Shorts Old Stuff good old-fashioned American nostalgia.
TV’s antique and estate-sale pros say there are a couple of other ele- ments driving the popularity of these “second-hand” TV shows. One of them is the economy. With money tight, they say, attendance is up at estate sales, yard sales, and fl ea mar- kets, as people with limited budgets search for bargains among the items other homeowners would like to get rid of. And the reverse is true too: People are looking more closely at the items in their homes and won- dering if they can make a few bucks connecting their unwanted items with collectors.
When people aren’t seeking to sell their stuff or throw it away, they’re thinking about restoring it or reusing it. “It used to be where I would restore stuff and then sell it,” says Rick Dale, a Las Vegas restorer who is the star of American Restoration on the History Channel. “Now, 90 percent of my business is restoring memories for people.” Dale’s business, known as Rick’s Restora tions, restores vintage gas pumps, Coke machines, and older American-made appli- ances — from radios to refrigerators.
TV is nothing if not responsive to trends afoot in the larger society. In many ways, these shows merely refl ect the way many of our house- holds really are — full of stuff we’ve stockpiled over our life- times.
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When we decide it’s time for much of it to go, we’re learning from TV’s antique and collectible shows how to tell whether some objects we might be planning to dis- card might be valuable enough to sell to an antique dealer or collector. What should you look for? History Channel’s Wolfe advises looking for objects that are no longer made, or made as well. And that’s the other driver of all these TV shows: Nostalgia for a time when high-qual- ity products were made in America and built to last. It’s a recurring theme on every one of these shows. “I think that my show is popular because it’s about Americana,” says Wolfe. “We used to be manufactur- ers and now . . . a lot of people are starting to look at their [old] stuff and go, You know what? It was made really well [and] it withstood the test of time.”
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HATFIELDS AND MCCOYS DUKE IT OUT IN MINISERIES Kevin Costner will star as “Devil
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