American Pickers LaSalle, IL

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by wazir of wham

I also really enjoyed the show last night. The Dizzy & Daffy uniform was very cool and I bet there was some really interesting advertising items buried in the piles! Also thoughts and prayers for Frank Fritz as I understand he has some real serious health issues. He sure looked frail and was not doing much heavy picking!!

He has Crohns disease. Hopefully it is nothing new or worse.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by bnorth

He has Crohns disease. Hopefully it is nothing new or worse.

He’s had that foerever. Hopefully, he just lost weight of his own accord but, yeah, fat Frank looked more robust.

I survived rectal cancer 9 years back but had to make a stop in the ER, day after Christmas. I was diagnosed with “terminal ileitis,” which could be a precursor to Crohn’s. That’s all I f**king need!

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

He’s had that foerever. Hopefully, he just lost weight of his own accord but, yeah, fat Frank looked more robust.

I survived rectal cancer 9 years back but had to make a stop in the ER, day after Christmas. I was diagnosed with “terminal ileitis,” which could be a precursor to Crohn’s. That’s all I f**king need!

That sucks...But on the bright side, I can think of worse diagnoses to receive that have the word terminal in them.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

He’s had that foerever. Hopefully, he just lost weight of his own accord but, yeah, fat Frank looked more robust.

I survived rectal cancer 9 years back but had to make a stop in the ER, day after Christmas. I was diagnosed with “terminal ileitis,” which could be a precursor to Crohn’s. That’s all I f**king need!

So sorry to hear that, Rob...

We have a couple friends with Crohn's. It kinda sucks, but has not seemed to alter their lifestyle in a significant way yet. They both seem to be able to keep it under control.

Seems like once you hit 55, everybody's got something! Hope you can work through it, and turns out to be not too big a deal.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

He’s had that foerever. Hopefully, he just lost weight of his own accord but, yeah, fat Frank looked more robust.

I survived rectal cancer 9 years back but had to make a stop in the ER, day after Christmas. I was diagnosed with “terminal ileitis,” which could be a precursor to Crohn’s. That’s all I f**king need!

Hi Rob,
I'm really sorry to hear that.
Good luck with getting this new diagnosis figured out.
If you haven't gone there yet, enlist the help of a specialist in order to keep things at bay as long as possible.

BTW, you and a few others on net54 are a constant ray of positive light.
I enjoy reading your sunny, enthusiastic posts.
You're one of my favorites and I totally see you, man!

[71buc]

Hang in there Rob

[bocca001]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Hi Rob,
I'm really sorry to hear that.
Good luck with getting this new diagnosis figured out.

BTW, you and a few others on net54 are a constant ray of positive light.
I enjoy reading your sunny, enthusiastic posts.
You're one of my favorites and I totally see you, man!

+1

[ooo-ribay]

Hey, I’m fine guys. Getting old ain’t for sissies!

[whitey19thcentury]

My dad is a huge collector of advertising signs, gas cans, gas and oil advertising, etc. He has been collecting that stuff since before I was alive (I am 40 now), long before it became "cool" to collect.

He has a 60x100 garage literally filled with the stuff. When the Pickers were coming to our area a few years ago, several people contacted the producers and told them about my dad's stuff.

An advance scout came out and took photos of everything. We have many storage trailers on the property filled with overflow stuff and doubles and triples of some items. My dad specifically said he would not sell anything on display, but they would be free to dig through the trailers on the property. The guy went into a few trailers with me and took photos of items (granted, this wasn't "junk". There were gas pumps, signs, etc in there.

The guy just seemed to be pushing items in my dad's garage. My dad said no. The guy seemed to be a nice enough guy. He videoed my dad's life story (youngest of 15 kids, both parents died by the time he was 14 and he moved in with an older sister who had 4 kids of her own by then). He went on to start a very successful area business that is still in business after 5 decades. We never heard back from the guy. He seemed to get a little ticked off when I was asking about the show and how it worked and it doesn't make sense for a show to show 2 guys driving thousands of miles on a show only to buy $600 worth of items. He said that "there's a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes."