Last Day At Show + Interview With Sign Collector & Travel Guys TV Host

okay so pretty good little run in the

morning it's about uh 11 19.

close that three

so

what are quite a few things that did

sell this is my buddy stuff you brought

in here

and then i brought a bunch of stuff you

seen yesterday

so i have left

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the windows gone all the stuff is gone

i'm just gonna do a view up here so you

can see

the show is like

and this is sunday there was actually a

lineup sunday usually there's never a

lineup

imagine that

usually i come here sunday that's why i

kind of came late

usually there's no one shows up till 11.

nope there is about 30 40 people in the

morning and it's sunday third day

uh first days dealers set up early bird

then there's uh

early birds i think at five yeah five

five to nine

and then after that saturday's public

sunday is public

okay stand by for a second yeah he's

gonna walk around

look at a few things

everybody looks at this thing here

i think it's a real dog almost

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lightning there well ladies get up up

there and praise her

that's a small one anyways pretty tough

lightning globe you got a globe huh

wow

don't shine it on me you're selling all

your good stuff no it won't be on you

don't worry i got a few duties left over

got some under the table that's unusual

perfect

color was the citron or would that be

yeah you could call it citron wines it

should be yellow whatever you want

you're the potluck base here what is it

i think i have that one i like hello

there quite a few i dug that one down in

the gold country

san francisco

yeah that one too that's probably uh

pacific glass works this one as well

you ever watched paulo ned on youtube

bottlened he said san

and when he finds the ball like this

he'll say the history about it too

that's an el dorado huh

okay

well he brought some of you better stuff

here today

now that's a killer color i bought that

in this show it's a common common

comment but look at that color yeah just

the sparkler

it's just

sky blue it's just beautiful

i probably dug a half a dozen of these

but they're all awkward yeah yeah yeah

exactly i thought quite a few of them

before

got that from wagner probably 30 years

ago here yeah years ago

it's the even drug company oh yeah yeah

that's a nice little one well you get a

nice spread of stuff

we'll talk to you after buddy that's

skeena river

where's that up on the north country the

grand trunk pacific line i walked it

went to the railroad wow

been there for years in the sun

all the meat was going off i put lots of

stuff

to make it better right

okay buddy take care

variety rulers while

these are local

persons

the show is pretty busy

i want to show you a few highlights of

some things

some colorful dishes hearing

there's a bunch of bottles here

you know here 30 bucks

you dig this one yourself what's that

you dig that one yourself that one uh no

i did not oh

it has some

it has some repair on the though

but never know it is professionally done

okay thanks

other stuff

this old movie here is pretty

uh revival anything with advertising

hopefully

it's a perfect seal a nice color

people it's the first market they've

been to yeah

see

they could select some stuff out here

some stuff here

people don't darn off here

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how's my boss

not you but i'm filming

you can't hear me

how you doing

you got some nice stuff yeah

no gold coins huh

no that's why that's what i collect

no one seems to have them

okay we'll move on

my buddy here sells native artifacts

just too many people crowd i want to

film too much kind of keep it low

some pretty cool stuff here actually

am i doing boss

no gold coins

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it's hard

coins

something for any everybody you know

it's not just one thing

signs oil

china bottles

there's a lot of stuff here

these guys apologies actually

black glass here 1860.

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eight bottles

wow

quick deflection here i'll tell ya

sports cards

this is actually everything you think of

us here

a bunch of beer bottles here

for the signs

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stencils or crates

just a pretty variety stuff

stuff on a table and everywhere

peanut butter tins and a lot of honey

all kinds of cool stuff here

yeah

just give up the show here still it's

about two as you can see well from

loving up two it's actually one sixteen

i'm gonna do an interview with a buddy

of mine he's a

professional dj retired

now he does

uh his own travel channel on public

television he's a sign collector

collects all cool vintage signs that are

rare

and he's one of the friend of mine his

cells here so

i'll interview him be a treat for you

guys to see and

some of you guys might recognize him but

he'll talk about science a little bit a

little bit about his travel channel okay

guys enjoy thanks for watching okay this

is the rest of what i have for sale

still oh

i got a friend here his name is darren

he's got he's a advent sign collector

he's been collecting for years i've

known for over 25 years he's got

probably the best signs out there on the

west coast

coolers coca-cola everything to think of

hey don't forget to mention i also do a

tv travel show called the travel guys

i've been doing that for a lot of years

that's what i do from a real job but my

hobby is collecting these old signs and

uh tell you what the one thing that's

kind of screwed this hobby up is there's

lots of reproductions of signs now but i

only deal in the originals like

a crush sign like this an orange crush

drip sign

besides from the 1940s they do reproduce

it but this one here

would probably be worth around 500 bucks

in today's market and some people they

come and they look at the signs they

walk by and they go what do you want for

that sign and they say 500 they go what

they think it's a piece of tin a piece

of junk but it's original and collectors

true collectors know when a sign's

original and when it isn't and uh

there's lots of reproductions but the

original stuff is where it's at

yeah it's also like a condition like

this it's new obviously new old stock

you can see the uh what do you call that

fox paper sticking to it good eye good

eye there phil this is a uh

higher sign from the 1920s it's called a

tin tacker sign you can see how flimsy

the sign is more sign like a door sign

kick well the reason it was the reason

it's called a tin tacker is because

it's made in super thin tin in the 1920s

because it was meant to have a nail

driven right through the sign so

the store got the store would take this

sign it's so thin they'd take it stick a

nail right here and drive it right

through the sign

so that's how it got the name tin tacker

and that's why it's such thin tin stock

is for that reason but to find one in

this condition with no holes driven

through it and with the paper still

tucked stuck to it because this is what

collectors call new old stock as you

said it's kind of rare so that makes

this sign worth around five six hundred

dollars too just because it's in great

shape and because

it's uh an original tin attacker from

the 1920s yeah hey darren what about

this gas pump skin there what story or

not that's kind of the thing that people

like these days it's basically an

original

gas pump door but it's

it's kind of you know it's obviously got

condition issues but this is what

collectors want to do they want the

distressed look

rusty dirty look the technical term is

the distressed look that's what they

call it yeah so this uh this is an

actual door from a gas pump but

someone's put a decal on it and kind of

gauged the decal to make it look good so

the deck is new but the door itself

this this little panel in here has also

been added to make it look good but if

you don't have room for a gas bumper you

can't afford a vintage gas pump there's

a nail hole right here just nail it

right to your wall and it's got a very

cool look great conversation piece so if

this were an actual

1940s gas pump complete in this

condition in microsoft for 2500 bucks

you want to just buy the door 500 bucks

yeah come on down

in my eyes when i collected anything

rust like that went to scrap pilot

between us collectors that time this

stuff was plentiful anymore 25 30 years

ago today there's thousands and maybe

millions of collectors around the world

this stuff is scary you're right and the

thing is

believe it or not restored gas pumps

have kind of gone out of style this is

the look people want now they want

unrestored and distressed original un un

stored yeah it used to be 20 years ago

you couldn't find a gas pump in this

condition nobody would ever put this in

their house it would be beautifully

painted restored but now it's all about

the distressed look that's what people

like so that's that you know it may

change in a year but right now that's

kind of what uh what the collectors want

that's the american pickers brought the

rusty look out that might have something

to do with those guys because i had to

rusty all cans that are junkers you

wouldn't even take home i'm selling for

five dollars yeah and people are happy

people are super happy exactly i mean

i'm not i'm not going to take away from

an original if you can find an original

gas pump in amazing condition

it's still going to come with a big buck

but they don't exist in amazing

condition they either look like this or

somebody spends a thousand bucks or 1500

bucks and they restore them yeah darren

i'll ask you about your travel channel

yeah i know you've been doing this for

many years i used to be a dj broadcaster

right i worked in radio for a lot of

years i did a morning show in vancouver

uh at uh 650 ci with red robinson but i

do a tv travel show called the travel

guys which airs on

terrestrial tv regular old-fashioned tv

right now and it airs across the country

but

yeah i'm gonna start doing some stuff

for uh our own youtube travel channel so

watch for that in the future yeah so

he's gonna put a youtube uh probably a

blooper blog together everything to

expand his channel and uh do you wanna

be my manager well

i got too many jobs too many things to

worry about right now but anyways this

galaxy travels all around the world

they're cool they drink beer also

they're not like those you know they're

awesome guys thank you for watching

wrong with drinking beer it's a tasty

treat okay now where do you find that

channel now what's it where's it at you

know what our youtube channel is uh it's

been inactive for a while because we

shoot a regular tv show but we're going

to get that up and running again i

believe it's travel guys something

that's the name of it we do have a

youtube channel we have been using we're

going to start using it so what about

regular tv where do we find your channel

watch the show on uh well in vancouver

anyway i'm not sure about other parts of

the country adventure you can watch it

on check tv c-h-e-k on sundays i believe

it airs at 3 00 p.m and 11

30 p.m on sundays how many also on

novice tv in vancouver the cable outfit

nova's deviant airs every day on novus

seven days a week so okay now i think

how many episodes are have been aired so

far show's been on the air it's never

been off the air since 2003 so that's 19

years coming up to our 20th anniversary

we've got something like 350 episodes

all over the world we travel to places

like australia we just got back from

norway uh a week and a half ago next

week i'm going to ireland for the fifth

time to do the show so it's kind of a

personality driven travel show i'm the

goofy guy on the show the other guy's

the more serious guy on the show so i'm

the guy that does all the crazy daring

stuff yeah he's the one that gets drunk

all the time maybe

whatever hey alcohol could be a factor

but what i'm saying is the other guy

just kind of sits back and lets me do

the crazy stuff

yeah so anyways

if you have a chance you can watch it

travel guys um you could probably do a

search on youtube there could be

something up here somewhere go to

travelguystv.com which is our website

yeah that would be the episodes up there

you know if you don't uh if you live in

the us or anywhere else you can

certainly watch the show that way or

just go to youtube and search travel

guys okay one more question darren no no

more questions just a simple question

he's he does an hour show at a time it's

an hour or half an hour a half hour half

an hour

okay to make a half an hour show how

many hours of shooting so the public you

can actually get about 15 hours of

footage

over the course of say

you can do it in five days five six days

usually a week is good 15 hours of

footage at least to make 22 minutes of

content so imagine that i'm doing first

takes here these guys have to work in

the sun the heat it's not all fun and

games they're half time they're working

their butt off really to make an episode

it's so easy

all you just hold up

tv man come on okay darren i appreciate

you thank thank you very much thanks

bill all the best i enjoy your signs and

you are a super guy he's always

supporting me too man when i find uh

cool signs that come to him all the

time tasty treat that's fun to chew

juicy fruit okay buddy thank you very

much thanks for taking the price

packing this stuff up so basically

three totes of phone and

some other miscellaneous pictures and

some scrap metal

so anyways shows good three-day show

i made a total of uh

there it is

2033

three days

okay it's 3 17 it's shut for two but i

still made it

uh i don't know today i think i made um

425

almost just under 500 today which was

pretty good

propeller on the scrap

i'll probably just keep this so i don't

mind this thing here can't sell it but

i'll just keep it but i'll scrap

probably scrap that when the prices are

high not right now price is too low

when it's around closer to three dollars

okay i think that's it guys uh

fraser valley antiques collectibles club

show

this is the 27th year

okay guys thanks for watching have a

great day