GOSHEN COUNTY – For the first time ever, Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz – also known as The History Channel’s “American Pickers” – plan to search Wyoming for long-forgotten treasures.
The pair and their team have picked properties from coast to coast, filming their discovery of antiques, unique characters and general Americana along the way since 2010.
“We are looking for antiques from pre-1960’s and looking for new things that we haven’t seen on the show,” Mary Weaver, representing the hit series, said in an email to the Telegram.
According to a press release, Wolfe and Fritz “are on a mission to recycle and rescue forgotten relics … the pair hopes to give historically significant objects a new lease on life, while learning a thing or two about America’s past along the way.”
Weaver said the pickers will be filming in Wyoming in July for approximately two weeks, and the film crew’s path depends upon the location of
the treasures.
“We prefer large, private antique collections. The junkier, the better,” Weaver said.
The pickers’ team has reached out to various media outlets in Wyoming to gather leads before they arrive.
The press release requests if residents or someone they know “has a large, private collection or accumulation of antiques the pickers can spend the better part of the day looking through, send us your name, phone number, location and description of the collection with photos to americanpickers@cineflix.com, call (855) OLD-RUST or through Facebook using @GotAPick.”
Wolfe and Fritz only pick private collections. Stores, malls, flea markets, museums, auctions, businesses or anything open to the public will not be
considered.
