Product Description
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In small towns, and along America's back roads, treasures are
waiting to be uncovered valuable relics from our history that are
hidden in junk piles, buried in barns and stacked in garages. It
takes experts to find them and turn rust to riches. AMERICAN
PICKERS follows two of the most skilled "pickers"- Mike Wolfe,
owner of Antique Archaeology, and his business partner, Frank
Fritz, as they hunt down objects with historical, collectible and
pop culture value that have been long forgotten by their owners.
Along the way, they meet people whose own stories open a window
into American lives and history. In this collection, Mike and
Frank try to strike a deal with NA Champion Ryan Newman,
explore the appropriately named Pickens, South Carolina and try
to buy a 300-pound boot.
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If one man's t is another man's treasure, then Frank Fritz
and Mike Wolfe of the History Channel's American Pickers are the
spokesmodels for the cause. Fritz and Wolfe run an
antique/collectible resale business in Iowa, and travel the
country in search of the gems among the refuse. And their
journeys, and discoveries, make for surprisingly engaging
viewing. In volume two of American Pickers, Frank and Mike,
childhood pals who have infectious senses of adventure and humor,
travel to the Carolinas and elsewhere in the South in search of
elusive collectibles. In some cases, they visit other junk
collectors and sellers, and in others, they get to dive into
someone's grandpa's outbuildings stuffed with the collections of
a lifetime. "If you wanted to throw it out, Uncle Jed would take
it," says one lady of the acres of stuff she inherited. This is
just the kind of find that gets Frank's and Mike's pulses racing,
and soon the adventure is off and running. Along the way, the
pickers meet some great characters and forge fast friendships.
There's the art of the dicker, which almost everyone seems to
have perfected. And then there's the emotional connection that a
seller, or even Frank or Mike, have for a particular object,
which makes the negotiations that much more exciting. In North
Carolina, Mike "totally fell in love" with an early Airstream
trailer, and the curmudgeon on whose property it is refuses to
name a price. Finally he grudgingly says "Seventy-five," and Mike
has to go off and decide if he wants to pour that much into
something that's ted, needs a full restoration, and will be a
real challenge to transport back to Iowa. Finally he tells the
seller, "OK, 7,500 it is!" and the seller goes, "I meant 75,000!"
and Mike has to leave disappointed. The appeal of American
Pickers is in the sense of road-trip adventure of the two stars,
but also in that "what about my stuff?" feeling the viewer gets.
When Frank and Mike score something particularly valuable, the
feeling is like a three-point basket right at the buzzer. --A.T.
Hurley
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Review
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Standing tall as one of the best reality shows on
television...The idiom one man's t is another man's treasure
is the perfect fit for [this] highly entertaining History Channel
series... --Pittsburgh Tribune Review
American Pickers will have you looking at old barns, dusty attics
and cluttered yards in a whole new light. There's something
magical about watching two grown men digging through heaps of
garbage and coming away with a van full of vintage Americana. The
downside? Hoarders will suddenly feel justified in hanging on to
everything. --In Utah This Week
American Pickers, the terrific new reality series from History,
is particularly good family viewing, giving young adults an
understanding for hard work, self-reliant hustling, an
appreciation for the old and the used and the forgotten things in
this world, as well as for the quirky, independent
citizen-individuals that populate this great land of ours, and
most importantly, a hankering for some good old-fashioned
American capitalism, in its purest form. I highly recommend
American Pickers. --DVD Talk
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