KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter (Mon, 30 Jun, 2025)

KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter on Mon, 30 Jun, 2025

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Sammy's Restaurant Sammy's is now open in Kalamesa at Exit
eighty eight off the ten Freeway, next to the Jack
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Not to name drop, but Sammy's in the former Bob's
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And what's up?

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Team?

Speaker 2 (06:24):
This is Robert Porter with I Love Sammardino County Radio
Show on casey A, NBC one O six point five
f M ten at fifty am.

Speaker 8 (06:31):
We will talk.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Politics, culture and history. Today we have an incredible show.
We'll go over Jamboree days up there at the crestline
Lake Gregory with Rha and Dirk, and then we'll talk
a little bit about collecting coins and stuff from uh
from our friend from the Waterman Discount Mall Dominic, so
our mark Mark.

Speaker 13 (06:52):
So we'll we'll get into that in a little.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Bit, but UH first I'd like to uh mention our
sponsors Golden Pizza and Wings over on Ali and Watermen
or on Golden and Highland. Now they also have a
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all day, every day, head on over to Golden Pizza.
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Speaker 13 (07:24):
Help this guy.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
He's local, he's trying to make a difference and he
supports local, so we'll support him. Yeah, and good pizza. Yeah,
we have some right here. Man feeding the fam here.
We got a pepsia, but they also got wings, so
if you want other things, And from what I heard,
they have thrifty ice cream there as well. And Mark
would know because he works at the Water and Discount
mall and they're right next to him right there. Well

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at Olive and Watermen.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
I'm a fan favorite. I go to the one in Highland, Okay,
I'm a fan favorite of their ice cream.

Speaker 13 (07:53):
Yes, there they're and they're good people in there.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
The workers are always really nice and and they they
always make the food really quick.

Speaker 8 (08:02):
That's what I like.

Speaker 13 (08:03):
So that's cool.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I'd like to mention our other sponsor, Pal Charter Academy
right so, if you'd like to learn more about Powell
Charter Academy, please go onto Instagram right now and look
up Pal charter academy, right, and then most of the
stuff comes up on their main feed. But they also
have pal charter junior high if you have a student

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in that level. Right, So they have a junior high
and a high school. Now, these charter schools over in
muscoy Are and there's one on a little bit out
of Muskoye. It's Sarah, you know. But like, these charter
schools are meant to help give kids a good foundation
to start from.

Speaker 13 (08:45):
Maybe they're not, you know.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Necessarily the best in the public school system, and your
kid needs a little extra attention, Well, these are the
programs that you need to put them in. They even
have a spot for the kids that may have had
a bad day and they need to put their feet up,
and there's a counselor there. So their counselor happens to
be a former a council member. Best seen little Phil

(09:11):
Richard from here in San Rendino, a very nice woman
and games and things too. Right, So, I mean, you
shouldn't always just punish a kid when they're acting up
or a little bit rowdy or whatever, right, I mean, well,
it's good to find other ways to give them for outlets.
Right at least. I mean, and maybe sometimes they do
need you know, a little one too, but's hopefully well

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most of the schools will learn that. You know, kids
need more than just discipline, right, they need love and
caring too. So that's I see that a lot. At
pal Charter Academy, let me tell you their programs are incredible.
They got an automotive program, computers, video, you name it.

Speaker 13 (09:53):
They are getting into it over there. They're plan on
doing a garden.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
So you know, if you have a child that you'd
like to give ahead, start consider Pale Charter Academy. And
they also have a great sports program over there, brand
new field, brand new equipment provided by Sam and well
so mister Radam's a great guy. So if you're interested
in that, their Instagram is the most active, and they
also they have Facebook Palet Charter Academy.

Speaker 8 (10:19):
All right, and.

Speaker 13 (10:21):
I'd like to mention our I Love Sam Bernardino.

Speaker 14 (10:25):
Stand Out of the Week today is Nardine Iskander and
Jerry Martinez from the green Jack market Place owner thirty
years over four years of service.

Speaker 13 (10:40):
Their daughter Banell owns the deli and she's and the
Green chap in general.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
As a sponsor of I Love Sam Bernardino, and we
love them so much. Jerry's you know, like me and
my mom will go there and just shoot shoot the
poop with Jerry for hours and hours and hours.

Speaker 13 (10:58):
That he's a good guy. And then of course I'm Nardine.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
If if she's not you know, working very very hard,
she she gets a chance to talk with us too.

Speaker 13 (11:06):
We have fun in there.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
And also they help so many people in groups, like
with sandwiches and uh and sponsorships and stuff like that
that I just still wanted to really give the Green
Chack a shout out. It's not easy in the area,
they're there and they really make the best of it.
So Nardine, Jerry, we love you, man. I love Stamer

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Nardino Standouts of the weeks and that is brought to
you by Cindy Taw and uh, oh my gosh, Mochi Nut.
I was doing Cindy Taw with Mochi Nut and BBQ
Korean Barbecue. So these two places are located on Anderson
and Redlands Boulevard. And let me tell you that Mochi

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Nut is like it's supposed to be for breakfast. But man,
they have these corn dogs or cheese on a stick,
rice dogs, there that are to die for.

Speaker 13 (12:00):
They take mozzarella and this yummy yam whatever.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Gooiness or whatever it is, and they put it on
there and it just I wanted to eat too, but
I had to share one with my mama.

Speaker 15 (12:13):
I'm glad.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, well, you know, she was probably glad that I
you know, you know, she wanted to herself, but like
she was just glad that I let her have some
of some carbohydrates, but really good stuff. So consider that.
And uh, there's also milk Shaboo Shaboo on right across
the street from Costco on Hospitality and they have some

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really good food. Me and Amy go there often. They
have a hot pot. Drop the vegetables in there and
it just cooks up, and you put the meat in
there and you dip it in the sauce and just
really good and.

Speaker 13 (12:46):
You get to cook it yourself.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's kind of interesting.

Speaker 13 (12:49):
It's just a little foodie thing, right, Yeah, kind of
fun right across the street of Costco. So you know,
do what you're doing there and head on and have
some hot pot. Just something different.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
All right, team up, we have a great show today.
I'd like to Uh, we're gonna We're gonna kind of
skip the history tidbit and from me, because Ria is
here today and she is a historian in her own
right with several books. Yeah, so we're just gonna go

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over the history tidbit of her books first. Okay, okay,
so let us know what books you've written about.

Speaker 15 (13:23):
Okay, I've written mostly my books have been about the
San Bernardino Mountains. So I've written two books on Crestline.
One it's called Images of America Crestline.

Speaker 13 (13:32):
Wait, I've seen that book in Walgreens.

Speaker 15 (13:35):
Oh my goodness, yes, And of course Crestline Chronicles, which
has lots of lots of words in about thirty seven
thousand words.

Speaker 13 (13:43):
And now I've seen that one in Albertson's.

Speaker 8 (13:47):
I've seen it in Good Ones.

Speaker 13 (13:48):
Yeah, yeah, good Ones too, Good Ones.

Speaker 8 (13:50):
Got all of them.

Speaker 15 (13:52):
Well, we have mo also at the Mountain History Museum
in Lake Harrowhead.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
The most famous.

Speaker 15 (13:57):
And then I also have two books on Lake Errolhead
when his Images of America Lake Arrowhead, which was the
first book I wrote, and also Lake Harrolhead Chronicles. I've
also contributed to about ten other books, but that's neither
here nor there. And I also write a weekly history
column in the Alpine mountain near newspaper. And so far

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I've written for six months and we've gotten forty years
of history den, so we've been pretty detailed so far.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
And she also was kind enough to share that my
grandparents seventy fifth weather anniversary. That was awesome, Yes, and
that really meant a lot to them. And they both
have passed now, so that I know that was their
last chance to really shine out there, and I appreciate
you giving them that.

Speaker 15 (14:40):
Well, that was fabulous, But then I did know them,
so that was another good reason.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
And tell us a little bit about your last name
and your history up there in the mountains of Salmon, you.

Speaker 15 (14:49):
Know, Okay, my name, my name is Ria Francis Tetley,
and Tetley Rich Frank Tetley was the person that subdivided
value of enchantment in Cressline. He also was a California
State Highway Commissioner, so he got to cut the ribbon
on the rim of the old highway when it became
a high gear road in nineteen thirty three. And then

(15:10):
of course I've been there since nineteen seventy six, so
I but I've been visiting there obviously since I'm the baby.
So at my own house, we have pictures of me
at the back door step when I'm about twelve months old,
sixteen months old, they're at the back door step, and
now my grandson is hanging out at that same back

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door step. So it's kind of.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Named generations and generations. And how did he get a
road named after him?

Speaker 15 (15:39):
Well, first of all, I was a state highway commissioner,
and on the other hand, he used to name wherever
he had a subdivision, he always named the street after himself.
So we've got roads in Hacienda Heights and many other
places throughout southern California.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
So my grandpa did try that. My grandpa tried that.
They wouldn't let him do it of the Creston.

Speaker 15 (15:58):
That's because I did want him to.

Speaker 13 (16:03):
But it's still a very interesting process.

Speaker 15 (16:05):
Yes, oh yeah, and I thought.

Speaker 13 (16:06):
I'd bring that up. That's my family do, Carol.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
But it's all fun in history because history has all
different types of aspects to it, and over time you
can change names of roads.

Speaker 13 (16:23):
Yeah, yeah, you take time.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
And if you saw Travis Barker got a new road
over there in Fontana, isn't that awesome?

Speaker 9 (16:30):
Man?

Speaker 2 (16:30):
You guys know Travis Barker. Oh man, he's one of
the most famous drummers in the world. Yeah, I'm married
a Cardassian.

Speaker 13 (16:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (16:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
They Aganetta Warren named a street after him over there
where you know we went to and you went to
Full High and stuff, So you know, it's pretty cool.

Speaker 15 (16:47):
That is a good way to get a name a
street named after you. As for your accomplishments, yes, absolutely,
that's a good reason.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yes, and uh, especially if it's a party like a
rock star. So do we also have a Dirk Rinker
in the house?

Speaker 8 (17:07):
And we do?

Speaker 2 (17:08):
And uh, you're with the Crestline Chamber of Commerce.

Speaker 8 (17:12):
That's correct, you got it right.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
There, okay, and Cristline. It still doesn't have a true
mayor yet.

Speaker 8 (17:18):
No, we are.

Speaker 12 (17:19):
Actually legally prohibited since we're an unincorporated area of San
Berdin down A County, we cannot have a mayor.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
So that that's what I was going to ask. How
are they still trying to incorporate that we have I
have not.

Speaker 15 (17:31):
Heard are not the five area?

Speaker 11 (17:34):
No?

Speaker 8 (17:34):
No, And I haven't heard any more word of that
in the last three or four yet.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
After you guys got all your you know, after I
came on the board, they Okay, it's good.

Speaker 8 (17:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (17:43):
After I came on the board of directors for the
Chamber of Commerce, they said, no, no, we're not going
to talk about that anymore. Rinkers driven our name so
far into the what it.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Was I believe it was the the not the access
to the equipment germ and Snowmageddon that that kind of
spurred a little.

Speaker 15 (18:00):
Well, we had just gone through an incorporation attempt and
didn't didn't make Yeah, it has everything to do with
the lake. But we have the lake and it's alf
beautiful and high and beautiful, and we have a new
management company, so we're all happy.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, it seemed like you had new equipment up there too,
so oh yeah they did.

Speaker 8 (18:20):
The county did invest.

Speaker 13 (18:21):
Yeah they should, I mean they should.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
That's like the heart of our area and everyone uses
those roads and it's always clogged. Man, And I feel
sorry for y'all because our flat flat landers like really
do clog up your roads, right and leave trash.

Speaker 13 (18:38):
And oh stuff like that. So so like, so like what.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Would you tell like, should we you know, go up
there and go sledding and just leave our sled there
if it's broken?

Speaker 15 (18:49):
Probably not if you bring it up should.

Speaker 13 (18:51):
We slide right next to the highway eighteen?

Speaker 15 (18:54):
Well, only if you want to die?

Speaker 8 (18:55):
Yeah, like that, only only if you like the sound.

Speaker 13 (18:58):
Actually, should we be using common sense?

Speaker 15 (19:01):
There is some people don't think that. They think cars
are going to be able to stop right away, and
you can't do that on ice, so they're going to
hit you and then we get sad because then the
ambulance takes a long time to get there too, so
you die. So don't do that.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Do that, okay?

Speaker 14 (19:17):
Right?

Speaker 12 (19:18):
And the other thing to mention is that you know
a lot of times people think, well, you know, it's
just a bag of you know, leftover Carls Junior or whatever.

Speaker 13 (19:28):
Dip.

Speaker 12 (19:29):
Yeah, don't don't throw it out the window because we
don't have street sweepers up there.

Speaker 8 (19:34):
As often as you.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Guys, it ends up everywhere, it is, right, and so
bad for the animals.

Speaker 8 (19:41):
It's bad for the animals, bad for the environment.

Speaker 12 (19:44):
So definitely if you bring it in, pack it out,
and you know, cresline itself. Every every six months we
have clean up events. We have thirty forty people going
all around the lake, all around the different streets and towns,
ticking picking up I mean, so it's it's not a
street sweeper.

Speaker 13 (20:03):
Ask some quick questions.

Speaker 8 (20:04):
I got Yes, three thirty is still open. It is open.

Speaker 15 (20:07):
Yeah, they're construction on it, so you might have a delay.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
So if people want to get to Jamboree Days, which
is coming up next Saturday.

Speaker 12 (20:17):
Saturday the fifth, you head up your head up Highland
Highway eighteen and just go up Highway eighteen about twelve miles.
Twelve miles up is a turnoff for Crestline or if
if you're close to ten o'clock when the parade starts,
I wouldn't take the Crestline cutoff. I would go all
the way up to Lake Gregory Drive and turn left

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there at the light.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
So I know both those ways, but which one is
technically faster or.

Speaker 15 (20:44):
Like, depends upon what part of town you want to
go to. If you want to go to the lake,
go up to the signals.

Speaker 8 (20:49):
Speed, don't speed?

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Okay, yeah, go to the signal well, especially if you're
going to go to the lake.

Speaker 8 (20:54):
Yeah, probably.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
But if you want to stop through Crestline and kind
of see the old town right head up there.

Speaker 13 (21:00):
Okay, one more question. Top Town Cafe.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
I see them posting a lot and I love Salmon
India Rubb Reporter. I haven't been to chance to get
over there and try the food. Have you guys eaten
there becase all the time? Yeah, good good stuff.

Speaker 12 (21:13):
They have really great. I mean they have a chef there.
There's it is top notch. I mean, I really don't
like vegetables that much, honestly, but they serve at green
beans that's kept like almonds, bacon, and I mean there's
so good.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Okay, So if you don't want to go to good
ones and get a sandwich and some good deli.

Speaker 8 (21:31):
Head on over to head on over there.

Speaker 12 (21:33):
Or if you like big portions, I mean both both
the Top Town Cafe and Crestline Cafe give.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
You great, great Mexican food.

Speaker 8 (21:41):
To great Mexican.

Speaker 12 (21:44):
Lacacita has great Mexican, but the I would say that
if you like big, big portions, just Crestline Cafe or
Top Town Cafe. Another place to mention is up there
by Top Town Cafe called Mountain Cravings. They have a
reputation for having some of the best mecha food and
some of the best like American food.

Speaker 8 (22:03):
If you want to.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
La showing your team here is that these places are
vibrant they're alive and they have a lot of good
food spots, you know down here centre.

Speaker 13 (22:14):
Oh it's up there in the mountains, right, but it's
really it's like fifty minutes away.

Speaker 12 (22:18):
Yeah, but you know, I know, I'm not I know
they're not a sponsor. But I gotta tell you if
you went to England, you would not get better fish
and chips then you get at Mountain Cravings and Top
Town Crestline.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
I'll consider. I want to. I like to my mom
different places.

Speaker 8 (22:32):
They have fantastic fish and chips.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yes, good stuff, good stuff. And uh, you want to
give a little plug for the Chamber of Commerce.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
Oh no, no, no, not at all.

Speaker 9 (22:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (22:43):
How do you find out more information? Like if you
want a newsletter from you guys or whatever.

Speaker 12 (22:46):
I'll go to Chamber Crestline chamber dot org. We have
websites there. We have a website at visit Crestline dot
is a comma org. Visit Crestline dot org.

Speaker 8 (22:57):
I believe it is.

Speaker 12 (22:59):
No, it's it's probably com because I don't think we
got the dot org one. I don't visit it that often.
It's only a bookmark, you know. I just click on
the bookmark and.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
So Jamboree Days actually started yesterday for the picnic, right, absolutely, okay,
and so explain a little bit of the history of
Jamboree Days. What does it represent?

Speaker 8 (23:19):
And uh?

Speaker 2 (23:19):
And what?

Speaker 9 (23:20):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (23:21):
I just noticed you has an arrowhead turgoise narrowhead on
Oh sorry the necklace. I love arrowheads.

Speaker 13 (23:26):
But what do you what do you think?

Speaker 2 (23:32):
It's the best cool history tidbit of the Jamboree Days show.

Speaker 15 (23:37):
Best tidbit of history is that it's still going on
after all these years. It's sort of you can directly
go back to right after World War Two and see
that they were doing Fourth of July parties for the
community starting then. And we've gone through a couple of
different names over the years, including Mountaineer Days and Jamboree Days.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
So why Jamboree Days because.

Speaker 15 (24:00):
Because we had Mountaineer Days and Rightwood was upset.

Speaker 12 (24:03):
Oh really, so there was there was a separate Mountaineer Days.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
There's a weird connotation with jam the word jammer, so.

Speaker 8 (24:11):
Like, I have no idea about that.

Speaker 12 (24:14):
The Jamburey Days in Crestline has been going on since
our forty seventh year, forty seven years, sometimes big, sometimes small,
but now it is.

Speaker 8 (24:24):
It is a big deal and anything.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
And every year I've not gone because I know it's
gonna be fat up there.

Speaker 15 (24:30):
Oh it's fun though, But even when you think it's
gonna be crowded, we're still talking not that many people
compared to anything in Sampernadino.

Speaker 13 (24:38):
And it's gonna be fun.

Speaker 15 (24:39):
You're gonna have fireworks and we have a parade.

Speaker 8 (24:42):
We start the day at ten am with a parade.
And if you, if you decide to drive up for
the day, I would just get.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
There early, and absolutely would.

Speaker 12 (24:50):
My advice is to go all the way up to
the light on the Highway eighteen tone, make a left
down like Gregory Drive, and come into town that way.

Speaker 8 (24:59):
It's just the we don't have it. No, we don't
have a shuttle service.

Speaker 12 (25:03):
We do have Mountain Transit buses, but they kind of
interrupt their service during the parade. Right there's there's more
parking on that end of town than there is going
through the top two.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Gregor worth it or.

Speaker 8 (25:16):
You could certainly do that. I mean, you know, but
it's two bucks an.

Speaker 15 (25:20):
Hour, Gregory, you two bucks for the first hour, dollar
hour after that.

Speaker 12 (25:25):
And so yeah, so ree is actually explaining that it's
more cost effective than I actually said it first, which is,
you know, a good, good deal.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
There's a lot of parking there and people want to
get there, and so where's the parade versus.

Speaker 12 (25:41):
Yeah, the plane basically it ends at Gregor. It starts
all the way up in top Town and winds its
way down through the through the valley into the main
part of town. But if you park, if you park
somewhere around the lake, because there are turnouts there and
so forth, or if you park on the side streets
around lake, you know Gregory and Crestline proper.

Speaker 13 (26:04):
And you can you can.

Speaker 12 (26:05):
Just you can walk down towards the parade route fairly
easily and find yourself a spot and just set up
and enjoy you and you want to do fireworks.

Speaker 8 (26:16):
The other on the other end of the day, we
start those. The lake closes down for its daytime swimming.

Speaker 12 (26:23):
At five o'clock. They reopen at six thirty or so.
It's free to the public, so that anybody can go
into the lake, set up a picnic and enjoy the fireworks,
which start right around nine. Why don't they start so late?
Why do they start now? Why don't they start at
eight thirty. Well it's still a little bit light up there,
and beyond that, the wind pretty much always dies down

(26:45):
right at nine o'clock.

Speaker 15 (26:47):
So they we have makes it safer up.

Speaker 8 (26:50):
It makes it safer.

Speaker 12 (26:51):
And up there, up there in Lake Gregory and Crestline,
we have this little thing like you know, we're concerned about, which.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Is fire of course.

Speaker 12 (27:00):
Okay, So the person who sets off our fireworks is
Jason from Fires Spectaculars, and he's he lives up there,
so he's very concerned, you know, and we have and
he knows exactly where the staves, the fire trucks and
so forth. So when he shoots these off from the

(27:21):
surface of the lake and the big amphitheater that is
essentially Lake Gregory Valley, you feel like you are sitting
right underneath those fireworks. It is the most incredible fireworks
experience I think I've ever had.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
So you could see the fireworks from anywhere on the lake,
anywhere around the lakes, because there's this giant bowl.

Speaker 8 (27:40):
Anywhere around the lake you can see the fireworks.

Speaker 12 (27:43):
But definitely the best place, the best place to see
the fireworks is from you know, somewhere around the lake
shore right around.

Speaker 15 (27:50):
There at the beach area. The free area that they
let you into is the best seats.

Speaker 12 (27:55):
Yeah, and and uh, it's it's just an amazing fireworks show.
I want to tell you if Aside. There was a
guy you though from Lake Gregory and he went back.
He had to go back to Boston for a job
over the Fourth of July, and he watched the fireworks
over Boston Harbor and you think Boston Harbor they're gonna have,
you know, Liberty Central, They're gonna have a tremendous fireworks show.

Speaker 8 (28:15):
He came back and he said it.

Speaker 12 (28:17):
Was nothing compared to what we do here in Crestline. Wow,
we have one of the best fireworks shows in the country,
simply because you are so close to what's happening.

Speaker 15 (28:25):
And it's reflecting on the water, so you see it
go up and then it's reflecting on the water, so
it's very fantastic. You're getting it both up and down,
and it's a fantastic show. And it's such a small area,
so it does feel like it's right overhead no matter
what part of the lake you're on.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
And this part always is my favorite. I had to
actually water ski on Lake Gregory during Fourth of July.

Speaker 15 (28:49):
Well, you're were of the special people that would have
been a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yes, when you were my grand my grandfather won a
raffle or something when.

Speaker 8 (28:57):
You were two years old or something like that.

Speaker 14 (28:59):
I was.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I was old enough to remember getting up on those
and falling down because they.

Speaker 12 (29:05):
Haven't allowed they haven't allowed, you know, gasoline powered boats
on the lake except for the rangers or if.

Speaker 15 (29:12):
You're a movie star.

Speaker 13 (29:13):
Yeah, you know, it was a it was a special occasion,
so they allowed.

Speaker 15 (29:17):
You know, they also let movie stars make movies on
the lake and use use real.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Boats to.

Speaker 15 (29:27):
Well, that's the county.

Speaker 12 (29:28):
I walked down from my house and I saw Chris
filming something for Prime Amazon Prime.

Speaker 8 (29:33):
You know about about stealth spies and this and that
and the other. And yeah, I mean they have.

Speaker 15 (29:40):
Film a lot of movies.

Speaker 12 (29:41):
Robertland was filming up there, right down the street from me,
and Obi Wan Kenobi filmed on the mountains just right
behind me.

Speaker 15 (29:50):
A place up there in the mountains somewhere Monroe.

Speaker 12 (29:54):
I don't know about more, but I lived. I lived
two doors down from where Murv Griffin had his summer house.
Marilyn Manson, maybe.

Speaker 15 (30:05):
Chirley Temple's had many houses up there. She has went,
she had.

Speaker 13 (30:11):
Jay Leno had one on Lake Arrowhead.

Speaker 8 (30:13):
Right.

Speaker 15 (30:14):
Yes, if you go to the museum, you can go
see a list of about three hundred stars that have
homes in the Lake Arrowhead area.

Speaker 13 (30:21):
And if you ride that Queen of the Arrowhead.

Speaker 15 (30:24):
Queen, we'll point out some of them.

Speaker 13 (30:26):
Yeah, it's kind of fun, you know, it's.

Speaker 15 (30:28):
And some of them they actually lived in.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
The coolest part about Lake al And, I must say,
is feeding the fish in the Oh.

Speaker 15 (30:35):
Well, we have ducks and fish at are like two.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yes, you do, but like that's one thing that it's
very memorable because you throw from the top.

Speaker 13 (30:43):
But in those drought years it was dirt down there.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
So when I went there last time, I'm like, I
don't remember the fish, but like, wow, they're big.

Speaker 15 (30:52):
I remember one year for Fourth of July, we actually
had a beach there at the village where the water
was because the water was down twenty feet that year,
and so we had a big rock and roll concert
on the beach which was actually the bottom of the
lake and it was fantastic. It happened to have Jan
of Dean of Jane Deine, Oh that's cool.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
That's cool. All right, Well, we're gonna start moving into
the second portion of the show.

Speaker 15 (31:17):
Go to Jamboree Days, that's the important part.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Definitely bring that up at the the end of the
show and remind everyone and when we're posting about that
Jamboree Days up there in Crest Line on this Saturday,
Saturday in the morning, for.

Speaker 13 (31:30):
The parade, in the evening, for the for.

Speaker 12 (31:33):
The fires and if you want all day long jamboridays
dot com. It's really hard to find Jamboree Days dot com.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Pack it in, pack it out now.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
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Speaker 13 (31:51):
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Speaker 13 (31:58):
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Speaker 2 (32:01):
Well deserved a little vacation time that we are going.

Speaker 13 (32:05):
To take one day off.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
You just play the show, I guess, yeah, and yeah,
we'll take that. We take a little time off and
relax and enjoy our Fourth of July weekend as well
over here. But thank you Yannie for everything you do,
and we'll be back. Is that the fourteenth, the next Monday.
We're coming up, so, uh, we'll be back for that show.
I haven't quite figured out who I'm gonna bring on,
but uh, I have a couple of ideas, but I

(32:31):
don't want.

Speaker 13 (32:31):
To you know, it's like the cat out of Bad.
So I want to tell a little stories.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
So you know, I go to you know, Golden Pizza
over on all them waterm and all the time, and
I and I knew that there was the bong shop
in the in the water and discountall so I'm like,
all right, well I'll go in there.

Speaker 13 (32:53):
I think the last time I went in.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
There was to get pictures or something for a sponsor
that I had in there, and they did some pictures
for me.

Speaker 13 (33:02):
So I went in again and I was like.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Oh, it's a nice little spots. There's a lot of
little stores in there, a lot of jewelry, a lot
of jewelry and shoes and you know, things for window
shopping and stuff and stuff like that. But then there's
also like a video game store in there, right, and
uh like pinnata shop, right, So I'm just going around

(33:26):
to these different things. We got a pinnata for Amy's birthday.
Did you like your pinata? Yeah, We're fielded with adult
adult stuff. Oh yeah, it was really adulty, like popcorn
and hot diabetic candy. Yeah, the good little good stuff.

Speaker 9 (33:44):
No.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
But like so, you know, it's a nice little spot
over there, like it's vibrant, and so I'm like, well run,
you know, like I start seeing like coins, I'm like, whoa,
this guy's got coins and these guy's got khona to
be selling coins right here? All right, man, he must
be making a fortune. What's up, dude, how are you doing?

Speaker 13 (34:06):
Mark?

Speaker 8 (34:06):
I'm great.

Speaker 13 (34:07):
So I met Mark right there. He is like, you know,
you thought I was. He didn't know who that guy was.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 13 (34:12):
Actually, it was just like great, weird dude talking.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
You know, he probably thought, you know, I was trying
to you know, still is a nineteen oh nine VDB.
But uh but noah, he actually is very knowledgeable about
the coin game and collecting itself.

Speaker 8 (34:30):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (34:30):
They do more than just coins there, correct, and tell
us a little about about yourself and the name of
your business and the name of your wonderful wife.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Who's whiskey to do?

Speaker 3 (34:38):
So my wife is on my left, can come up, Yeah,
of course she can introduce yourself.

Speaker 8 (34:46):
Yes, you're just going.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Over yeah, she's got it.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah, she might not be on the camera, but she
connect my turn there you go.

Speaker 9 (34:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (34:55):
My name is Sophilia Gondola and I support my husband and.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
The mall I Fuel beautiful flower shop too.

Speaker 8 (35:02):
Oh yeah, we have one flower shop there.

Speaker 13 (35:04):
Oh you do. Okay, Well, now I know we'll all
have to get my flowers.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
She does.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Anybody in the Semborino man, yeah, anybody ad that wants
your money bouquets her and my sister law might day.
They do an.

Speaker 13 (35:17):
Extra for the graduations or weddings or whatever.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Ye weddings your birthday too, you know that.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah, but so yeah, you know, you can always post
on I love San Bernardino your work.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
So yeah, push your stuff on there.

Speaker 13 (35:31):
Oh yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Like I love Sara by Robert Porter, the big one.
We have forty thousand members and people do do your
your variety of selling on there all the time. So
you know, I see people making a lot of money
on my groups. Like I'm just like, man, I better
start getting the work.

Speaker 15 (35:52):
I should get to do this.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Yeah yeah, so like, but I do have some sponsors.

Speaker 13 (35:56):
I do get sponsors here.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
And if you would like to be a sponsor here
on the show for I Love Samonnadino, we have a
spot open for a business of the month. So what
we're going to do is we're going to be showcasing
a different business every single week. We're looking for a
sponsor to celebrate that. It will be twenty five dollars show,
so that'll be about one hundred dollars a month. So

(36:20):
if you're interested in sponsoring the show and you'd like
to do something good for local businesses, we'll mention these
different businesses and we'll mention your business with it on
the show as you know, and then of course you
get all the perks of being a sponsor of I
Love Samonnadino and on my network. So I try to
get your stuff out there. And that's what Cindy Taa

(36:40):
is currently doing trying to help us. She was a
local business owner that came on the show, a former
real estate worker and she realized that last time when
the middle estate market went down, that she needed to
change her business this time right before the market went
down again, So she started foody businesses. And she started

(37:03):
these three businesses to bring local foody groups and and
and you know and businesses to.

Speaker 13 (37:10):
Our area and I'm like wow.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
So, I mean the council people in the mayor have
a hard time bringing those businesses in. So like it's
it's incredible when a local that's got the money to
do it decides to invest in our area, but to
make it fun.

Speaker 13 (37:29):
Invest not just to make money, right yeah, but to
make it fun.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
So that's what we did. Yes, we brought a new
level of trust to San Bernardino. And and not just
San Bernardino norco I mean Menafee his spirit.

Speaker 13 (37:43):
So this business, where's the main hub?

Speaker 3 (37:46):
So are we have We're growing to a office which
is coming in about September that's under construction currently, but
I won't disclose where yet, okay. And then right now,
our full shop, full service appraisal, grading coins is in
the Waterman Discount. We've been there two years successfully. So
every time we go renew our license with the city,
the city is like, look, we're on board with you.

(38:06):
We we even there are some of the collectors in
there as well. So the idea that we had together
was like, you know what, let's get this, do it properly,
get all the paperwork everything lined up, and started business.
Anybody could start a business, and I encourage it.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
But we've lost a good we've lost. I think it
was a stamping coin that we had in the carousel mall. Yeah,
that guy, he was just getting old. So he and
then then the the owner of Del Rosa's stamping coin,
he's still in there. It's hoarded in there.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Mondo Armando does coin shows. Armando does stay open for
like two three days, but you don't.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
He's done his time. And I bought garbage pal kids
from that guy.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
He's amazing though. Yeah, and I've learned from me. I've
learned a lot from him and a lot of other
dealers in it in the business as well. And not
only that, I've actually partnered, well not even technically a partnered,
but I've worked along with other pawn shops in the
Era Court Street, pond KaiA Highland. All of them know me.

(39:11):
So when they get stuck with coins yet doubt yeah,
they get stuck with go to American Coin Collection Shop.
Go to American Coin Collection Shop. And then or I've
get where are American Coin Collection shop? Where American Coin
Collection Shop, It's right there. You'll see our truck, our
our four truck will be outside with the banners in

(39:33):
the parking lot. We're always parked in front of the
Waterman sign on Waterman and then usually if we're not there,
just come on in. Still always give us a call.
By the way, can I mention something about the phone? Guys,
you have questions about your coins, send me, send me,
send me images. If if I'm not replying, just send
me images. You won't be the only one, but I
will definitely tell you yes or no. I want to

(39:54):
be that dealer that you can come to. And I'm
a straight shooter. We're the only and I'm proud to
say this. Oh my goodness, I hope, I hope nothing
you know, but we're the only five star coin shop
in the entire San Bernardino history for two years in
the route.

Speaker 13 (40:08):
So he's being honest with you here.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah, but uh, we're gonna teach you a little bit
about how to get a headstart if you don't want
to necessarily to call and because you want specific questions
you don't, Yeah, correct if you find a like, like
if it's just some just a regular coin and you
don't know anything about it, and it's like look it
up first a little bit, So this is how you

(40:32):
do it, Like as an anthropologist and archaeologist.

Speaker 13 (40:35):
How we would do it is we would enter it
into Google back in the day.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
But now you use Google image, right, so you just
instead of pressing the Google you know, speak to text,
press the other button of the little camera image thing.
It'll go to the image image. You take a picture
of that thing and uh press you know, you search
it and more than likely something similar to it will.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Pop correct And you were and you're right, you are.
You did touch a good point on that. Another place
to do that would be new Mysta.

Speaker 8 (41:04):
Ok.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
And I'm gonna spell it out for everybody, and you
m I STA. It's a website and it has blue
with the N in there. You can check everything you want,
but do remember it doesn't reflect what a shop we'll
buy for. Yes, so it's not if you come in
and it's sixty cents and we're telling you thirty cents.
Just know that we have to go back and resell that,
just like eBay. We don't do eBay, but it's reselling,

(41:26):
you know. And we're here for you next time when
you find something cool or exciting, we'll help you out again.
And so it's you know, we're here for you guys
in Sanbury, New So what if they have gold gold,
you can do gold as well with us. We buy
gold and silver. There's times where I buy at about
eighty percent to eighty five percent ninety depending on what

(41:47):
it is. And then I buy a lot from the
jewelers that are insight as well, and then I supply
them with gold bars as well, because I work closely
with a refiner. That's so it's a long drive.

Speaker 8 (41:58):
Mark, what does it mean to be a five car shop? Like?

Speaker 3 (42:04):
Well, it's you know, is that it's.

Speaker 8 (42:07):
Not the lowest level, that is the highest level.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Yeah, that's.

Speaker 16 (42:12):
I gotta tap him on the shoulders, I would, I
would hope, I look, you know. Yeah, it's about I
helped a lady.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
I helped a lady. Her name is well, I could
say her first name, but her name is Michelle. And
this is when we first started. She came into my shop.
She had items to sell. They were hers, Her husband
had passed away. Everything was in his name. She was
about to become homeless, no joke. I gave her personally
for what we first we started with. I'm not going
to tell what we started our business, but we started

(42:44):
our business, and I gave her three hundred dollars. I
gave her back the items. You know, I'm not going
to do that to everybody, but for her. She got
her car registered, came back, showed us the registration. She
got herself. She stayed in her car for what about
two months? Three insurance. You paid the insurance, and she

(43:05):
was she was back on her feet good. And and
she goes to uh on ninth Street in Sierra. She
goes to like you know, uh uh nights. There's a
thing on Wednesday nights, so community for church and stuff
like that.

Speaker 8 (43:17):
She goes there.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
And thank you, thank you for helping Marca. I try
sometimes like people like all off and ask me, what
do you do wrong? I don't post everything that I do,
but like sometimes I just help people and I just
don't tell you, and like in like that's people. That's
why he's supposed to be. Some people say, oh no, no,
maybe you should show everybody for example.

Speaker 13 (43:36):
I don't. It just really depends. I do a little
bit of both. But like a lot of times, if
you walked by Mark, you wouldn't know that.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
But like seriously, like he's he helps someone get back
on their feet, you could do that team even if
it is something like just helping someone find a meal
for the evening, right, and maybe your neighbor, like we
always share in our neighborhood, like back and forth, so
like you know, I.

Speaker 13 (43:59):
Know it hopes our neighbors.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
And there's amazing I've I've met some of the most kindest,
amazing people that you would never assume had an inkling
of kindness in them. And I'm being real and.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
You're you're you're there is But people call the hood,
but the hood is so flavorful, right, it's it's such
good body to it.

Speaker 13 (44:20):
Like I look up.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
The hood is like a mixture of all the good,
bad and everything in the world. Right, So like if
you if you can fit in there and you go
there and like and not be afraid and just and
just live there. Like if you're not in the bad
areas at night, it's okay, right bottom of it, Like

(44:43):
you wouldn't want to be over.

Speaker 13 (44:44):
There at night.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
But everywhere has its bad point. But reality, like when
I when I first went into where my establishment, I
was like, great, this is where I wanted to be.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Would you here for the riots? No?

Speaker 3 (44:58):
But you know, but after that it became a new flavor,
like he said, and to be honest, there's great people
such as my wife. It was such a herd for she.
We've met a lot of great owners in there. They're
family and people just like us and that want to
grow in our communities and help other people out. How
many business owners is in that I counted actually, which
is oddly this morning, not because of the show, but

(45:18):
I counted almost seventy in that building itself.

Speaker 13 (45:22):
And would you say that the number has gone up down?

Speaker 3 (45:25):
And how how Oh it's going up. Oh it's going up. Yeah,
it's gone up. And their occupancy level right now, I
think is that like eighty percent.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
Repetitive businesses are all single like unique.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
So you can get your clothing. I actually had my
shirts made there, believe it or not, and these are
some really good quality shirts.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
So there's a lot of unique businesses like can they
let anyone go in there? Or oh they look did
they especially look for certain businesses that will fit there.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
We've had the when when what was that? What was
the one place that shut down in Rialit So there
was one place that shut down in Rialto and we
had a flood of vendors that came from there into
and they've established themselves. We have another jewelry store. It
was the night I think, yeah there was, Yeah, there
was another jewelry store that came from that area. And
she and her sister have done what is it, costume

(46:21):
jewelry and stuff like that. But they've done really well.
And she started from this small little space and now
she has a whole section. So this is a.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Place for you to team. It's like, uh, it's just
subdivided km art.

Speaker 8 (46:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Yeah, and an ultimately like look, if you want to
if you look, if you want to grow in San Bernardino,
get your get yourself, go through the proper steps. Like
you said, google it. Google is a really good source. Okay,
but don't go to eBay. Please don't go to eBay
to try to find a business license and go to
the business go to the city hall here and I
mean down the city hall area and go up there
to the business business place and just start filling out

(46:58):
you know, I know the names.

Speaker 13 (46:59):
But yeah, you actually can do it on our website.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Yeah yeah, go on the website and create yourself. There's
a can't wears a camera. Create yourself a business and
get into the Waterman Discount Mall as a way of
wanting to pay your six hundred, eight hundred or twelve hundred.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
All right, you know what my next question is, yes, well,
which does it cost to the space?

Speaker 13 (47:19):
I just said it like so that if that tier
you just said.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Is there's there's there's some shops in there that are
paying way more than that.

Speaker 13 (47:26):
And so so there is I or like like maybe
the yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
Or more there's there's there's there's some spots in there
that are I don't think well, no, I don't. I
don't think that high. But I do know that there
are some look, you can get tailor made shirts. I've
had people come down from Crestline, Crest planes such as
Air Blue Jay everywhere, I mean everywhere actually.

Speaker 8 (47:49):
And we dress very well up there. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Yeah, and there's I mean people have just shopped. It's
just just a it's just.

Speaker 13 (47:57):
Like a little bizarre, it really is. It's like a
like a yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Well, this is a good topic too, because we got
the inlet. All we have left here is the Inland
Center and the watermen to go anywhere. We lose both
of those, we don't have anything in San Bernardino, so
support you.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Have to shop local, and we got to go into
these votes. That's what I did, and then that marked there.
So you were talking about you had just bought like
a very expensive.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Penny I did.

Speaker 13 (48:28):
Yeah, well what was that variety of found?

Speaker 3 (48:30):
So that ver idea of the wheat scents. So most
I'm gonna clarify something to on your wheat sents, guys
when you bring them into the shop. Just know that
when I tell you it's two cents, I'm not making
twenty five dollars on your wheat scent. Okay, I'm only
making about a penny and a half or two cents.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Ever, try to sell a weight in the first place.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
Yeah, and so when you get them by the thousands
and the bags, that's basically how you know we I
like prefer to buy them. But we got in a
nineteen fourteen denver, which is on like a low scale
of coins and very scarce to find, and it was graded.
That was one of the ones that I wanted. I
just recently sent out a request for a nineteen twenty

(49:10):
two strong back, you know, but no D in the front,
and I got that graded. It's in the shop. You
guys can come on down and take a look ins
at the Waterman discount mall. But I just graded for
my clients all nineteen o NINEES, nineteen o nine s's,
nineteen nine vvds. I mean I basically got them all.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
So what he means grading is each coin sometimes has
different levels of the condition that it's been in circulation
or not in circulation, be called uncirculated, or inside of
a case called a proof correct.

Speaker 13 (49:48):
And sometimes proofs.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Are even taken out and put in by themselves and
all these things. So there's all this stuff with coin
collecting that you have to be aware of because people
can cheat you. They can cheat you bad. And some
of the craziest stuff I've seen, like literal they take
a like something like a nickel or a quarter and
they'll shave.

Speaker 13 (50:08):
Off off the back of it.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
I have one of these and like so they'll it's
thinner than a regular quarter, right, But if it is
one that hasn't been printed on one side like that,
it is worth a lot of money, right because rare
because of mistakes, don't make it past the lasers anymore.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Yeah, the mint there we've got. We do have actual
error coins in the shop that you guys can come
look at. And in the cases. The other thing too,
Please your your Sacajawea's your Susan B. Anthony's your presidential
dot Kennedy, Kennedy half dollars that are from the bank.
Eisenhower's Oh yeah, but that's a little bit different. But
you're right, you're reminded me on that one. We don't

(50:50):
want them. I can go to listen, I can go
to Sam Bernardino's train station and get all the dollar
coins I want, please, I don't want not being rude.
I like you guys, but it floods, well, floods the comment.

Speaker 13 (51:05):
What about any truth?

Speaker 2 (51:07):
What about a nineteen seventy six eyes an hour that's
forty percent claud silver?

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Okay, that is another story that depends on the silver
market goes from about seven dollars to about almost ten
depending on.

Speaker 13 (51:19):
So that's why it's worth many team. It's the metal
it's made out of. Now, you did give us all
a gift here, made out of.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Fine copper ninety nine nine, So yes, you can buy
fine copper nowadays.

Speaker 8 (51:32):
I actually can.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
I have one hundred ounce bar of silver myself, but
not one of gold.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
And you said that was locked up in a safety department.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Yes it's loud, yeah, so like yeah, Basically, when you
keep things they are very valuable, you keep them in
the bank, yes, right, and if you want, you got
things that are like, uh, you think this is worth
twenty five dollars and you've seen it in a buck,
you can keep those in your collection at home. People

(52:01):
don't know this about me, but all my free time,
sometimes at night, I grate coins myself, right, but I
use a you know, I just looked them up on Google,
and then I slowly go through this stuff and start
looking at the different things. Now, sometimes with these old coins,
they'll do things like they'll put a d over an
s yes, and like they'll they'll reuse coins from another

(52:22):
mint in a different area. Or sometimes there's mistakes that
were made during the printing process. An area got overlapped,
and it's it's interesting. Some of these overlaps can be
worth a lot of money. Yeah, but you have to
find a buyer. Just because it says it's worth money
does not mean you're gonna get that far.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
And I will share this something with another another thing.
Guys that are live with us and listening and you're
hearing it from me. I go to coin shows, so
I'm part of a coin club. Coin shows what coin convention,
so is my wife, Ophelia. We are telling you that
when we're not buying your era, it's because they're not
buying it as well. And then you ask us who

(53:04):
my my ultimate suggestion would be sell it privately. Yeah,
and I hear it a lot. Sorry about that, eye.

Speaker 13 (53:10):
Just who's gonna?

Speaker 2 (53:11):
But yeah, who's gonna? Because like but even with errors,
like seriously, like, the only reason it's worth anything is
because someone says, hey, I want.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
That, right most blanks, Most blanks are typically about eight
eight to fifteen dollars an off strike, which about ten
percent thirty percent are about from you know, twelve to
going on to thirty five ungraded sent off to get
graded into slabs. And we hear it a lot. It's
it's a common thing. And then you're like, but eBay

(53:43):
told me this. Well, if eBay told you that, go
to eBay and sell it. Don't go to any coin shop.
If you've already got it in your mind that you
don't believe any shop, don't go there to argue with them,
Just go sell it on eBay.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
The other thing with coins is of my collections, because
you can collect a lot of different things.

Speaker 13 (54:00):
Oh yeah, life right with my.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
Collection, it is actually quadrupled in value since I started
collecting when I was a kid, and everything else didn't
do that once eBay came on the scene. It's like
the prices of beanie babies and everything just dropped, right,
But coins didn't do that. Why do you think that
was because they already knew the circulation levels?

Speaker 3 (54:23):
That was I was gonna mention that too.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
It is it is due to that, and but did
they but they did learn that certain coins there was
more in existence.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Oh yeah, well yeah, like for example, you've got your obsoletes,
which wuld be your two cents, your three cents or
twenty cents, and those type of coins, especially the twenty cents,
they were only made for two years.

Speaker 13 (54:44):
Yeah, you have a twenty cent piece?

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Yes, I do have one.

Speaker 13 (54:46):
How much those usually run?

Speaker 3 (54:47):
The one that I have currently right now is about
one fifty one sixty something.

Speaker 8 (54:51):
I got it on a.

Speaker 13 (54:52):
Little paper coin. Collecting is not cheap.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
I've got a coin. I don't mean like you know,
blasted out there in public.

Speaker 14 (55:02):
But.

Speaker 15 (55:06):
Blasted out.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
It's a treasure.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
I have one that's twelve grand. Yeah, and it's a
gold coin. Twenty dollars piece and it is a mint era.
The gold right next to the nose, so if your sideways,
the gold is literally up off the coin and it
has n GC and it's one of one n GCUS grading.

Speaker 8 (55:26):
And yeah it's not in the shop. That's in a
safety positive.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
Yeah it's not in the shop. No it's no, no, no, no,
it really is not in the shop.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
I don't absolutely yeah, well no, yeah you and you
wouldn't want to. That's so it's the water discount. Well,
it's pretty heavily good.

Speaker 13 (55:41):
Well that I mean like a four knots. It's so bad.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Look, there are people there. You'll always have people that
are wanting to do something bad.

Speaker 13 (55:49):
But you know what, and that's why we have insurance.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Right, Yeah, it's not even that too, but it's just look, hey,
everyone's down there. Look everyone's down and I and look
I'm very I've been there for myself. You know, I
know what it's like to not have nothing. We lost
our house in a wall fire and I started. I
started from Zra and the Wolsey fire two thousand and eight.
I came home to like go thinking I had something,

(56:13):
and I'm trying to search for something I hate.

Speaker 15 (56:16):
I know, so so sad, but I'm telling you, yeah,
I got my.

Speaker 13 (56:22):
Yeah, so my cousin.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Yeah, he was in the mold fire and his his
coin collection burned in his fire safe right, yes, and
his coins literally melted to his gun.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (56:34):
Yeah, do you still have them?

Speaker 14 (56:35):
Like?

Speaker 2 (56:35):
What did you do?

Speaker 13 (56:36):
Like, I was just wondering, Well.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
I tried to. Look, it was so hot for the
Wolvey fire in two thousand and that the goal leached
about two feet into the ground. Oh no, it didn't
cool because the ground was so hot as well. And
so did you, Like I was trying to I was shocked.
I was in a state of shock. I didn't know
how to recover from me. She's got vid video?

Speaker 13 (56:59):
Could you pan that? Like, do you think about panning it?

Speaker 3 (57:01):
Or they the deputy was pretty much oh, okay, take
But the deputy was like, look, you can't do it.
This is really bad. Come on. They let it go.
I was just like, you know what, I let it go.

Speaker 8 (57:14):
Man.

Speaker 13 (57:14):
You should have called the GPA, you would.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
It's a sad situation and it happened to so many
p and that, but that's also a good situation for
collecting coins.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
It brought me to it brought me closer to my
wife well.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
And also it makes it more rare other coins, right
as coins get destroyed that are in circulation, like that
happened with a famous Ferrari, just reasonably right. So like
you know, you never know when when there's only a
certain amount of something and a few disappear, it actually
raises the value of the rest. So any if they
want to find out more information on their coins, where
do they come and visit you?

Speaker 3 (57:54):
You can go on our website at American Coin Collection
Shop dot com. You can send me go down to
the very bottom, reach out to us therey and find
us on TikTok at American Coin Collection Shop. You can
find us on Facebook, American Coin Collection Shop, Instagram, everything
American Coin Collection Shop. And I said it one more time.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
In the Chamber of Commerce days did you see American
coin really quick?

Speaker 8 (58:14):
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Sick of the hundred degree weather down here, I'm up
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Speaker 3 (58:24):
Oh, which is really big difference.

Speaker 12 (58:26):
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Speaker 2 (58:30):
I want to thank my lady Amy for coming on
the show today hiding.

Speaker 13 (58:33):
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Speaker 8 (58:34):
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Speaker 2 (58:36):
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