Total Pageviews

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Visiting the American Pickers!

On our way to and from Galesburg, we stopped in Le Claire, Iowa to visit Antique Archaeology, where the American Pickers' shop is (American Pickers is a show on the History Channel...two guys from Iowa drive their van around the country and buy people's old junk, then restore and resell it).  Rich, Matt and I stopped there Tuesday on our way to Galesburg to look around a little.  We actually saw Mike (the tall guy) riding his '37 Harley Knucklehead on the way out of town :).  Since Ben and Grace didn't get to see the shop on Tuesday, we decided to stop by again today on our way back to Ankeny.  This time we hit the jackpot!  Danielle (the assistant) and Mike were both at the shop today!  We were sooooo excited!  Ben, Grace and Matt got both of their autographs on a special 8 x 10 glossy of Mike and Frank.  Mike asked Ben where he was from and when Ben said North Dakota, Mike said "Isn't it winter up there already?" :).  Danielle was super nice and loved visiting with all of the people there.  She said that her daughter's middle name is Grace.  Very cool experience!

1 comment:

Uncle Ole said...

You should have given Mike and Danielle the hot tip to visit Gilman's buildings and Doug's/Grammy/Grampa's old basement...bet there is some stuff in there!