♪♪
robbie: Ugh! Let's do this!
Nathan: Watch your step here.
Mike: Oh yeah.
Nathan: I don't even know what's back there,
mike. I haven't been back there.
Robbie: Man, that thing is absolutely amazing.
Mike: That's old, dude, that's really old.
Gene: About 100 years old.
Robbie: Got 100 -year- old dust on it.
Mike: Original heidelberg. Incredible!
Jersey jon: It's still functioning.
Mike: Ugh! Dammit!
Danielle: Here, robbie.
Robbie: Alright here...
danielle: There she goes down the hole.
Mike: I got a serious situation here.
Gene: Look how beatuiful that is!
Robbie: Whooa!
Danielle: I'm going home with a car!
Gene: You're doing good.
♪♪
mike: If I'm going to be picking the northeast without
frank, my brother, or danielle, I'm going to hit up my old
buddy, jersey jon, and take him picking with me.
Mike: Back in the day, I cut my teeth on the
east coast with jersey jon.
[loud machine noises]
mike: Jersey!
Whaddup, brother!
Jersey jon: Hey...
Mike: Jon is the kind of guy that can build a
motorcycle out of an oil stain.
Mike: Uuughh!
How're you doing, you alright?
Jersey jon: Good, man, how are you?
Mike: Hey, I brought you something, man.
Jersey jon: Ooh, winchester!
Mike: Look at that!
Jersey jon: Ha-ha-ha...
Mike: I know, right?
Jersey jon: This is awesome.
Mike: Wow, I can't believe how much more
stuff you have in here, dude.
Jersey jon: Yeah I mean, it's been busy.
Mike: Walking into his space is like everything that
I love and live for to find.
Mike: You got an old hickory?
Jersey jon: Old hickory, yeah.
Mike: And you got a gormully?
Jersey jon: Yep, rambler #1.
Mike: Oh my gosh...
Jersey jon: Yep.
Mike: It's all hanging from the ceiling,
it's over the walls.
Mike: Is this mine?
Jersey jon: It's your- this is your california racer...
Mike: Dude!
Jersey jon: Yeah, I put it back on the bench,
been working on it for a long time.
Mike: No way.
Mike: About 3 years ago, I gave jersey a bunch of parts
and some cash, and I haven't seen this project since.
1903 california racer.
It's coming to life.
Mike: You're working off this photo.
Jersey jon: Basically it's all the information
we have is that one photo.
Mike: This is a major piece to the puzzle of
american motorcycle history.
Mike: Where'd you get the fork?
Jersey jon: The fork is original.
Mike: Really!
Jersey jon: Yeah.
All the lugs are original.
The tube was so rotted, I put new tubing in.
Mike: Yeah.
Jersey jon: And then I just had to harvest the
original lugs and clean them up.
Mike: Jersey jon is the go-to guy for anybody in the antique
motorcycle industry that has pieces and parts of a bike.
Jersey jon: That's the original centric,
and this is the...
Mike: No way!
Jersey jon: ...Original sprocket from the centric.
Mike: Really!
Jersey jon: Yep. And then I get a-
mike: What about a belt sheath, you got a belt sheath?
Jersey jon: Yeah, I got an original belt sheath.
Mike: What he can't find, and he's a bird-dog,
he can find just about anything, he actually will make.
Jersey jon: This is exactly how they would make
a frame in the day.
Heat it up in the forge, and they bend it around the fork.
Mike: Wow.
Jersey jon: It's bad-ass stuff, man,
it's so cool, yeah.
Mike: He does his own engine rebuilding,
he does his own paint work, he does his own nickel-plating.
Jersey jon: It takes forever.
You got to make a jig, a fixture for every one of them.
Mike: He does his own castings.
Jersey jon: This is steel, like the original.
Mike: Yeah.
Mike: He's a really talented person,
and there's nobody, as far as I'm concerned,
that does what he does.
Jersey jon: I love doing it, I'm really enthusiastic.
Mike: I know!
Jersey jon: But it takes a long time to get this stuff done.
Just to figure out how to do it right.
Mike: It's like, I want it done tomorrow,
[chuckles], but that's not going to happen,
because you can't rush perfection.
Mike: Are you ready to roll?
Jersey jon: How's frank doing?
Mike: Dude, his back's so jacked up.
Jersey jon: Hooh...
Mike: I mean, seriously, he had 2 metal rods put in his back,
you know, so...
Jersey jon: Sucks, man.
Mike: Dani's been doing a lot of research on the east coast,
her and robbie, they're out on the road already and
so I was like, you know what, I want to get back
to the roots and call you, dude.
Jersey jon: [laughs]
mike: Pulling up to the bank in the van,
it kind of brought me back like, dude, 13...
Jersey jon: Dude, you used to sleep on the couch upstairs!
Mike: I know, I know! 13 years ago, 13- 14 years ago.
Jersey jon: Yeah, I'm like, dude, go home!
Mike: It brought me back, and... Jersey jon: Yeah.
Mike: So let's get the hell outta here.
Jersey jon: Alright, let's get out of here.
Mike: Let's go.
♪♪
jersey jon: Dude, you're getting pretty gray in
the muzzle there, man.
Mike: [laughs]
jersey jon: Gray in the friggin' locks there, man.
Mike: Of course I'm getting gray,
I'm 55 years old now.
How old are you?
Jersey jon: Yeah, well I'm 57, dude,
I'm older than you.
Mike: Okay, okay, guess what...
Danielle: So what you're saying is,
you think that your little baby girl is going to
come back wholesome from college?
Robbie: Well, I'm not saying she's going to be wholesome,
but she's not going to come back with a belly button ring
and a halter top on and short shorts.
Mike: I'm the sam elliott of picking.
Jersey jon: Bull-!
Danielle: All I have to say, is you're supposed to feel
that way 'cause you're her dad.
Mike: You're like if um...
Oscar the grouch and kris kristofferson had a baby.
Jersey jon: [laughs]
mike: And when you pop your head out of the trash can, arrr!
[laughs]
danielle: So gene, his daughter kate...
Robbie: Yeah?
Danielle: ...Is the one that I've actually been talking to,
so I really hope that gene knows...
Robbie: Okay.
Danielle: ...Because it's kind of like kate and mom-
robbie: Oh.
Danielle: -Really want him to get rid of stuff.
But he is pretty determined not to.
Mike: Where are we going today, buddy?
Jersey jon: We're going to norwalk, connecticut.
We're going to meet with nathan and gloria.
Mike: Okay. What do they got going on?
Jersey jon: It's an old print shop...
Closed up...
Mike: Okay...
You know what I would suggest you do sometime?
Danielle: They live in a gas station that
was built in the 1920s.
The kids grew up in this gas station, like...
Robbie: They live in the gas station.
Danielle: Yeah.
Mike: Why don't you call danielle after you get
the email, go over it with her a few times,
because it seems like when you're reading the email,
it's like you're reading it for the first time.
Is that true?
Danielle: He's got obviously a lot of automotive,
petroliana, some pedal cars, yeah...
Robbie: Right up my alley. You pick this just for me?
Danielle: I did, I did.
This is a robbie day, yeah.
Robbie: Well alright, alright.
Jersey jon: What difference does it make?
We're going to the place, we got the address,
the gps, we're going there.
Mike: I know, because- because...
Robbie: I like robbie days.
Danielle: Today's all about robbie...
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: ...So we're going to eat where you want to eat.
Robbie: Okay.
Danielle: We're going to stay where you want to stay.
Robbie: Alright.
Danielle: And you get to pick out the music
the whole entire day.
Jersey jon: Why do I got to read her email a dozen times?
She- it's all pretty clear...
Mike: Listen to me, let me answer the question.
You would feel more invested in it,
you know what I mean?
Jersey jon: You ask- I know-
mike: I don't want you to read it, I want you to feel it!
Robbie: I still have indigestion just thinking about it.
Danielle: I love that you're going through this,
it's my favorite, I got to be honest.
Robbie: [long sigh]
jersey jon: Dude, you asked me to come on this pick with you,
I'm here.
Danielle: [laughs]
robbie: Do not bring it up anymore.
My stomach's already turning.
Danielle: [laughs]
jersey jon: You want danielle here, get danielle.
I'm here, jersey jon.
C'mon, brother, let's do this.
Mike: [chuckling]
♪♪
jersey jon: It's an old newspaper shop.
Mike: Okay.
Jersey jon: Originally back in the day it was a cigar factory,
and then it became the print shop.
Mike: Really.
Jersey jon: So nathan wants to preserve what's there,
but they're going to renovate the building,
so they got to clear it out.
Mike: Oh he's going to preserve the building.
Jersey jon: He's going to preserve the building.
Mike: Oh that's cool.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Mike: Now what year is the building?
Jersey jon: 1880s.
Mike: Oh wow.
So I got a lot in common with this guy.
Jersey jon: Yeah, I think you were born around then.
Mike: [laughs] thanks, jersey!
Mike: This is killer, dude.
It's like an old fire station.
I thought you said it was a print shop.
[knocking on door]
mike: Hey, you gloria?
Jersey jon: Hey.
Gloria: Yes, that's me.
Mike: Hey, I'm mike. Jersey jon.
Gloria: Hi, nice to meet you.
Jon, nice to meet you.
Jersey jon: Nice to meet you.
Mike: Is this your building?
Gloria: This is.
Mike: Wow!
Gloria: About 16 years ago, we got- renovated it.
It used to be an original grocery store in the area.
Mike: No kidding. Gloria: Yeah.
Mike: What's going on with this old fire station?
Gloria: So this is the original fire house of norwalk.
Mike: What year is that one?
Gloria: 1850s. Mike: Wow.
Gloria: That one's converted into 2 residential units.
Mike: Wow.
Gloria: We purchased this one about 15 years ago,
we did the same thing.
Mike: Oh you guys did this too.
Gloria: Yeah.
Mike: Revitalization, preservation, restoration
- these are all words that are thrown around a lot,
but there are a core few that actually
do the heavy lifting.
Gloria: We've been on this street for 16 years,
and now we're moving on to our next project,
and that's the reason why I phoned in to danielle,
'cause I think there's quite a few items in here
that you guys would be interested in.
Mike: So you're going to preserve this building as well?
Gloria: We are.
Mike: That's cool.
Gloria: This is the building.
Mike: Okay.
Gloria: As you can see, we have a lot of work cut out for us,
but that's...
Mike: Yeah, oh it's still got the sign - the hour press.
Jersey jon: Wow.
Gloria: Yes.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Gloria: Let's head inside 'cause I want to see if nathan is here.
Mike: Okay.
Mike: Wow!
Jersey jon: Whoa.
Mike: This is awesome!
Gloria: Nathan, are you here?
Nathan: Hey.
Mike: What's going on, man?
Nathan: How're you doing?
Mike: Hey, I'm mike.
Nathan: Nathan, very nice to meet you.
Jersey jon: Hey I'm jon, nice to meet you.
Nathan: How're you doing, jon?
Mike: She- she was giving us the tour of your other buildings,
you did a good job.
Nathan: Oh good, yeah thank you.
Mike: So I was confused, was this just a printing business
or did they actually have a newspaper in here?
Nathan: No, so actually the two brothers that started
the hour press here, they worked at the norwalk hour.
And during that time, there was so much demand for printing,
they said, look why don't you guys go off
and start your own company.
And that's what they did.
They actually spun off and started the hour press
in around 1930.
My good friend, michael bredice, that recently passed away,
michael had worked at the press as a young boy,
he was in there.
And then eventually took over, probably late '60s,
early '70s.
And really was involved with like,
running the press business with the family.
They had some of the largest accounts around town,
like pepperidge farm, to you name some of
the really large accounts.
Mike: Wow.
Well yeah, I'm looking around, like this machine right here,
I mean that's legit, look at the size of that, jersey.
Jersey jon: Yeah, that thing is huge.
Gloria: Alright, I'm going to check out,
and I'll check in with you guys later,
but nathan, it's time to sell. [laughs]
mike: Thank you.
Alright, appreciate it.
Jersey jon: Thanks, gloria.
Gloria: Alright, nice seeing you.
Mike: Are you a collector too,
you kind of collect a lot of stuff?
Nathan: Yeah.
Mike: Look at this thing, man.
This is serious.
Mike: This is a generational business that you can physically
see the evolution of by looking at the different technology.
Mike: This piece too is nuts.
Mike: There's all that heavy iron equipment
that they used to run back in the day.
Mike: Original heidelberg. Incredible!
Nathan: Those things have been there since 1930,
I would say.
They're that old.
Mike: Just imagine the sound of this...
Nathan: Oh...
Mike: [making printing machine sounds]
had to be so loud in here.
Back then, you know, those guys were like,
that's the sound of money.
Nathan: Yeah.
Jersey jon: It's still functioning.
Nathan: And how cool is that.
Jersey jon: Yeah there- look it, that's the brayers
that puts the ink on the plate.
This is how this machine worked.
This big flywheel stores energy and just keeps it going.
That little motor back there drove this whole machine.
Nathan: Yeah.
Jersey jon: It's brilliant.
Mike: It's got a flywheel, some gears, and some
ornamental iron legs - jersey's geeking out.
Jersey jon: Mike, what do you think?
Mike: I think it's- it's beautiful looking.
Jersey jon: I mean, it's really cool.
Mike: I mean, I wouldn't want- hey,
I'm not the guy on that, I'm not going to move that.
Jersey jon: I love it, and it has value.
You really want to bring it home,
but it's just not practical.
Mike: When you walk further up towards the front of the door,
then you're getting into stuff in the '80s and '90s.
You know, so imagine being in the same business for all of
those years, and then having to relearn it
constantly because the technology was changing.
It's really interesting.
Mike: Hoo, what's that?
♪♪
danielle: This is it, this is it.
Robbie: Alright, right here.
Danielle: Yes, ohhh... Look at it!
Robbie: Man, this place is cool!
Danielle: It's so cool, right?
Robbie: Wow.
Danielle: That's got to be gene up that ladder.
Hello!
Robbie: Hello!
Danielle: Are you gene?
Gene: Yes.
Danielle: Hi gene, I'm danielle.
I've been talking to your daughter, kate?
Gene: You've been talking to my daughter?
Danielle: Your daughter, kate.
Robbie: Yeah.
Gene: About?
Danielle: About looking at your antiques and cars and stuff?
Gene: Every time I try to do something out front,
I get people stopping, but I'll...
Danielle: Oh I'm so sorry.
Gene: Alright, kate's inside.
Danielle: Well I have been talking with kate about coming
and looking through some of your vintage cars and-
and what you have inside.
Gene: Oh.
Danielle: She never talked to you about that?
Gene: Um...
They're always trying to get me to sell stuff.
Danielle: Well, this is what we're looking for on here.
Gene: [deep breath] alright.
Danielle: Yeah it-
gene: She's right inside, I'll go...
Danielle: She- okay...
Gene: I'll go get her.
Danielle: Alright. Thanks.
Robbie: Anytime you roll up on a property owner,
and he doesn't know you're coming,
this can go south real quick.
♪♪
danielle: Did your daughter not tell you we were stopping by?
Gene: She's right inside, I'll go...
Danielle: She- okay...
Gene: I'll go get her.
Danielle: Alright. Thanks.
Robbie: Any time you roll up on a property owner,
and he doesn't know you're coming,
this can go south real quick.
Danielle: I talked to her, she said she was excited.
Robbie: Well I'm sure she is.
Kate: Hi!
Danielle: Kate?
Kate: Hi guys!
Danielle: Hi! Nice to meet you.
Kate: Yeah, hi danielle, it's nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Robbie: Hey, thanks for having us out.
Danielle: This is robbie.
Kate: No problem.
Hi robbie, nice to meet you.
So sorry, um I told them that you had a bunch of these
things that they're looking for, and they're here
to try to buy some stuff from you.
So, you ready to sell?
Gene: Heh-heh...
Danielle: Gene, I'm danielle.
Gene: Hi danielle.
Nice to meet you.
Danielle: Yeah, nice to officially meet you.
This is robbie.
Robbie: Hey, rob wolfe, nice to see you.
Gene: Robbie, nice to meet you.
Danielle: Yeah. Okay.
Kate: Yeah, so he'll show you around inside and everything.
Are you okay?
Gene: Yeah, yeah.
Kate: You good?
Gene: Yeah, I'll be fine.
Kate: I'm going home.
Gene: You got to take care of the baby, okay.
Kate: Yeah, alright, thank you guys,
thank you guys for coming.
Danielle: Okay yeah, yeah, thank you, nice to meet you.
Robbie: Alright, thank you, thank you.
Kate: Nice to meet you too. Gene: Alright.
Danielle: Sorry this is such a shocker for you, but-
robbie: Yeah.
Gene: [chuckles] since I'm right on the highway,
car people go by all the time...
Danielle: I bet.
Gene: ...And they're always stopping and 'how much for that,
how much for that."
this building was built in the mid-'20s.
It was a truck stop.
There was no route 80 to go across the country,
east to west.
So route 46 got you from new york to pennsylvania.
Gene: This was the main thoroughfare
for all that traffic.
Robbie: As america grew, the highway system grew.
But back in the day, it was just 2 lanes.
It doesn't look like much, but this road that we're standing
on, that's how truckers and semis got across
the united states at that time.
This was the highway that connected
the east coast to the west.
Gene: And they even rented rooms upstairs.
Danielle: This is where truckers would stay on their long-haul
across the country; if only these walls could talk.
Gene: Need an oil change or a grease job,
you lift up those boards, and there's a pit there.
Danielle: Nice!
Robbie: Most gas stations weren't like that.
You got your oil change in a big truck out front of the place.
Robbie: So gene...
Gene: In fact, don't walk on them... [chuckles]
danielle: Okay. [laughs]
robbie: Alright. I'm a car guy.
Gene: Yeah.
Robbie: Nomad.
Gene: Oh the nomad?
Robbie: Man, that thing is absolutely amazing.
2-door, station wagon.
These were the cars.
Gene: When I was in high school, my cousin bought it,
and him and I worked on it a little bit.
But then he put it in storage and
I didn't even know he still had it.
Gene: And when he died, it was written in the will that uh...
It goes to me.
Robbie: Wow.
Danielle: Can you imagine how much he loved
wrenching on that car with you?
Gene: Oh yeah.
Danielle: To leave it to you?
Gene: Yeah.
Robbie: So gene, I assume, not for sale.
Gene: No, no, no.
Robbie: Yeah.
Gene: Once route 80 opened, the volume of traffic going
down this road had a drop 75%.
You didn't have the customer base that you had in the '50s
and the '60s with people taking their road trips in
their big buicks and station wagons.
Gene: When I bought the building,
I had grand visions of putting antique gas pumps out front...
Danielle: Right.
Gene: ...With old globes on top.
So I started accumulating things like that.
Never had enough money to- to do it right.
Danielle: Sure.
Gene: I always wanted to do it right.
Danielle: You still got the globes and everything?
Gene: I have some of that, yeah. I have-
danielle: Can I see 'em?
Gene: I- yeah.
Danielle: I'm sure robbie'd like to see them.
Robbie: Oh yeah.
Gene: I got them inside.
You want to...
Danielle: Yeah, let's look.
Robbie: Wow!
Danielle: Yep.
Robbie: Man, this place is cool!
Gene: This was a lunch counter.
Robbie: Okay.
Gene: And there's a little kitchenette back there.
Robbie: Places like this, little mom-and-pop gas stations
from back in the day, they're scattered all
over the united states.
Most of them are closed down and emptied out.
This one has all the original contents still in it.
Robbie: Gene, looks like you got some uh...
I call them oilers - sinclair, sunoco.
Robbie: Handy oilers are easy to collect.
Robbie: Here's an esso, and an exxon, and a gulf.
Man, this is just, keeps on giving.
Sinclair, texaco, gulf - they weren't just in the business
of selling gas and oil, they wanted to be in your home.
So that's what these were.
These were used to oil the door, to oil the sewing machine.
Robbie: Believe it or not, these are actually highly collectable.
Most guys are looking for the earlier ones.
These would have a lead top to them.
None of these have that.
Robbie: They're from the '50s and '60s.
These don't date back into the '20s and '30s.
Those will demand more money.
Robbie: Is that stuff that you want to sell or...?
Gene: Yeah, yeah, I forgot they were even down there.
Robbie: Some of them aren't the best condition,
but to a guy just starting out they'd be awesome.
And dani loves smalls...
Danielle: I do.
Robbie: ...For the store. So... Would you do uh...
35 bucks right there.
Gene: How about 50 bucks?
Robbie: How about 40?
Gene: Yeah, 40's good.
Yeah, 40's good for that. [laughs]
robbie: I'm going to call your daughter and
tell her you- you sold something to me.
Seriously.
Gene: Yeah, she'll be happy and my wife will be happy.
Danielle: Kate!
Gene: That's a start, right?
Danielle: Yeah, it's a good start.
Robbie: Alright, hey it's a start. I like this.
Danielle: It's a good start.
♪♪
mike: There was a guy I met in iowa like 20 years ago,
he had a ton of this type of machinery,
and he goes, "I shipped tons of it to south america."
jersey jon: They still use it there?
Nathan: I bet.
Mike: Yeah.
Mike: It's easy for people to not understand
that a lot of this older equipment still has value.
Mike: A lot of people first- first thought is,
oh scrap that, you know.
Nathan: Sure, of course.
And I think that would just be a crying shame.
I mean...
Mike: Yeah I mean, if some- if somebody could utilize it.
Nathan: It comes down to space, I just don't have the space to
house everything, and I want to make sure it's going
to be repurposed in the right manner.
And I'm just not going to sell to anyone.
Mike: There's a lincoln, that's old,
dude, that is really old, that's wood.
This one's neat though, this is like a gondola in Italy.
Look at this one, here look at this one, nathan.
It's some st. Patrick's day parade.
Nathan: Oh cool.
Mike: Like a local st. Patrick's day parade.
Nathan: No kidding, really.
Mike: Look, check it out.
Nathan: Oh yeah, look at that.
Mike: And it's in norwalk, says "norwalk, connecticut."
I probably don't need to tell you,
this is the kind of stuff that needs to stay here.
Nathan: Yeah.
Mike: I would be interested in the cabinet,
but obviously not necessarily stuff like this...
Nathan: Right.
Mike: ...Because a lot of it's local.
Jersey jon: Cabinet looks like it's in pretty good shape, mike.
Mike: Yeah it does, it's a great piece.
Jersey jon: I love this stuff for hardware.
They're great for the shop, they're great for your house.
They're really sellable.
You bring this to the market, man,
as soon as you take them off the truck, they're gone.
Mike: You know what I love about jersey?
Every single thought that comes to his mind...
[chuckles] leaves his mouth.
Jersey jon: It's not rot on the bottom,
I mean, you never had any water in the building.
It's a nice thing, I mean, could you imagine
this in your house, you know?
Mike: Yeah.
Jersey jon: It's just like putting your
photographs in it or whatever.
Mike: Yeah, the only thing is, there's damage here,
and then obviously there's this...
Jersey jon: Yeah.
It needs work.
All the drawers are there.
Mike: Absolutely.
Jersey jon: That's what the big deal is.
You could probably get like 500 bucks for this thing.
The way it is.
Mike: The way- the way it is.
Jersey jon: Retail.
And I'd potentially go more.
Mike: See I was thinking, I- I was thinking
a little more than that.
I was thinking retail on it in that condition is like...
Like 8 to a grand.
Jersey jon: You think that high?
Mike: Yeah, just because they're so hot right now.
Jersey jon: I don't know, dude, you walk into my shop,
I'm not going to- you know, you're not
getting this done for 20 bucks.
This is $100...
Mike: What would you feel comfortable selling this at?
Nathan: Throw me an offer.
Mike: Um...
I'd do 4-and- a-half on it.
Nathan: You know what, let's start it off with that.
Mike: Okay.
I appreciate it.
Jersey jon: Yeah cool.
That's awesome.
Nathan: That's a good one.
Jersey jon: Thank you, man.
Nathan: Yeah.
You're welcome.
Jersey jon: Cool.
Mike: Very cool.
Nathan: Yep.
Robbie: There's more stuff to be found around here.
Gene: There is.
Danielle: Gene got this service station in 1986,
so it's gone through a lot of transitions.
And some of the relics from those transitions
are still here.
Robbie: This probably had oil in this at one time.
It doesn't say...
Gene: It's got the green t on the end.
Robbie: Yeah, which is early.
And it's got great subject matter.
I mean, it's in good shape.
Was this a texaco station when you bought it?
Gene: The texaco banjo pole signs were both here.
Robbie: Okay. Yeah?
Gene: Painted over and it said "mike's gas" on it.
[chuckles] so I bought it from mike.
Robbie: So that was the guy you bought it from,
mike, alright.
Gene: Yeah, yeah.
Before that it was flying a, but originally,
it was super x motor fuel.
Robbie: Okay.
Is that something you want to sell, gene?
Gene: Yeah.
Robbie: 25 bucks.
Gene: $40.
Robbie: 30 bucks.
Gene: 35.
Robbie: 35.
Gene: Okay.
Robbie: Appreciate it.
Danielle: I got a question for ya.
'cause I found this flying a sign back here.
Gene: Oh, that-
danielle: It's beautiful. This is a great porcelain
flying a sign. It's got 5 holes...
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: ...And it's got the wings out to the side.
Robbie: Flying a is one of the most popular brands.
It's an east coast brand, but they're very hard to find.
Robbie: You know what that goes to.
Gene: I don't.
Danielle: Does it go on the front of a gas pump?
Robbie: No.
Danielle: No?
Robbie: Not a pump plate.
That's a truck plate.
Danielle: Oh!
Robbie: For going on a truck.
Gene: Oh, on the door of a truck?
Danielle: Really.
Robbie: On the door, yeah.
On the doors.
Danielle: That makes sense 'cause it's...
Robbie: Yeah. Porcelain.
Danielle: It's one-sided.
Danielle: The whole reason that I'm out here on the road
is to further educate myself on these items.
I want to know the history better,
I want to know the backstories better.
And there's no better way to do that,
than to come out here with robbie
and mike and get first -hand experience.
Danielle: Is this sentimental to ya?
Gene: A friend of mine gave it to me,
actually, and...
I would sell it, but I...
Robbie: These actually demand good money.
Gene: I think this would be valuable.
Robbie: I mean they- yeah.
I would think a retail number on this plate,
about 1,300 bucks.
Danielle: Whoa...
Gene: Really.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: Chooh...
Robbie: Retail.
Gene: I had no idea it was for that kind of money, but...
Gene: I had 3 of them.
One of these pickers that would stop here on the weekends,
would you know, drive me crazy, he wanted to buy all 3
and I said "no, a friend of mine gave me them,
I'm not going to sell them."
he says, "well I'll give you $700 for 2 of them."
I said, "oh okay." [laughs]
so then when robbie told me it
was worth 1,300 for 1...
That's why my jaw dropped.
Robbie: I think we'd have to be in the $700 range.
Danielle: How do you feel about that, gene?
700 bucks on this guy?
Gene: I think 750 would buy it.
Danielle: 750 I'm in it.
Alright.
Gene: Oh yeah, well okay.
Danielle: Let's do it, let's do it.
Gene: I- I... Owe that friend a real good steak dinner.
[laughs]
danielle: That's incredible.
Robbie: I got to ask about these...
Gene: The texaco one I have the lubesters that
it was mounted on...
Robbie: Right.
Gene: It's out back.
Robbie: This went on the side of what they call a lubester,
where you got your oil or your grease out of,
and they're very hard to find in any condition,
because that lubester, it was getting banged
around inside the shop all the time.
To find one, pretty rare.
Robbie: It's got a few mosquito bites on it,
but that's okay.
Gene: Yeah.
Robbie: It's still in good shape.
Gene: I would sell it.
Robbie: 300 bucks.
Gene: Umm no.
I've seen that one sell for a lot more than that. 500.
Robbie: 4-and- a-quarter.
Gene: 450.
Robbie: [laughs] gene: [laughs]
robbie: Heh... I'll do it.
Gene: Okay.
Robbie: That's fine. Appreciate it. Thank you.
Danielle: Oh gene, check this out.
Gene: That is actually mine from when I was
like 5 or 6 years old.
Danielle: Aww...
Danielle: This tee bird is a beautiful well-preserved
robin's egg blue dream.
Danielle: You've done a good job taking care of this thing.
Gene: Got to give credit to my mother for that.
She kept it tucked away.
Gene: My mother gave it back to me about 15 years ago,
when she heard I was collecting pedal cars and she said,
"well take your old one up in the attic."
[laughs] so I said, "what are you talking about?"
I didn't know she had it.
Danielle: Are you going to hold onto this one,
'cause it's special and sentimental?
Gene: Um no, they take up a lot of room,
so it's time to sell them.
Danielle: Well good then, let's talk.
Gene: Make- make me an offer. [chuckles]
danielle: Well, I know they were worth a lot.
Gene: And when I was collecting them,
they- they were at the highest point.
Danielle: People started repopping them.
They're not worth as much, but they're still valuable.
It's got all of the pieces and parts,
still have the pedals, the wheels are in good shape.
I'm pretty sure that we could sell this for about 6 in-
in the shop.
Gene: Um-hm.
Danielle: Umm...
I feel like I can stand tall at 350 on it.
Gene: 350...?
Danielle: It gives us a little bit of room to-
to make some money, but...
Gene: How about 400?
Danielle: Um...
Gene: It'll clean up.
Danielle: How do you feel about 375?
Gene: Yeah, that's- that's-
danielle: That's good? Gene: That's enough.
Danielle: Yeah, yeah, that'll get us there, right?
Gene: Okay.
Danielle: Yeah, this is great.
Danielle: Pedal car prices might be down right now,
but they could pop back up next year,
you never know, the industry is fickle.
Danielle: This is robbie's day.
Gene: Yeah.
Danielle: And I'm going home with a car!
Gene: You're doing good, yeah, we're doing good.
Danielle: [laughs] gene: Okay.
Danielle: I love it. Thanks, gene.
Robbie: Gene!
I found a- it looks like- well it's one lens,
basically is what it is.
Gene: You break it, you bought it.
Robbie: Oh yeah...
I broke many of these suckers before,
I can tell you that. 200 bucks.
Gene: No, 2- 250 would buy it.
Robbie: 250.
Gene: Okay.
Robbie: Where are all the globes that were here
when you bought the property?
Gene: Yeah, I still have one globe that was
originally delivered to this property back in the '20s.
Robbie: Oh so it's here.
Gene: Somewhere, yeah.
♪♪
mike: Nathan! Nathan: Yes.
Mike: I probably don't need to tell you that this is in here.
This has 2 drawers missing.
One here and then they built this one.
Mike: This is the type of stuff that I was hoping
was going to be in here.
Mike: What about this piece?
A very small piece.
It's got advertising on it, so it kind of kicks it up.
Jersey jon: What's that little cabinet right there?
Mike: I was checking that out.
It's supposed to be slanted.
Mike: A lot of these early print cabinets
are getting so hard to find.
Mike: It's missing the end of this knob.
If it wasn't missing the 2 drawers and it was complete,
oh my gosh it would take it to the next level.
Nathan: Sure.
Mike: Some of them are missing drawers,
a lot of them are missing handles,
but there are still the people out there
that want something authentic.
Nathan: To the right I think there's
the original face plate...
Mike: Oh wow.
Nathan: I think that's original to it.
Mike: "intertype trademark."
hey that's cool.
That's really cool, I love this.
Jersey jon: Yeah, it's cool, but it's missing the drawer,
that kills it.
Mike: Missing that one drawer, I know!
Mike: All that stuff can be found or made;
the fact is, these things are extremely hot to
the point where they're reproducing them.
Mike: 2-and-a-quarter.
Like 75 bucks.
200 bucks.
Nathan: That sounds fair.
Mike: Yeah.
Nathan: How about 225?
Mike: Shake his hand, jon.
Nathan: How about 125?
Mike: 85 bucks.
Nathan: 90.
Mike: Alright, man. Thank you.
Nathan: You're welcome.
Jersey jon: This is cool.
[bangs on desk] guilty!
Let me see what else you got in here...
Whoa!
This is what, a sales book for the printing shop.
Nathan: Guess so.
Jersey jon: Back in the day, it's almost like stock
certificates samples or something,
they're incorporation certificates, shares.
It looks like it's...
Probably turn -of-the-century.
Look at the graphics on that, wow.
Nathan: Ah it's beautiful.
Jersey jon: Beautiful stuff they did back then.
The engraving is just phenomenal.
That was like printing that would have been on money,
like dollar bills or $100 bills.
Nathan: And they just don't do stuff like this anymore.
Yeah.
Jersey jon: Exactly.
They don't do anything like this anymore.
Jersey jon: You whip out a $100 bill,
you see the engraving on it, you don't think twice
about when you give it to somebody.
But if you really look at that thing,
there's a lot going on there.
This is early design history, this is where it started.
Jersey jon: How do you value this?
It's- it's not something you come across every day.
Nathan: I- I've never seen another.
Jersey jon: I would take a shot at it for like 75 bucks.
Nathan: How about 100?
Jersey jon: Wooh...
Man, like that printing on the $100 bill,
is that what got you going? [laughs]
nathan: [laughs]
jersey jon: I'll tell you what, dude, I'll do 100 bucks,
I love this thing.
Nathan: Okay.
Jersey jon: Thank you.
Nathan: Thank you.
Jersey jon: Yep, cool.
Nathan: And I know it's going to a good home.
♪♪
robbie: It's got to be here somewhere.
It's got to be here somewhere.
Gene: I started working as a mobile mechanic out of my truck.
So I really don't need a building like this anymore.
We've offered the property for sale a couple of
times through the years, and we'd say to the buyer,
"do you want to see the apartment, we fixed it all up."
and they'd say, "no we're just going to bulldoze the building."
gene: I wish I could find somebody that would not do that.
Robbie: Gene!
I think I found it, it's a gas globe box. Ugh...
Gene: That looks like it.
Robbie: Got a 100-year- old dust on it.
Gene: [chuckles] look how beautiful.
Robbie: Whoa...
Holy cow, you weren't kidding!
Wow...
Hasn't even been out of the box!
Gene: That was the spare,
'cause they were on pumps right out front here.
Robbie: Super x.
Do you remember what that was?
I mean, I'm not familiar with that company.
Gene: The company was in new England...
Robbie: Yeah.
Gene: ...And new york and new jersey.
It was called warner-quinlan or something.
Robbie: Oh okay. Alright.
Gene: And then they sold out to cities services.
Robbie: Gas and oil companies back in the day were small
mom-and-pop outfits.
There were hundreds of them.
A lot of these companies later on got swallowed
up by the big guys.
In this case, it was cities service.
And when this happened, they would take down your signs,
and put their signs up.
And with globes, they smashed it,
and that was the end of it.
They didn't think it was worth anything.
So to find this globe intact, in the original box?
This baby is rare!
Robbie: I hate to even ask, is it for sale?
Gene: It's been here almost 100 years.
I always thought it belonged with the building.
But now that I'm thinking of selling the building
and robbie showed some passion.
Gene: Yeah, eventually we're going to sell this property...
Robbie: Yeah.
Gene: So I don't really have a use for it so.
Robbie: The super x globe is one of the rarest
globes that I've ever found.
Robbie: Unfortunately, in the gas and oil hobby,
rarity doesn't always...
Compute to dollar signs.
Gene: Um-hm.
Robbie: The ones that are character globes tend
to demand the most money.
Gene: Right.
Robbie: Anything that's got an animal, a car, a racecar.
I mean, I'll make an offer on it.
1,700 bucks.
Gene: Nah... I don't think so.
That's... That's not enough.
Robbie: I understand.
Gene: It's original to this property and it's...
Maybe you buy the whole property,
I'll give you the globe free. [laughs]
robbie: Everybody needs a gas station.
Gene: That's what I told my wife. [chuckles]
robbie: I love the story.
I love the piece.
What's it going to take to own it?
Gene: ...I don't know...
I bet you the box is even worth some money, you know...
Robbie: The box is worth something.
Gene: Yeah.
Robbie: The fact that it's got the box in there,
I mean, I think it is.
Gene: $2,000... With the box.
That's... All I can do.
Otherwise I'll keep it with the property.
Danielle: This place served as a b&b for truckers.
And trucking makes america work.
That's why it's important that we preserve the
history of this service station.
Robbie: I'm going to do it.
I'm going to buy it.
Thank you.
Danielle: Yeah!
Robbie: Appreciate that.
Gene: Okay.
Danielle: Awesome.
Robbie: Thank you.
Gene: I used to have a sinclair one...
Robbie: Yeah.
Gene: ...Sitting on that vending machine,
and one guy shook the vending machine.
Danielle: [gasps] no...
Robbie: And there it went, away it went.
Gene: To get his...
10-cent candy bar, destroyed my sinclair sign.
Danielle: Did you make him pay for it?
Gene: No...
Danielle: Ah you're a nice dude...
Gene: ...It was my father-in-law. [laughs]
danielle: ...Ahh! [laughs]
♪♪
nathan: 90 years, the family owned the property.
90 years prior to it being the hour press,
since 1930.
It used to be a cigar factory, before that they even have
lamps and shades they sold, they sold lumber as well.
It's been a wide array of things over the years.
Mike: Was this in here when it was the cigar store?
Nathan: No.
Mike: This goes beyond preservation for nathan.
He had a personal relationship with the previous owner.
Mike: [laughs]
nathan: We would just hang out, smoke cigars,
talk about life, family, and norwalk history.
Mike: Yeah.
Nathan: Just because his family has deep roots here.
Nathan: He used to drive me around even,
and show me different spots.
And he's the one that told, hey the flood of '55 took
out the majority of the buildings down there,
and devastated the area.
And it really never came back the way it formerly was.
Mike: I think he probably knew he had the right guy in mind.
Nathan: Yeah.
♪♪
jersey jon: Oh it's like an embossing-
gene: Yeah.
Jersey jon: So you put the paper inside this... And then...
Nathan: And then stamp it, notarized it, most likely.
Jersey jon: Like yeah, look at the lion's head.
Nathan: Yeah, that's great, isn't it?
Jersey jon: It's victorian; it's a nice shelf piece. 30 bucks.
Nathan: Let's do it.
Jersey jon: Alright, brother, man.
Nathan: Yeah.
Jersey jon: I'm awesome, that's great.
Mike: How about this mirror?
Mike: The older mirrors in the original frames
with the faded silvering? [chuckles]
they get me every time, man,
I love that stuff.
Mike: 25 bucks.
Nathan: How about 30?
Mike: Alright, I'll do 30. Thank you.
Mike: These are the kind of things that people are looking
for because you can physically see that they have a story.
Jersey jon: I saw these when I came in.
Queen anne victorian doors.
I'm interested in this door.
Nathan: How about give me 150 for that one?
Jersey jon: I would definitely do that.
Man, that is one heck of a solid table.
This is solid steel.
200 for this table.
Nathan: How about 250?
Jersey jon: How about 2-and-a-quarter?
Nathan: Let's do it, thank you.
Jersey jon: Awesome, man, thank you, brother. Yep.
Mike: Jer-sseeyy!
Look at that, it's wooden handle.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Mike: Yeah?
You like that?
Jersey jon: Buck brothers.
I like the chisel, are there more chisels over there?
Mike: There's one.
It's wood handle.
Jersey jon: I'm a tool guy, I love tools.
I can't walk by tools without at least taking a look.
Mike: That?
Jersey jon: That one, all the way to the right,
and all the way to your left...
And that one, yep.
Let me see those.
This is a yankee.
The electric driver of the day.
Mike: Jersey is incredibly good at what he does.
Jersey jon: I use these at a boat shop for a little while.
Mike: And it's reflected in the tools that he uses.
Jersey jon: I love this screwdriver.
I'm not looking for collector's tools.
Nathan: Sure.
Jersey jon: I mean, I'm using these damn things.
Nathan: Yep.
Jersey jon: I'm thinking 20 bucks for all this stuff.
Nathan: How about 25?
Jersey jon: Yeah man, I'll do that.
Nathan: Okay.
Alright, cool.
Jersey jon: Absolutely, thanks, brother.
Nathan: Yeah, you're welcome.
Jersey jon: Cool.
Alright, what else you got in there, mike?
Mike: Gas light, what's left of it.
25 bucks.
Nathan: Let's do it.
Mike: Okay thank you. Appreciate ya.
♪♪
gene: I got some containers in the back here.
Robbie: That thing's cool.
The lincoln rug company.
Gene: Yeah.
Robbie: Be a great wall.
What do we got here?
Gene: You know better than I do, but...
Robbie: Ahh...
Gene: This was a shell gas pump, and it had the globe on top,
and everything when I bought it.
And my brother worked for shell.
I gave it to him as a gift.
Robbie: Yeah.
Gene: The shell globe that was on there.
Robbie: Huh. This is a bennett clock face,
with ad glass, which is unusual
to have ad glass on the top.
Gene: Okay.
Robbie: I mean, is it for sale?
Gene: Oh yeah, yeah, I don't need it anymore.
Robbie: Okay.
This one here too.
I love the paint on that thing, look at the paint on that one.
Danielle: That looks nice.
Gene: Yeah, you sand it down and repaint it...
[laughs]
robbie: What are you talking about! What!
Gene: You- you like it that way?
Robbie: It's only original one time.
Gene: Oh okay.
Danielle: He likes it sweaty.
Robbie: Look at that!
Robbie: The only reason my brother was into original paint
stuff before me, 'cause he was born first!
Robbie: It's an erie clock face.
Danielle: Your brother doesn't buy these very often, does he.
Robbie: Well...
Danielle: I would see the other pumps,
I don't see clock face pumps.
Robbie: Around 1925, visible pumps were getting phased out,
because a more accurate and safer way to measure
and pump gas was introduced.
Gene: They had to do the math on every sale.
Robbie: Yeah.
Robbie: At the same time, everyone was
starting to focus on style and design.
So the new pumps that were coming out,
they were sleeker, they were modern,
they were art deco.
Robbie: So this is a '30s, yeah.
Gene: Is that, that's '30s.
Robbie: This is a- this is an earlier,
so like '28 to '32.
They're about the same age.
Gene: Oh.
Robbie: Can we get them out, 'cause I want to look
them over before we, before I make you an offer on it.
Gene: Well they're heavy.
Robbie: We do this all the time.
Robbie: In the 1930s, gas stations were evolving.
Robbie: Alright here...
Danielle: Careful, 'cause the floor is falling
through under your feet.
Robbie: Yeah I know.
Robbie: From the signs to the gas pumps,
to the gas globes themselves, to the appearance
of the guy pumping your gas.
Danielle: Here robbie...
Robbie: Alright, here...
!
Danielle: Alright, there she goes down the hole.
Robbie: He wasn't just some grungy looking dude,
he was in white, he had a white hat on,
and when you pulled into that station,
you were the special person that was there.
He was pumping your fuel, he washed your windows,
it was an experience.
Robbie: Ugh!
Robbie: It was all about brand loyalty.
Robbie: Wooh!
The panels look a little bent up,
that's alright, they'll straighten out.
It's got a great look to it.
Gene: It's just missing the globe.
Robbie: All the parts are here.
They just need to be reassembled.
I can make a shell pump out of the one,
I can make a texaco pump out of the other.
Robbie: Ahhh... Man... Look.
The face is missing.
Danielle: Ah.
Gene: Oh-oh-oh...
Robbie: The trim is here, everything else is here that
needs to be, the bones of it are good.
I love the condition of them, we're going to have to
do some work to put them back together.
Gene: I've seen them at shows, fixed up for 5,000 -$4,000.
So I knew mine, complete, was always going to
have the value to it.
Robbie: 800 on the erie.
650 on the bennett.
Gene: Ooh...
Robbie: There's a lot of work here, gene.
Gene: Yeah, yeah...
Danielle: Honestly we-
robbie: This one's got a lot of work to be done to it.
Danielle: You leave them in here another 6 months,
and they're going to be gone, so.
Gene: Yeah, there's no back door on this anymore.
Robbie: I think these pumps are worth
around $4,000 for the pair.
But I'm going to invest some blood,
sweat, and tears, and a little bit of cash,
just to get them back to where somebody's
going to pay that number.
Gene: So 8 and 650... 1,450... Um...
Gene: To find somebody that appreciates a rusty old piece of
junk, that made me feel like, there's the buyer that I needed.
Gene: Make it 1,500 for the 2 of them.
That's $50 up.
[laughs] yes?
Danielle: Okay.
Listen, I have a thought. [clears throat]
these... Porcelain industrial shades.
Danielle: Green porcelain industrial shades,
people love the esthetic.
We sell them like...
[snaps fingers] all day.
Danielle: Throw these in, and we're at 15.
Gene: No.
I remember buying them at a- at a sale,
and I think I paid $10 apiece, so. I... No.
$50 for the 4 shades.
Robbie: So 1,550.
Gene: You, you get everything that you're looking at here.
Danielle: Alright. I'm alright with that, yeah.
Gene: Okay, thank you.
Robbie: That's, that's alright.
Danielle: It's good.
Has it been a good robbie day though?
Robbie: Well, I'll let you know after you load that pump.
Danielle: Ah.. .Son of a...
Robbie: See you out there.
Gene: [laughs] danielle: Alright.
If only he was kidding.
Robbie: Man, what a day!
Danielle: We had the privilege today of walking through
a hundred years of history.
Gene: You got your treasures.
Robbie: Man... This is awesome, gene.
Robbie: He was the kid that came down here,
had a soda pop, talked to the old guys,
watched the truckers come in.
And now gene has become that guy.
Danielle: Thanks for everything.
Gene: Thanks, okay, thank you.
Robbie: Thank you so much.
Danielle: See you again soon, I'm sure.
Gene: I'm going to have a regular yard sale.
And then what's the plan is like my wife is looking for a
small ranch house, [laughs] with a swimming pool.
[honks horn]
danielle: Bye!
Robbie: See ya, buddy!
Thank you!
Gene: Bye-bye.
♪♪
nathan: See where the brickwork is done between
the lintel and the window?
Mike: Yeah.
Nathan: I want to blow that out and put the originals back in.
Mike: Oh, you're going to bring the windows up taller up top.
Jersey jon: Right, the way these are.
Nathan: Up where the lintel is up top...
Mike: Oh okay.
Nathan: ...On the third level.
Mike: This is how it all starts.
One building leads to two, two to three,
and then it goes beyond this street and the
ripple effect is felt throughout this city.
Nathan: Watch your step here.
Mike: Oh yeah.
Jersey jon: We're crawling around in the basement,
and it's like dirty, [laughs] and we're getting cobwebs
all on our faces...
Mike: God dang, man...
Jersey jon: [laughs] look at- you're covered,
he's covered...
Nathan: [laughs] oh...
Mike: Oh look at this fan... Ugh...
Nathan: Watch your head...
Jersey jon: It's got a cast iron ring,
early electric motor.
It's from the 19-5, 1910, it's a cool piece.
Jersey jon: American blower company, detroit.
You do the 20 bucks, and I'll take it.
Nathan: That sounds fair.
Jersey jon: Alright cool, man, thanks.
Jersey jon: It's a nice ventilation fan.
Mike: What else you got back here. Ugh...
Oh here's the large wood blocks.
Here's the wood letters.
This stuff's good, the wood stuff we can sell,
and it's easy to manage, you know,
it's not heavy.
Mike: We can't carry the machinery out of here,
but we can carry the print blocks out.
Mike: Oh here, look, here's more.
How about all the wood blocks?
Would you sell the wood blocks?
Nathan: Yeah.
Jersey jon: Those are cool, you don't see that every day.
Mike: No.
Nathan: Usually...
Jersey jon: So that's for making like bit posters.
Mike: Yeah.
Mike: Let's see if there's any more of it.
Dang, I can't even see it, like stalactites, dude.
Mike: The best stuff, the oldest stuff,
is always in the back, at the bottom.
Nathan: Yeah, I don't even know what's back there, mike.
I haven't been back there.
Mike: More letters, dude.
Mike: When I get over this plumbing pipe,
and I get back there, I just see all of the typeset,
I mean, all of it from this printing business!
Jersey jon: That's all type?
Mike: Yeah.
Jersey jon: Geez.
Mike: You know, think about it - as the technology changed,
they didn't need this stuff anymore,
so they carried it all the way to the front of the basement and
they dropped it there and that's where it's been sitting all
of these years, in the original drawers!
Mike: Ugh!
Jersey jon: What else you got back there, corncob?
Mike: More type, dude, there's tons.
Jersey jon: Really?
Mike: Yeah, I'm trying to get this sink off of it though.
Mike: Ugh!
Jersey jon: Careful, guys.
Mike: This thing's heavy, isn't it?
Nathan: Not like pushing pencils. [laughs]
jersey jon: Don't hurt mike. [laughs]
means I got to carry everything out of here then.
Mike: They're in their natural state,
where someone had put them decades ago,
you know, here I am unearthing them,
uncovering them for a new life.
Mike: There's the big letters here.
Mike: There's all these different fonts,
and there's numbers, and there's large typeset and there's small.
It's like once I get into it, you keep pulling it back,
and it's just not stopping.
And I don't want to leave any of it.
Jersey jon: Got a nice stack of type here, mike.
Mike: Urgh!
Agh... Dammit!
Give me something to throw these in,
all these big ones.
Mike: So then I grab a bucket and I start picking the stuff
off the floor that's not in the drawers,
because that's the way my mind works,
it's like a diesel motor.
Once I start on something like this,
I'm not going to stop digging until I get all of it.
Mike: Alright... Coming on out...
Nathan: Watch yourself...
Jersey jon: Whoa, watch it, don't pull it,
this whole thing's ready to go...
Mike: Yeah, this is like teeter-tottering.
Alright, so here's what we got here.
We got... A lot of these.
Let's just call it...
A lot.
And some of these, like the larger print ones...
Nathan: Yeah...
Mike: You know, this is long game material,
but you know, somebody might pay 5 bucks for that.
Or what they do, last time I had a haul like this is,
they spell their name.
Let's see...
What are you thinking?
Nathan: Throw me an offer.
Mike: Yeah, I'm scared to.
[group laughing]
nathan: You worked for it.
Mike: Uh... 500 bucks.
[laughs] nathan: Let's do it.
And I'll help you take it out.
Jersey jon: Wow, cool man.
Nathan: Yeah.
Jersey jon: Yeah.
Mike: That means you're helping too. [laughs]
jersey jon: Well sure, why not.
Mike: All of these printing blocks means something to me,
because of the place I got them from.
Not at a flea market, not in an estate sale,
the original business.
Mike: Alright.
Mike: Gloria and nathan are really committed to michael,
the previous owner, the building,
and the restoration.
Jersey jon: Here's the last of that print downstairs.
Mike: Oh man, thank you.
Nathan: We're just trying to bring our neighborhood up
and bring it back to its former glory.
Mike: Alright, I'm going to come check on your guys.
Gloria: Okay.
Nathan: Yeah.
Mike: Seriously, I- I am, dude.
I'm going to come check on you.
Nathan: Very nice to meet you.
Gloria: It was so great to meet you.
Mike: Oh my gosh, are you kidding me?
I love what you're doing!
Jersey jon: Dude, thanks, man.
Nathan: You got it.
Mike: Nathan and gloria are putting in the effort
and making a difference in their community.
Mike: See you down the road!
[honks horn] mike: Woo!
Gloria: Bye guys!
Nathan: See ya.
Mike: What are you doing now?
Thank you.
See?
He's the only one that cares.
No one else cares.
Off-camera: I look at the words, he's the only one
that looks at your pecs.
Gene: Here's a funny story, and can I swear a little bit?
[laughs] off-camera: Of course, oh yeah.
Nathan: I think, you know, for the next 10 years,
the whole central corridor of norwalk is just going to
explode, unless the world falls apart,
let's hope that doesn't happen.
But nevertheless...
Gene: So I said to my buddy, I said,
"how long has that been there?"
he's like, "I don't know.
About 75 years, I think!"
[laughs] I said, "you're kidding me!"
robbie: And your wife said what when she came home?
Gene: She cried... [laughs]
robbie: She cried-
gene: I said, "don't worry, we'll only live here a year
or two, and then I'll buy another house."
well, 35 years later, we're still here.
[laughs] off-camera: Did it grow on her?
Gene: No. [laughs]
jersey jon: 30 bucks.
Nathan: Let's do it.
Jersey jon: Alright, brother man.
Nathan: Yeah.
Jersey jon: I'm awesome, that's great.
Nathan: [laughs] off-camera (multiple): I'm awesome...
[laughing] you are awesome, jon!...
Awesome!...
We all think you're awesome too.
Robbie: Turn and hit me, and I'm going to knock
this out of my hands.
Danielle: Yeah?
Robbie: Chip doesn't know it's empty.
Danielle: Oh okay.
Robbie: Yeah.
Danielle: I'm comfortable around these boys.
Robbie: What- what are you doing?
Danielle: I don't know...
Robbie: What are you doing?
Danielle: They're like the older brothers I never wanted.
Danielle & robbie: [laughing]