1 00:00:01,334 --> 00:00:04,937 ♪ ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:05,071 --> 00:00:06,538 MIKE: So the way I roll is 10-pair of underwear, 3 00:00:06,672 --> 00:00:08,607 one pair of socks. Live it. 4 00:00:08,741 --> 00:00:09,808 DANIELLE: That's the way to roll, 5 00:00:09,876 --> 00:00:10,876 I've been telling you that for years. 6 00:00:10,944 --> 00:00:12,344 MIKE: I know. I finally started listening. 7 00:00:12,478 --> 00:00:12,878 DANIELLE: Well... 8 00:00:13,012 --> 00:00:13,478 ROBBIE: Man... Yeah 9 00:00:13,546 --> 00:00:14,947 MIKE: Listen up, Robbie. 10 00:00:15,081 --> 00:00:15,881 DANIELLE: I'm glad that you guys are finally... 11 00:00:15,949 --> 00:00:16,815 ROBBIE: Listen, as long as it doesn't- 12 00:00:16,883 --> 00:00:17,282 doesn't smell, that's all I care about. 13 00:00:17,417 --> 00:00:18,350 MIKE: [chuckles] 14 00:00:18,418 --> 00:00:19,018 DANIELLE: I made reservations in Columbus, Ohio 15 00:00:19,152 --> 00:00:19,818 for tonight at the hotel. 16 00:00:19,886 --> 00:00:20,419 So don't go on any adventures... 17 00:00:20,553 --> 00:00:21,820 MIKE: Ooh, reservations. 18 00:00:21,888 --> 00:00:22,687 ROBBIE: We're not going to West Virginia? 19 00:00:22,756 --> 00:00:23,689 DANIELLE: Columbus, Ohio, first. 20 00:00:23,823 --> 00:00:24,556 MIKE: Usually the hotels we stay at, 21 00:00:24,624 --> 00:00:25,290 don't take reservations. 22 00:00:25,425 --> 00:00:26,625 ROBBIE: Yeah. 23 00:00:26,693 --> 00:00:27,292 MIKE: So this must be fancy. 24 00:00:27,427 --> 00:00:28,093 ROBBIE: Yeah. 25 00:00:28,227 --> 00:00:28,560 DANIELLE: This one's pretty good. 26 00:00:28,628 --> 00:00:29,228 MIKE: [laughs] 27 00:00:29,362 --> 00:00:29,628 DANIELLE: It's pretty good. 28 00:00:29,696 --> 00:00:30,829 MIKE: Bye. 29 00:00:30,963 --> 00:00:31,230 DANIELLE: Alright. Love you guys. Be safe. 30 00:00:31,364 --> 00:00:32,765 MIKE: Bye. 31 00:00:32,899 --> 00:00:33,298 DANIELLE: Watch that lead foot, Robbie. 32 00:00:33,366 --> 00:00:35,000 [honks horn] 33 00:00:39,372 --> 00:00:44,976 ♪ ♪ ♪ 34 00:00:45,045 --> 00:00:47,112 MIKE: [laughing] Remember in high school, when your 35 00:00:47,180 --> 00:00:49,181 girlfriends would call the house, and then I would answer 36 00:00:49,249 --> 00:00:52,851 the phone, and they'd be like, 'oh Robbie, ' you know, it just 37 00:00:52,985 --> 00:00:54,319 clicked in my head all of a sudden, I'm like... 38 00:00:54,387 --> 00:00:55,320 ROBBIE: Yeah. 39 00:00:55,388 --> 00:00:56,588 MIKE: Oh my God, these guys think I'm Robbie. 40 00:00:56,656 --> 00:00:58,123 ROBBIE: I still owe you for the time that you freakin' told 41 00:00:58,191 --> 00:01:00,325 3 different girls that I was going to take them to the dance. 42 00:01:00,393 --> 00:01:01,727 MIKE: [laughs] 43 00:01:01,861 --> 00:01:02,727 ROBBIE: Yeah, you don't remember that. 44 00:01:02,796 --> 00:01:05,397 MIKE: On your salary from Chef's Hat. 45 00:01:05,531 --> 00:01:05,998 ROBBIE: Yeah, yeah. 46 00:01:06,132 --> 00:01:06,598 MIKE: Remember that? 47 00:01:06,666 --> 00:01:07,733 ROBBIE: A&W root beer. 48 00:01:07,867 --> 00:01:09,601 MIKE: Times have changed, little brother. 49 00:01:09,735 --> 00:01:10,936 ROBBIE: Times have changed. 50 00:01:11,004 --> 00:01:13,405 ROBBIE: Here it is, right here. It's right here. 51 00:01:13,539 --> 00:01:13,939 MIKE: Oh this is it? 52 00:01:14,073 --> 00:01:14,807 ROBBIE: This is it. 53 00:01:14,941 --> 00:01:18,010 MIKE: Alright. Give them a flyer here. 54 00:01:22,482 --> 00:01:24,283 Ah... hey -hey! 55 00:01:24,417 --> 00:01:24,950 BRAD: Yeah, hey. 56 00:01:25,084 --> 00:01:25,617 MIKE: Hey, what's going on? 57 00:01:25,751 --> 00:01:26,685 ROBBIE: How're you doing? 58 00:01:26,753 --> 00:01:27,619 MIKE: I'm Mike, this is Robbie. 59 00:01:27,687 --> 00:01:28,620 You guys talked to Danielle? 60 00:01:28,754 --> 00:01:29,488 BRAD: Yeah, I did yeah, hi Mike. 61 00:01:29,622 --> 00:01:30,489 Yeah, good to meet you. 62 00:01:30,623 --> 00:01:31,623 MIKE: Nice to meet you. 63 00:01:31,757 --> 00:01:32,091 Here, man, here take a flyer. 64 00:01:32,225 --> 00:01:32,891 BRAD: Hey Robbie. 65 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:33,291 ROBBIE: Good to see you, man. 66 00:01:33,359 --> 00:01:33,959 BRAD: Yeah. 67 00:01:34,093 --> 00:01:35,560 BRAD: What do we got here? 68 00:01:35,628 --> 00:01:36,562 Motor scooters, Vespas... 69 00:01:36,696 --> 00:01:37,429 MIKE: Yeah, there you go. 70 00:01:37,563 --> 00:01:38,430 That's the good stuff. 71 00:01:38,564 --> 00:01:39,298 You got any of those? 72 00:01:39,432 --> 00:01:40,899 BRAD: Yeah we... 73 00:01:41,033 --> 00:01:41,300 have some of this stuff around here, yeah, yeah. 74 00:01:41,434 --> 00:01:42,300 Hey, Bruce? 75 00:01:42,368 --> 00:01:43,569 BRUCE: Hey. 76 00:01:43,703 --> 00:01:44,770 MIKE: What's going on, man? 77 00:01:44,904 --> 00:01:46,772 We heard, we heard all about you guys. 78 00:01:46,906 --> 00:01:47,573 BRUCE: Ohh... trying to figure out where 79 00:01:47,707 --> 00:01:49,107 to start with this stuff. 80 00:01:49,175 --> 00:01:50,309 MIKE: We heard all about you guys, all the way from Iowa. 81 00:01:50,443 --> 00:01:51,243 ROBBIE: Yeah. 82 00:01:51,311 --> 00:01:51,844 BRUCE: Hey, nice to meet you. I'm Bruce. 83 00:01:51,978 --> 00:01:52,377 ROBBIE: Good to see ya. 84 00:01:52,445 --> 00:01:54,179 MIKE: I'm Mike. 85 00:01:54,247 --> 00:01:55,114 BRAD: My name is Brad Hunt, this is my brother, Bruce Hunt. 86 00:01:55,248 --> 00:01:57,182 And we're from Cottageville, West Virginia. 87 00:01:57,984 --> 00:01:58,450 BRUCE: Originally, this was my grandfather's 88 00:01:58,584 --> 00:02:00,919 general mercantile. 89 00:02:01,053 --> 00:02:03,388 It was also a United States Post Office as well, 90 00:02:03,456 --> 00:02:05,056 part of the store. 91 00:02:05,125 --> 00:02:06,992 BRAD: It's been closed for a long time, and our mother 92 00:02:07,060 --> 00:02:09,061 passed recently and it's kind of passed to us and... 93 00:02:09,195 --> 00:02:11,396 we're trying to sort through it, clean it out, you know. 94 00:02:11,531 --> 00:02:12,731 MIKE: Figure it out? 95 00:02:12,799 --> 00:02:14,799 So Dani was saying on the phone that, you guys closed in '89, 96 00:02:14,868 --> 00:02:16,468 and then your mom started yard sale-ing. 97 00:02:16,602 --> 00:02:18,336 BRAD: Yeah, yeah... she 98 00:02:18,404 --> 00:02:19,404 MIKE: [laughs] 99 00:02:19,472 --> 00:02:20,138 BRUCE: Well, the... well she would go to yard sales 100 00:02:20,206 --> 00:02:21,273 and pile all the stuff in here. 101 00:02:21,407 --> 00:02:21,673 BRAD: Yeah. 102 00:02:21,807 --> 00:02:23,074 MIKE: Okay. 103 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:24,743 BRUCE: Our mother grew up in the Depression, basically, 104 00:02:24,877 --> 00:02:26,211 and she would not get rid of anything. 105 00:02:26,279 --> 00:02:29,214 You know, she said, oh we might need that, we might need that. 106 00:02:29,348 --> 00:02:31,550 BRAD: And in Mom's will, it was handwritten, and in parentheses 107 00:02:31,684 --> 00:02:33,285 - 'lots of junk, sorry boys.' 108 00:02:33,353 --> 00:02:34,419 BRUCE: Yeah. 109 00:02:34,554 --> 00:02:35,487 BRAD & BRUCE: [laughs] 110 00:02:35,555 --> 00:02:36,288 BRAD: In parentheses on her handwritten will. 111 00:02:36,422 --> 00:02:37,622 BRUCE: That's... 112 00:02:37,690 --> 00:02:38,357 BRAD: And she wasn't lying. 113 00:02:38,491 --> 00:02:38,757 There's a lot of junk around here. 114 00:02:38,891 --> 00:02:39,758 MIKE: Yeah. 115 00:02:39,826 --> 00:02:40,892 BRAD: You know, there's-there's... 116 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:41,693 MIKE: I like all that shelving that's in here. 117 00:02:41,761 --> 00:02:42,294 Like that's still the original... 118 00:02:42,428 --> 00:02:43,562 stain on it... 119 00:02:43,696 --> 00:02:44,830 BRAD: That's old original. 120 00:02:44,964 --> 00:02:45,831 MIKE: this has been painted, obviously. 121 00:02:45,965 --> 00:02:48,167 BRAD: Uh... yeah, that-that's old original. 122 00:02:48,301 --> 00:02:50,368 These were two buildings at one time, that we got made into one. 123 00:02:50,436 --> 00:02:51,570 MIKE: Oh, okay. 124 00:02:51,704 --> 00:02:52,905 BRUCE: This was a harness shop and hardware store, and then 125 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:55,908 that was a grocery store, and then when Grandpa 126 00:02:56,042 --> 00:02:58,110 bought it back in the late '30s, early '40s... 127 00:02:58,244 --> 00:03:00,445 MIKE: So when he bought it, when-did he buy a building or 128 00:03:00,580 --> 00:03:01,580 did he buy a business? 129 00:03:01,714 --> 00:03:02,781 BRUCE: He bought a business. 130 00:03:02,849 --> 00:03:04,316 BRAD: The store was started with him and his brothers, 131 00:03:04,450 --> 00:03:05,984 Waldo and John. 132 00:03:06,052 --> 00:03:07,719 And they were the Hunt Brothers, so they opened up 133 00:03:07,853 --> 00:03:09,788 the Hunt Brothers General Store and... 134 00:03:09,856 --> 00:03:11,723 MIKE: Yeah, you can buy a ham in here, 135 00:03:11,791 --> 00:03:12,724 and then maybe some rubber boots. 136 00:03:12,792 --> 00:03:14,793 BRUCE: Right, yeah, appliances... 137 00:03:14,861 --> 00:03:15,260 BRAD: Yeah, or a gun, appliances, um... 138 00:03:15,394 --> 00:03:16,528 MIKE: Yeah. 139 00:03:16,662 --> 00:03:17,796 BRAD: You name it, get a- 140 00:03:17,864 --> 00:03:18,463 MIKE: Oh you guys even sold appliances. 141 00:03:18,531 --> 00:03:18,930 BRAD: Yeah, oh yeah... 142 00:03:18,998 --> 00:03:19,331 BRUCE: Oh yeah. 143 00:03:19,465 --> 00:03:20,465 MIKE: Oh wow. 144 00:03:20,533 --> 00:03:21,666 BRAD: yeah, yeah, Grandpa was a Crosley dealer. 145 00:03:21,734 --> 00:03:23,134 MIKE: When you look at these general stores, the way they 146 00:03:23,203 --> 00:03:24,869 were laid out, the way they were customized, the way they 147 00:03:24,938 --> 00:03:26,938 were merchandized, they're pretty brilliant. 148 00:03:27,006 --> 00:03:28,206 Because the length of the counter, the height of a 149 00:03:28,274 --> 00:03:31,009 counter, when you look at all the shelving on the walls and 150 00:03:31,143 --> 00:03:35,013 the spacing of the shelving, how high the shelving is, 151 00:03:35,081 --> 00:03:37,149 I mean, they were done brilliantly and beautifully, 152 00:03:37,283 --> 00:03:40,085 and really, you know, retail is a living breathing thing, so 153 00:03:40,219 --> 00:03:42,087 when somebody walked in there, they had to have everything 154 00:03:42,155 --> 00:03:46,157 from A-to-Z, everything from galoshes to cat food, okay. 155 00:03:46,226 --> 00:03:50,295 MIKE: I mean, look at all the detail here, of the cabinetry. 156 00:03:50,363 --> 00:03:51,429 BRAD: Right. 157 00:03:51,497 --> 00:03:53,298 MIKE: And then it all matches the trim on the doors. 158 00:03:53,366 --> 00:03:54,032 BRAD: Yeah. 159 00:03:54,100 --> 00:03:55,300 MIKE: Look at all that detail. 160 00:03:55,368 --> 00:03:56,101 BRAD: Yeah, that-that real wide, I mean, that's just stuff 161 00:03:56,235 --> 00:03:56,969 that you just don't make any more. 162 00:03:57,103 --> 00:03:58,437 MIKE: Yeah, fancy leg and everything. 163 00:03:58,571 --> 00:03:59,704 I know, it's gorgeous. 164 00:03:59,772 --> 00:04:01,106 MIKE: If you think about the square footage of a store, and 165 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,108 you think about like, how many products they have to carry, 166 00:04:03,242 --> 00:04:06,177 and then on top of that, you think about traffic flow, like 167 00:04:06,246 --> 00:04:08,180 which way the customer's coming in, which way the customer's 168 00:04:08,314 --> 00:04:11,850 going out, are they going to be trying on boots over here, are 169 00:04:11,918 --> 00:04:12,985 they going to be like filling feed sacks. 170 00:04:13,119 --> 00:04:15,921 You know, you have to have hardware, you have to have 171 00:04:16,055 --> 00:04:17,990 nails, you have to have so many different products. 172 00:04:18,124 --> 00:04:21,860 So, for me when I walk in and I see all that shelving, 173 00:04:21,928 --> 00:04:24,129 I'm already imagining what this place was. 174 00:04:24,197 --> 00:04:29,001 All of these stores were the main heartbeat of the community. 175 00:04:29,135 --> 00:04:31,336 MIKE: This piece looks like it's been here forever. 176 00:04:31,470 --> 00:04:32,470 BRUCE: Oh it has. 177 00:04:32,538 --> 00:04:33,872 That was the original, made by Grandpa, those were 178 00:04:33,940 --> 00:04:36,341 where we kept all the nuts and the bolts. 179 00:04:36,475 --> 00:04:38,076 MIKE: Yeah, yeah. 180 00:04:38,144 --> 00:04:39,344 BRAD: And there's probably still nuts and bolts in it. 181 00:04:39,412 --> 00:04:42,681 New Year's Day around here was the, the family take inventory 182 00:04:42,815 --> 00:04:43,348 day, once a year we took inventory. 183 00:04:43,416 --> 00:04:44,283 MIKE: Uh-huh. 184 00:04:44,417 --> 00:04:45,550 ROBBIE: Yeah. 185 00:04:45,685 --> 00:04:48,153 BRAD: And mine and Bruce's job was to count the nuts and bolts. 186 00:04:48,287 --> 00:04:48,620 So... 187 00:04:48,688 --> 00:04:50,155 MIKE: [laughs] 188 00:04:50,289 --> 00:04:51,756 BRAD: We-we had lots of time spent digging in those drawers. 189 00:04:51,824 --> 00:04:53,291 BRUCE: Not fond memories, actually. 190 00:04:53,359 --> 00:04:53,825 BRAD: Yeah. 191 00:04:53,893 --> 00:04:54,759 ROBBIE: Yeah, yeah. 192 00:04:54,827 --> 00:04:55,627 BRAD: The doors are made out of the 193 00:04:55,761 --> 00:04:56,628 wood of a crate of something... 194 00:04:56,762 --> 00:04:57,696 BRUCE: Crate essentially, yeah. 195 00:04:57,830 --> 00:04:59,030 BRAD: So it was definitely wasn't, 196 00:04:59,098 --> 00:05:01,299 it didn't come out of factory, it was-it was handmade. 197 00:05:01,367 --> 00:05:02,500 BRUCE: Yeah. 198 00:05:02,568 --> 00:05:03,235 ROBBIE: Yeah, I think I can get this out of here, Mike. 199 00:05:03,369 --> 00:05:04,636 MIKE: Well, it's wedged, isn't it? 200 00:05:04,770 --> 00:05:05,704 Oh there it's loose over there. 201 00:05:05,838 --> 00:05:06,638 ROBBIE: No, it's just screwed, it's got a couple 202 00:05:06,772 --> 00:05:07,306 of screws right here, that's it. 203 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:08,707 MIKE: Oh okay. 204 00:05:08,841 --> 00:05:10,108 BRAD: It's probably pretty heavy. 205 00:05:10,242 --> 00:05:11,310 MIKE: I mean, is this something you guys would sell or no? 206 00:05:11,444 --> 00:05:12,110 BRAD: Uh yeah. 207 00:05:12,178 --> 00:05:12,644 I don't see why we wouldn't... 208 00:05:12,778 --> 00:05:13,578 BRUCE: Yeah, sell it. 209 00:05:13,646 --> 00:05:14,312 BRAD: Yeah, yeah, it's a... 210 00:05:14,380 --> 00:05:15,981 ROBBIE: Huh. 211 00:05:16,115 --> 00:05:17,048 MIKE: It's got some decent hardware on it, you know, 212 00:05:17,116 --> 00:05:19,384 it's painted with milk paint, it's kind of cool, 213 00:05:19,518 --> 00:05:20,385 the color's decent. 214 00:05:20,519 --> 00:05:22,654 I don't know, I mean, if this was in the shop, 215 00:05:22,788 --> 00:05:25,257 it'd probably pull... 600 bucks. 216 00:05:25,391 --> 00:05:26,325 BRAD: Right. 217 00:05:26,459 --> 00:05:26,858 MIKE: You know. 218 00:05:26,926 --> 00:05:28,660 What do you think? 219 00:05:28,728 --> 00:05:30,395 BRAD: Half of that, maybe? 300? 220 00:05:30,529 --> 00:05:31,330 MIKE: Alright, 300. 221 00:05:31,464 --> 00:05:31,730 BRUCE: Yeah, 300. 222 00:05:31,798 --> 00:05:32,531 BRAD: 300. 223 00:05:32,665 --> 00:05:33,332 MIKE: 300? Is that cool? 224 00:05:33,466 --> 00:05:34,333 BRAD: Yeah, yeah. 225 00:05:34,467 --> 00:05:35,934 BRUCE: That's cool with me, yeah. We're good. 226 00:05:36,002 --> 00:05:36,735 BRAD: We're selling 'cause we needed some money 227 00:05:36,869 --> 00:05:38,070 to help with some of these projects. 228 00:05:38,204 --> 00:05:40,939 BRUCE: Projects... We kind of want to have us a workshop 229 00:05:41,073 --> 00:05:43,341 -slash -man cave, I guess, where we could come hang 230 00:05:43,409 --> 00:05:44,809 out as brothers. 231 00:05:44,877 --> 00:05:46,078 BRAD: We don't live, we live far apart, 232 00:05:46,212 --> 00:05:50,749 but our heart's down here in this old building, you know, 233 00:05:50,883 --> 00:05:51,282 I always get emotional about it. Heh. 234 00:05:51,351 --> 00:05:52,884 BRUCE: Yeah. 235 00:05:52,952 --> 00:05:54,686 BRAD: But uh... you know, we just want to turn 236 00:05:54,754 --> 00:05:55,687 this place into a place we can... 237 00:05:55,821 --> 00:05:58,890 you know hang out and have woodshop. 238 00:05:58,958 --> 00:06:00,025 MIKE: What would that section of the store be? 239 00:06:00,159 --> 00:06:02,828 BRAD: All that, to the best of my memory, was clothing 240 00:06:02,962 --> 00:06:06,631 and household goods, and things like that. 241 00:06:06,766 --> 00:06:07,766 MIKE: Yeah, all about your... 242 00:06:07,834 --> 00:06:08,834 BRAD: All the toilet paper and like the medicines. 243 00:06:08,968 --> 00:06:09,768 There's old medicines up on the shelf too, 244 00:06:09,836 --> 00:06:11,303 been there probably for 80 years... 245 00:06:11,437 --> 00:06:12,370 MIKE: Oh yeah. 246 00:06:12,438 --> 00:06:13,505 BRAD: old medicine bottle, Triple-S tonic, 247 00:06:13,573 --> 00:06:14,306 and all this crazy stuff. 248 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:15,173 MIKE: [laughs] 249 00:06:15,241 --> 00:06:15,574 BRAD: This, this place literally was, 250 00:06:15,708 --> 00:06:17,108 sold everything. 251 00:06:17,176 --> 00:06:19,644 BRUCE: It was in here if you knew where the hell it was. 252 00:06:19,712 --> 00:06:21,112 BRAD: Right yeah, right yeah. 253 00:06:21,180 --> 00:06:22,313 BRUCE: It was just stuffed in corners everywhere, and... 254 00:06:22,382 --> 00:06:23,782 BRAD: Right. 255 00:06:23,850 --> 00:06:24,850 MIKE: These are like Adidas knockoffs. 256 00:06:24,984 --> 00:06:26,451 I had-I think I had these when I was a kid. 257 00:06:26,585 --> 00:06:27,452 BRUCE: Adidos? [laughs] 258 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,320 MIKE: [laughs] Adidos. 259 00:06:29,389 --> 00:06:30,455 Yeah, Adidos. 260 00:06:30,589 --> 00:06:33,057 MIKE: My mom was a single mom, raised 3 kids on her own. 261 00:06:33,126 --> 00:06:35,060 We couldn't afford the name brands, we didn't have the 262 00:06:35,194 --> 00:06:37,729 Converse, we had the Reverse; we didn't have the Adidas, 263 00:06:37,797 --> 00:06:39,597 we had Adidos; we didn't have the... 264 00:06:39,665 --> 00:06:41,466 Nikes, we had the Neekies. 265 00:06:41,534 --> 00:06:42,734 I mean, we... [laughs] 266 00:06:42,802 --> 00:06:44,803 We were, we were pretty low-buck. 267 00:06:44,937 --> 00:06:46,738 Our brand for our family was the off-brand. 268 00:06:46,872 --> 00:06:50,341 MIKE: So we got Reverse, and Adidos. 269 00:06:50,410 --> 00:06:51,143 BRUCE: Adidos. 270 00:06:51,277 --> 00:06:52,343 MIKE: But these are made in the USA. 271 00:06:52,412 --> 00:06:53,077 BRUCE: Right. 272 00:06:53,146 --> 00:06:53,678 ROBBIE: Found another pair. 273 00:06:53,813 --> 00:06:54,479 MIKE: What do you got? 274 00:06:54,613 --> 00:06:55,013 ROBBIE: Little ones. 275 00:06:55,147 --> 00:06:55,614 MIKE: Oh baby ones? 276 00:06:55,748 --> 00:06:56,815 ROBBIE: Yeah, here. 277 00:06:56,949 --> 00:06:57,416 MIKE: Alright. So it looks like you got a big stack here. 278 00:06:57,550 --> 00:06:59,284 Baby vintage shoes. 279 00:06:59,418 --> 00:07:00,485 ROBBIE: Whoa. 280 00:07:00,553 --> 00:07:03,555 MIKE: These would be what, like, early '80s, late '70s, 281 00:07:03,689 --> 00:07:04,489 is that what you're thinking? 282 00:07:04,623 --> 00:07:05,290 ROBBIE: There you go. 283 00:07:05,358 --> 00:07:06,425 BRUCE: Yep. 284 00:07:06,559 --> 00:07:07,759 MIKE: The type of customer that's going to want to wear 285 00:07:07,827 --> 00:07:10,829 this stuff, never lived in this era, but they want a level of 286 00:07:10,897 --> 00:07:12,897 authenticity, they want to wear vintage. 287 00:07:12,965 --> 00:07:15,100 You know, they want something with a story. 288 00:07:15,234 --> 00:07:17,902 If you look at music videos from the '80s, the aesthetic, 289 00:07:17,970 --> 00:07:20,572 the style, the hip-hop fashion, the urban wear. 290 00:07:20,706 --> 00:07:22,907 These shoes fit into that. 291 00:07:22,975 --> 00:07:23,908 I'm imagining whoever's going to wear these, 292 00:07:23,976 --> 00:07:26,378 is going to be kicking it to the Beastie Boys. 293 00:07:27,046 --> 00:07:27,712 MIKE: How many pairs of shoes are there, Robbie? 294 00:07:27,847 --> 00:07:28,913 We could go through each pair... 295 00:07:28,981 --> 00:07:30,449 ROBBIE: Um... I'm looking through all these... 296 00:07:30,583 --> 00:07:31,516 MIKE: These are nice. 297 00:07:31,650 --> 00:07:32,917 ROBBIE: I got 1, 2, 3... 298 00:07:32,985 --> 00:07:34,385 BRUCE: Cool. Red, white, and blue, All-American. 299 00:07:34,454 --> 00:07:34,920 MIKE: That's cool. 300 00:07:35,054 --> 00:07:36,454 ROBBIE: 15 pairs here. 301 00:07:36,522 --> 00:07:38,323 MIKE: 15 pairs of shoes. 302 00:07:38,391 --> 00:07:39,057 ROBBIE: Yeah. 303 00:07:39,125 --> 00:07:40,192 MIKE: They're all pretty tiny. 304 00:07:40,326 --> 00:07:42,994 MIKE: They're fashionable, but not in a mainstream way. 305 00:07:43,062 --> 00:07:44,863 And I'm freaking out, every box we open up because 306 00:07:44,997 --> 00:07:46,664 they're dead-stock, they're new -old stock, 307 00:07:46,732 --> 00:07:47,999 they've never been worn before. 308 00:07:48,067 --> 00:07:50,935 But the problem is, [sighs] man, the size issues. 309 00:07:51,003 --> 00:07:54,005 I mean, there's not a lot of decent sizes here, 310 00:07:54,073 --> 00:07:57,609 but that is not deterring me from still wanting them. 311 00:07:57,677 --> 00:07:58,810 MIKE: What would you feel... 312 00:07:58,878 --> 00:08:01,012 comfortable selling 15 pairs of shoes? 313 00:08:01,681 --> 00:08:03,415 BRUCE: Make me an offer. 314 00:08:03,749 --> 00:08:04,616 MIKE: Oh my God, I don't know. 315 00:08:04,750 --> 00:08:06,284 They sold all the good sizes. 316 00:08:06,418 --> 00:08:08,153 BRUCE: Right. 317 00:08:08,287 --> 00:08:10,222 MIKE: It's just the little baby sizes left. How-3 bucks a pair. 318 00:08:10,356 --> 00:08:11,289 BRUCE: 45. 319 00:08:11,423 --> 00:08:12,490 MIKE: Alright. 320 00:08:12,558 --> 00:08:12,891 BRUCE: The whole batch. 321 00:08:13,025 --> 00:08:13,892 MIKE: Alright. 322 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:15,493 ROBBIE: Look at that shirt. Freakin' 1970s. 323 00:08:15,561 --> 00:08:16,628 MIKE: Yeah, is that...? 324 00:08:16,696 --> 00:08:17,295 BRUCE: That... bowling shirt. 325 00:08:17,363 --> 00:08:18,563 ROBBIE: Bowling. Polyester. 326 00:08:18,631 --> 00:08:19,964 MIKE: Oh yeah, that feels good, what else you got in there? 327 00:08:20,032 --> 00:08:21,900 BRUCE: We dealt with a dry goods wholesaler down in 328 00:08:21,968 --> 00:08:23,969 Huntington, and Mom would take us down there. 329 00:08:24,103 --> 00:08:26,705 She would buy for the store, but she would also buy 330 00:08:26,839 --> 00:08:28,707 our school clothes at the same time. 331 00:08:28,841 --> 00:08:29,774 ROBBIE: You were the test dummies... 332 00:08:29,842 --> 00:08:30,709 BRUCE: Yeah, we were the test dummies. 333 00:08:30,843 --> 00:08:31,710 ROBBIE: you actually got to try, 334 00:08:31,844 --> 00:08:32,310 you got to bring the good stuff on. 335 00:08:32,444 --> 00:08:34,179 BRUCE: Right. 336 00:08:34,313 --> 00:08:34,846 MIKE: Well that's cool, because when somebody walked in here, 337 00:08:34,914 --> 00:08:35,513 you worked here, right? 338 00:08:35,581 --> 00:08:36,715 BRUCE: Right, oh yeah. 339 00:08:36,849 --> 00:08:37,382 MIKE: So when somebody walked in, you were head to toe... 340 00:08:37,450 --> 00:08:38,116 BRUCE: Oh yeah. 341 00:08:38,250 --> 00:08:39,317 ROBBIE: Like, I'd wear these. 342 00:08:39,385 --> 00:08:40,118 MIKE: Oh I like that shirt, that's right over here. 343 00:08:40,252 --> 00:08:41,052 ROBBIE: Yeah, it's right here. Yeah. 344 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,722 MIKE: What's upstairs here? Anything? 345 00:08:44,790 --> 00:08:46,591 BRAD: Up here we got some good stuff. 346 00:08:46,725 --> 00:08:48,192 MIKE: Watch your head, Robbie. 347 00:08:48,261 --> 00:08:50,461 BRAD: There's nails that, kind of come through the roof there. 348 00:08:50,530 --> 00:08:51,997 MIKE: Oh look at that. 349 00:08:52,131 --> 00:08:53,865 BRUCE: I got a couple of scars on my head to prove it. 350 00:08:53,933 --> 00:08:54,666 BRAD: Yeah, that's- that's kind of our... 351 00:08:54,734 --> 00:08:55,667 MIKE: That's a flagship piece? 352 00:08:55,735 --> 00:08:56,868 BRAD: That's the flagship piece. 353 00:08:56,936 --> 00:08:58,803 That used to be out in front of the store. 354 00:08:58,871 --> 00:09:01,472 Grandpa was a Crosley Appliance dealer. 355 00:09:01,541 --> 00:09:02,274 That's a double-sided. 356 00:09:02,408 --> 00:09:03,475 ROBBIE: Ugh! 357 00:09:03,609 --> 00:09:05,877 BRAD: Formerly neon sign. 358 00:09:05,945 --> 00:09:07,546 ROBBIE: Man, it feels like it's got every 359 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:08,479 piece of transformer in it. 360 00:09:08,548 --> 00:09:09,481 BRUCE: Probably does. 361 00:09:09,615 --> 00:09:11,082 BRAD: It probably does. 362 00:09:11,216 --> 00:09:12,216 BRAD: It drew the customers to this building, you know, 363 00:09:12,285 --> 00:09:13,618 it lit up the street, and it was kind of, you know, 364 00:09:13,686 --> 00:09:15,753 what drew people to this place. 365 00:09:15,821 --> 00:09:16,621 MIKE: What's the porcelain like on the 366 00:09:16,689 --> 00:09:17,755 other side of that, Robbie? 367 00:09:17,823 --> 00:09:19,024 ROBBIE: It's chalked out a little bit. 368 00:09:19,158 --> 00:09:21,626 I mean, it needs some serious elbow grease put into it. 369 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:22,894 BRAD: I think that'll wash off, 370 00:09:23,028 --> 00:09:24,629 I think it's in pretty good shape for its age. 371 00:09:24,763 --> 00:09:25,830 MIKE: The subject matter is great. 372 00:09:25,898 --> 00:09:27,299 I mean, not the appliance part of it... 373 00:09:27,433 --> 00:09:28,366 ROBBIE: Yeah. 374 00:09:28,500 --> 00:09:29,501 MIKE: but the fact that it says Crosley Radio. 375 00:09:29,635 --> 00:09:30,702 ROBBIE: Crosley, yeah. 376 00:09:30,836 --> 00:09:31,770 MIKE: And the colors are amazing. 377 00:09:31,904 --> 00:09:32,904 ROBBIE: Crosley was one of those companies that 378 00:09:32,972 --> 00:09:36,107 started in the 1920s and ran until about 1956. 379 00:09:36,241 --> 00:09:40,044 They were so huge in America, they were one of the largest 380 00:09:40,112 --> 00:09:42,981 radio manufacturers in the United States at the time. 381 00:09:43,049 --> 00:09:44,716 MIKE: We actually picked a guy in Iowa years ago, 382 00:09:44,850 --> 00:09:47,318 that's all he collected was Crosley. 383 00:09:47,386 --> 00:09:48,252 BRAD: Really? 384 00:09:48,321 --> 00:09:49,054 MIKE: When we were there, I was just amazed 385 00:09:49,188 --> 00:09:50,255 at how many different products... 386 00:09:50,389 --> 00:09:51,656 BRAD: Right. 387 00:09:51,790 --> 00:09:52,657 MIKE: that they actually made. 388 00:09:52,725 --> 00:09:53,992 You know, they did everything. 389 00:09:54,126 --> 00:09:56,194 ROBBIE: They were doing anything from appliances to 390 00:09:56,262 --> 00:09:59,731 cars, to actually even helping the war effort in World War II. 391 00:09:59,799 --> 00:10:01,866 They built paratrooper motorcycles. 392 00:10:02,001 --> 00:10:03,001 MIKE: How long ago did you guys take this down? 393 00:10:03,069 --> 00:10:06,605 BRUCE: Probably right after the store was closed, 394 00:10:06,739 --> 00:10:08,273 probably in the early '90s. 395 00:10:08,407 --> 00:10:09,474 MIKE: Yeah. 396 00:10:09,542 --> 00:10:10,275 BRUCE: When Dad started renovating the store building. 397 00:10:10,409 --> 00:10:12,076 MIKE: Okay. 398 00:10:12,144 --> 00:10:15,013 ROBBIE: You know, neon and porcelain signs in general, 399 00:10:15,081 --> 00:10:17,682 it's a time in America where advertising, you know, 400 00:10:17,816 --> 00:10:19,283 they don't do it anymore like this. 401 00:10:19,352 --> 00:10:20,552 BRAD: Right. 402 00:10:20,686 --> 00:10:21,019 ROBBIE: Everything's plastic. 403 00:10:21,087 --> 00:10:21,686 BRUCE: Right. 404 00:10:21,820 --> 00:10:22,286 ROBBIE: And they want L.E.D. 405 00:10:22,355 --> 00:10:22,754 BRAD: Right. 406 00:10:22,822 --> 00:10:23,354 ROBBIE: You know. 407 00:10:23,422 --> 00:10:23,955 MIKE: Or vinyl. 408 00:10:24,023 --> 00:10:24,956 ROBBIE: Yeah, or vinyl. 409 00:10:25,024 --> 00:10:27,025 This-the guys that bend this glass every day, 410 00:10:27,159 --> 00:10:29,694 day in and day out, they're making a piece of artwork. 411 00:10:29,762 --> 00:10:30,295 BRAD: Right, oh I agree, I agree. 412 00:10:30,429 --> 00:10:31,563 ROBBIE: Yeah. 413 00:10:31,697 --> 00:10:32,630 Basically what, you know, what it's going to take to get this 414 00:10:32,698 --> 00:10:33,832 back up and going again is, 415 00:10:33,966 --> 00:10:36,101 it's going to need a thorough cleaning on it. 416 00:10:36,235 --> 00:10:37,902 The plus is, it's already got the insulators on it, which 417 00:10:37,970 --> 00:10:40,639 are, you know, you want, you know, the originals. 418 00:10:40,773 --> 00:10:41,573 BRUCE: Yeah, the original stuff. 419 00:10:41,707 --> 00:10:42,307 BRAD: Original, sure yeah. 420 00:10:42,441 --> 00:10:43,575 ROBBIE: Yeah. 421 00:10:43,709 --> 00:10:45,176 I want to say, on the high side of this, this sign hanging, 422 00:10:45,244 --> 00:10:50,315 if it had all the neon cleaned up, fixed, probably 42 to 4,500. 423 00:10:50,449 --> 00:10:51,783 BRUCE: Right. 424 00:10:51,851 --> 00:10:52,584 ROBBIE: It's going to take a little bit 425 00:10:52,718 --> 00:10:54,852 of getting there to get to it. 426 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,990 BRAD: I know what you're thinking, maybe 25? 427 00:11:00,259 --> 00:11:03,194 ROBBIE: [sighs] One thing I love about neon is saving history. 428 00:11:03,262 --> 00:11:04,996 So... 429 00:11:07,266 --> 00:11:08,199 2,500. 430 00:11:08,333 --> 00:11:09,534 BRAD: 25? 431 00:11:09,602 --> 00:11:10,134 ROBBIE: I'll do the 25. 432 00:11:10,202 --> 00:11:11,069 I think we can do it. 433 00:11:11,203 --> 00:11:13,423 BRAD: I think we can do that. Oh, yeah! 434 00:11:15,274 --> 00:11:17,208 ♪ ♪ 435 00:11:17,276 --> 00:11:18,076 BRUCE: Alright Robbie, now that you've got that Crosley sign, 436 00:11:18,144 --> 00:11:19,611 let me take you out here and show you 437 00:11:19,745 --> 00:11:20,145 where everything used to hang. 438 00:11:20,413 --> 00:11:22,013 ROBBIE: Yeah? 439 00:11:22,081 --> 00:11:23,481 BRUCE: 'Course, the façade's changed a little bit. 440 00:11:23,549 --> 00:11:24,683 Dad a little work to it. 441 00:11:24,817 --> 00:11:26,284 The porches were kind of separated. 442 00:11:26,418 --> 00:11:27,285 ROBBIE: Yeah. 443 00:11:27,353 --> 00:11:28,620 BRUCE: But right above the... main door... 444 00:11:28,754 --> 00:11:29,620 MIKE: So was this awning on it? 445 00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:31,623 This whole awning right here? 446 00:11:31,757 --> 00:11:32,623 BRUCE: Yes, yes. It was all on it, 447 00:11:32,692 --> 00:11:33,558 but it was 2 separate ones, 'cause it was 448 00:11:33,626 --> 00:11:35,293 2 buildings at one time. 449 00:11:35,427 --> 00:11:35,694 MIKE: Oh really? 450 00:11:35,828 --> 00:11:36,828 BRUCE: Yeah. 451 00:11:36,962 --> 00:11:37,695 MIKE: So this had a separate door over here? 452 00:11:37,763 --> 00:11:38,696 BRUCE: Yes, it had a separate door. 453 00:11:38,764 --> 00:11:40,298 That where the post office was... 454 00:11:40,366 --> 00:11:40,832 MIKE: Okay. 455 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:42,033 BRUCE: years ago. 456 00:11:42,167 --> 00:11:42,767 BRAD: And that's where all the kids in the neighborhood 457 00:11:42,901 --> 00:11:43,768 would come down here and... 458 00:11:43,902 --> 00:11:45,036 ROBBIE: They came and sat on the steps. 459 00:11:45,170 --> 00:11:46,771 BRAD: They came in, bought a Coke, got a Coke order... 460 00:11:46,839 --> 00:11:48,372 MIKE: So at one time, this was busy. 461 00:11:48,441 --> 00:11:49,307 BRUCE: Oh lord. 462 00:11:49,441 --> 00:11:50,575 BRAD: Oh yeah. 463 00:11:50,709 --> 00:11:53,845 BRUCE: Years ago, Main Street Cottageville was actually S33. 464 00:11:53,913 --> 00:11:56,047 So this was the main thoroughfare from... 465 00:11:56,181 --> 00:11:59,050 it starts in Illinois somewhere, I believe, and runs all 466 00:11:59,118 --> 00:12:00,985 the way through West Virginia, over to the East Coast. 467 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,589 BRAD: And it was kind the Route 66 of the East Coast. 468 00:12:04,657 --> 00:12:05,323 BRUCE: East Coast, right. 469 00:12:05,391 --> 00:12:06,390 BRAD: 33 was, back in the day. 470 00:12:06,459 --> 00:12:08,926 BRAD: And at one time, this little town had a car 471 00:12:08,994 --> 00:12:11,663 dealership, a bank, it- it had just about every- 472 00:12:11,797 --> 00:12:12,864 BRUCE: Barbershop, a restaurant. 473 00:12:12,998 --> 00:12:13,798 BRAD: -barbershop, it had about everything. 474 00:12:13,932 --> 00:12:14,799 MIKE: Right here in this little stretch. 475 00:12:14,867 --> 00:12:16,067 BRUCE: Right here, this little stretch. 476 00:12:16,135 --> 00:12:17,268 BRAD: Just this little stretch of road here at one time. 477 00:12:17,336 --> 00:12:18,469 And this old store that was, when it was being run by our 478 00:12:18,537 --> 00:12:22,340 grandfather, it-it was the last place to be open here, 479 00:12:22,408 --> 00:12:23,274 to buy anything. 480 00:12:23,408 --> 00:12:24,275 MIKE: Okay. 481 00:12:24,409 --> 00:12:25,543 MIKE: The store owner had to understand who 482 00:12:25,611 --> 00:12:27,945 their customers were. 483 00:12:28,013 --> 00:12:29,747 And that was a really easy thing to do for them 484 00:12:29,815 --> 00:12:32,083 because they lived in the community. 485 00:12:32,217 --> 00:12:35,019 BRAD: He wanted to be able to still serve the people that 486 00:12:35,087 --> 00:12:37,688 were all his loyal customers for years, for decades. 487 00:12:37,757 --> 00:12:38,957 BRUCE: That's right, many years. 488 00:12:39,091 --> 00:12:39,691 MIKE: There were so many of these little stores that 489 00:12:39,825 --> 00:12:42,093 serviced such large regions. 490 00:12:42,161 --> 00:12:44,162 And the products that they carried were really regional, 491 00:12:44,230 --> 00:12:47,899 from the occupation that most of their customers, you know, 492 00:12:48,033 --> 00:12:50,968 like coal miners or farmers, to steel workers - 493 00:12:51,036 --> 00:12:55,640 so many people relied on such a small little store. 494 00:12:56,241 --> 00:12:59,911 MIKE: Now, the society that we all live in, it's all about 495 00:13:00,045 --> 00:13:02,447 walking into a franchise, walking into something 496 00:13:02,581 --> 00:13:03,781 that's cookie-cutter. 497 00:13:03,849 --> 00:13:05,783 With all the convenience that we have, 498 00:13:05,851 --> 00:13:08,653 we've stripped away the human element. 499 00:13:08,721 --> 00:13:09,854 Now it is one -size-fits-all. 500 00:13:09,988 --> 00:13:12,924 Back then, it was a back -and-forth relationship. 501 00:13:12,992 --> 00:13:14,592 BRAD: This was the meat department back here. 502 00:13:14,660 --> 00:13:15,727 This is where we cut meat- 503 00:13:15,861 --> 00:13:16,394 MIKE: Oh I see, yeah, I see the saw! 504 00:13:16,528 --> 00:13:17,862 BRAD: And the saws. 505 00:13:17,996 --> 00:13:19,731 Grandpa would get a, he'd buy sides of beef, 506 00:13:19,865 --> 00:13:21,266 and Bruce is a fantastic meat cutter. 507 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:23,134 MIKE: Is he? 508 00:13:23,202 --> 00:13:24,468 BRAD: He taught Bruce how to cut meat and grind burger and 509 00:13:24,537 --> 00:13:25,803 cut pork chops and... 510 00:13:25,871 --> 00:13:27,405 I mean, it-this place was full-service, 511 00:13:27,539 --> 00:13:28,339 anything you wanted. 512 00:13:28,407 --> 00:13:30,074 MIKE: Yeah, hey. 513 00:13:30,142 --> 00:13:30,942 BRAD: It was fun to have growed up in a store like this. 514 00:13:31,076 --> 00:13:32,410 We were the pop bottle sorters and... 515 00:13:32,544 --> 00:13:33,811 BRUCE: Swept floors. 516 00:13:33,879 --> 00:13:36,147 BRAD: Yeah, and cardboard box busters. 517 00:13:36,215 --> 00:13:38,883 BRUCE: Busters. And the ice cream cooler behind the counter, 518 00:13:38,951 --> 00:13:39,818 and the candy bars, and the old Coke cooler. 519 00:13:39,952 --> 00:13:40,685 BRAD: yeah, right, oh yeah, yeah, candy bars 520 00:13:40,819 --> 00:13:42,153 and ice cream... anything you wanted. 521 00:13:42,287 --> 00:13:45,356 MIKE: We got tavern ham, we got honey ham. How thick you like, 522 00:13:45,424 --> 00:13:46,357 what do you want? 523 00:13:46,425 --> 00:13:47,024 BRUCE: I want it three -quarters of an inch, 524 00:13:47,092 --> 00:13:48,226 give me 2- pound of each. 525 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,628 MIKE: [laughs] Okay, I'll-I got some really good chops in, 526 00:13:50,762 --> 00:13:51,696 just cut some amazing fillets, 527 00:13:51,764 --> 00:13:54,299 he just cut the cheese back here. 528 00:13:54,433 --> 00:13:55,233 [group laughing] 529 00:13:55,367 --> 00:13:56,367 MIKE: Woo! 530 00:13:56,435 --> 00:13:58,636 God-dang, dude! 531 00:13:58,770 --> 00:13:59,370 BRAD: Yeah, we'll pass on that. 532 00:13:59,438 --> 00:14:00,438 MIKE: God-dang! 533 00:14:00,572 --> 00:14:02,006 BRAD: Yeah, no thanks. 534 00:14:06,979 --> 00:14:07,645 MIKE: I want to see what the-I'm looking at 535 00:14:07,713 --> 00:14:09,914 the back of a counter here. 536 00:14:10,048 --> 00:14:11,983 I want to see what the front of this looks like. 537 00:14:12,117 --> 00:14:13,718 Yeah, you see, you got the change drawer right there. 538 00:14:13,852 --> 00:14:16,855 This has fallen down, it's dropped. 539 00:14:16,989 --> 00:14:18,456 BRAD: Yeah, the shelf's been around there... 540 00:14:18,524 --> 00:14:20,057 MIKE: Let's see here. 541 00:14:20,125 --> 00:14:22,126 MIKE: The counter is the command central for your store. 542 00:14:22,261 --> 00:14:24,929 And believe it or not, a lot of people would think something 543 00:14:24,997 --> 00:14:27,999 like this would be insignificant, but it's not. 544 00:14:28,067 --> 00:14:30,735 It's part of your aesthetic, it's part of your brand. 545 00:14:30,803 --> 00:14:32,737 When somebody walks into your store, 546 00:14:32,871 --> 00:14:34,939 you want them to feel a certain way. 547 00:14:35,007 --> 00:14:36,941 So it's the width of the counter, the depth of the 548 00:14:37,075 --> 00:14:38,877 counter, the height of the counter, what does the 549 00:14:39,011 --> 00:14:40,678 countertop look like, what does that paint on 550 00:14:40,812 --> 00:14:42,747 the front of the counter look like? 551 00:14:42,881 --> 00:14:44,815 MIKE: It's interesting, it's orange. 552 00:14:44,884 --> 00:14:46,284 ROBBIE: Yeah. It's got a great look to it. 553 00:14:46,352 --> 00:14:47,485 MIKE: Yeah. 554 00:14:47,553 --> 00:14:48,486 And then it's got the-the paint's starting to alligator, 555 00:14:48,620 --> 00:14:49,621 you know, just separate. 556 00:14:49,755 --> 00:14:50,688 MIKE: I'm seeing that age to it, 557 00:14:50,822 --> 00:14:53,091 I'm seeing all those boards cut up 558 00:14:53,225 --> 00:14:54,959 separately on the top of this thing, it's got-it's got a 559 00:14:55,027 --> 00:14:59,096 country store look, you know, but also kind of... 560 00:14:59,164 --> 00:15:01,165 I don't know, maybe a little Urban Outfitters, you know. 561 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:03,501 I mean, it's got a, it's got a look to it, is what I'm saying. 562 00:15:03,569 --> 00:15:05,303 And that's why I want it. 563 00:15:05,371 --> 00:15:06,504 MIKE: Yeah. 564 00:15:06,572 --> 00:15:07,371 BRAD: I think this might have been the original checkout 565 00:15:07,439 --> 00:15:08,639 counter, I think. 566 00:15:08,707 --> 00:15:09,507 MIKE: Yeah, this is, this is, this is from that time period, 567 00:15:09,575 --> 00:15:10,508 or maybe even earlier. 568 00:15:10,642 --> 00:15:11,709 I mean, this could have been handed down from 569 00:15:11,843 --> 00:15:13,444 merchant to merchant here in town. 570 00:15:13,578 --> 00:15:14,578 BRAD: It probably was. 571 00:15:14,647 --> 00:15:15,913 It's-it's probably been in this building as long as 572 00:15:15,981 --> 00:15:18,115 the building's been built, would be my guess. 573 00:15:18,183 --> 00:15:21,852 MIKE: This, what's great about it is, is that it's a nice 574 00:15:21,921 --> 00:15:23,855 size, and the edges haven't been cut off. 575 00:15:23,989 --> 00:15:25,656 A lot of time these counters are really long, 576 00:15:25,724 --> 00:15:26,324 and they'll cut one edge off. 577 00:15:26,392 --> 00:15:28,192 BRUCE: Right. 578 00:15:28,327 --> 00:15:29,193 MIKE: And then they'll just put a piece of plywood on the side. 579 00:15:29,261 --> 00:15:32,263 Uh... 580 00:15:32,331 --> 00:15:33,665 600 bucks. 581 00:15:33,999 --> 00:15:34,799 BRUCE: Well, what do we want to do with those 582 00:15:34,867 --> 00:15:36,600 cabinets that's on top of it right now? 583 00:15:36,669 --> 00:15:37,935 You want to buy those too? 584 00:15:38,003 --> 00:15:39,337 MIKE: I was-I was hoping Robbie would buy them. 585 00:15:39,471 --> 00:15:39,804 BRUCE: Oh okay. 586 00:15:39,872 --> 00:15:40,271 MIKE: [chuckles] 587 00:15:40,405 --> 00:15:41,940 BRAD: Yeah. 588 00:15:42,074 --> 00:15:43,074 BRUCE: That's what we used as our display cases. 589 00:15:43,142 --> 00:15:44,342 ROBBIE: The good thing about these display cases are, 590 00:15:44,476 --> 00:15:46,143 they're intact. 591 00:15:46,211 --> 00:15:48,613 The glass is all there, the doors are on the back of them, 592 00:15:48,747 --> 00:15:51,349 and they're great for smalls. 593 00:15:51,483 --> 00:15:52,416 MIKE: Here you go. 594 00:15:52,484 --> 00:15:54,085 BRUCE: Ceramic cat. 595 00:15:54,219 --> 00:15:56,287 BRAD: Yeah, that, that we'll throw it in with the deal too. 596 00:15:56,421 --> 00:15:56,821 MIKE: [laughs] 597 00:15:56,955 --> 00:15:57,755 BRUCE: That's right. 598 00:15:57,823 --> 00:15:58,689 MIKE: You guys going to throw that in? 599 00:15:58,757 --> 00:15:59,290 BRUCE: Yeah, we'll throw that in. 600 00:15:59,424 --> 00:16:00,291 MIKE: Alright. 601 00:16:00,359 --> 00:16:01,960 ROBBIE: I'm thinking 200 bucks apiece, 400. 602 00:16:02,094 --> 00:16:03,294 BRAD: I think it'd be worth a little more than that, 603 00:16:03,428 --> 00:16:04,295 don't you think? 604 00:16:04,363 --> 00:16:06,831 250 apiece? 605 00:16:06,965 --> 00:16:08,566 Might as well buy the whole thing, right? 606 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:10,168 ROBBIE: 500 for the pair. 607 00:16:10,302 --> 00:16:10,901 BRAD: 5. 608 00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:11,703 ROBBIE: 250 apiece, right? 609 00:16:11,837 --> 00:16:12,837 BRAD: Okay yeah, yeah we can do that. 610 00:16:12,971 --> 00:16:13,838 ROBBIE: Yeah, we'll do it. Appreciate it. 611 00:16:13,906 --> 00:16:14,839 BRAD: Yeah I guess, I think that's fair. 612 00:16:14,973 --> 00:16:15,506 MIKE: Okay, now that Robbie bought these 2, 613 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:17,441 where are youat with this? 614 00:16:17,509 --> 00:16:18,576 I think I offered 6. 615 00:16:19,111 --> 00:16:20,778 BRUCE: Shake his hand before he changes his mind. 616 00:16:20,846 --> 00:16:21,645 BRAD: Yeah, I think we can do that. 617 00:16:21,714 --> 00:16:22,913 MIKE: [laughs] Alright, man. 618 00:16:22,982 --> 00:16:24,515 BRAD: We're not big collectors, trinket guys. 619 00:16:24,649 --> 00:16:26,317 You know, we like guns. 620 00:16:26,385 --> 00:16:27,385 BRUCE: Right. 621 00:16:27,519 --> 00:16:28,452 BRAD: We-we keep them locked in a gun safe, but... 622 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,454 ROBBIE: Look at that. 623 00:16:30,722 --> 00:16:31,589 MIKE: 'Supertone Ragtime King.' 624 00:16:31,657 --> 00:16:34,325 [Mike playing out-of-tune banjo] 625 00:16:34,393 --> 00:16:34,992 MIKE: [laughs] 626 00:16:35,060 --> 00:16:35,994 [Robbie playing tambourine] 627 00:16:36,128 --> 00:16:37,128 BRAD: Yeah, we... got the hillbilly band going on. 628 00:16:37,196 --> 00:16:38,462 ROBBIE: You have the hillbilly band going on here? 629 00:16:38,530 --> 00:16:39,731 MIKE: Who played this? 630 00:16:39,865 --> 00:16:40,531 Did anybody in your family play this? 631 00:16:40,599 --> 00:16:41,866 Did Grandma play this? 632 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:42,800 BRAD: We had a cousin who was the musician. 633 00:16:42,934 --> 00:16:45,336 None of us were very musically-inclined. 634 00:16:45,470 --> 00:16:47,271 MIKE: 75 bucks. 635 00:16:47,339 --> 00:16:48,005 BRUCE: 90. 636 00:16:48,073 --> 00:16:49,007 MIKE: Alright, I'll do that. 637 00:16:53,278 --> 00:16:55,146 ♪ ♪ 638 00:16:55,214 --> 00:16:57,815 MIKE: So Robbie look it, this was all the original façade. 639 00:16:57,883 --> 00:16:59,417 So this was the outside of the building. 640 00:16:59,485 --> 00:17:00,618 BRAD: This was, yes. 641 00:17:00,752 --> 00:17:01,886 MIKE: When you walked up, he just pushed, he pushed this out. 642 00:17:02,020 --> 00:17:03,154 ROBBIE: He actually just built a wall there, Mike. 643 00:17:03,288 --> 00:17:04,555 Yeah. 644 00:17:04,689 --> 00:17:05,689 MIKE: That's what I'm saying. 645 00:17:05,758 --> 00:17:06,424 He pushed this out, he pushed this whole area out. 646 00:17:06,558 --> 00:17:08,092 See... right there. 647 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:09,360 BRAD: I think, I think Dad thought it was easier to cover 648 00:17:09,428 --> 00:17:11,495 it up than to try to-to scrape all this paint and redo it. 649 00:17:11,563 --> 00:17:13,031 MIKE: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 650 00:17:13,165 --> 00:17:14,966 BRAD: He just, he just thought it would be a faster... 651 00:17:15,100 --> 00:17:16,701 I think maybe our cousin that was helping him do it, 652 00:17:16,835 --> 00:17:17,635 they encouraged that a little bit. 653 00:17:17,703 --> 00:17:18,703 MIKE: Yeah, I love all that. 654 00:17:18,837 --> 00:17:19,904 I mean, that's a big transom window. 655 00:17:20,038 --> 00:17:22,774 BRAD: We have a window, it's back from when... 656 00:17:22,908 --> 00:17:25,643 Grandpa and his brothers were running 657 00:17:25,777 --> 00:17:26,577 this store as the Hunt Brothers. 658 00:17:26,711 --> 00:17:27,378 ROBBIE: Flip that over, Mike. 659 00:17:27,512 --> 00:17:28,846 MIKE: Right now... 660 00:17:28,980 --> 00:17:29,447 ROBBIE: It says right here, look at that. 661 00:17:29,515 --> 00:17:30,248 BRAD: Hunt Brothers. 662 00:17:30,382 --> 00:17:31,315 MIKE: Wow. 663 00:17:31,450 --> 00:17:32,249 BRAD: That-that's our pride and joy right there. 664 00:17:32,317 --> 00:17:32,650 MIKE: Wow. 665 00:17:32,718 --> 00:17:33,918 BRUCE: Yeah. 666 00:17:34,052 --> 00:17:34,518 BRAD: That was painted probably back in the '30s. 667 00:17:34,586 --> 00:17:35,653 ROBBIE: Look at that. 668 00:17:35,721 --> 00:17:36,454 BRAD: It's a miracle it didn't get busted out by... 669 00:17:36,522 --> 00:17:36,854 MIKE: Oh my God, yeah. 670 00:17:36,922 --> 00:17:37,855 ROBBIE: Wow. 671 00:17:37,989 --> 00:17:38,456 BRAD: one of these punks around here with 672 00:17:38,524 --> 00:17:39,590 a rock or something. 673 00:17:39,658 --> 00:17:39,990 BRUCE: Rock, or something. 674 00:17:40,059 --> 00:17:40,925 MIKE: Yeah. 675 00:17:41,059 --> 00:17:41,526 BRAD: And everybody came in and out of here, 676 00:17:41,660 --> 00:17:42,393 this is for the shop. 677 00:17:42,527 --> 00:17:43,394 Especially if you lived on the street. 678 00:17:43,462 --> 00:17:44,395 MIKE: This is where they got their Adidos. 679 00:17:44,529 --> 00:17:45,329 BRAD: You did, yeah. 680 00:17:45,397 --> 00:17:47,865 [group laughing] 681 00:17:47,933 --> 00:17:49,534 MIKE: Sometimes, no matter where you live, 682 00:17:49,668 --> 00:17:50,935 it never feels like home. 683 00:17:51,003 --> 00:17:55,073 Imagine if you had the opportunity to go back, 684 00:17:55,207 --> 00:17:58,609 to a building, to a farm, to a place, that still exists. 685 00:17:58,677 --> 00:18:00,744 Would you take that chance? 686 00:18:00,813 --> 00:18:02,146 That's what they're willing to do. 687 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:05,616 They want to take this space, and convert it into something 688 00:18:05,750 --> 00:18:07,819 that connects them as brothers, 689 00:18:07,953 --> 00:18:10,888 but also it's connecting them to their past. 690 00:18:11,022 --> 00:18:12,890 BRUCE: Actually, this originally was where we 691 00:18:13,024 --> 00:18:15,026 kept all the appliances and things like that. 692 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,028 That whole room over there was where the dry goods were, 693 00:18:18,097 --> 00:18:20,631 where we kept the jeans and blah-blah-blah, whatever. 694 00:18:20,699 --> 00:18:21,832 MIKE: You guys sold jeans here? 695 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:22,633 Do you have any more of that stuff here? 696 00:18:22,767 --> 00:18:23,567 Like do you have any dead-stock? 697 00:18:23,635 --> 00:18:25,303 Any new-old stock stuff? 698 00:18:25,437 --> 00:18:26,437 BRUCE: Ahh... 699 00:18:26,505 --> 00:18:27,238 I think there's some boxes of some jeans upstairs. 700 00:18:27,306 --> 00:18:29,173 I mean... 701 00:18:29,307 --> 00:18:30,374 MIKE: How old are those, do you know what kind of age they have? 702 00:18:30,442 --> 00:18:30,775 BRUCE: No idea. 703 00:18:30,909 --> 00:18:31,709 BRAD: Oh God. 704 00:18:31,777 --> 00:18:32,643 ROBBIE: Can we take a look at it? 705 00:18:32,777 --> 00:18:33,577 MIKE: Can we look at that stuff? 706 00:18:33,645 --> 00:18:33,711 BRAD & BRUCE: Yeah sure. 707 00:18:34,179 --> 00:18:34,312 ROBBIE: Alright. 708 00:18:34,913 --> 00:18:35,847 BRUCE: Back in the corner. 709 00:18:35,981 --> 00:18:38,649 Yeah, there's this, boxes full of them here. 710 00:18:38,717 --> 00:18:40,718 They're... they're bell bottoms. 711 00:18:40,852 --> 00:18:42,586 MIKE: Man, that does got a bell on it, 712 00:18:42,654 --> 00:18:43,854 don't it... look at that. 713 00:18:43,922 --> 00:18:45,323 BRUCE: They're not, they're not even hemmed. 714 00:18:45,457 --> 00:18:46,724 MIKE: 28-regular. 715 00:18:46,858 --> 00:18:48,726 ROBBIE: There's 12 -pair in each box. 716 00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:49,593 MIKE: Yeah, it says here, 12-pair. 717 00:18:49,661 --> 00:18:51,929 Uh... made in Puerto Rico. 718 00:18:51,997 --> 00:18:53,397 MIKE: These ain't your mama's, or your grandma's 719 00:18:53,465 --> 00:18:55,133 bell bottom jeans. 720 00:18:55,267 --> 00:18:58,736 They started out life as that, but now they are high-waisted 721 00:18:58,870 --> 00:19:01,605 raw denim, brand new, never touched by 722 00:19:01,673 --> 00:19:03,674 human hands vintage denim! 723 00:19:03,742 --> 00:19:06,811 BRUCE: Uh, here's like a 30-XL. 724 00:19:06,945 --> 00:19:07,678 MIKE: Okay, so there are different sizes. 725 00:19:07,746 --> 00:19:09,080 BRUCE: Yeah, there's different- 726 00:19:09,214 --> 00:19:10,348 MIKE: So this, to me, this tag right here looks like it's 727 00:19:10,482 --> 00:19:11,816 military surplus. 728 00:19:11,950 --> 00:19:13,751 BRAD: I, I think it is military surplus. 729 00:19:13,819 --> 00:19:15,886 BRAD: I think it came from an auction. 730 00:19:15,954 --> 00:19:17,955 It may have been brought in here to be resold. 731 00:19:18,023 --> 00:19:20,624 It never quite made it to the sales floor, I guess. 732 00:19:20,692 --> 00:19:21,993 [laughs] It's up in the attic. 733 00:19:33,705 --> 00:19:34,305 MIKE: And they're dated '87. 734 00:19:34,439 --> 00:19:35,306 BRAD: 11, '87. 735 00:19:35,374 --> 00:19:35,706 BRUCE: Okay. 736 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:36,640 ROBBIE: Yeah. 737 00:19:36,708 --> 00:19:37,775 BRAD: They're not that old. 738 00:19:37,909 --> 00:19:38,909 MIKE: '87, they're made in Puerto Rico. 739 00:19:38,977 --> 00:19:39,643 ROBBIE: Yeah, I think they're all the same. 740 00:19:39,711 --> 00:19:40,844 MIKE: They all have some value. 741 00:19:40,913 --> 00:19:41,379 I mean, they're not real ol, they're 1987. 742 00:19:41,513 --> 00:19:43,114 BRAD: Right, yeah. 743 00:19:43,248 --> 00:19:44,248 MIKE: Obviously. But the cut is interesting, a bell bottom, 744 00:19:44,316 --> 00:19:45,249 you know. 745 00:19:45,383 --> 00:19:45,716 BRAD: Yeah. 746 00:19:45,784 --> 00:19:46,784 ROBBIE: Right. 747 00:19:46,852 --> 00:19:48,118 MIKE: I mean, those are hot right now. 748 00:19:48,187 --> 00:19:49,386 MIKE: The champagne problem here is, is that there's just 749 00:19:49,454 --> 00:19:51,789 so many of them. I mean, you're talking long game on these, 750 00:19:51,857 --> 00:19:54,058 unless you're going to wholesale them. 751 00:19:54,126 --> 00:19:55,993 And that's what I'm already starting to think about in 752 00:19:56,127 --> 00:19:59,663 my mind, because I'm looking at the sheer volume, man. 753 00:19:59,731 --> 00:20:01,866 I mean, there's 12 -pair, 2 a box, 754 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,134 and I don't even know how many boxes are here. 755 00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:05,937 You know, you see something like this, you understand what 756 00:20:06,071 --> 00:20:08,606 it is, you want to bring it back into the world, 757 00:20:08,740 --> 00:20:10,341 so people can appreciate them. 758 00:20:10,409 --> 00:20:11,075 MIKE: Alright. 759 00:20:11,209 --> 00:20:13,678 17 boxes, you got 12-pair per box. 760 00:20:13,812 --> 00:20:14,679 BRUCE: A little over 200 of them. 761 00:20:14,813 --> 00:20:17,481 MIKE: Alright. And you got 2 sizes. 762 00:20:17,616 --> 00:20:18,415 BRUCE: 2 different sizes. 763 00:20:18,483 --> 00:20:19,483 The only thing is... 764 00:20:19,551 --> 00:20:20,884 MIKE: The thing is, okay for me, you know I mean... 765 00:20:20,953 --> 00:20:22,286 they need to be sold to like a vintage shop. 766 00:20:22,420 --> 00:20:23,954 ROBBIE: Yeah. 767 00:20:24,022 --> 00:20:24,688 MIKE: You know, somebody that's got a retail store- 768 00:20:24,756 --> 00:20:25,889 ROBBIE: That can alter them. 769 00:20:25,958 --> 00:20:27,625 MIKE: -that can deal with that type of volume, 770 00:20:27,759 --> 00:20:28,626 because there's only 2 sizes. 771 00:20:28,694 --> 00:20:30,294 There's 28s and there's 30s. 772 00:20:30,362 --> 00:20:30,694 BRAD: Right. 773 00:20:30,762 --> 00:20:31,629 BRUCE: 30s. 774 00:20:31,763 --> 00:20:32,296 MIKE: You know, and that's it. 775 00:20:32,364 --> 00:20:33,564 BRAD: Right. 776 00:20:33,698 --> 00:20:34,365 MIKE: So, and then they got to, I mean, this is a lifetime... 777 00:20:34,433 --> 00:20:35,299 ROBBIE: Haul... 778 00:20:35,433 --> 00:20:37,034 BRUCE: Supply. 779 00:20:37,102 --> 00:20:39,303 MIKE: It's a lifetime supply of this one pair of pant. 780 00:20:39,437 --> 00:20:40,438 ROBBIE: Yeah. 781 00:20:40,572 --> 00:20:41,639 MIKE: Right, I-I mean, I just, I just don't feel like 782 00:20:41,707 --> 00:20:42,974 I'm the guy to buy them all. 783 00:20:43,108 --> 00:20:44,708 I could buy like, I'd buy this stack, maybe off you. 784 00:20:44,776 --> 00:20:46,844 BRUCE: I mean, we want rid of them, 785 00:20:46,978 --> 00:20:48,646 me or Brad can't get our fat butts in them, 786 00:20:48,714 --> 00:20:50,314 so they're of no use to us. 787 00:20:50,382 --> 00:20:51,182 BRAD: Right. 788 00:20:51,316 --> 00:20:53,917 BRUCE: I'd rather Mike just take it all. 789 00:20:53,986 --> 00:20:55,653 I mean, other than 3 or 4 boxes, because I mean, 790 00:20:55,721 --> 00:20:57,855 what are we going to do with it? 791 00:20:57,923 --> 00:20:59,590 BRAD: It-it maybe end up being the hottest 792 00:20:59,724 --> 00:21:00,458 item ever to hit the internet. 793 00:21:00,592 --> 00:21:01,459 BRUCE: [laughs] Yeah. 794 00:21:01,593 --> 00:21:02,727 BRAD: You never know. 795 00:21:02,861 --> 00:21:03,728 BRUCE: 400 bucks for all of them and you, 796 00:21:03,862 --> 00:21:06,530 that throws you in 4 -pair for free. 797 00:21:06,732 --> 00:21:07,598 MIKE: Alright, alright, alright. 798 00:21:07,666 --> 00:21:08,332 BRAD: Alright, that works. 799 00:21:08,466 --> 00:21:09,600 BRUCE: Alright. 800 00:21:09,668 --> 00:21:10,668 MIKE: A good pair of jeans is like a good leather jacket. 801 00:21:10,802 --> 00:21:13,203 Okay, a good pair of leather boots. 802 00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:15,606 I mean, the more you wear it, the more relationship you have, 803 00:21:15,740 --> 00:21:17,074 the more broke down they are. 804 00:21:17,142 --> 00:21:20,811 And the rips and the scars and the paint and all that, 805 00:21:20,945 --> 00:21:22,880 man, it just becomes part of your story. 806 00:21:22,948 --> 00:21:25,616 You know, each pair of jeans here is going 807 00:21:25,684 --> 00:21:26,984 to mean something to somebody. 808 00:21:27,419 --> 00:21:28,219 ROBBIE: Oh. 809 00:21:28,353 --> 00:21:29,753 MIKE: Woo! 810 00:21:29,821 --> 00:21:31,422 Alright, I'm in the denim business. 811 00:21:31,490 --> 00:21:31,889 BRUCE: Yes you are. 812 00:21:32,023 --> 00:21:32,623 BRAD: Yes you are. 813 00:21:32,757 --> 00:21:33,958 ROBBIE: Throw them in there. 814 00:21:34,092 --> 00:21:34,958 BRAD: We knew this day would come sooner or later, 815 00:21:35,027 --> 00:21:36,627 where we just have to thin some stuff out, 816 00:21:36,761 --> 00:21:38,095 and we just can't keep everything. 817 00:21:38,163 --> 00:21:40,898 And we're glad that it's going to guys who will repurpose 818 00:21:40,966 --> 00:21:43,500 it and get it into the hands of other people 819 00:21:43,568 --> 00:21:44,702 who will appreciate it. 820 00:21:44,770 --> 00:21:45,569 BRUCE: And will enjoy it, yeah. 821 00:21:45,637 --> 00:21:47,571 ROBBIE: Man. What a day. 822 00:21:47,706 --> 00:21:48,639 MIKE: Thank you, brother. 823 00:21:48,707 --> 00:21:50,107 BRUCE: You're welcome, my man. 824 00:21:50,241 --> 00:21:51,041 MIKE: Appreciate you sharing your family's history with us. 825 00:21:51,109 --> 00:21:51,575 BRAD: Yeah, thank you for coming, yeah. 826 00:21:51,710 --> 00:21:52,043 BRUCE: You're welcome. 827 00:21:52,177 --> 00:21:52,977 MIKE: Absolutely. 828 00:21:53,111 --> 00:21:53,577 Robbie's going to send you a picture of that 829 00:21:53,645 --> 00:21:54,378 sign when it's done. 830 00:21:54,446 --> 00:21:54,912 ROBBIE: I will. 831 00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:55,579 BRUCE: Alright, I... 832 00:21:55,714 --> 00:21:56,313 BRAD: Yeah, yeah, fantastic. 833 00:21:56,381 --> 00:21:56,981 We really... 834 00:21:57,115 --> 00:21:57,514 ROBBIE: Appreciate you guys. 835 00:21:57,582 --> 00:21:58,649 Thank you so much. 836 00:21:58,783 --> 00:21:59,850 ROBBIE: The history that these 2 brothers have with this 837 00:21:59,984 --> 00:22:01,585 community, and the stories that they told us, 838 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,587 they're going to live on forever. 839 00:22:03,655 --> 00:22:05,122 MIKE: Keep on keepin' on. 840 00:22:05,256 --> 00:22:05,856 BRAD: We really proud of this town, this whole town, you know. 841 00:22:05,924 --> 00:22:06,724 We-we grew up here and... 842 00:22:06,858 --> 00:22:07,925 we're hoping to make it better too. 843 00:22:07,993 --> 00:22:09,593 MIKE: We're all here to take care of each other. 844 00:22:09,728 --> 00:22:10,394 BRAD: That's right, my friend. 845 00:22:10,462 --> 00:22:10,795 ROBBIE: That's it. 846 00:22:10,929 --> 00:22:11,462 MIKE: Alright. 847 00:22:11,530 --> 00:22:12,463 BRUCE: Y'all be safe. 848 00:22:12,531 --> 00:22:12,863 BRAD: You guys take care, appreciate ya, yep. 849 00:22:12,931 --> 00:22:13,331 [honks horn] 850 00:22:13,799 --> 00:22:15,599 ROBBIE: Thanks guys, catch you later. 851 00:22:15,734 --> 00:22:17,001 BRAD: See you guys, thanks. 852 00:22:20,339 --> 00:22:24,342 ♪ ♪ ♪ 853 00:22:24,476 --> 00:22:25,676 [phone ringing] 854 00:22:25,810 --> 00:22:27,344 MIKE: Oh here's Danielle calling. 855 00:22:27,412 --> 00:22:28,011 ROBBIE: Yeah. 856 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:28,612 MIKE: Dani D, what's up? 857 00:22:28,747 --> 00:22:29,880 ROBBIE: Whaddup, Dani? 858 00:22:29,948 --> 00:22:31,415 DANIELLE: Okay guys, are you ready for the 859 00:22:31,549 --> 00:22:33,284 mother of all leads? 860 00:22:33,418 --> 00:22:34,285 MIKE: [laughs] 861 00:22:34,419 --> 00:22:35,019 ROBBIE: Yeah? 862 00:22:35,153 --> 00:22:36,153 MIKE: Yeah, hit us with it. 863 00:22:36,287 --> 00:22:38,689 DANIELLE: You're on your way to meet a guy named Jeff. 864 00:22:38,823 --> 00:22:40,824 He's a retired electric wholesaler, 865 00:22:40,892 --> 00:22:43,293 but he has a passion for coin-op scales. 866 00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:44,495 MIKE: Okay. 867 00:22:44,563 --> 00:22:46,430 DANIELLE: So for the last 40 years, this dude has picked 868 00:22:46,564 --> 00:22:47,965 every scale he could. 869 00:22:48,033 --> 00:22:49,767 And I just sent Robbie a list of the scales that he 870 00:22:49,835 --> 00:22:52,703 is definitely interested in selling. 871 00:22:52,771 --> 00:22:53,304 MIKE: Does he have lollipop scales? 872 00:22:53,438 --> 00:22:54,571 DANIELLE: Yep. 873 00:22:54,639 --> 00:22:55,372 MIKE: Advertising scales? 874 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:56,574 DANIELLE: Yeah. 875 00:22:56,708 --> 00:22:57,374 MIKE: Floor model scales? 876 00:22:57,442 --> 00:22:58,509 DANIELLE: Indeed. 877 00:22:58,643 --> 00:22:59,510 MIKE: Countertop scales? 878 00:22:59,578 --> 00:23:00,511 DANIELLE: Abso-tutely. 879 00:23:00,579 --> 00:23:01,512 ROBBIE: Produce scales? 880 00:23:01,580 --> 00:23:02,913 MIKE: Character scales? 881 00:23:03,047 --> 00:23:04,782 DANIELLE: Yeah, I mean, he has all the scales. 882 00:23:04,916 --> 00:23:06,784 I mean, this guy has more scales than a 883 00:23:06,918 --> 00:23:08,786 West Virginia rattlesnake, he's got scales. 884 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:10,921 ROBBIE: Man, this guy must be a bruiser. 885 00:23:10,989 --> 00:23:12,656 I mean, he must be built like, I mean, holy cow, 886 00:23:12,791 --> 00:23:15,526 those things weigh like a gas pump. 887 00:23:15,660 --> 00:23:16,394 MIKE: Alright, we're on it. 888 00:23:16,528 --> 00:23:17,128 ROBBIE: We're on it. 889 00:23:17,262 --> 00:23:17,595 MIKE: Send us the coordinates. 890 00:23:17,729 --> 00:23:18,796 Hey, I'm excited! 891 00:23:18,864 --> 00:23:20,931 ROBBIE: My back's hurting already, Dani. 892 00:23:21,065 --> 00:23:22,666 DANIELLE: Alright, you guys be careful out there. 893 00:23:22,734 --> 00:23:24,001 MIKE: Alright, bye, thank you. 894 00:23:28,273 --> 00:23:31,942 ♪ ♪ 895 00:23:32,010 --> 00:23:33,210 MIKE: Alright here, we're coming up on this place, 896 00:23:33,278 --> 00:23:34,144 it says. 897 00:23:34,212 --> 00:23:36,013 ROBBIE: Yeah, it's up here on the right. 898 00:23:36,882 --> 00:23:37,614 MIKE: Oh man, this is cool back here. 899 00:23:37,682 --> 00:23:39,283 Look at that Sinclair sign. 900 00:23:39,351 --> 00:23:40,284 ROBBIE: Ha! 901 00:23:40,418 --> 00:23:42,887 MIKE: See? He's got something besides a scale. 902 00:23:43,021 --> 00:23:44,021 MIKE: He's got a Sinclair sign. ROBBIE: Yeah. 903 00:23:44,089 --> 00:23:46,356 MIKE: You got to get a flyer. ROBBIE: Right here. 904 00:23:46,425 --> 00:23:46,991 MIKE: Alrighty. 905 00:23:51,429 --> 00:23:53,297 ROBBIE: What? 906 00:23:53,431 --> 00:23:54,698 MIKE: Hey-hey! 907 00:23:54,766 --> 00:23:56,000 JEFF: [faintly] Hello! Back here. 908 00:23:58,370 --> 00:23:59,303 MIKE: Jeff. 909 00:23:59,437 --> 00:24:01,005 ROBBIE: Jeff. 910 00:24:01,439 --> 00:24:03,040 MIKE: Lordy! 911 00:24:03,108 --> 00:24:05,309 ROBBIE: Man, Dani wasn't kidding about you having scales. 912 00:24:05,443 --> 00:24:07,444 MIKE: [laughs] 913 00:24:07,512 --> 00:24:08,378 JEFF: I have a few. 914 00:24:08,447 --> 00:24:09,580 MIKE: Yes you do! 915 00:24:09,648 --> 00:24:10,448 ROBBIE: Just a few, I'd say. 916 00:24:10,582 --> 00:24:11,248 MIKE: What's going on? 917 00:24:11,316 --> 00:24:11,715 I'm Mike. 918 00:24:11,783 --> 00:24:12,583 JEFF: Hi there. 919 00:24:12,717 --> 00:24:13,250 MIKE: This is my brother, Robbie. 920 00:24:13,384 --> 00:24:13,851 ROBBIE: How're you doing? 921 00:24:13,985 --> 00:24:14,318 JEFF: Hi, how are ya? 922 00:24:14,452 --> 00:24:14,918 Nice to meet you. 923 00:24:14,986 --> 00:24:15,453 ROBBIE: Good to see you. 924 00:24:15,587 --> 00:24:15,986 MIKE: Here's a flyer. 925 00:24:16,855 --> 00:24:17,521 MIKE: She probably talked about this, 926 00:24:17,589 --> 00:24:17,855 but... see right there. 927 00:24:17,989 --> 00:24:18,322 JEFF: Yep. 928 00:24:18,456 --> 00:24:18,789 ROBBIE: Scales. 929 00:24:18,857 --> 00:24:19,256 MIKE: Scales. 930 00:24:19,324 --> 00:24:19,990 JEFF: Yep. 931 00:24:20,058 --> 00:24:21,459 You start with one. And then... 932 00:24:21,593 --> 00:24:23,193 MIKE: [chuckles] Yeah. 933 00:24:23,261 --> 00:24:24,862 JEFF: one leads to another, and to another, and to another. 934 00:24:24,996 --> 00:24:26,997 JEFF: What I collect are coin-operated scales. 935 00:24:27,131 --> 00:24:29,867 The kind you stand on and weigh yourself for a penny. 936 00:24:29,935 --> 00:24:33,003 They were real popular in the early 1900s. 937 00:24:33,071 --> 00:24:36,874 They were in train stations, bus depots, drug stores, 938 00:24:37,008 --> 00:24:40,744 on the sidewalk, near the markets, everywhere. 939 00:24:40,879 --> 00:24:41,678 JEFF: That's the first scale I bought. 940 00:24:41,746 --> 00:24:43,280 ROBBIE: That's it right there. 941 00:24:43,348 --> 00:24:44,014 JEFF: Yep. 942 00:24:44,082 --> 00:24:44,348 MIKE: Is that original face? 943 00:24:44,416 --> 00:24:45,616 JEFF: No. 944 00:24:45,684 --> 00:24:46,683 I had to reproduce that face. 945 00:24:46,751 --> 00:24:48,285 MIKE: Oh so you bought it and then you restored it. 946 00:24:48,419 --> 00:24:49,953 JEFF: Correct. 947 00:24:50,021 --> 00:24:52,623 MIKE: I've always loved and appreciated the guy 948 00:24:52,757 --> 00:24:55,225 that collects just one thing. 949 00:24:55,293 --> 00:24:58,095 Okay because, if anybody's ever looking for a part for a scale, 950 00:24:58,229 --> 00:25:00,898 or they want information on a scale, or they want a scale 951 00:25:00,966 --> 00:25:04,368 restored - this is the guy behind the scenes 952 00:25:04,436 --> 00:25:05,836 that you contact. 953 00:25:05,904 --> 00:25:07,571 MIKE: I'm sorry, I'm looking around, man, 954 00:25:07,639 --> 00:25:08,171 I'm just kind of like... 955 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:08,572 ROBBIE: I'm just, yeah. 956 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,107 JEFF: Yeah. 957 00:25:10,241 --> 00:25:11,175 MIKE: I've never, I mean, I've-I've seen most of these 958 00:25:11,309 --> 00:25:12,443 scales, but I've never seen so many in one space. 959 00:25:12,577 --> 00:25:13,043 ROBBIE: In one-yeah. 960 00:25:13,111 --> 00:25:13,644 JEFF: That's... yeah. 961 00:25:13,712 --> 00:25:15,245 MIKE: Jeff is that guy. 962 00:25:15,313 --> 00:25:18,115 He planted his flag a long time ago, for one reason or another, 963 00:25:18,183 --> 00:25:23,053 and said, I love scales, I'm devoting my life to scales. 964 00:25:23,187 --> 00:25:24,922 Today is going to be a learning experience for Robbie and 965 00:25:24,990 --> 00:25:29,793 I because, we are talking to the Sultan of Scales. 966 00:25:29,861 --> 00:25:31,862 JEFF: Mainly, I like big head Watlings. 967 00:25:31,930 --> 00:25:33,264 Watling was a manufacturer out of Chicago. 968 00:25:33,398 --> 00:25:35,065 MIKE: Okay. 969 00:25:35,199 --> 00:25:36,533 JEFF: I like this particular style, because they're big, 970 00:25:36,601 --> 00:25:38,068 you see the mechanism. 971 00:25:38,136 --> 00:25:40,871 MIKE: But for example though, if they put any kind of 972 00:25:40,939 --> 00:25:43,274 advertising on this glass in the center... 973 00:25:43,408 --> 00:25:44,474 JEFF: Um-hm. 974 00:25:44,543 --> 00:25:45,276 MIKE: like that one you can see that's faded out... 975 00:25:45,410 --> 00:25:46,476 JEFF: Right. 976 00:25:46,545 --> 00:25:47,477 MIKE: then you're really covering up the mechanism. 977 00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:48,412 JEFF: Some of it, yes. 978 00:25:48,546 --> 00:25:50,281 But you still see... 979 00:25:50,415 --> 00:25:51,081 ROBBIE: See. 980 00:25:51,149 --> 00:25:52,282 JEFF: The, the weights move... 981 00:25:52,350 --> 00:25:53,017 MIKE: Okay. 982 00:25:53,151 --> 00:25:54,018 JEFF: and- and the motion. 983 00:25:54,152 --> 00:25:56,420 JEFF: It was a big, big business back then, 984 00:25:56,488 --> 00:25:57,487 at a penny a weigh. 985 00:25:57,556 --> 00:25:59,890 There's big companies that made them, there's small 986 00:25:59,958 --> 00:26:01,959 companies that made them, different gimmicks. 987 00:26:02,027 --> 00:26:04,695 Whether it'd be astrology, be guess your weight. 988 00:26:04,829 --> 00:26:06,697 MIKE: So I see this one says chimes. 989 00:26:06,765 --> 00:26:07,297 What does this do, this actually... 990 00:26:07,365 --> 00:26:08,298 makes music? 991 00:26:08,366 --> 00:26:09,967 JEFF: Okay. 992 00:26:10,035 --> 00:26:11,368 What that did is... if the penny bounced through. 993 00:26:11,436 --> 00:26:12,436 [chimes sounding] 994 00:26:12,570 --> 00:26:15,305 MIKE: That's awesome. 995 00:26:15,373 --> 00:26:16,573 ROBBIE: Huh. 996 00:26:16,641 --> 00:26:18,442 JEFF: And the operators loved it, because it was mechanical. 997 00:26:18,510 --> 00:26:19,510 MIKE & ROBBIE: Yeah. 998 00:26:19,644 --> 00:26:20,578 JEFF: People, even if they got their penny back... 999 00:26:20,712 --> 00:26:21,778 ROBBIE: They'd put it back in. 1000 00:26:21,846 --> 00:26:22,713 JEFF: they'd- they'd put it back in, 1001 00:26:22,847 --> 00:26:24,448 because they want to hear the chime. 1002 00:26:24,516 --> 00:26:26,049 MIKE: Oh okay, yeah. 1003 00:26:26,117 --> 00:26:28,852 MIKE: It's so interesting to talk to Jeff and learn the 1004 00:26:28,987 --> 00:26:31,789 psychology behind the design of the scales. 1005 00:26:31,923 --> 00:26:34,124 They knew that they had to up the ante. 1006 00:26:34,192 --> 00:26:36,927 You know, they knew that they had to step up their game if 1007 00:26:37,061 --> 00:26:38,195 they were going to get the coin out of your pocket. 1008 00:26:38,329 --> 00:26:41,732 Every time that retailer heard that chime - ding, ding, ding 1009 00:26:41,866 --> 00:26:43,533 - is like, just made [snaps fingers] 1010 00:26:43,602 --> 00:26:45,002 2- and-a- half cents. 1011 00:26:45,136 --> 00:26:46,070 MIKE: You know, but that was a lot of money back then. 1012 00:26:46,204 --> 00:26:47,671 I mean, think about it, for a nickel, you could 1013 00:26:47,805 --> 00:26:50,140 have like 2 huge handfuls of candy. 1014 00:26:50,208 --> 00:26:53,143 I found old signs before which says, 'hamburger, a nickel.' 1015 00:26:53,277 --> 00:26:56,747 It doesn't sound like a lot of money, but it really added up. 1016 00:26:56,815 --> 00:26:57,815 MIKE: Well, you got some soda stuff. 1017 00:26:57,949 --> 00:26:59,616 You got some Coca-Cola, some Royal Crown. 1018 00:26:59,684 --> 00:27:01,218 ROBBIE: You got some clocks. 1019 00:27:01,352 --> 00:27:02,353 JEFF: Yep. 1020 00:27:02,487 --> 00:27:03,887 MIKE: Okay, so you're taking this apart to restore it. 1021 00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:05,288 JEFF: The motor needs to be replaced on that one. 1022 00:27:05,357 --> 00:27:06,623 MIKE: Okay. 1023 00:27:06,691 --> 00:27:07,891 JEFF: And then put together. 1024 00:27:08,026 --> 00:27:08,959 ROBBIE: Yeah, these are all Cleveland clocks. 1025 00:27:09,093 --> 00:27:10,560 MIKE: I like the black face, I think better with 1026 00:27:10,629 --> 00:27:12,029 the cream colored numerals. 1027 00:27:12,097 --> 00:27:14,831 ROBBIE: Any collector out there that has advertising, 1028 00:27:14,899 --> 00:27:18,035 is always looking for a Cleveland clock. 1029 00:27:18,169 --> 00:27:20,637 They were on dealerships, they were on ice cream places, 1030 00:27:20,705 --> 00:27:21,905 they were in movie theaters. 1031 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,641 It had an advertising marquee on the top of it. 1032 00:27:24,709 --> 00:27:25,509 ROBBIE: Yep, green and pink. 1033 00:27:25,643 --> 00:27:26,644 MIKE: Ooh, that's cool. 1034 00:27:26,778 --> 00:27:27,844 ROBBIE: Yeah, green and pink. 1035 00:27:27,912 --> 00:27:29,647 ROBBIE: It was all about the advertising. 1036 00:27:29,781 --> 00:27:31,782 And the neon made it stand out. 1037 00:27:31,916 --> 00:27:33,250 ROBBIE: Danielle said you had a list... 1038 00:27:33,384 --> 00:27:34,184 JEFF: Yeah. 1039 00:27:34,252 --> 00:27:34,852 ROBBIE: of stuff that was for sale. 1040 00:27:34,986 --> 00:27:36,586 JEFF: I have a list. Uh... 1041 00:27:36,655 --> 00:27:37,721 ROBBIE: Was this on the list? 1042 00:27:37,855 --> 00:27:40,657 JEFF: No... but that doesn't mean... 1043 00:27:40,725 --> 00:27:41,725 ROBBIE: it's not for sale? 1044 00:27:41,859 --> 00:27:42,459 JEFF: Doesn't mean it's not for sale. 1045 00:27:42,527 --> 00:27:43,860 ROBBIE: You said that... 1046 00:27:43,928 --> 00:27:45,662 and it doesn't look like the motor's working? 1047 00:27:45,730 --> 00:27:46,396 JEFF: Just needs a motor, I think. 1048 00:27:46,464 --> 00:27:48,999 ROBBIE: Okay. 800. 1049 00:27:52,537 --> 00:27:54,204 JEFF: More like 1,000. 1050 00:27:54,873 --> 00:27:58,008 ROBBIE: Settle at 900. It's a project. 1051 00:27:59,344 --> 00:28:00,277 JEFF: Yep. 1052 00:28:00,411 --> 00:28:01,011 ROBBIE: 900? 1053 00:28:01,079 --> 00:28:01,878 JEFF: Yeah. I can do 900. 1054 00:28:01,946 --> 00:28:03,280 ROBBIE: Alright. Appreciate it. Thanks. 1055 00:28:03,414 --> 00:28:04,147 JEFF: Sure. 1056 00:28:04,215 --> 00:28:05,282 JEFF: I bought them at a good price. 1057 00:28:05,416 --> 00:28:07,351 I made a few dollars, he's going to make a few dollars, 1058 00:28:07,485 --> 00:28:08,619 everybody's happy. 1059 00:28:08,886 --> 00:28:10,287 JEFF: I've got the... headlight tester. 1060 00:28:10,421 --> 00:28:11,755 MIKE: Oh yeah. 1061 00:28:11,889 --> 00:28:12,623 ROBBIE: This thing looks like a robot. 1062 00:28:12,757 --> 00:28:13,891 JEFF: It does, doesn't it? Yeah. 1063 00:28:14,025 --> 00:28:15,893 MIKE: War of the Worlds. Is this original paint? 1064 00:28:16,027 --> 00:28:17,628 JEFF: That's original, and you would, you know, 1065 00:28:17,762 --> 00:28:18,361 the car would come up here... 1066 00:28:18,430 --> 00:28:20,097 MIKE: Yeah, yeah. 1067 00:28:20,165 --> 00:28:21,365 JEFF: and they'd put the headlight, you know, back in 1068 00:28:21,499 --> 00:28:22,899 then, I mean you remember, when I was a kid, you'd be driving 1069 00:28:22,967 --> 00:28:24,902 down the highway, and people's headlights... 1070 00:28:25,036 --> 00:28:26,970 MIKE: Yeah, one's like in the tree, [laughs] yeah. 1071 00:28:27,038 --> 00:28:27,904 JEFF: One would be, one here, an another one... 1072 00:28:27,972 --> 00:28:28,705 MIKE: Hey, I still drive cars like that. 1073 00:28:28,773 --> 00:28:30,040 ROBBIE: I still drive cars, yeah. 1074 00:28:30,174 --> 00:28:31,241 MIKE: What I love about stuff from this era, is that it 1075 00:28:31,309 --> 00:28:34,445 wasn't just about being utilitarian and being useful, 1076 00:28:34,579 --> 00:28:36,914 it was also beautiful. 1077 00:28:37,048 --> 00:28:39,917 The design, the aesthetic, streamline, airflow. 1078 00:28:40,051 --> 00:28:42,052 All of that bled into so many different industries. 1079 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,654 From the automotive industry, to the-to aeronautics, 1080 00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:46,857 to railroads, to motorcycles. 1081 00:28:46,925 --> 00:28:49,793 And even pieces that were in your own home. 1082 00:28:49,927 --> 00:28:51,595 It's just a time in America that's never 1083 00:28:51,663 --> 00:28:53,063 going to come again, man. 1084 00:28:53,131 --> 00:28:56,867 And we were setting the bar for the rest of the world. 1085 00:28:57,001 --> 00:29:00,670 Everybody was emulating what we were doing. 1086 00:29:00,739 --> 00:29:01,338 MIKE: What do you value this at? 1087 00:29:01,406 --> 00:29:02,740 JEFF: Um... 450. 1088 00:29:02,874 --> 00:29:04,475 MIKE: I love it. I mean, we-we both got- 1089 00:29:04,609 --> 00:29:05,809 JEFF: It's a great piece. 1090 00:29:05,877 --> 00:29:06,276 MIKE: We've both got older buildings... 1091 00:29:06,410 --> 00:29:07,344 JEFF: Um-hm. 1092 00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:08,078 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1093 00:29:08,146 --> 00:29:08,478 MIKE: that serviced cars. 1094 00:29:08,546 --> 00:29:09,947 JEFF: Yeah. 1095 00:29:10,081 --> 00:29:10,681 MIKE: You know, whether it's a car dealership or 1096 00:29:10,815 --> 00:29:12,349 a body shop or a gas station. 1097 00:29:12,417 --> 00:29:13,283 Would you do 350? 1098 00:29:13,417 --> 00:29:15,686 JEFF: Uhhh... 1099 00:29:15,820 --> 00:29:17,287 450 is about as low as I go on that. 1100 00:29:17,421 --> 00:29:18,756 MIKE: Really. 1101 00:29:18,890 --> 00:29:20,757 JEFF: Yeah. It's worth more than that. 1102 00:29:20,825 --> 00:29:21,825 ROBBIE: I like the originality of it. 1103 00:29:21,959 --> 00:29:23,026 JEFF: I just got a pretty good deal, yeah. 1104 00:29:23,161 --> 00:29:24,694 MIKE: Make me feel like I'm getting a good deal - 430. 1105 00:29:24,763 --> 00:29:27,564 JEFF: 4-[laughs] I'll eat the $20. 1106 00:29:27,698 --> 00:29:28,999 MIKE: Okay, [laughs] thanks. 1107 00:29:34,305 --> 00:29:35,973 ♪ ♪ 1108 00:29:36,107 --> 00:29:36,973 MIKE: So looks like you had all of these scales from 1109 00:29:37,041 --> 00:29:39,843 one time period in, in just this area here. 1110 00:29:39,911 --> 00:29:42,646 JEFF: Yeah. This is early cast iron. 1890s. 1111 00:29:42,780 --> 00:29:43,780 MIKE: I love that blood red one. 1112 00:29:43,848 --> 00:29:45,315 ROBBIE: 'To which class do you belong? 1113 00:29:45,449 --> 00:29:46,583 Lean, fat...' 1114 00:29:46,651 --> 00:29:49,319 JEFF: Yeah, they were-they necessarily politically correct. 1115 00:29:49,387 --> 00:29:49,720 MIKE: [laughs] 1116 00:29:49,854 --> 00:29:50,654 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1117 00:29:50,788 --> 00:29:51,588 JEFF: They, they didn't worry about 1118 00:29:51,656 --> 00:29:52,322 people's feelings back then. 1119 00:29:52,456 --> 00:29:54,057 ROBBIE: No, no. 1120 00:29:54,125 --> 00:29:55,726 MIKE: It's so cool to see Jeff geeking out about scales, 1121 00:29:55,860 --> 00:29:59,462 the same way I do about a 1910 Harley. 1122 00:29:59,531 --> 00:30:00,330 ROBBIE: There it goes. 1123 00:30:00,398 --> 00:30:01,064 MIKE: Alright. 1124 00:30:01,199 --> 00:30:01,865 ROBBIE: What's that say? Lean? 1125 00:30:01,999 --> 00:30:02,999 JEFF: Lean, mean, fighting machine. 1126 00:30:03,067 --> 00:30:05,936 MIKE: The fact that he's so passionate about scales, 1127 00:30:06,070 --> 00:30:09,072 is really the reason why so many of them exist. 1128 00:30:09,140 --> 00:30:11,942 You know, he's got all of these scales in this building, 1129 00:30:12,010 --> 00:30:15,078 but think about how many scales he's gone through. 1130 00:30:15,146 --> 00:30:18,014 Probably hundreds and hundreds, maybe even thousands. 1131 00:30:18,216 --> 00:30:21,551 MIKE: So this is, this is the quintessential, like unicorn 1132 00:30:21,619 --> 00:30:22,686 when it comes to scales. 1133 00:30:22,820 --> 00:30:23,887 JEFF: They're, yeah, they're rough, 1134 00:30:24,021 --> 00:30:25,756 but the main part for me is the mechanical part. 1135 00:30:25,890 --> 00:30:28,292 And then I'm going to redo the bottles. 1136 00:30:28,426 --> 00:30:29,292 ROBBIE: Oh yeah. 1137 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:30,828 JEFF: And... 1138 00:30:30,962 --> 00:30:31,695 MIKE: Oh... do they reproduce this bottle? 1139 00:30:31,829 --> 00:30:33,630 JEFF: No, no. I'm going to do it. 1140 00:30:33,698 --> 00:30:34,698 MIKE: Oh you're going to... 1141 00:30:34,766 --> 00:30:35,832 you're going-you're going to reproduce this thing? 1142 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:36,766 ROBBIE: The back side of that's missing. 1143 00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:37,835 JEFF: Yeah, the back side of this... 1144 00:30:37,969 --> 00:30:38,768 MIKE: Yeah, that's what I'm talking about, 1145 00:30:38,837 --> 00:30:39,436 the back side of the bottle's missing. 1146 00:30:39,504 --> 00:30:40,770 JEFF: Yeah, correct. 1147 00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:41,238 MIKE: You're going to have that made. 1148 00:30:41,372 --> 00:30:42,439 JEFF: Yep. 1149 00:30:42,507 --> 00:30:43,773 JEFF: You get these scales and the glass is broken and 1150 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:46,643 the coin door is damaged, and all that. 1151 00:30:46,711 --> 00:30:48,044 Well, you've got to replace it. 1152 00:30:48,112 --> 00:30:52,182 So I've started getting into making replacement glass, 1153 00:30:52,250 --> 00:30:55,986 replacement faces, things like that, that go bad on a scale. 1154 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,255 MIKE: So you're going to make the back of this bottle. 1155 00:30:58,389 --> 00:30:59,723 JEFF: Right. 1156 00:30:59,857 --> 00:31:00,390 MIKE: And you're going to make the cap. 1157 00:31:00,524 --> 00:31:00,791 JEFF: Make the cap. 1158 00:31:00,925 --> 00:31:01,725 MIKE: Okay. 1159 00:31:01,859 --> 00:31:02,859 And these were broken because they're- 1160 00:31:02,927 --> 00:31:03,327 people were trying to get in and take some... 1161 00:31:03,461 --> 00:31:04,461 or get the money. 1162 00:31:04,595 --> 00:31:05,528 JEFF: To get the money. 1163 00:31:05,597 --> 00:31:06,463 ROBBIE: Get the money out. 1164 00:31:06,597 --> 00:31:06,930 JEFF: To get the money. 1165 00:31:07,064 --> 00:31:08,198 MIKE: Ohh okay. 1166 00:31:08,266 --> 00:31:09,733 MIKE: If Jeff is going to go through the process of making 1167 00:31:09,867 --> 00:31:11,134 these bottles, he has to make a mold. 1168 00:31:11,269 --> 00:31:15,071 And that's the expensive part. Then it goes into an injection 1169 00:31:15,139 --> 00:31:18,141 molder, okay, and then he can make as many as he wants. 1170 00:31:18,209 --> 00:31:20,477 JEFF: I've got more complete ones of these up at the house. 1171 00:31:20,611 --> 00:31:21,678 MIKE: Can we see those? 1172 00:31:21,746 --> 00:31:22,813 JEFF: Yeah. Any time you want. 1173 00:31:22,947 --> 00:31:23,346 MIKE: Alright, well I want to see that. 1174 00:31:23,414 --> 00:31:23,747 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1175 00:31:23,881 --> 00:31:24,814 MIKE: Heck yeah. 1176 00:31:24,883 --> 00:31:26,082 MIKE: It's all about supply and demand. 1177 00:31:26,150 --> 00:31:28,151 There's not a lot of these scales around, so if you're 1178 00:31:28,286 --> 00:31:31,021 going through all that trouble, it's purely for preservation. 1179 00:31:31,089 --> 00:31:34,691 Which is awesome, because it shows where his heart is. 1180 00:31:35,026 --> 00:31:37,761 It's not about the money, it's really more about 1181 00:31:37,829 --> 00:31:40,764 getting more of these scales complete, 1182 00:31:40,898 --> 00:31:42,966 and putting them back into the hobby. 1183 00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:45,435 JEFF: Now this is the scratch-and-dent department. 1184 00:31:45,569 --> 00:31:46,636 MIKE: Okay, I like that. 1185 00:31:46,704 --> 00:31:48,305 ROBBIE: I mean, it looks like a damn big building here. 1186 00:31:48,373 --> 00:31:48,705 JEFF: Yeah. 1187 00:31:48,839 --> 00:31:49,172 MIKE: Oh wow! 1188 00:31:49,307 --> 00:31:50,307 [laughs] 1189 00:31:50,441 --> 00:31:51,574 ROBBIE: What! 1190 00:31:51,643 --> 00:31:51,975 JEFF: There's a few in here. 1191 00:31:52,043 --> 00:31:52,976 MIKE: Dang! 1192 00:31:53,044 --> 00:31:54,912 ROBBIE: Do you have every scale in America? 1193 00:31:55,046 --> 00:31:57,580 JEFF: I... no, I think there's a few still out 1194 00:31:57,649 --> 00:31:58,315 there that I don't have. 1195 00:31:58,449 --> 00:31:59,316 MIKE: [laughs] 1196 00:31:59,450 --> 00:32:00,250 JEFF: Not many. 1197 00:32:00,318 --> 00:32:01,785 MIKE: Wow. 1198 00:32:01,919 --> 00:32:02,786 ROBBIE: I mean, what is the process here? 1199 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,654 You yank them out of here and then you take 1200 00:32:04,722 --> 00:32:05,255 them up to the building and... 1201 00:32:05,323 --> 00:32:06,657 JEFF: Yep. 1202 00:32:06,791 --> 00:32:07,991 ROBBIE: you're restoring them? 1203 00:32:08,059 --> 00:32:09,659 JEFF: This is where basically, waiting to be done. 1204 00:32:09,727 --> 00:32:11,128 ROBBIE: Let me ask you this... 1205 00:32:11,262 --> 00:32:11,861 Ahh! 1206 00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:14,398 God-dang, son of a [beep] 1207 00:32:14,532 --> 00:32:15,399 ROBBIE: Snakes! 1208 00:32:15,533 --> 00:32:16,933 MIKE: Oh, where at? 1209 00:32:17,001 --> 00:32:17,668 ROBBIE: Right there on top of that [beep] thing! 1210 00:32:17,802 --> 00:32:18,936 MIKE: Alright, let's see here. 1211 00:32:19,070 --> 00:32:20,470 ROBBIE: It's dark in there, I'm looking through 1212 00:32:20,538 --> 00:32:21,939 these water troughs, 1213 00:32:22,073 --> 00:32:24,474 I'm opening up the top, and I stick my hand in, 1214 00:32:24,542 --> 00:32:25,943 I'm like... holy [beep]! 1215 00:32:26,077 --> 00:32:28,745 You know, it freaked me out, it's a damn snake! 1216 00:32:28,879 --> 00:32:30,280 JEFF: It's a, probably a black snake. 1217 00:32:30,414 --> 00:32:31,147 MIKE: Yeah. 1218 00:32:31,215 --> 00:32:31,815 ROBBIE: I know, but what are they? 1219 00:32:31,883 --> 00:32:32,616 Is it freakin' poisonous? 1220 00:32:32,750 --> 00:32:34,284 JEFF: They're, they're harmless. 1221 00:32:34,352 --> 00:32:35,485 MIKE: Yeah. 1222 00:32:35,553 --> 00:32:36,086 ROBBIE: I don't know but he don't look no freakin' harm- 1223 00:32:36,220 --> 00:32:37,354 his head's right there. 1224 00:32:37,422 --> 00:32:38,488 MIKE: I know... 1225 00:32:38,556 --> 00:32:39,356 ROBBIE: A big bastard. 1226 00:32:39,490 --> 00:32:40,423 MIKE: Robbie, it's just a black snake. 1227 00:32:40,491 --> 00:32:41,558 ROBBIE: I don't-yeah it's not like a gardener, 1228 00:32:41,692 --> 00:32:43,493 I never see these things. 1229 00:32:44,228 --> 00:32:46,763 JEFF: I found a snake in that container about a week ago. 1230 00:32:46,897 --> 00:32:48,631 It scared the jeebies out of me then. 1231 00:32:49,033 --> 00:32:51,301 ROBBIE: I almost put my freakin' hand in there. 1232 00:32:51,435 --> 00:32:52,102 MIKE: [laughs] 1233 00:32:52,236 --> 00:32:52,769 ROBBIE: I was pulling these out. 1234 00:32:52,903 --> 00:32:53,770 MIKE: He's cozy in there. 1235 00:32:53,904 --> 00:32:54,904 JEFF: I don't know how it gets in here. 1236 00:32:54,973 --> 00:32:57,774 ROBBIE: Freakin'... that thing's huge, man. 1237 00:32:57,842 --> 00:33:01,044 MIKE: He's like, 'Ahh!' I go, what's up? 1238 00:33:01,112 --> 00:33:03,714 [Robbie voice] There's a, there's a snake in the back! 1239 00:33:03,848 --> 00:33:06,383 [laughs] It's a black snake, dude. 1240 00:33:06,517 --> 00:33:08,518 Easy, Indiana Jones. 1241 00:33:08,652 --> 00:33:09,386 JEFF: Let's go on this way. 1242 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:10,453 Those are all parts. 1243 00:33:10,521 --> 00:33:11,321 You got to have parts. 1244 00:33:11,389 --> 00:33:12,322 ROBBIE: Okay. 1245 00:33:12,456 --> 00:33:13,456 JEFF: These are kind of the workshop where... 1246 00:33:13,524 --> 00:33:14,724 ROBBIE: This is the... 1247 00:33:14,792 --> 00:33:15,592 JEFF: basically restore scales. 1248 00:33:15,726 --> 00:33:17,794 MIKE: Oh wow, look at that. 1249 00:33:17,928 --> 00:33:19,329 JEFF: See, it's an all chrome mechanism. 1250 00:33:19,397 --> 00:33:19,996 MIKE: Oh yeah. 1251 00:33:20,064 --> 00:33:20,998 JEFF: Polished back door. 1252 00:33:21,132 --> 00:33:22,799 MIKE: What's the value of something like this? 1253 00:33:22,933 --> 00:33:24,467 I mean, just school me on it, you know. 1254 00:33:24,535 --> 00:33:26,269 JEFF: Probably... 9,000. 1255 00:33:26,337 --> 00:33:27,871 MIKE: Wow. 1256 00:33:28,005 --> 00:33:28,872 MIKE: The stuff in this room is next level, 1257 00:33:29,006 --> 00:33:32,609 it's high-test, very unique, very different. 1258 00:33:32,743 --> 00:33:34,277 JEFF: That's a talking scale. 1259 00:33:34,345 --> 00:33:34,945 80 pounds. 1260 00:33:35,079 --> 00:33:35,345 ROBBIE: Oh, look at that. 1261 00:33:35,413 --> 00:33:36,946 MIKE: Wow. 1262 00:33:37,015 --> 00:33:38,815 MIKE: The high-test pieces that he's restoring, 1263 00:33:38,949 --> 00:33:42,419 I mean, just unbelievable, meticulous work. 1264 00:33:42,553 --> 00:33:45,288 The guy is an artist. 1265 00:33:45,423 --> 00:33:45,755 MIKE: Oh Robbie. 1266 00:33:45,823 --> 00:33:46,756 ROBBIE: What- 1267 00:33:46,824 --> 00:33:47,357 JEFF: Now. These are the soda bottles. 1268 00:33:47,491 --> 00:33:48,558 MIKE: Hahaha! Woo! 1269 00:33:48,626 --> 00:33:49,626 ROBBIE: Oh there you go. 1270 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:50,560 JEFF: There's the soda bottles. 1271 00:33:50,628 --> 00:33:51,428 ROBBIE: Oh you got the Planters Peanut. 1272 00:33:51,562 --> 00:33:53,363 MIKE: Peanut man, Pepsi -Cola, Grapette, 1273 00:33:53,497 --> 00:33:54,831 Humpty Dumpty. 1274 00:33:54,899 --> 00:33:57,834 I've never even seen any of these scales. 1275 00:33:57,968 --> 00:33:59,369 I mean, this is the kind of stuff that you 1276 00:33:59,503 --> 00:34:00,771 only see in books. 1277 00:34:00,905 --> 00:34:04,908 Because so much of it did not survive. 1278 00:34:04,976 --> 00:34:06,843 MIKE: I've never seen a Humpty Dumpty scale. 1279 00:34:06,911 --> 00:34:08,845 JEFF: Humpty Dumpty, that one came out of 1280 00:34:08,979 --> 00:34:10,781 an amusement park in Louisville, Kentucky. 1281 00:34:10,915 --> 00:34:12,582 MIKE: To have this many bottle scales, 1282 00:34:12,716 --> 00:34:13,717 this many character scales - 1283 00:34:13,851 --> 00:34:16,186 who's going to be attracted to that? 1284 00:34:16,254 --> 00:34:17,187 A kid. 1285 00:34:17,321 --> 00:34:18,588 They're going to be jumping up and down on it, 1286 00:34:18,722 --> 00:34:20,190 they're going to be shaking it. 1287 00:34:20,258 --> 00:34:23,860 The fact that any of this stuff survived is incredible to me. 1288 00:34:23,994 --> 00:34:25,529 MIKE: So which one of these are you selling? 1289 00:34:25,663 --> 00:34:26,930 JEFF: I'm selling that one. 1290 00:34:26,998 --> 00:34:29,266 MIKE: Okay, and this is obviously been restored. 1291 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:30,267 JEFF: Yeah. 1292 00:34:30,401 --> 00:34:31,334 Somebody's redone the graphics on that one. 1293 00:34:31,469 --> 00:34:32,602 MIKE: So the bot- 1294 00:34:32,670 --> 00:34:33,203 ROBBIE: Just the graphics? 1295 00:34:33,337 --> 00:34:33,870 JEFF: Hm? 1296 00:34:33,938 --> 00:34:34,471 ROBBIE: Just the graphics? 1297 00:34:34,539 --> 00:34:35,605 JEFF: Just the graphics. 1298 00:34:35,739 --> 00:34:36,540 MIKE: So this is, this has got one of your caps on it. 1299 00:34:36,674 --> 00:34:37,740 JEFF: One of my new caps. 1300 00:34:37,809 --> 00:34:39,342 But the bottle itself is original. 1301 00:34:39,410 --> 00:34:40,610 ROBBIE: Okay. 1302 00:34:40,678 --> 00:34:42,412 MIKE: How much is this one? 1303 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,614 JEFF: Uh... 4,500. 1304 00:34:44,748 --> 00:34:48,284 They sell for up towards 6,500. 1305 00:34:48,352 --> 00:34:49,219 MIKE: Okay. 1306 00:34:49,353 --> 00:34:50,954 JEFF: Same company made all those figural, 1307 00:34:51,022 --> 00:34:54,491 the soda bottles, and the- and the Humpty Dumpty 1308 00:34:54,559 --> 00:34:55,625 and the Mr. Peanut. 1309 00:34:55,693 --> 00:34:58,962 And they're quite popular, because it's a cross-over. 1310 00:34:59,030 --> 00:35:01,297 MIKE: What about this one, since it's unrestored? 1311 00:35:01,365 --> 00:35:03,033 JEFF: Umm... 1312 00:35:03,167 --> 00:35:04,567 MIKE: And it's got cracking in the back on the bottle. 1313 00:35:04,635 --> 00:35:06,035 JEFF: Let me take a look. 1314 00:35:06,104 --> 00:35:07,771 MIKE: Yeah, look at the bottom, it's kind of jacked. 1315 00:35:07,905 --> 00:35:09,639 MIKE: Jeff is all excited about selling us 1316 00:35:09,707 --> 00:35:11,041 the restored bottle machine. 1317 00:35:11,175 --> 00:35:15,178 I look over, and there's an unrestored bottle machine. 1318 00:35:15,246 --> 00:35:18,181 The unrestored bottle machine appeals to me way more because 1319 00:35:18,315 --> 00:35:23,653 it's basically untouched, it's as-found, it shows its history, 1320 00:35:23,787 --> 00:35:26,856 and it looks like it has a story. 1321 00:35:26,924 --> 00:35:28,591 MIKE: Okay, so you can see all the cracking 1322 00:35:28,659 --> 00:35:29,259 on the back of the bottle. 1323 00:35:29,393 --> 00:35:30,527 JEFF: Um-hm. 1324 00:35:30,661 --> 00:35:32,729 MIKE: But at least the back of the bottle is here, you know. 1325 00:35:32,797 --> 00:35:34,131 JEFF: Yep, that's, that's unusual. 1326 00:35:34,265 --> 00:35:35,665 MIKE: And I like the fact that it's got the original cap, and 1327 00:35:35,733 --> 00:35:37,067 it's got the original graphics. 1328 00:35:37,201 --> 00:35:40,003 MIKE: Now there are some stress cracks in the back of it, 1329 00:35:40,071 --> 00:35:43,006 nothing that pierces all the way through the plastic. 1330 00:35:43,140 --> 00:35:47,010 These are just like, hairline stress cracks, you know, 1331 00:35:47,144 --> 00:35:50,880 in the plastic, from I think heat, or like attic burn, 1332 00:35:50,948 --> 00:35:52,815 maybe or something, where it's gotten hot. 1333 00:35:52,884 --> 00:35:55,018 But overall, it's a much cooler scale. 1334 00:35:55,152 --> 00:35:58,989 MIKE: So what are you thinking on something like this? 1335 00:35:59,490 --> 00:36:01,090 JEFF: Mm... 35? 1336 00:36:01,759 --> 00:36:02,626 MIKE: Yeah, see I was thinking 3, 1337 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,762 because of all this situation. 1338 00:36:05,830 --> 00:36:06,763 ROBBIE: How bad's the cracking on it? 1339 00:36:06,831 --> 00:36:08,097 JEFF: But I thought you liked that. 1340 00:36:08,166 --> 00:36:10,900 MIKE: I do like that, I do like that, but the thing is... 1341 00:36:10,968 --> 00:36:11,834 JEFF: You should have to pay extra for that. 1342 00:36:11,903 --> 00:36:12,635 MIKE: I-I should pay extra for that. 1343 00:36:12,703 --> 00:36:14,103 ROBBIE: That's stress cracking. 1344 00:36:14,172 --> 00:36:15,972 MIKE: Jeff is the only kind of guy that would ever sell 1345 00:36:16,106 --> 00:36:20,310 a scale like this, because he's got so many of them. 1346 00:36:20,378 --> 00:36:22,012 MIKE: 3,200. 1347 00:36:24,048 --> 00:36:26,249 JEFF: You'd rather have this one than that one. 1348 00:36:26,383 --> 00:36:26,983 MIKE: Yeah. 1349 00:36:29,386 --> 00:36:30,453 JEFF: Okay. 1350 00:36:30,521 --> 00:36:31,321 MIKE: We're doing it. 1351 00:36:31,455 --> 00:36:32,255 JEFF: Alrighty. 1352 00:36:32,323 --> 00:36:34,123 MIKE: Yeah man, awesome. It's brilliant. 1353 00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:36,726 MIKE: At some point, if you do that much restoration work, 1354 00:36:36,860 --> 00:36:39,062 you tend to be more of a perfectionist. 1355 00:36:39,196 --> 00:36:42,065 You know, where I'm looking at something and celebrating 1356 00:36:42,199 --> 00:36:45,802 the idea that it's kind of janky, he's looking at it going, 1357 00:36:45,870 --> 00:36:47,003 that's next on the line for restoration. 1358 00:36:51,275 --> 00:36:52,675 ♪ ♪ 1359 00:36:52,743 --> 00:36:54,477 MIKE: How about the Goodyear? 1360 00:36:54,545 --> 00:36:55,678 Look at that big crease. 1361 00:36:55,746 --> 00:36:57,347 JEFF: A big... big crease in it. 1362 00:36:57,481 --> 00:36:58,348 MIKE: Yeah it is. 1363 00:36:58,416 --> 00:36:59,349 JEFF: That's why it's out on the building. 1364 00:36:59,483 --> 00:37:01,751 MIKE: With advertising being so hot right now, 1365 00:37:01,885 --> 00:37:04,754 I'll buy signs like this all day long. 1366 00:37:04,888 --> 00:37:06,889 Great subject matter, yes they're roached, 1367 00:37:06,958 --> 00:37:08,825 they're tweaked, they're dented, they're dirty, 1368 00:37:08,893 --> 00:37:11,695 and you can barely read parts of them... 1369 00:37:11,829 --> 00:37:13,230 MIKE: What do you value that one at? 1370 00:37:13,364 --> 00:37:14,497 JEFF: 300. 1371 00:37:14,632 --> 00:37:15,565 MIKE: Alright, so 300 on that one, what about the Goodyear? 1372 00:37:15,699 --> 00:37:17,567 The rough, toasty one there. 1373 00:37:17,635 --> 00:37:18,435 JEFF: The... near -mint? 1374 00:37:18,569 --> 00:37:19,836 MIKE: Yeah. [laughs] 1375 00:37:19,970 --> 00:37:20,637 ROBBIE: Near, is that what they call that? 1376 00:37:20,705 --> 00:37:22,505 Jeff: [laughing] Yeah. 300 too. 1377 00:37:22,573 --> 00:37:23,840 MIKE: Okay, I'm doing it. 1378 00:37:23,908 --> 00:37:24,574 JEFF: You took the side of the building. 1379 00:37:24,642 --> 00:37:25,976 MIKE: Thank you... yeah! 1380 00:37:26,110 --> 00:37:28,645 MIKE: At the end of the day, they wear their history. 1381 00:37:28,713 --> 00:37:29,713 They show it. They're cool. 1382 00:37:29,847 --> 00:37:31,648 MIKE: What about the Schmidt teepee, 1383 00:37:31,716 --> 00:37:32,582 what would you want for that? 1384 00:37:32,716 --> 00:37:33,383 ROBBIE: Looks pretty cool. 1385 00:37:33,517 --> 00:37:35,118 It'd be cool lit up. 1386 00:37:35,186 --> 00:37:37,053 MIKE: This time period is the time period that I remember. 1387 00:37:37,187 --> 00:37:40,790 I romanticize about going to the tavern with my grandma, 1388 00:37:40,924 --> 00:37:43,793 and seeing all the lights and everything, 1389 00:37:43,927 --> 00:37:44,927 and I was the youngest person at the bar. 1390 00:37:44,996 --> 00:37:46,596 MIKE: The only light is like, stuff like this, 1391 00:37:46,664 --> 00:37:47,931 and the pool table light... 1392 00:37:48,065 --> 00:37:49,065 JEFF: And the beer sign... MIKE: And the neon... 1393 00:37:49,199 --> 00:37:50,533 MIKE: And you're just sitting there and you're staring 1394 00:37:50,601 --> 00:37:51,334 into the Schmidt teepee. 1395 00:37:51,402 --> 00:37:52,669 JEFF: That's it. 1396 00:37:52,803 --> 00:37:53,536 MIKE: Where are you at with this? 1397 00:37:53,671 --> 00:37:54,604 JEFF: 100-and- a-quarter. 1398 00:37:54,738 --> 00:37:55,272 MIKE: Alright, I'm doing it. 1399 00:37:55,406 --> 00:37:55,872 JEFF: Okay. 1400 00:37:56,006 --> 00:37:56,940 MIKE: I got to have it. 1401 00:37:57,074 --> 00:37:59,075 MIKE: There you go, now we're talking. Bicycle. 1402 00:37:59,143 --> 00:38:01,944 MIKE: There were so many different bicycle manufacturers 1403 00:38:02,013 --> 00:38:04,881 around the turn-of-the- century, and that led to 1404 00:38:05,015 --> 00:38:09,419 a lot of really cool, creative advertising. 1405 00:38:09,487 --> 00:38:10,287 MIKE: Look at that. 1406 00:38:10,421 --> 00:38:11,221 ROBBIE: Racer. 1407 00:38:11,355 --> 00:38:12,689 MIKE: It has a racer coming right at you, 1408 00:38:12,757 --> 00:38:14,624 like he's jumping out of the frame. 1409 00:38:14,692 --> 00:38:17,560 JEFF: I'd say, probably... 200. 1410 00:38:17,695 --> 00:38:18,628 MIKE: I'm going to do 250. 1411 00:38:18,696 --> 00:38:19,495 JEFF: Okay, I appreciate it. 1412 00:38:19,563 --> 00:38:20,363 MIKE: I appreciate you. 1413 00:38:20,497 --> 00:38:22,031 I'm a bicycle guy. 1414 00:38:22,099 --> 00:38:24,767 It's an incredible image, original matting, it's cool. 1415 00:38:24,835 --> 00:38:26,636 JEFF: Well it's right up the alley for 1416 00:38:26,704 --> 00:38:27,570 somebody that's into bikes. 1417 00:38:27,638 --> 00:38:28,304 MIKE: Oh my gosh! Yeah. 1418 00:38:28,372 --> 00:38:30,006 JEFF: Yeah. 1419 00:38:31,041 --> 00:38:33,509 MIKE: Who was... drag racing back in the '70s? 1420 00:38:33,577 --> 00:38:35,312 JEFF: My brother and I. 1421 00:38:35,446 --> 00:38:35,712 MIKE: Really! 1422 00:38:35,780 --> 00:38:36,646 JEFF: Yep. 1423 00:38:36,780 --> 00:38:37,781 ROBBIE: What were you drag racing? 1424 00:38:37,915 --> 00:38:39,649 JEFF: It was a fiberglass body Opel GT. 1425 00:38:39,717 --> 00:38:40,717 MIKE: Is this a picture of it? 1426 00:38:40,785 --> 00:38:41,250 JEFF: That's a picture of it there. 1427 00:38:41,319 --> 00:38:42,318 MIKE: Wow. 1428 00:38:42,386 --> 00:38:43,386 ROBBIE: Whoa-ho! 1429 00:38:43,454 --> 00:38:44,587 MIKE: Is that you sticking your head out the top? 1430 00:38:44,722 --> 00:38:45,588 JEFF: No, that was somebody standing on the starting line. 1431 00:38:45,723 --> 00:38:48,258 My brother is, is the driver. 1432 00:38:48,392 --> 00:38:49,459 MIKE: Okay. 1433 00:38:49,527 --> 00:38:50,593 JEFF: And I own the car. 1434 00:38:50,661 --> 00:38:53,797 JEFF: My dad bought me a disassembled Model T for $25. 1435 00:38:53,931 --> 00:38:55,732 And we had that '50 Chevy, and we did the 1436 00:38:55,866 --> 00:38:57,667 local drag races on Saturday night. 1437 00:38:57,735 --> 00:39:00,336 JEFF: Model Ts, then Model As. 1438 00:39:00,404 --> 00:39:00,737 MIKE: Really? 1439 00:39:00,871 --> 00:39:01,671 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1440 00:39:01,739 --> 00:39:02,338 JEFF: And then into drag racing. 1441 00:39:02,406 --> 00:39:03,940 Robbie: [laughs] 1442 00:39:04,074 --> 00:39:05,075 JEFF: And then sold all that and came out here. 1443 00:39:05,209 --> 00:39:07,811 MIKE: There is a lot more to Jeff than these scales. 1444 00:39:07,945 --> 00:39:10,480 I mean, never would have guessed that he 1445 00:39:10,548 --> 00:39:12,482 was into drag racing. 1446 00:39:12,817 --> 00:39:13,549 ROBBIE: So Jeff, I wanted to ask you 1447 00:39:13,617 --> 00:39:15,351 about this astrology scale. 1448 00:39:15,419 --> 00:39:16,953 JEFF: Alrighty. 1449 00:39:17,021 --> 00:39:18,621 ROBBIE: Looks like it's large and in charge here, 1450 00:39:18,689 --> 00:39:19,889 and it's got original paint. 1451 00:39:19,957 --> 00:39:21,557 JEFF: Yep, it's the same as the one up in the, 1452 00:39:21,625 --> 00:39:22,892 up at the house restored. 1453 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:24,494 ROBBIE: One thing I've always been intrigued 1454 00:39:24,628 --> 00:39:26,629 with is space, you know. 1455 00:39:26,697 --> 00:39:28,631 And astrology, that's space. 1456 00:39:28,766 --> 00:39:29,699 The stars, everything about it. 1457 00:39:29,767 --> 00:39:31,834 It's got the crackle paint on it. 1458 00:39:31,902 --> 00:39:34,504 If you just light it up, it just looks cool 1459 00:39:34,638 --> 00:39:35,838 sitting in the corner. 1460 00:39:35,906 --> 00:39:37,440 ROBBIE: So what, what year is this from? 1461 00:39:37,508 --> 00:39:38,441 JEFF: I'd say '40s. 1462 00:39:38,509 --> 00:39:39,843 They were trying to come up with all different 1463 00:39:39,977 --> 00:39:42,312 ways to get people to put their penny in. 1464 00:39:42,446 --> 00:39:43,246 ROBBIE: Right. 1465 00:39:43,380 --> 00:39:43,980 JEFF: They would not only get their weight, 1466 00:39:44,114 --> 00:39:44,847 but they would get a ticket, 1467 00:39:44,915 --> 00:39:47,717 with a fortune or a horoscope on it. 1468 00:39:47,785 --> 00:39:48,317 ROBBIE: This doesn't work, I take it. 1469 00:39:48,386 --> 00:39:49,652 You haven't... 1470 00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:51,320 JEFF: I... don't know, it might. 1471 00:39:51,389 --> 00:39:52,054 ROBBIE: Okay. 1472 00:39:52,123 --> 00:39:52,989 JEFF: I've never plugged it in. 1473 00:39:53,123 --> 00:39:54,457 ROBBIE: Is this one on the list for sale? 1474 00:39:54,525 --> 00:39:55,658 JEFF: I'd sell that one. 1475 00:39:55,793 --> 00:39:57,727 JEFF: I've done one for myself, 1476 00:39:57,861 --> 00:39:58,995 so I know what it looks like all done. 1477 00:39:59,129 --> 00:40:01,931 JEFF: As you know, it's-it's easier to take one apart 1478 00:40:01,999 --> 00:40:03,666 and put it back together when you've got one to- 1479 00:40:03,801 --> 00:40:04,467 ROBBIE: One to- one to look at. 1480 00:40:04,535 --> 00:40:05,334 JEFF: One to look at. 1481 00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:06,736 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1482 00:40:06,804 --> 00:40:07,336 And now that you've already done it. 1483 00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:07,737 JEFF: That's it. 1484 00:40:07,871 --> 00:40:08,338 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1485 00:40:08,472 --> 00:40:09,606 What kind of... 1486 00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:10,406 JEFF: So I would sell that one. 1487 00:40:10,474 --> 00:40:11,140 ROBBIE: what kind of money? 1488 00:40:11,208 --> 00:40:14,010 JEFF: I'd let it go for 1,000. 1489 00:40:14,745 --> 00:40:15,278 ROBBIE: I got a question. 1490 00:40:15,412 --> 00:40:16,946 JEFF: Sure. 1491 00:40:17,014 --> 00:40:17,346 ROBBIE: I didn't see any of the cards inside here? 1492 00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:19,148 JEFF: Um-hm. 1493 00:40:19,216 --> 00:40:21,084 ROBBIE: Your machine that you restored has all the cards? 1494 00:40:21,218 --> 00:40:22,419 Or you took them out of this machine and keeping all those? 1495 00:40:22,553 --> 00:40:24,287 JEFF: No, I had a few. 1496 00:40:24,421 --> 00:40:25,755 ROBBIE: Okay. 1497 00:40:25,889 --> 00:40:26,556 JEFF: Uh, I don't know if there were any 1498 00:40:26,690 --> 00:40:27,557 in this one when I got it. 1499 00:40:27,625 --> 00:40:29,025 I can give you a couple. 1500 00:40:29,093 --> 00:40:30,760 ROBBIE: So what you're saying is, I can reproduce good 1501 00:40:30,894 --> 00:40:32,695 sayings on the cards, so every person that 1502 00:40:32,830 --> 00:40:34,163 gets in there is all about happiness. 1503 00:40:34,231 --> 00:40:35,631 JEFF: Oh yeah, yeah, no, you don't want to put any negative. 1504 00:40:35,699 --> 00:40:36,365 ROBBIE: Oh yeah. There you go. 1505 00:40:36,434 --> 00:40:37,366 Man, they want... 1506 00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:38,101 JEFF: No, no, no. 1507 00:40:38,235 --> 00:40:39,235 They want-they want positive. 1508 00:40:39,303 --> 00:40:41,637 ROBBIE: So positively, I'm- I'm-I'm feeling like... 1509 00:40:41,705 --> 00:40:42,572 JEFF: Positively, positively... 1510 00:40:42,706 --> 00:40:43,573 ROBBIE: I'm feeling like 750. 1511 00:40:43,707 --> 00:40:45,241 JEFF: I'm feeling like 1,000. 1512 00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:45,775 ROBBIE: I know. 1513 00:40:45,909 --> 00:40:47,110 JEFF: I know. 1514 00:40:47,244 --> 00:40:49,379 ROBBIE: I mean, if this thing's restored, what's it worth? 1515 00:40:49,913 --> 00:40:51,314 JEFF: Uh... a friend of mine had one. 1516 00:40:51,448 --> 00:40:52,315 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1517 00:40:52,449 --> 00:40:53,449 JEFF: And he did it, and he sold it for 15,000. 1518 00:40:53,651 --> 00:40:56,986 ROBBIE: Wow, wow. Holy cow. 1519 00:40:57,588 --> 00:40:58,321 JEFF: All new glass... 1520 00:40:58,389 --> 00:40:58,721 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1521 00:40:58,856 --> 00:40:59,656 JEFF: All new... 1522 00:40:59,790 --> 00:41:00,590 ROBBIE: Everything. All redone. 1523 00:41:00,658 --> 00:41:01,991 JEFF: Yeah, all repainted. 1524 00:41:02,059 --> 00:41:04,260 And it's not like you're going to see one every day. 1525 00:41:04,394 --> 00:41:05,128 ROBBIE: No. 1526 00:41:05,262 --> 00:41:05,795 I have, you know, I haven't seen one. 1527 00:41:05,929 --> 00:41:08,264 1,000 bucks. I'll do it. 1528 00:41:08,466 --> 00:41:09,399 JEFF: 1,000 bucks. 1529 00:41:09,533 --> 00:41:10,333 ROBBIE: I'll do it. 1530 00:41:10,467 --> 00:41:11,067 JEFF: Alrighty. 1531 00:41:11,201 --> 00:41:11,801 ROBBIE: Alright, I appreciate it. 1532 00:41:11,869 --> 00:41:12,935 JEFF: I think you'll like it. 1533 00:41:13,003 --> 00:41:13,736 ROBBIE: There's not too many people out there 1534 00:41:13,804 --> 00:41:14,671 that don't like, lik robots, space. 1535 00:41:14,805 --> 00:41:15,672 And the fact that it's astrology, 1536 00:41:15,806 --> 00:41:18,074 you want to put your penny in it. 1537 00:41:18,208 --> 00:41:20,009 All I got to do is get the lights working in it, and I'm 1538 00:41:20,077 --> 00:41:22,945 not saying it's working, but if you want to try and 1539 00:41:23,013 --> 00:41:24,013 put your penny in it, I'll collect your money. 1540 00:41:25,349 --> 00:41:26,549 [chuckles] 1541 00:41:26,683 --> 00:41:27,417 MIKE: Alright, you got it? 1542 00:41:27,551 --> 00:41:28,551 Hand it to me. Watch that cord, buddy. 1543 00:41:28,685 --> 00:41:29,886 ROBBIE: Watch that, yeah. 1544 00:41:30,020 --> 00:41:31,554 MIKE: I know a little bit about a lot of things. 1545 00:41:31,688 --> 00:41:33,089 That's how I've made a living. 1546 00:41:33,223 --> 00:41:37,961 But guys like Jeff know a lot about one thing - and that's 1547 00:41:38,095 --> 00:41:40,696 what makes them so special and cool and interesting; 1548 00:41:40,764 --> 00:41:43,900 and the biggest point - a mentor. 1549 00:41:44,034 --> 00:41:45,434 ROBBIE: Today was more of a teaching day for me, 1550 00:41:45,503 --> 00:41:46,302 and I appreciate it. 1551 00:41:46,436 --> 00:41:47,837 MIKE: Alright. 1552 00:41:47,971 --> 00:41:48,438 JEFF: [chuckles] You're more than welcome. 1553 00:41:48,572 --> 00:41:49,772 ROBBIE: I appreciate ya. 1554 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:50,306 MIKE: Hey, I know who I'm going to call if I find some scales. 1555 00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:50,840 JEFF: You do. 1556 00:41:50,974 --> 00:41:51,307 MIKE: [laughs] Yeah. 1557 00:41:51,441 --> 00:41:51,774 ROBBIE: Yeah. 1558 00:41:51,909 --> 00:41:52,308 MIKE: Absolutely. 1559 00:41:52,376 --> 00:41:53,042 JEFF: Yeah. 1560 00:41:53,176 --> 00:41:54,043 MIKE: Jeff is a walking library. 1561 00:41:54,111 --> 00:41:56,646 And the ripple effect of that, is an asset 1562 00:41:56,714 --> 00:41:58,648 to the collectable community. 1563 00:41:58,782 --> 00:41:59,716 MIKE: Alright, I appreciate you. 1564 00:41:59,850 --> 00:42:01,718 JEFF: Thank you. Alrighty. Bye -bye. 1565 00:42:01,852 --> 00:42:03,786 MIKE: Guys like Jeff are invaluable. 1566 00:42:03,854 --> 00:42:06,256 And one of the reasons I do what I do. 1567 00:42:06,390 --> 00:42:06,856 [honks horn] 1568 00:42:06,924 --> 00:42:08,324 ROBBIE: Thanks, Jeff! 1569 00:42:08,392 --> 00:42:10,259 JEFF: Thank you! 1570 00:42:10,327 --> 00:42:13,997 ♪ ♪ ♪