool. 1034 00:27:27,813 --> 00:27:28,847 ROBBIE: Yeah, green and pink. 1035 00:27:28,981 --> 00:27:30,415 ROBBIE: It was all about the advertising. 1036 00:27:30,549 --> 00:27:32,217 And the neon made it stand out. 1037 00:27:32,351 --> 00:27:34,052 ROBBIE: Danielle said you had a list... 1038 00:27:34,186 --> 00:27:35,020 JEFF: Yeah. 1039 00:27:35,154 --> 00:27:35,787 ROBBIE: ...of stuff that was for sale. 1040 00:27:35,921 --> 00:27:37,990 JEFF: I have a list. Uh... 1041 00:27:38,123 --> 00:27:39,024 ROBBIE: Was this on the list? 1042 00:27:39,158 --> 00:27:41,193 JEFF: No... but that doesn't mean... 1043 00:27:41,326 --> 00:27:42,227 ROBBIE: ...it's not for sale? 1044 00:27:42,361 --> 00:27:43,795 JEFF: Doesn't mean it's not for sale. 1045 00:27:43,929 --> 00:27:44,830 ROBBIE: You said that... 1046 00:27:44,963 --> 00:27:46,131 and it doesn't look like the motor's working? 1047 00:27:46,265 --> 00:27:47,533 JEFF: Just needs a motor, I think. 1048 00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:49,868 ROBBIE: Okay. 800. 1049 00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:55,507 JEFF: More like 1,000. 1050 00:27:56,208 --> 00:27:58,644 ROBBIE: Settle at 900. It's a project. 1051 00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:00,812 JEFF: Yep. 1052 00:28:00,946 --> 00:28:01,580 ROBBIE: 900? 1053 00:28:01,713 --> 00:28:02,514 JEFF: Yeah. I can do 900. 1054 00:28:02,648 --> 00:28:04,049 ROBBIE: Alright. Appreciate it. Thanks. 1055 00:28:04,182 --> 00:28:04,950 JEFF: Sure. 1056 00:28:05,117 --> 00:28:06,218 JEFF: I bought them at a good price. 1057 00:28:06,351 --> 00:28:08,287 I made a few dollars, he's going to make a few dollars, 1058 00:28:08,420 --> 00:28:09,721 everybody's happy. 1059 00:28:09,988 --> 00:28:11,690 JEFF: I've got the... headlight tester. 1060 00:28:11,823 --> 00:28:12,658 MIKE: Oh yeah. 1061 00:28:12,791 --> 00:28:13,492 ROBBIE: This thing looks like a robot. 1062 00:28:13,625 --> 00:28:14,593 JEFF: It does, doesn't it? Yeah. 1063 00:28:14,726 --> 00:28:16,695 MIKE: War of the Worlds. Is this original paint? 1064 00:28:16,828 --> 00:28:18,463 JEFF: That's original, and you would, you know, 1065 00:28:18,597 --> 00:28:19,598 the car would come up here... 1066 00:28:19,731 --> 00:28:20,866 MIKE: Yeah, yeah. 1067 00:28:20,999 --> 00:28:22,200 JEFF: ...and they'd put the headlight, you know, back in 1068 00:28:22,334 --> 00:28:23,368 then, I mean you remember, when I was a kid, you'd be driving 1069 00:28:23,502 --> 00:28:25,437 down the highway, and people's headlights... 1070 00:28:25,571 --> 00:28:27,606 MIKE: Yeah, one's like in the tree, [laughs] yeah. 1071 00:28:27,739 --> 00:28:28,607 JEFF: One would be, one here, an another one... 1072 00:28:28,740 --> 00:28:29,474 MIKE: Hey, I still drive cars like that. 1073 00:28:29,608 --> 00:28:30,709 ROBBIE: I still drive cars, yeah. 1074 00:28:30,842 --> 00:28:32,311 MIKE: What I love about stuff from this era, is that it 1075 00:28:32,444 --> 00:28:35,480 wasn't just about being utilitarian and being useful, 1076 00:28:35,614 --> 00:28:37,482 it was also beautiful. 1077 00:28:37,616 --> 00:28:40,919 The design, the aesthetic, streamline, airflow. 1078 00:28:41,053 --> 00:28:43,388 All of that bled into so many different industries. 1079 00:28:43,522 --> 00:28:46,058 From the automotive industry, to the‐ to aeronautics, 1080 00:28:46,191 --> 00:28:48,260 to railroads, to motorcycles. 1081 00:28:48,393 --> 00:28:50,929 And even pieces that were in your own home. 1082 00:28:51,063 --> 00:28:52,831 It's just a time in America that's never 1083 00:28:52,965 --> 00:28:54,299 going to come again, man. 1084 00:28:54,433 --> 00:28:57,436 And we were setting the bar for the rest of the world. 1085 00:28:57,569 --> 00:29:01,106 Everybody was emulating what we were doing. 1086 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,240 MIKE: What do you value this at? 1087 00:29:02,374 --> 00:29:03,809 JEFF: Um... 450. 1088 00:29:03,942 --> 00:29:05,644 MIKE: I love it. I mean, we‐ we both got‐ 1089 00:29:05,777 --> 00:29:06,612 JEFF: It's a great piece. 1090 00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:07,179 MIKE: We've both got older buildings... 1091 00:29:07,312 --> 00:29:07,713 JEFF: Um‐hm. 1092 00:29:07,846 --> 00:29:08,513 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1093 00:29:08,647 --> 00:29:09,248 MIKE: ...that serviced cars. 1094 00:29:09,381 --> 00:29:10,382 JEFF: Yeah. 1095 00:29:10,515 --> 00:29:11,183 MIKE: You know, whether it's a car dealership or 1096 00:29:11,316 --> 00:29:12,818 a body shop or a gas station. 1097 00:29:12,951 --> 00:29:14,386 Would you do 350? 1098 00:29:14,519 --> 00:29:16,622 JEFF: Uhhh... 1099 00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:18,523 450 is about as low as I go on that. 1100 00:29:18,657 --> 00:29:19,725 MIKE: Really. 1101 00:29:19,858 --> 00:29:21,360 JEFF: Yeah. It's worth more than that. 1102 00:29:21,493 --> 00:29:22,394 ROBBIE: I like the originality of it. 1103 00:29:22,527 --> 00:29:23,629 JEFF: I just got a pretty good deal, yeah. 1104 00:29:23,762 --> 00:29:25,097 MIKE: Make me feel like I'm getting a good deal ‐ 430. 1105 00:29:25,230 --> 00:29:28,700 JEFF: 4‐ [laughs] I'll eat the $20. 1106 00:29:28,834 --> 00:29:30,335 MIKE: Okay, [laughs] thanks. 1107 00:29:35,407 --> 00:29:36,441 ♪ ♪ 1108 00:29:36,575 --> 00:29:37,609 MIKE: So looks like you had all of these scales from 1109 00:29:37,743 --> 00:29:40,412 one time period in, in just this area here. 1110 00:29:40,545 --> 00:29:43,282 JEFF: Yeah. This is early cast iron. 1890s. 1111 00:29:43,415 --> 00:29:44,549 MIKE: I love that blood red one. 1112 00:29:44,683 --> 00:29:46,118 ROBBIE: 'To which class do you belong? 1113 00:29:46,251 --> 00:29:47,419 Lean, fat...' 1114 00:29:47,552 --> 00:29:50,055 JEFF: Yeah, they were‐ they necessarily politically correct. 1115 00:29:50,188 --> 00:29:50,622 MIKE: [laughs] 1116 00:29:50,756 --> 00:29:51,490 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1117 00:29:51,623 --> 00:29:52,357 JEFF: They, they didn't worry about 1118 00:29:52,491 --> 00:29:53,358 people's feelings back then. 1119 00:29:53,492 --> 00:29:54,626 ROBBIE: No, no. 1120 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,728 MIKE: It's so cool to see Jeff geeking out about scales, 1121 00:29:56,862 --> 00:30:00,065 the same way I do about a 1910 Harley. 1122 00:30:00,198 --> 00:30:01,133 ROBBIE: There it goes. 1123 00:30:01,266 --> 00:30:01,967 MIKE: Alright. 1124 00:30:02,067 --> 00:30:02,801 ROBBIE: What's that say? Lean? 1125 00:30:02,934 --> 00:30:04,369 JEFF: Lean, mean, fighting machine. 1126 00:30:04,503 --> 00:30:06,838 MIKE: The fact that he's so passionate about scales, 1127 00:30:06,972 --> 00:30:10,075 is really the reason why so many of them exist. 1128 00:30:10,208 --> 00:30:13,078 You know, he's got all of these scales in this building, 1129 00:30:13,211 --> 00:30:16,048 but think about how many scales he's gone through. 1130 00:30:16,181 --> 00:30:19,151 Probably hundreds and hundreds, maybe even thousands. 1131 00:30:19,418 --> 00:30:22,054 MIKE: So this is, this is the quintessential, like unicorn 1132 00:30:22,187 --> 00:30:23,221 when it comes to scales. 1133 00:30:23,355 --> 00:30:24,556 JEFF: They're, yeah, they're rough, 1134 00:30:24,690 --> 00:30:26,858 but the main part for me is the mechanical part. 1135 00:30:26,992 --> 00:30:29,494 And then I'm going to redo the bottles. 1136 00:30:29,628 --> 00:30:30,295 ROBBIE: Oh yeah. 1137 00:30:30,429 --> 00:30:31,330 JEFF: And... 1138 00:30:31,463 --> 00:30:32,531 MIKE: Oh... do they reproduce this bottle? 1139 00:30:32,664 --> 00:30:34,232 JEFF: No, no. I'm going to do it. 1140 00:30:34,366 --> 00:30:35,367 MIKE: Oh you're going to... 1141 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:36,568 you're going‐ you're going to reproduce this thing? 1142 00:30:36,702 --> 00:30:37,502 ROBBIE: The back side of that's missing. 1143 00:30:37,636 --> 00:30:38,737 JEFF: Yeah, the back side of this... 1144 00:30:38,870 --> 00:30:39,671 MIKE: Yeah, that's what I'm talking about, 1145 00:30:39,805 --> 00:30:40,739 the back side of the bottle's missing. 1146 00:30:40,872 --> 00:30:41,673 JEFF: Yeah, correct. 1147 00:30:41,807 --> 00:30:42,107 MIKE: You're going to have that made. 1148 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,342 JEFF: Yep. 1149 00:30:43,475 --> 00:30:44,810 JEFF: You get these scales and the glass is broken and 1150 00:30:44,943 --> 00:30:47,179 the coin door is damaged, and all that. 1151 00:30:47,312 --> 00:30:49,181 Well, you've got to replace it. 1152 00:30:49,314 --> 00:30:53,285 So I've started getting into making replacement glass, 1153 00:30:53,418 --> 00:30:57,456 replacement faces, things like that, that go bad on a scale. 1154 00:30:57,589 --> 00:30:59,424 MIKE: So you're going to make the back of this bottle. 1155 00:30:59,558 --> 00:31:00,358 JEFF: Right. 1156 00:31:00,492 --> 00:31:00,959 MIKE: And you're going to make the cap. 1157 00:31:01,093 --> 00:31:01,426 JEFF: Make the cap. 1158 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:02,360 MIKE: Okay. 1159 00:31:02,494 --> 00:31:03,528 And these were broken because they're‐ 1160 00:31:03,662 --> 00:31:04,763 people were trying to get in and take some... 1161 00:31:04,896 --> 00:31:05,664 or get the money. 1162 00:31:05,797 --> 00:31:06,364 JEFF: To get the money. 1163 00:31:06,498 --> 00:31:07,032 ROBBIE: Get the money out. 1164 00:31:07,165 --> 00:31:07,566 JEFF: To get the money. 1165 00:31:07,699 --> 00:31:08,867 MIKE: Ohh okay. 1166 00:31:08,967 --> 00:31:10,402 MIKE: If Jeff is going to go through the process of making 1167 00:31:10,535 --> 00:31:12,537 these bottles, he has to make a mold. 1168 00:31:12,671 --> 00:31:15,640 And that's the expensive part. Then it goes into an injection 1169 00:31:15,774 --> 00:31:18,944 molder, okay, and then he can make as many as he wants. 1170 00:31:19,077 --> 00:31:21,680 JEFF: I've got more complete ones of these up at the house. 1171 00:31:21,813 --> 00:31:22,681 MIKE: Can we see those? 1172 00:31:22,814 --> 00:31:23,682 JEFF: Yeah. Any time you want. 1173 00:31:23,815 --> 00:31:24,182 MIKE: Alright, well I want to see that. 1174 00:31:24,316 --> 00:31:24,683 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1175 00:31:24,816 --> 00:31:25,684 MIKE: Heck yeah. 1176 00:31:25,817 --> 00:31:26,918 MIKE: It's all about supply and demand. 1177 00:31:27,052 --> 00:31:29,388 There's not a lot of these scales around, so if you're 1178 00:31:29,521 --> 00:31:32,290 going through all that trouble, it's purely for preservation. 1179 00:31:32,424 --> 00:31:35,927 Which is awesome, because it shows where his heart is. 1180 00:31:36,261 --> 00:31:38,630 It's not about the money, it's really more about 1181 00:31:38,764 --> 00:31:42,000 getting more of these scales complete, 1182 00:31:42,134 --> 00:31:44,069 and putting them back into the hobby. 1183 00:31:44,202 --> 00:31:46,004 JEFF: Now this is the scratch‐and‐dent department. 1184 00:31:46,138 --> 00:31:47,239 MIKE: Okay, I like that. 1185 00:31:47,372 --> 00:31:48,974 ROBBIE: I mean, it looks like a damn big building here. 1186 00:31:49,107 --> 00:31:49,474 JEFF: Yeah. 1187 00:31:49,608 --> 00:31:50,142 MIKE: Oh wow! 1188 00:31:50,275 --> 00:31:51,343 [laughs] 1189 00:31:51,476 --> 00:31:52,077 ROBBIE: What! 1190 00:31:52,210 --> 00:31:52,577 JEFF: There's a few in here. 1191 00:31:52,711 --> 00:31:53,745 MIKE: Dang! 1192 00:31:53,879 --> 00:31:55,747 ROBBIE: Do you have every scale in America? 1193 00:31:55,881 --> 00:31:58,450 JEFF: I... no, I think there's a few still out 1194 00:31:58,617 --> 00:31:59,518 there that I don't have. 1195 00:31:59,651 --> 00:32:00,685 MIKE: [laughs] 1196 00:32:00,819 --> 00:32:01,586 JEFF: Not many. 1197 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:02,654 MIKE: Wow. 1198 00:32:02,788 --> 00:32:04,089 ROBBIE: I mean, what is the process here? 1199 00:32:04,222 --> 00:32:05,290 You yank them out of here and then you take 1200 00:32:05,424 --> 00:32:06,558 them up to the building and... 1201 00:32:06,691 --> 00:32:07,426 JEFF: Yep. 1202 00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:08,593 ROBBIE: ...you're restoring them? 1203 00:32:08,727 --> 00:32:10,195 JEFF: This is where basically, waiting to be done. 1204 00:32:10,328 --> 00:32:11,630 ROBBIE: Let me ask you this... 1205 00:32:11,763 --> 00:32:12,397 Ahh! 1206 00:32:12,531 --> 00:32:15,767 God‐dang, son of a [beep] 1207 00:32:15,901 --> 00:32:16,701 ROBBIE: Snakes! 1208 00:32:16,835 --> 00:32:17,803 MIKE: Oh, where at? 1209 00:32:17,936 --> 00:32:19,004 ROBBIE: Right there on top of that [beep] thing! 1210 00:32:19,137 --> 00:32:20,205 MIKE: Alright, let's see here. 1211 00:32:20,338 --> 00:32:21,506 ROBBIE: It's dark in there, I'm looking through 1212 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:22,707 these water troughs, 1213 00:32:22,841 --> 00:32:24,943 I'm opening up the top, and I stick my hand in, 1214 00:32:25,076 --> 00:32:26,845 I'm like... holy [beep]! 1215 00:32:26,978 --> 00:32:29,347 You know, it freaked me out, it's a damn snake! 1216 00:32:29,481 --> 00:32:30,782 JEFF: It's a, probably a black snake. 1217 00:32:30,916 --> 00:32:31,683 MIKE: Yeah. 1218 00:32:31,817 --> 00:32:32,517 ROBBIE: I know, but what are they? 1219 00:32:32,651 --> 00:32:33,552 Is it freakin' poisonous? 1220 00:32:33,685 --> 00:32:34,786 JEFF: They're, they're harmless. 1221 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,087 MIKE: Yeah. 1222 00:32:36,221 --> 00:32:36,788 ROBBIE: I don't know but he don't look no freakin' harm‐ 1223 00:32:36,922 --> 00:32:37,889 his head's right there. 1224 00:32:38,023 --> 00:32:39,124 MIKE: I know... 1225 00:32:39,257 --> 00:32:40,158 ROBBIE: A big bastard. 1226 00:32:40,292 --> 00:32:41,359 MIKE: Robbie, it's just a black snake. 1227 00:32:41,493 --> 00:32:42,794 ROBBIE: I don't‐ yeah it's not like a gardener, 1228 00:32:42,928 --> 00:32:44,496 I never see these things. 1229 00:32:45,263 --> 00:32:47,499 JEFF: I found a snake in that container about a week ago. 1230 00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:49,968 It scared the jeebies out of me then. 1231 00:32:50,435 --> 00:32:51,770 ROBBIE: I almost put my freakin' hand in there. 1232 00:32:51,903 --> 00:32:52,637 MIKE: [laughs] 1233 00:32:52,771 --> 00:32:53,438 ROBBIE: I was pulling these out. 1234 00:32:53,572 --> 00:32:54,673 MIKE: He's cozy in there. 1235 00:32:54,806 --> 00:32:55,974 JEFF: I don't know how it gets in here. 1236 00:32:56,107 --> 00:32:58,977 ROBBIE: Freakin'... that thing's huge, man. 1237 00:32:59,110 --> 00:33:01,746 MIKE: He's like,'Ahh!' I go, what's up? 1238 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,149 [Robbie voice] There's a, there's a snake in the back! 1239 00:33:04,282 --> 00:33:07,118 [laughs] It's a black snake, dude. 1240 00:33:07,252 --> 00:33:09,120 Easy, Indiana Jones. 1241 00:33:09,254 --> 00:33:10,288 JEFF: Let's go on this way. 1242 00:33:10,422 --> 00:33:11,256 Those are all parts. 1243 00:33:11,389 --> 00:33:11,823 You got to have parts. 1244 00:33:11,957 --> 00:33:12,924 ROBBIE: Okay. 1245 00:33:13,058 --> 00:33:14,359 JEFF: These are kind of the workshop where... 1246 00:33:14,492 --> 00:33:15,260 ROBBIE: This is the... 1247 00:33:15,393 --> 00:33:16,294 JEFF: ...basically restore scales. 1248 00:33:16,428 --> 00:33:18,263 MIKE: Oh wow, look at that. 1249 00:33:18,396 --> 00:33:19,831 JEFF: See, it's an all chrome mechanism. 1250 00:33:19,965 --> 00:33:20,565 MIKE: Oh yeah. 1251 00:33:20,699 --> 00:33:21,867 JEFF: Polished back door. 1252 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,568 MIKE: What's the value of something like this? 1253 00:33:23,702 --> 00:33:25,237 I mean, just school me on it, you know. 1254 00:33:25,370 --> 00:33:27,339 JEFF: Probably... 9,000. 1255 00:33:27,472 --> 00:33:28,406 MIKE: Wow. 1256 00:33:28,540 --> 00:33:30,108 MIKE: The stuff in this room is next level, 1257 00:33:30,242 --> 00:33:33,411 it's high‐test, very unique, very different. 1258 00:33:33,545 --> 00:33:35,146 JEFF: That's a talking scale. 1259 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:35,914 80 pounds. 1260 00:33:36,047 --> 00:33:36,548 ROBBIE: Oh, look at that. 1261 00:33:36,681 --> 00:33:37,649 MIKE: Wow. 1262 00:33:37,782 --> 00:33:39,684 MIKE: The high‐test pieces that he's restoring, 1263 00:33:39,818 --> 00:33:43,455 I mean, just unbelievable, meticulous work. 1264 00:33:43,588 --> 00:33:45,924 The guy is an artist. 1265 00:33:46,057 --> 00:33:46,458 MIKE: Oh Robbie. 1266 00:33:46,591 --> 00:33:47,392 ROBBIE: What‐ 1267 00:33:47,526 --> 00:33:48,627 JEFF: Now. These are the soda bottles. 1268 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:49,361 MIKE: Hahaha! Woo! 1269 00:33:49,494 --> 00:33:50,195 ROBBIE: Oh there you go. 1270 00:33:50,328 --> 00:33:51,162 JEFF: There's the soda bottles. 1271 00:33:51,296 --> 00:33:52,130 ROBBIE: Oh you got the Planters Peanut. 1272 00:33:52,264 --> 00:33:54,466 MIKE: Peanut man, Pepsi ‐Cola, Grapette, 1273 00:33:54,599 --> 00:33:56,034 Humpty Dumpty. 1274 00:33:56,167 --> 00:33:59,070 I've never even seen any of these scales. 1275 00:33:59,204 --> 00:34:00,739 I mean, this is the kind of stuff that you 1276 00:34:00,872 --> 00:34:02,140 only see in books. 1277 00:34:02,274 --> 00:34:05,744 Because so much of it did not survive. 1278 00:34:05,877 --> 00:34:07,846 MIKE: I've never seen a Humpty Dumpty scale. 1279 00:34:07,979 --> 00:34:09,414 JEFF: Humpty Dumpty, that one came out of 1280 00:34:09,548 --> 00:34:11,616 an amusement park in Louisville, Kentucky. 1281 00:34:11,750 --> 00:34:13,451 MIKE: To have this many bottle scales, 1282 00:34:13,585 --> 00:34:14,886 this many character scales ‐ 1283 00:34:15,020 --> 00:34:16,855 who's going to be attracted to that? 1284 00:34:16,988 --> 00:34:17,956 A kid. 1285 00:34:18,089 --> 00:34:19,457 They're going to be jumping up and down on it, 1286 00:34:19,591 --> 00:34:20,825 they're going to be shaking it. 1287 00:34:20,959 --> 00:34:25,130 The fact that any of this stuff survived is incredible to me. 1288 00:34:25,263 --> 00:34:26,665 MIKE: So which one of these are you selling? 1289 00:34:26,798 --> 00:34:28,099 JEFF: I'm selling that one. 1290 00:34:28,233 --> 00:34:30,001 MIKE: Okay, and this is obviously been restored. 1291 00:34:30,135 --> 00:34:31,069 JEFF: Yeah. 1292 00:34:31,202 --> 00:34:32,704 Somebody's redone the graphics on that one. 1293 00:34:32,837 --> 00:34:33,471 MIKE: So the bot‐ 1294 00:34:33,605 --> 00:34:33,872 ROBBIE: Just the graphics? 1295 00:34:34,005 --> 00:34:34,572 JEFF: Hm? 1296 00:34:34,706 --> 00:34:35,206 ROBBIE: Just the graphics? 1297 00:34:35,340 --> 00:34:36,441 JEFF: Just the graphics. 1298 00:34:36,574 --> 00:34:37,943 MIKE: So this is, this has got one of your caps on it. 1299 00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:38,977 JEFF: One of my new caps. 1300 00:34:39,110 --> 00:34:40,712 But the bottle itself is original. 1301 00:34:40,845 --> 00:34:41,680 ROBBIE: Okay. 1302 00:34:41,813 --> 00:34:43,048 MIKE: How much is this one? 1303 00:34:43,181 --> 00:34:45,383 JEFF: Uh... 4,500. 1304 00:34:45,550 --> 00:34:49,220 They sell for up towards 6,500. 1305 00:34:49,354 --> 00:34:50,255 MIKE: Okay. 1306 00:34:50,388 --> 00:34:51,957 JEFF: Same company made all those figural, 1307 00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:54,993 the soda bottles, and the‐ and the Humpty Dumpty 1308 00:34:55,126 --> 00:34:56,261 and the Mr. Peanut. 1309 00:34:56,394 --> 00:34:59,764 And they're quite popular, because it's a cross‐over. 1310 00:34:59,898 --> 00:35:01,866 MIKE: What about this one, since it's unrestored? 1311 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,501 JEFF: Umm... 1312 00:35:03,635 --> 00:35:05,637 MIKE: And it's got cracking in the back on the bottle. 1313 00:35:05,770 --> 00:35:06,838 JEFF: Let me take a look. 1314 00:35:06,972 --> 00:35:08,306 MIKE: Yeah, look at the bottom, it's kind of jacked. 1315 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,175 MIKE: Jeff is all excited about selling us 1316 00:35:10,308 --> 00:35:12,210 the restored bottle machine. 1317 00:35:12,344 --> 00:35:15,747 I look over, and there's an unrestored bottle machine. 1318 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,084 The unrestored bottle machine appeals to me way more because 1319 00:35:19,217 --> 00:35:24,990 it's basically untouched, it's as‐found, it shows its history, 1320 00:35:25,123 --> 00:35:27,892 and it looks like it has a story. 1321 00:35:28,026 --> 00:35:29,160 MIKE: Okay, so you can see all the cracking 1322 00:35:29,294 --> 00:35:30,061 on the back of the bottle. 1323 00:35:30,195 --> 00:35:31,396 JEFF: Um‐hm. 1324 00:35:31,529 --> 00:35:33,598 MIKE: But at least the back of the bottle is here, you know. 1325 00:35:33,732 --> 00:35:34,933 JEFF: Yep, that's, that's unusual. 1326 00:35:35,066 --> 00:35:36,735 MIKE: And I like the fact that it's got the original cap, and 1327 00:35:36,868 --> 00:35:38,169 it's got the original graphics. 1328 00:35:38,303 --> 00:35:40,672 MIKE: Now there are some stress cracks in the back of it, 1329 00:35:40,805 --> 00:35:43,842 nothing that pierces all the way through the plastic. 1330 00:35:43,975 --> 00:35:48,279 These are just like, hairline stress cracks, you know, 1331 00:35:48,413 --> 00:35:51,316 in the plastic, from I think heat, or like attic burn, 1332 00:35:51,449 --> 00:35:53,318 maybe or something, where it's gotten hot. 1333 00:35:53,451 --> 00:35:56,354 But overall, it's a much cooler scale. 1334 00:35:56,488 --> 00:35:59,491 MIKE: So what are you thinking on something like this? 1335 00:36:00,058 --> 00:36:01,993 JEFF: Mm... 35? 1336 00:36:02,727 --> 00:36:03,995 MIKE: Yeah, see I was thinking 3, 1337 00:36:04,129 --> 00:36:06,431 because of all this situation. 1338 00:36:06,564 --> 00:36:07,499 ROBBIE: How bad's the cracking on it? 1339 00:36:07,632 --> 00:36:08,767 JEFF: But I thought you liked that. 1340 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:11,336 MIKE: I do like that, I do like that, but the thing is... 1341 00:36:11,469 --> 00:36:12,971 JEFF: You should have to pay extra for that. 1342 00:36:13,104 --> 00:36:13,938 MIKE: ...I‐ I should pay extra for that. 1343 00:36:14,072 --> 00:36:15,206 ROBBIE: That's stress cracking. 1344 00:36:15,340 --> 00:36:16,975 MIKE: Jeff is the only kind of guy that would ever sell 1345 00:36:17,108 --> 00:36:21,112 a scale like this, because he's got so many of them. 1346 00:36:21,246 --> 00:36:22,647 MIKE: 3,200. 1347 00:36:25,283 --> 00:36:26,851 JEFF: You'd rather have this one than that one. 1348 00:36:26,985 --> 00:36:28,286 MIKE: Yeah. 1349 00:36:30,155 --> 00:36:31,289 JEFF: Okay. 1350 00:36:31,423 --> 00:36:31,956 MIKE: We're doing it. 1351 00:36:32,090 --> 00:36:32,924 JEFF: Alrighty. 1352 00:36:33,058 --> 00:36:34,926 MIKE: Yeah man, awesome. It's brilliant. 1353 00:36:35,060 --> 00:36:37,595 MIKE: At some point, if you do that much restoration work, 1354 00:36:37,729 --> 00:36:39,764 you tend to be more of a perfectionist. 1355 00:36:39,898 --> 00:36:43,034 You know, where I'm looking at something and celebrating 1356 00:36:43,168 --> 00:36:46,271 the idea that it's kind of janky, he's looking at it going, 1357 00:36:46,404 --> 00:36:47,872 that's next on the line for restoration. 1358 00:36:52,377 --> 00:36:54,012 ♪ ♪ 1359 00:36:54,145 --> 00:36:55,513 MIKE: How about the Goodyear? 1360 00:36:55,647 --> 00:36:56,414 Look at that big crease. 1361 00:36:56,548 --> 00:36:57,782 JEFF: A big... big crease in it. 1362 00:36:57,916 --> 00:36:58,850 MIKE: Yeah it is. 1363 00:36:59,017 --> 00:36:59,984 JEFF: That's why it's out on the building. 1364 00:37:00,118 --> 00:37:02,353 MIKE: With advertising being so hot right now, 1365 00:37:02,487 --> 00:37:05,323 I'll buy signs like this all day long. 1366 00:37:05,457 --> 00:37:07,726 Great subject matter, yes they're roached, 1367 00:37:07,859 --> 00:37:09,994 they're tweaked, they're dented, they're dirty, 1368 00:37:10,128 --> 00:37:12,163 and you can barely read parts of them... 1369 00:37:12,297 --> 00:37:13,732 MIKE: What do you value that one at? 1370 00:37:13,865 --> 00:37:15,066 JEFF: 300. 1371 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:16,868 MIKE: Alright, so 300 on that one, what about the Goodyear? 1372 00:37:17,001 --> 00:37:18,169 The rough, toasty one there. 1373 00:37:18,303 --> 00:37:19,504 JEFF: The... near ‐mint? 1374 00:37:19,637 --> 00:37:20,538 MIKE: Yeah. [laughs] 1375 00:37:20,672 --> 00:37:21,339 ROBBIE: Near, is that what they call that? 1376 00:37:21,473 --> 00:37:23,675 Jeff: [laughing] Yeah. 300 too. 1377 00:37:23,808 --> 00:37:24,809 MIKE: Okay, I'm doing it. 1378 00:37:24,943 --> 00:37:25,877 JEFF: You took the side of the building. 1379 00:37:26,010 --> 00:37:27,045 MIKE: Thank you... yeah! 1380 00:37:27,178 --> 00:37:29,314 MIKE: At the end of the day, they wear their history. 1381 00:37:29,447 --> 00:37:30,915 They show it. They're cool. 1382 00:37:31,049 --> 00:37:32,317 MIKE: What about the Schmidt teepee, 1383 00:37:32,450 --> 00:37:33,985 what would you want for that? 1384 00:37:34,119 --> 00:37:34,786 ROBBIE: Looks pretty cool. 1385 00:37:34,919 --> 00:37:36,087 It'd be cool lit up. 1386 00:37:36,221 --> 00:37:38,256 MIKE: This time period is the time period that I remember. 1387 00:37:38,389 --> 00:37:41,659 I romanticize about going to the tavern with my grandma, 1388 00:37:41,793 --> 00:37:44,496 and seeing all the lights and everything, 1389 00:37:44,629 --> 00:37:45,764 and I was the youngest person at the bar. 1390 00:37:45,897 --> 00:37:47,665 MIKE: The only light is like, stuff like this, 1391 00:37:47,799 --> 00:37:48,967 and the pool table light... 1392 00:37:49,067 --> 00:37:50,368 JEFF: And the beer sign... MIKE: And the neon... 1393 00:37:50,502 --> 00:37:51,302 MIKE: And you're just sitting there and you're staring 1394 00:37:51,436 --> 00:37:52,504 into the Schmidt teepee. 1395 00:37:52,637 --> 00:37:53,371 JEFF: That's it. 1396 00:37:53,505 --> 00:37:54,105 MIKE: Where are you at with this? 1397 00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:55,140 JEFF: 100‐and‐ a‐quarter. 1398 00:37:55,273 --> 00:37:56,074 MIKE: Alright, I'm doing it. 1399 00:37:56,207 --> 00:37:56,741 JEFF: Okay. 1400 00:37:56,875 --> 00:37:57,876 MIKE: I got to have it. 1401 00:37:58,009 --> 00:38:00,245 MIKE: There you go, now we're talking. Bicycle. 1402 00:38:00,378 --> 00:38:03,148 MIKE: There were so many different bicycle manufacturers 1403 00:38:03,281 --> 00:38:06,084 around the turn‐of‐the‐ century, and that led to 1404 00:38:06,217 --> 00:38:09,854 a lot of really cool, creative advertising. 1405 00:38:09,988 --> 00:38:10,889 MIKE: Look at that. 1406 00:38:11,022 --> 00:38:11,890 ROBBIE: Racer. 1407 00:38:12,023 --> 00:38:13,658 MIKE: It has a racer coming right at you, 1408 00:38:13,792 --> 00:38:15,460 like he's jumping out of the frame. 1409 00:38:15,593 --> 00:38:18,630 JEFF: I'd say, probably... 200. 1410 00:38:18,763 --> 00:38:19,564 MIKE: I'm going to do 250. 1411 00:38:19,697 --> 00:38:20,598 JEFF: Okay, I appreciate it. 1412 00:38:20,732 --> 00:38:21,266 MIKE: I appreciate you. 1413 00:38:21,399 --> 00:38:22,534 I'm a bicycle guy. 1414 00:38:22,667 --> 00:38:25,637 It's an incredible image, original matting, it's cool. 1415 00:38:25,770 --> 00:38:27,005 JEFF: Well it's right up the alley for 1416 00:38:27,138 --> 00:38:28,439 somebody that's into bikes. 1417 00:38:28,573 --> 00:38:29,407 MIKE: Oh my gosh! Yeah. 1418 00:38:29,541 --> 00:38:30,408 JEFF: Yeah. 1419 00:38:32,243 --> 00:38:34,679 MIKE: Who was... drag racing back in the '70s? 1420 00:38:34,812 --> 00:38:35,847 JEFF: My brother and I. 1421 00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:36,481 MIKE: Really! 1422 00:38:36,614 --> 00:38:37,315 JEFF: Yep. 1423 00:38:37,448 --> 00:38:38,283 ROBBIE: What were you drag racing? 1424 00:38:38,416 --> 00:38:40,318 JEFF: It was a fiberglass body Opel GT. 1425 00:38:40,451 --> 00:38:41,219 MIKE: Is this a picture of it? 1426 00:38:41,352 --> 00:38:42,253 JEFF: That's a picture of it there. 1427 00:38:42,387 --> 00:38:42,754 MIKE: Wow. 1428 00:38:42,887 --> 00:38:43,888 ROBBIE: Whoa‐ho! 1429 00:38:44,022 --> 00:38:45,190 MIKE: Is that you sticking your head out the top? 1430 00:38:45,323 --> 00:38:46,925 JEFF: No, that was somebody standing on the starting line. 1431 00:38:47,058 --> 00:38:49,327 My brother is, is the driver. 1432 00:38:49,460 --> 00:38:49,961 MIKE: Okay. 1433 00:38:50,094 --> 00:38:51,162 JEFF: And I own the car. 1434 00:38:51,296 --> 00:38:54,632 JEFF: My dad bought me a disassembled Model T for $25. 1435 00:38:54,766 --> 00:38:56,734 And we had that '50 Chevy, and we did the 1436 00:38:56,868 --> 00:38:58,970 local drag races on Saturday night. 1437 00:38:59,103 --> 00:39:00,872 JEFF: Model Ts, then Model As. 1438 00:39:01,005 --> 00:39:01,439 MIKE: Really? 1439 00:39:01,573 --> 00:39:02,307 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1440 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:03,241 JEFF: And then into drag racing. 1441 00:39:03,374 --> 00:39:04,375 Robbie: [laughs] 1442 00:39:04,509 --> 00:39:06,044 JEFF: And then sold all that and came out here. 1443 00:39:06,177 --> 00:39:08,913 MIKE: There is a lot more to Jeff than these scales. 1444 00:39:09,047 --> 00:39:11,549 I mean, never would have guessed that he 1445 00:39:11,683 --> 00:39:13,218 was into drag racing. 1446 00:39:13,618 --> 00:39:14,385 ROBBIE: So Jeff, I wanted to ask you 1447 00:39:14,519 --> 00:39:16,588 about this astrology scale. 1448 00:39:16,721 --> 00:39:17,722 JEFF: Alrighty. 1449 00:39:17,856 --> 00:39:19,023 ROBBIE: Looks like it's large and in charge here, 1450 00:39:19,157 --> 00:39:20,625 and it's got original paint. 1451 00:39:20,758 --> 00:39:22,260 JEFF: Yep, it's the same as the one up in the, 1452 00:39:22,393 --> 00:39:24,162 up at the house restored. 1453 00:39:24,295 --> 00:39:25,563 ROBBIE: One thing I've always been intrigued 1454 00:39:25,697 --> 00:39:27,799 with is space, you know. 1455 00:39:27,932 --> 00:39:29,534 And astrology, that's space. 1456 00:39:29,667 --> 00:39:31,035 The stars, everything about it. 1457 00:39:31,169 --> 00:39:32,570 It's got the crackle paint on it. 1458 00:39:32,704 --> 00:39:35,273 If you just light it up, it just looks cool 1459 00:39:35,406 --> 00:39:36,274 sitting in the corner. 1460 00:39:36,407 --> 00:39:37,942 ROBBIE: So what, what year is this from? 1461 00:39:38,076 --> 00:39:39,210 JEFF: I'd say '40s. 1462 00:39:39,344 --> 00:39:41,079 They were trying to come up with all different 1463 00:39:41,212 --> 00:39:43,014 ways to get people to put their penny in. 1464 00:39:43,147 --> 00:39:44,015 ROBBIE: Right. 1465 00:39:44,148 --> 00:39:44,816 JEFF: They would not only get their weight, 1466 00:39:44,949 --> 00:39:46,084 but they would get a ticket, 1467 00:39:46,217 --> 00:39:48,186 with a fortune or a horoscope on it. 1468 00:39:48,319 --> 00:39:49,354 ROBBIE: This doesn't work, I take it. 1469 00:39:49,487 --> 00:39:50,788 You haven't... 1470 00:39:50,922 --> 00:39:51,856 JEFF: I... don't know, it might. 1471 00:39:51,990 --> 00:39:52,657 ROBBIE: Okay. 1472 00:39:52,790 --> 00:39:53,691 JEFF: I've never plugged it in. 1473 00:39:53,825 --> 00:39:55,593 ROBBIE: Is this one on the list for sale? 1474 00:39:55,727 --> 00:39:56,527 JEFF: I'd sell that one. 1475 00:39:56,661 --> 00:39:58,196 JEFF: I've done one for myself, 1476 00:39:58,329 --> 00:40:00,298 so I know what it looks like all done. 1477 00:40:00,431 --> 00:40:03,001 JEFF: As you know, it's‐ it's easier to take one apart 1478 00:40:03,134 --> 00:40:05,069 and put it back together when you've got one to‐ 1479 00:40:05,203 --> 00:40:05,837 ROBBIE: One to‐ one to look at. 1480 00:40:05,970 --> 00:40:06,571 JEFF: One to look at. 1481 00:40:06,704 --> 00:40:07,472 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1482 00:40:07,605 --> 00:40:07,972 And now that you've already done it. 1483 00:40:08,106 --> 00:40:08,673 JEFF: That's it. 1484 00:40:08,806 --> 00:40:09,307 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1485 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:10,108 What kind of... 1486 00:40:10,241 --> 00:40:10,942 JEFF: So I would sell that one. 1487 00:40:11,075 --> 00:40:11,943 ROBBIE: ...what kind of money? 1488 00:40:12,076 --> 00:40:15,079 JEFF: I'd let it go for 1,000. 1489 00:40:15,813 --> 00:40:16,447 ROBBIE: I got a question. 1490 00:40:16,581 --> 00:40:17,615 JEFF: Sure. 1491 00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:18,583 ROBBIE: I didn't see any of the cards inside here? 1492 00:40:18,716 --> 00:40:19,918 JEFF: Um‐hm. 1493 00:40:20,051 --> 00:40:21,786 ROBBIE: Your machine that you restored has all the cards? 1494 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,888 Or you took them out of this machine and keeping all those? 1495 00:40:24,022 --> 00:40:25,290 JEFF: No, I had a few. 1496 00:40:25,423 --> 00:40:26,257 ROBBIE: Okay. 1497 00:40:26,391 --> 00:40:27,258 JEFF: Uh, I don't know if there were any 1498 00:40:27,392 --> 00:40:28,693 in this one when I got it. 1499 00:40:28,826 --> 00:40:30,028 I can give you a couple. 1500 00:40:30,161 --> 00:40:31,863 ROBBIE: So what you're saying is, I can reproduce good 1501 00:40:31,996 --> 00:40:33,831 sayings on the cards, so every person that 1502 00:40:33,965 --> 00:40:35,166 gets in there is all about happiness. 1503 00:40:35,300 --> 00:40:36,734 JEFF: Oh yeah, yeah, no, you don't want to put any negative. 1504 00:40:36,868 --> 00:40:37,535 ROBBIE: Oh yeah. There you go. 1505 00:40:37,669 --> 00:40:38,169 Man, they want... 1506 00:40:38,303 --> 00:40:39,003 JEFF: No, no, no. 1507 00:40:39,137 --> 00:40:40,171 They want‐ they want positive. 1508 00:40:40,305 --> 00:40:42,473 ROBBIE: So positively, I'm‐ I'm‐ I'm feeling like... 1509 00:40:42,607 --> 00:40:43,341 JEFF: Positively, positively... 1510 00:40:43,474 --> 00:40:44,409 ROBBIE: ...I'm feeling like 750. 1511 00:40:44,542 --> 00:40:46,044 JEFF: I'm feeling like 1,000. 1512 00:40:46,311 --> 00:40:46,744 ROBBIE: I know. 1513 00:40:46,878 --> 00:40:48,046 JEFF: I know. 1514 00:40:48,179 --> 00:40:49,881 ROBBIE: I mean, if this thing's restored, what's it worth? 1515 00:40:50,415 --> 00:40:51,816 JEFF: Uh... a friend of mine had one. 1516 00:40:51,950 --> 00:40:52,917 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1517 00:40:53,051 --> 00:40:54,719 JEFF: And he did it, and he sold it for 15,000. 1518 00:40:54,986 --> 00:40:57,522 ROBBIE: Wow, wow. Holy cow. 1519 00:40:58,122 --> 00:40:59,057 JEFF: All new glass... 1520 00:40:59,190 --> 00:40:59,724 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1521 00:40:59,857 --> 00:41:00,591 JEFF: All new... 1522 00:41:00,725 --> 00:41:01,359 ROBBIE: Everything. All redone. 1523 00:41:01,492 --> 00:41:02,527 JEFF: Yeah, all repainted. 1524 00:41:02,660 --> 00:41:04,796 And it's not like you're going to see one every day. 1525 00:41:04,929 --> 00:41:05,730 ROBBIE: No. 1526 00:41:05,863 --> 00:41:06,464 I have, you know, I haven't seen one. 1527 00:41:06,597 --> 00:41:09,534 1,000 bucks. I'll do it. 1528 00:41:09,801 --> 00:41:10,234 JEFF: 1,000 bucks. 1529 00:41:10,368 --> 00:41:10,768 ROBBIE: I'll do it. 1530 00:41:10,902 --> 00:41:11,569 JEFF: Alrighty. 1531 00:41:11,703 --> 00:41:12,337 ROBBIE: Alright, I appreciate it. 1532 00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:13,438 JEFF: I think you'll like it. 1533 00:41:13,571 --> 00:41:14,305 ROBBIE: There's not too many people out there 1534 00:41:14,439 --> 00:41:15,306 that don't like, lik robots, space. 1535 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:16,974 And the fact that it's astrology, 1536 00:41:17,108 --> 00:41:18,710 you want to put your penny in it. 1537 00:41:18,843 --> 00:41:20,912 All I got to do is get the lights working in it, and I'm 1538 00:41:21,045 --> 00:41:23,548 not saying it's working, but if you want to try and 1539 00:41:23,681 --> 00:41:25,316 put your penny in it, I'll collect your money. 1540 00:41:25,850 --> 00:41:27,085 [chuckles] 1541 00:41:27,218 --> 00:41:28,019 MIKE: Alright, you got it? 1542 00:41:28,152 --> 00:41:29,754 Hand it to me. Watch that cord, buddy. 1543 00:41:29,887 --> 00:41:30,855 ROBBIE: Watch that, yeah. 1544 00:41:30,988 --> 00:41:32,924 MIKE: I know a little bit about a lot of things. 1545 00:41:33,057 --> 00:41:34,225 That's how I've made a living. 1546 00:41:34,359 --> 00:41:38,596 But guys like Jeff know a lot about one thing ‐ and that's 1547 00:41:38,730 --> 00:41:41,933 what makes them so special and cool and interesting; 1548 00:41:42,066 --> 00:41:45,103 and the biggest point ‐ a mentor. 1549 00:41:45,236 --> 00:41:46,204 ROBBIE: Today was more of a teaching day for me, 1550 00:41:46,337 --> 00:41:47,305 and I appreciate it. 1551 00:41:47,438 --> 00:41:48,339 MIKE: Alright. 1552 00:41:48,473 --> 00:41:48,973 JEFF: [chuckles] You're more than welcome. 1553 00:41:49,107 --> 00:41:50,341 ROBBIE: I appreciate ya. 1554 00:41:50,475 --> 00:41:50,842 MIKE: Hey, I know who I'm going to call if I find some scales. 1555 00:41:50,975 --> 00:41:51,442 JEFF: You do. 1556 00:41:51,576 --> 00:41:51,943 MIKE: [laughs] Yeah. 1557 00:41:52,076 --> 00:41:52,477 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1558 00:41:52,610 --> 00:41:52,944 MIKE: Absolutely. 1559 00:41:53,077 --> 00:41:53,778 JEFF: Yeah. 1560 00:41:53,911 --> 00:41:54,812 MIKE: Jeff is a walking library. 1561 00:41:54,946 --> 00:41:57,281 And the ripple effect of that, is an asset 1562 00:41:57,415 --> 00:41:59,984 to the collectable community. 1563 00:42:00,118 --> 00:42:00,918 MIKE: Alright, I appreciate you. 1564 00:42:01,052 --> 00:42:02,220 JEFF: Thank you. Alrighty. Bye ‐bye. 1565 00:42:02,353 --> 00:42:04,222 MIKE: Guys like Jeff are invaluable. 1566 00:42:04,355 --> 00:42:06,758 And one of the reasons I do what I do. 1567 00:42:06,891 --> 00:42:07,759 [honks horn] 1568 00:42:07,892 --> 00:42:08,793 ROBBIE: Thanks, Jeff! 1569 00:42:08,926 --> 00:42:11,062 JEFF: Thank you! 1570 00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:15,133 ♪ ♪ ♪