For fans like me of the History Channel's American Pickers program - history is brought to life in the large van Frank and Mike drive across the country looking for "honey holes" and "rusty gold.".
The show (Monday nights 9e/8c) doesn't try to be something it's not.
You won't be able to pass an American History course if you watch a full season. It's education one anecdote at a time, taught with toys, old phonographs, and ancient motorcycles.
You will see some real cool stuff and learn about the way this country was built and influenced by previous generations of craftsmen and women.
You will see ingenuity and appreciation in the eyes of folks surrounded by what look like junk yards but are really artifacts in untidy time capsules.
It makes me wonder if Mike and Frank showed up at my door, handed over a flyer and ask to pick through my stuff, would there be anything they might want to buy? Maybe the Caterpillar scale model road grader or the 1937 RCA Victor Radio (they wouldn't like it since I refurbished it some time back) or maybe the still-in-the-package Chuck-E-Cheese Bubble Pen we won at its Colorado Springs restaurant.
It would be fun to see if Frank could assemble a "bundle" of items. It would be better if Mike looked at the pen and told me the asking price was too low and offered something more.
The show is about the pickin,' and the efforts back at the Le Claire, Iowa shop ably manned by their store manager Danielle who tracks down potential picks and then tries to market the stuff Mike and Frank bring back home.
If you like hearing the stories from the back roads of America and the stuff that shows how this country was built - American Pickers might be what you need to see. Since the "boys" like the old advertising found inside old barns - maybe they would me using this one - "Try it, you'll like it."
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