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Posted 10 years ago
tom61375
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I took some clients today on a tour of Las Vegas' antiques & collectors highway of sorts. I thought I'd share a few from Rick's Restorations (History Channel) located at 1112 S. Commerce just minutes from downtown Las Vegas' Fremont Street. =^)
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ive watched that show before!! Love it!! very cool!!
Thank you Sean, this place is jaw dropping. I'm not one to ruin a great book or movie, so I'm not going to post any pics of the inside. But make sure to stop by if you're ever in Vegas. Be sure to have a few days to spend, there are 50+ antique & retro shops nearby! =^)
Many thanks Jewels! =^)
Nice tour tom!! Love your photos, great post!
Many thanks for share :)
LMAO Phil you are AWESOME!! Many many thanks! =^)
Thank you a Million Virginia.vintage! =^D
Many many thanks geo26e! =^)
Thank you a Million gargoylecollector! =^)
Many many thanks vetraio50! =^)
Phil, I think I feel the gist of your remarks. I can't watch the program as I see him as an obnoxious pressure salesman with a couple of mental-retard kids to make him look more like God's gift to whatever. Sorry if I offend others but I've considered myself a good judge of character (had to be in the business). Luckily, most of the people who deal with me aren't as good a judge of character! LOL. Afraid I'm not in the trailer park bracket. I can really be offensive eh?
HAHAHAHAHA! !!! BB2, you always keep the laughs going! Many many thanks!!
Many many thanks racer4four! =^)
Thank you a Million mikelv85! =^)
Many many thanks ttomtucker! =^)
Aloha valentino97, many many thanks! =^)
Did I say something funny?!!
Val, you are challenging me again! LOL I agree totally. These have to be staged Hollywood crap. "WOW, that's a (such & such) skateboard! We can restore that for only $14,000". Pawn Stars do the same thing when they have things that you know they aren't going buy. "I'll offer you $8,00 for your $70,000 valued Gatling gun". It's show biz is all! The scary part is, the trailer people really believe it is real!!! Just show biz with never an intent to buy. Does make things interesting & I watch for the "gems" they show. I've even recognized several antique weapons from collections that I know are never to be sold. Guess there's money passed or made on both sides! Hey, It's entertainment & great items are shown. I can live with it. Rick, NO,NO,NO!
Val, I think I just answered your query.
I saw Ron and his kids and the Rose Bowl. Sadly I didn't have $8,000 on me for a gas pump.
Val, there is no such thing as too many antique guns! Well, not in my vocabulary. The new ones I can live without as I love antiques in most any field.
Hi valentino97, yes there is a treasure trove of retro/vintage & antique stores next block over. They cleaned the area up nicely. It's now known as the "Art District". When you coming to visit? =^D
Many many thanks fortapache! =^)
Thank you a Million pop52! =^)
Many many thanks Trey! =^)
nice profile pic tom!!! you should be used to seeing that by now!! LMFAO!!
Agree with Sean, your new pic makes me laugh tom, really nice! :)
lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lay off the sauce eye!! what are you talking about ?
Never mind .. you would have to have known the last profile pic to get it and you missed it.
Great Post!! Nice to see the Pics. Can't say I agree with redoing something with *character* to make it look brand new. I like Character on something Old. So I watch, but can't say I would ever have something like that done -- nor have the $$$. I like pawn stars too....but would like to know what they really resell the items for.....or if it sat around for a year. I doubt it.
...its all Show Biz....LOL
Nice to see this post .... Thanks!!
Sean. 1st rule of joke telling is, "never explain a joke!". In this case, you might bend that rule.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BB2!!!!
Hello eye look at this link .......... from comment 11-17 read, tom had was wear the long nose on another profile before. so please read and watch the video...
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/134463-antique-ivory-poker-dice-and-leather-case?in=user
God what a LAME TV show! All this clown does is restore soda machines! And you never even see him actually doing the restoration, again....SO LAME! By the way, the ONLY reason this guy even has his own show (Along with the stupid Count Customers clown) is because of the success of his friends at Pawn Stars, they probably made it contractual that this AWFUL show needs to stay on the air despite terrible ratings.
valentino97, I agree with your comments and no I do not dislike Storage Wars because they actually have ENTERTAINING characters to watch, even though the producers plant all the unique items into each unit after they are won.
However, ALL spin off shows based around the characters of Storage Wars i.e. "Barry'd Treasure", "Brandi and Jarrod: Married to the Job", etc. are all UNWATCHABLE! These characters are ONLY entertaining to watch when they are against each other on Storage Wars, I am sure all agree.
To further DEBUNK another popular TV series, "Antique Archaeology" aka. "American Pickers", this store is most likely a network created business, created to justify a TV series. Simple facts will prove this:
1) Neither 2 store locations EVER answer the phone lines, and have NO ITEMS PICKED for sale either in their stores OR online! But one can certainly buy all their show created merchandising GARBAGE, i.e. cheap T-shirts, coffee mugs, re-pops of items picked, etc.
2) With 2 store locations there is a LOT, let me repeat this....A LOT of overhead! So we are to believe that 2 clowns (although entertaining to watch) drive across the country in a CARGO VAN buying items for merely half of what they claim they will sell them for? Besides the huge overhead, they must pay employees, gas, food, and lodging for their trips! And maintenance on the van!! Yeah, this is believable. LMFAO!
3) The 2 store locations....Iowa and Tennessee? You ARE kidding me right?? No offense to anyone living in these states but the MONEY for these items and the CUSTOMERS are located in states like NY, and California! Yeah, these 2 locations make sense. But it doesn't matter anyway because NOTHING is for sale from these stores!!
Ok, done with my well justified rant.
I see thru those things real quick & wonder what kind of people really believe it's for real?That's interesting about the nonexistent stores zguy. Maybe this is a form of virtual reality that the incumbent generation falsely thinks they invented. Sorry to have to tell them that I have been living in virtual reality for over half a century. Just never thought about patents on mine.
Thank you antiquerose! =^)
Thank you Photoguy! =^)
Thank you manikin! =^)
Thank you zguy2112! =^)
Thank you eye4beauty! =^)
They don't sell online. The stores do apparently exist, there are yelp reviews etc. I met Rick and Kelly of American Restoration, so I know they really exist. I'll probably run into Mike and Frank eventually. It seems we are over thinking things just a tad.
Guys, read the YELP reviews, almost ALL state that the majority of the items are NOT for sale in the stores! Also, in this day in age.....what retail business that has a website DOES NOT sell their items on it?? VERY fishy if you ask me. Just my $.02
Loved it AGAIN !!!!!!