Sam Jumper posted:Wow. I wonder what the shows angle is? Nothing is displayed. No layout. Is the guy a hoarder with some problems in real life? Did the producers want this guys stuff to look like that? Maybe he’s a real seller and the show had him empty his stuff into piles so it looked like that? The short guy (Frank?) bought the two oddest things. That crossing piece had a huge chunk of paint and one bell missing. There were none of the usual back stories like Varney made trains from..... How come these shows never have even a simple set running around?
A good friend of mine is a front person for the American Pickers, locating places for them to visit in New England. All of the shows are staged. Even the free lance stops are set up ahead of time because when they pull in the driveway there are at least one or maybe two vehicles following them filming as they drive in and filming them going and knocking on the door.
If I remember correctly about the details of the show were talking about the current owner who let the Pickers in was the son of the father that started this business many years ago and had passed away, I think , about 15 years ago. No one in the family was interested in carrying on the business and since that time many other things had been put in the depot for storage with no organization like you might say my garage looks. In any case it was a mess.
Jim
