KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter (Mon, 7 Jul, 2025)

KCAA: I Love San Bernardino County with Robert Porter on Mon, 7 Jul, 2025

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Rhea and Dirk, and then we'll talk a little bit
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always just punish a kid when they're acting up or
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love Sam Bernardino. Stand Out of the week today is
Nardine is Scander and Martinez Greenhay four years of service out.
Their daughter Banell owns the deli and uh she's and

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the Green Check in general as a sponsor of I
love Samornadino and we love them so much, uh Jerry's
you know, like me and im all go there and
just shoot shoot the poop with Jerry for apurs and
hours and hours that he's a good guy. And then
of course I'm Nardine. If if she's not you know,
working very very hard, she she gets a chance to
talk with us too. We have fun in there. And

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also they help so many people in groups like with
sandwiches and uh and sponsorships and stuff like that that
I just wanted to really give the Green Chack a ship.
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 Samernadino. Standouts of the weeks

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and that by Cindy t and uh uh oh my gosh,
I was doing Cindy and BBQ Korean Barbeque. So these
two places are located on Anderson and Redlands Boulevard. And
let me tell you that Mochi nut is like it's

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supposed to be for breakfast. But they have these corn
dogs or cheese on a stick rice dogs there to
die for and this yummy yam whatever goodiness or whatever
it is and they put it there and it just
I wanted to eat too, but I had to share
one with my mama.

Speaker 8 (12:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (12:37):
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 carbhydrates,
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 really good food.

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Me and Amy go there off and they have a
hot pot. Drop the vegetables in there and it just
cooks up and the meat in there and you dip
it in the sauce and just really good and you
get to cook it yourself. As it's kind of interesting.
It's just a little foodie thing.

Speaker 11 (13:13):
Right, Ok.

Speaker 13 (13:13):
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. Team up.
We have a great trip. I'd like to uh we're
gonna we're gonna kind of skip the history tidbit and
for me because really is here today and he is

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a historian in her own right with several books. Yeah,
so so we're just gonna go over the history tidbit
of her books first. Okay, Okay, So let us know
what books you've written about.

Speaker 14 (13:46):
Okay.

Speaker 15 (13:47):
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. Wait, I've seen that,
my goodness. Yes, And of course Crestline Chronicles, which has
lots and lots of words in about thirty seven thousand words.

Speaker 13 (14:06):
And I've seen that one in.

Speaker 11 (14:10):
The good Ones.

Speaker 13 (14:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (14:14):
All, well, we have them also at the Mountain History
Museum in Lake Arrowhead, yes. And then I also have
two books on Lake Arrowhead when his Images of America
Lake Arrowhead, which was the first book I wrote, and
also Lake Carrolhead Chronicles. I've also contributed to about ten
other books, but that's neither here nor there.

Speaker 14 (14:34):
And I also write a weekly.

Speaker 15 (14:36):
History column in the Alpine Mountaineer newspaper, and so far
i've written for six months and we've gotten forty years
of history, den, so we've been pretty detailed so far.

Speaker 13 (14:47):
And she also was kind enough to share that my
grandparents seventy fifth weather anniversary. That was awesome, yes, and
that that really meant a lot to them. And they
both have passed now, so that I know that was
their last to really shine out there, and I appreciate
you giving him that.

Speaker 15 (15:03):
Well, that was fabulous, But then I did know them,
so that was another good reason.

Speaker 13 (15:07):
And tell us a little bit about your last name
and your history up there in the mountains of Salmon.

Speaker 15 (15:12):
You know, Okay, my name, My name is Ria Francis Tetley,
and Tetley Rich Frank Tetley was the person that subdivided
Valley of Enchantment in Cressline. He also was as 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,

(15:33):
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 there at the back door step, and
now my grandson is hanging out at that same back

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door step.

Speaker 13 (15:55):
So it's kind of nam generations and generations. And how
did he get road named after him?

Speaker 15 (16:02):
Well, first of all, was a state highway commissioner, and
on the other hand, he used to name wherever he
had a subdivision, he always named street after himself. So
we've got roads in Hacienda Heights and many other places
throughout southern California.

Speaker 13 (16:16):
So my my grandpa did try. My grandpa tried that
they wouldn't let him do it, Crest because.

Speaker 14 (16:22):
I did want him to.

Speaker 13 (16:26):
But it's still a very interesting Oh yes, oh yeah,
and I thought i'd bring that up. I still remember that,
just my family do, Carol. 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. You

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take time. And if you saw Travis Barker got a
new road over there in front dead, isn't that awesome? Man?
You guys know Travis Barker. Oh man, he's one of
the most famous drummers in the world. Yeah, Mereda Cardassian, Yeah, yeah,
they ata Warren named a street after him over there
or where you know I went to, you went to
Full High and stuff, So you know, it's pretty cool.

Speaker 14 (17:11):
That is a good way to get named a street
named after you.

Speaker 15 (17:13):
As for your accomplishments, Yes, absolutely, that's a good reason.

Speaker 13 (17:17):
Yes, and uh, especially if it's a party like a
rock star. Do we also have a Dirk Rinker in
the house? And we do, And you're with the Crestline
Chamber of Commerce.

Speaker 11 (17:35):
That's correct, you got it right there.

Speaker 13 (17:36):
Okay, and Crestline it still doesn't have a true mayor yet, but.

Speaker 11 (17:42):
Actually legally prohibited since we're an unincorporated area of San
Berdina County, we cannot have a mayor.

Speaker 13 (17:48):
So that that's what I was going to ask. How
are they still trying to incorporate the we.

Speaker 14 (17:53):
Have not the five area.

Speaker 11 (17:57):
No, no, And I haven't heard any more word of
that in the last three or four years.

Speaker 13 (18:01):
After you guys got all your new.

Speaker 11 (18:05):
It's good yeah, came on the board of directors for
the Chamber of Commerce, they said, no, no, we're not
going to talk about that anymore.

Speaker 13 (18:11):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (18:12):
Rinker has driven our name so far into the now what.

Speaker 13 (18:15):
It was, I believe it was the the not the
access to the equipment germ and snowmageddon that that kind
of spurred a little bit.

Speaker 15 (18:23):
Well, we had just gone through an incorporation attempt and
didn't didn't make No, it has everything.

Speaker 14 (18:32):
To do with the lake.

Speaker 15 (18:33):
But we have the lake and it's all beautiful and
high and beautiful, and we have a new management company, so.

Speaker 14 (18:38):
We're all happy.

Speaker 13 (18:39):
Yeah, it seemed like you had new equipment up there too,
so oh.

Speaker 11 (18:41):
Yeah, they the county did invest.

Speaker 13 (18:44):
Yeah. I mean 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 flat flat landers
like really do clog up your roads right and leave
trash and so like, So like what would you tell like,

(19:06):
should we, you know, go up there and go sledding
and just leave our sled there if it's broken? Probably
not if you bring it up. Should we slide right
next to the highway eighteen?

Speaker 14 (19:17):
Well only if you want to die?

Speaker 13 (19:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (19:19):
Likely, only if you like the sound.

Speaker 13 (19:21):
Actually, common sense there.

Speaker 15 (19:26):
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.

Speaker 14 (19:38):
So don't do that.

Speaker 13 (19:39):
Do that, okay.

Speaker 11 (19:41):
And the other thing to mention is that you know
a lot of times people think, well, you know, it's
just a a bag of you know, leftover Carls Junior
or whatever. Yeah, don't don't throw it out the window
because we don't have street sweepers up there as often
as you guys.

Speaker 13 (19:58):
And once a car is a die, it ends up
everywhere it.

Speaker 14 (20:02):
Is, right, and so bad for the animals.

Speaker 11 (20:04):
It's bad for the animals, bad for the environment. So
definitely if you bring it in, pack it out, and
you know, Crestline itself. 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 picking
up I mean, so it's it's not a sweeper.

Speaker 13 (20:25):
You still haven't I ask some quick questions. I got three.

Speaker 11 (20:29):
It is open yet.

Speaker 14 (20:31):
They're construction on it, so you might have a delay.

Speaker 13 (20:34):
So if people want to get to Jamboree Days, which
is coming up next Saturday.

Speaker 11 (20:40):
Saturday the fifth, you head up Highland to 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, so those and turn

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left there at the light.

Speaker 13 (21:02):
So I know both those ways, but which one is
technically faster or like.

Speaker 14 (21:08):
Depends upon what part of town you want to go to.
If you want to go to the lake, go up to.

Speaker 13 (21:11):
The signals speed okay, yeah, go to the signal to
go to the lake.

Speaker 11 (21:17):
Yeah. Probably.

Speaker 13 (21:18):
But if you want to stop through Crestline and kind
of see the old town right head up there. Okay.
One more question. Top Town Cafe. I see them posting
a lot, and I love salmon and rub reporter. I
haven't been a chance to get over there and try
the food. Have you guys eaten there be all the time?

Speaker 11 (21:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (21:34):
Good good stuff.

Speaker 11 (21:36):
They're 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 13 (21:50):
Okay, So if you don't want to go to good
ones and get a sandwich and some good deli, heading
over to the we're there.

Speaker 11 (21:56):
Or if you like big portions, I mean both both
the Top Town Cafe and Crestline Cafe give.

Speaker 13 (22:01):
You great, great Mexican food, right.

Speaker 11 (22:06):
La Casita has great Mexican, but the I would 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
Mexican food and some of the best like American food.

Speaker 13 (22:25):
If you want to your tea here is that these
places are virant. There are a lot and they have
a lot of good food spots you know down here
Son Really.

Speaker 11 (22:43):
No, 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 13 (22:52):
I'll consider I want to I like different places.

Speaker 11 (22:55):
They have fantastic fish and chips.

Speaker 13 (22:58):
Good stuff, good stuff and you want to give at
a little plug for the Chamber of Commerce.

Speaker 11 (23:03):
Oh no, no, not at all.

Speaker 13 (23:04):
Yeah, find you find out more information, like if you
want a newsletter from you guys or whatever.

Speaker 11 (23:10):
Remember Crestline Chamber dot org. We have websites there. We
have website at visit Crestline dot comma org, visit Crestline
dot org. I believe it is dot com because I
don't think we got the dot org one I visited
that often. It's only a bookmark, you know, I just
click on the bookmark.

Speaker 13 (23:29):
And so Jamboree Days actually started yesterday for the picnic, right, absolutely, Okay?
And uh, so explain a little bit of the history
of Jamboree Days. What does it represent? And uh? And
what I just noticed you on? Oh sorry, the necklace?

Speaker 3 (23:48):
I love ar But.

Speaker 13 (23:52):
What do you what do you think? Uh? It's the
best cool history tidbit of the Jamboree Day show.

Speaker 15 (24:00):
The 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 13 (24:20):
So why jamboree days, because there.

Speaker 14 (24:23):
Is because we had mountaineer Days and Rightwood was upset.

Speaker 11 (24:26):
Oh really, so there was there was a separate mountaineer Days.

Speaker 13 (24:31):
There's a weird connotation with the word jamboree, so like.

Speaker 11 (24:36):
I have no idea about that. But Jamburee Days in
Cressline has been going on since our forty seventh years.
Forty seven years, sometimes big, sometimes small, but now it is.
It is a big deal.

Speaker 13 (24:48):
And in any and every year I've not gone because
it's going to be fed though there Oh it's fun though.

Speaker 15 (24:54):
But even when you think it's going to be crowded,
we're still talking not that many people compared to any
thing in Samperado.

Speaker 13 (25:01):
And it's gonna be fun. You're gonna have fireworks and
we have.

Speaker 11 (25:04):
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 there early, and I
would my advice is to go all the way up
to the light on the highway ten minute, make a
left down like Gregory Drive, and come into town that way.
It's just the we didn't have it. No, we don't
have a shuttle service. We do have Mountain Transit buses,

(25:27):
but they kind of interrupt their services during the parade. Right,
there's there's more parking on that end of town than
there is going through the top.

Speaker 13 (25:36):
Two about Gregory worth it or you.

Speaker 11 (25:41):
Could certainly do that. I mean, you know, but it's
two bucks an hour Gregory.

Speaker 14 (25:45):
You have two bucks for the first hour, dollar hour
after that.

Speaker 11 (25:48):
And so unless yeah, so is 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 13 (25:58):
There's a lot of parking there in people want to
get there, and so where's the parade versus.

Speaker 11 (26:04):
Yeah, the pain basically it ends at Lake greg 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 out around Lake you know, Gregory and Crestline proper,

(26:27):
you can just you can walk down towards the parade
route fairly easily and find yourself a spot and just
set up and enjoy.

Speaker 13 (26:35):
Okay, yea, you don't want to do parade and you
want to do fireworks.

Speaker 11 (26:40):
On the other end of the day, we start those.
The lake closes down for its daytime swimming 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 and enjoy the fireworks, which
start right around nine. Why do they start so late?
Why do they start now? Why don't they start at

(27:01):
eight thirty. Well, it's still a little light up there,
and beyond that, the wind pretty much always dies down
right at nine o'clock, So they we have makes it
safer up It makes it safer. And up there, up
there in Lake Gregory and Crestline, we have this little
thing like you know, we're concerned about, which is fire. Yeah, okay.

(27:24):
So the person who sets off our fireworks is Jason
from Fires Spectaculars, and 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 he shoots these off from the surface of the

(27:45):
lake and the big Amphitheater that is entially 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 (27:58):
So you could see the fireworks anywhere on the lake.

Speaker 11 (28:00):
Anywhere around the lakes because there's this giant bowl. Anywhere
around the lake you can see the fireworks, but definitely
around the best place to see the fireworks is from
you know, somewhere around the lake shore right around.

Speaker 14 (28:13):
There at the beach area. The free that they let
you into is the best seats.

Speaker 11 (28:18):
Yeah, and it's it's just an amazing fireworks show. I
want to tell you a quick little aside. There was
a guy you know 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 they're going to have,
you know, Liberty Central, They're going to have a tremendous
fireworks show. He came back and he said it was

(28:40):
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.

Speaker 15 (28:48):
Happening, 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 such a small area
so it does feel like it's right overhead no matter
what part of the lake you're on.

Speaker 13 (29:05):
And this part always is my favorite. I had to
actually water ski on like Gregory during Fourth of July.

Speaker 11 (29:15):
Would have been a long time ago.

Speaker 13 (29:17):
My grand my grandfather won a raffle or something when
you were two years old or something like that. I was.
I was old enough to remember getting up on those
skis and haven't allowed.

Speaker 11 (29:29):
They haven't allowed, you know, gasoline powered boats on the
lake except for the Rangers.

Speaker 13 (29:36):
Yeah, you know, it was a it was a special occasion,
so they allowed you.

Speaker 15 (29:41):
They also let movie stars make movies on the lake
and use use real boats to.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
County.

Speaker 11 (29:51):
I walked down from my house and I saw Chris
filming something for Prime Amazon Prime.

Speaker 13 (29:56):
You know about about stealth spies and.

Speaker 11 (29:59):
This and that and the other, and yeah, I mean they.

Speaker 14 (30:02):
Have we think of a lot of movies.

Speaker 11 (30:04):
Homeland was filming up there, right down the street from
me and Obi wan Kenobi filmed on the mountains just
right behind me.

Speaker 13 (30:13):
Did she have a place up there in the mountains
somewhere Monroe.

Speaker 11 (30:17):
I don't know about Morroe, but I lived. I lived
two doors down from where murv Griffin had his summer house.
Maybe it was Marilyn Manson.

Speaker 15 (30:24):
Maybe Charley Hirley Temple's had many houses up there.

Speaker 14 (30:32):
Probably she has went.

Speaker 13 (30:33):
She had Jay Leno had one on Lake Arrowhead right.

Speaker 15 (30:37):
Yes, if you go to the museum, you can go
see a list of about three hundred stars that have
homes in the Lake Arrolhead area.

Speaker 13 (30:44):
And if you ride that Queen of the Arrowhead.

Speaker 14 (30:47):
Queen will point out some of them.

Speaker 13 (30:49):
Yeah, it's kind of fun, you know, it's.

Speaker 14 (30:51):
And some of them they actually lived in.

Speaker 13 (30:53):
The coolest part about Lake row Head, I must say,
is feed.

Speaker 14 (30:56):
The fish in the Oh, well we have ducks and fish. Shit.
I were like, too, yes you do.

Speaker 13 (31:01):
But like that's one thing that it's very memorable. Can
you throw from the top. But in those drought years,
it was dirt down there. When I went there last time,
I'm like, I don't remember the fish, but like, wow,
they're big.

Speaker 15 (31:15):
I remember one year for Fourth of July, we actually
had a beach there at the village where the water
wasn't 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.

Speaker 14 (31:32):
It happened to have Jan of Dean of Jane Deine.

Speaker 13 (31:35):
Oh, that's cool, that's cool. This. We're gonna start moving
into the second portion of the.

Speaker 14 (31:40):
Ship three days. That's the important part.

Speaker 13 (31:43):
We'll definitely bring that up at the end of the
show and remind everyone and when we're posting about that,
Jamboree Days up there in Crestline on this Saturday, Saturday
in the morning for the parade, in the evening for
the for the fires and if you want.

Speaker 11 (31:58):
Me dot com. It's really hard to find Jamboree Days
dot com.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Pack it in, pack it out now.

Speaker 13 (32:06):
The show will be brought to you.

Speaker 11 (32:12):
The empty.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
I fought.

Speaker 13 (32:19):
He's taking a day off. Well, dessert a little vacation time.
We are going to take Monday off. Uh you just
play the show, I guess, yeah, yeah, we'll take that.
We'll take a little time off and relax and enjoy

(32:39):
our Fourth of July weekend as well over here. But
thank you Yannie for everything you do. And we'll be
back guys at the fourteenth. The next Monday, we're coming up,
so uh, we'll be back for that show. I quite
figured out who I'm gonna bring on, but uh, I
have a couple of ideas, but I don't want to
you know, show. I want to tell a little story.

(33:02):
So you know, I go to you know, Golden Pizza
over on all them waterming all the time, and I
and I knew that there was the bong shop in
the in the I in this gam wall, so I'm like,
all right, well I'll go in there. I think the
last time I went in there was to get pictures
or something for a sponsor that I had in there,

(33:23):
and they did some pictures for me. So I went
in again and I was like, oh, nice little spots.
There's a lot of 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 like a pinnata shop.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Right.

Speaker 13 (33:48):
So I'm just going around to these different things. We
got pinnata for Amy's birthday, did you like, yeah, you
only with the stuff. Oh yeah it was really adulty
like pop corn and.

Speaker 11 (34:04):
Candy.

Speaker 13 (34:06):
Yeah, the good, real good stuff. No, But like so,
you know, it's a nice little spot over there, like
it's vibrant, and so I'm like, well, you know, like
I start seeing like coins, I'm like, wha guy's got coins. Like, man,
this guy's got ConA has to be selling coins right here.
You must be making afforded What's up are you doing? Mark?

Speaker 3 (34:29):
I'm great.

Speaker 13 (34:32):
You know he thought it was he didn't know who
that guy was.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
It was just like, great, we're talking, you know.

Speaker 13 (34:40):
He thought, you know, I was trying to you know,
still is a nineteen o nine VDB. But no, he
actually is knowledgeable about the coin game and collecting itself. Uh,
they do more than just coins. There, correct about yourself
in the name of your business and the name of your.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
One wife is So my wife is on my left,
Come come up. Yeah, of course she can introduce yourself.

Speaker 11 (35:10):
You're just going over.

Speaker 13 (35:12):
Yeah, she's got it.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
Yeah, she might not be on the camera, but she
could turn there. You go, come on over.

Speaker 11 (35:18):
Yeah, my name is Sophilia Gondola, and I support my husband.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
And the mall.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
I help you beautiful flower shop too.

Speaker 14 (35:25):
Oh yeah, we have one flower shop there.

Speaker 11 (35:27):
Oh you do.

Speaker 13 (35:28):
Okay, well, now I know where I have to get
my flowers.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
She does anybody in the Sembornino, man, yeah, anybody in
Amorida that wants your money bouquets her and my sister
along by day.

Speaker 13 (35:40):
They do an extra for the graduations.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Your birthday too, you know that?

Speaker 13 (35:47):
Yeah, so so yeah, you know you can always post
on other San Bernardino.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Your work, Yeah, put your stuff on the right.

Speaker 13 (35:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, like I left Sara by Robert Porter,
the big one. We have forty thousand members and people
do your variety of selling on there all the time.
So you know, I see people making a lot of
money on my groups. I'm like, man, I so like,

(36:18):
I do have some sponsors. I do get sponsors here
and if you would like to be a sponsor here
on the show for I love Samonnardino. 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,

(36:40):
so that'll be about one hundred dollars a month. So
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. I love
Samonadino and on my network, so I try to get

(37:00):
your your stuff out there. And that's what Cindy Taw
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 uh realized that last time
when the middle estate market went down, that she needed
to change her business this time right before the market

(37:22):
went down again. So she started foody businesses and she
started these three businesses uh to bring local foody groups
and and and you know and businesses to our area.
And I'm like wow, So, I mean, the council people
in the mayor have a hard time bringing those businesses in.

(37:43):
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 and best, not just to
make money, right, but to make it fun.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
That's what we did. Yes, we brought a new level
of trust to San Bernardino. And and not just Sam
Bernardino norco, I mean men I fee Hispio.

Speaker 13 (38:06):
So this vision is where's the main hub as so
we have we're.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Growing to a office which is coming in about September
that's under construction currently, but I won't disclose where yet.
And then right now, our full shop, full service appraisal
grading coins is in the Waterman Discount Mall. 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. We even there some of

(38:31):
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 start a business. Anybody could start a business, and
I encourage it.

Speaker 13 (38:46):
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. Yes, it's in there.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Armando does coin shows. Armando does stay open for like
two three days, but you know he's done his time.
Cole kids from that guy, and I learned from me.
I've learned a lot from him, and a lot of
other dealers in the business as well. And not only that,

(39:25):
I've actually partnered, well technically partnered, but I've worked along
with other pawn shops in the Era, Court Street, Pond,
Kai Highland. All of them know me. So when they
get stuck with coins, get 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 were

(39:45):
American coin collection shop? Where American Coin Collection Shop? Yea,
our four truck will be outside with the banners in
the parking lot. Were always parked in front of the
waterman sign on on and then usually if we're not there,
just come on in. Still always give us a call
by the can I mention something about the phone? Guys,

(40:06):
you questions about your coins, send me, send me, send
me images. If if I'm not replying, just send me images.
You be the only one. But I will definitely tell
you yes or no. I want to be that dealer
that you can come to. And I'm a straight shooter
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.

Speaker 13 (40:30):
For two years. So he's being on with you here. Yeah,
but uh, we're gonna teach you a little bit about
how to get a head start if you don't want
to necessarily to call and because you want specific questions,
you don't. Yeah, if you find a like like if
it's just some just a regular coin, you don't know

(40:52):
anything about her anything, like, look it up first a
little bit. So this is how you do it, Like
as an anthropologist and archaeologist, how we would do it
is you would enter it into Google back in the day,
but now you use Google image, right, so you just
instead of pressing the Google you know, speak to text,
press the other button the little camera image thing. They'll
go to the image image. You take a picture of

(41:12):
that thing and uh press you know, you search it
and more than likely something similar to it will possible.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
Correct And you were and you were right, you are
you did touch a good point on that. Another place
to do that would be new Mysta. Okay, and I'm
gonna spell it out for everybody, and you m.

Speaker 15 (41:30):
I s t A.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
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.
Well we don't do eBay, but it's reselling, you know,
and we're here for you next time when you find

(41:52):
something cool or exciting, we'll help you out again. And
so it's you knows we're here for you guys.

Speaker 13 (41:59):
So what if they have gold?

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Gold?

Speaker 3 (42:01):
You can do gold as well with us. We buy
gold and silver. There's times where I buy it about
eighty percent to eighty five percent ninety depending on what
it is, and then I buy a lot from the
jewelers that are inside 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 mark.

Speaker 11 (42:21):
What does it mean to be a five star shop.
Well it's you know, is that I assume not the
lowest level, that is the highest level.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yeah, that's.

Speaker 14 (42:37):
Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, it's about service.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
I helped the lady. Her name is well, I could
say her first name, but her name is Michelle. And
this is when we first started. She gave me to
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 gonna tell you what we started our business, but
we started our business, and I gave her three hundred dollars.

(43:10):
I gave her back the items. You know, I'm not
going to do that to everybody for her. She got
her car registered, came back, showed us to registration. She
got herself. She stayed in her car for about two months,
three insurance. You paid the insurance, and she was she
was back on her feet good. And and she goes

(43:31):
to uh on ninth Street in Sierra. She goes through
like you know, uh uh nights. There's a thing on
Wednesday nights, so community for church and stuff like that.
She goes there and thank you.

Speaker 13 (43:42):
Thank you for helping Marca. Sometimes like people like all
up and ask me what do you do? I don't
post everything that I do, but like sometimes I just
help people and I just don't tell you. I'm like
in like that's people, That's why he's supposed to be.
Some people say nobody, you should show everybody for example,
I don't. It just really depends. I do a little

(44:02):
bit of both. But like a lot of times, if
you walked by a mark, you wouldn't know that. 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 know it helps our neighbors.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
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 you're
you're you're thereat.

Speaker 13 (44:36):
But people call the hood, but the hood is still flavorful, right,
I mean, it's it's such good body to it. Like
I look up the hood as 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

(44:59):
and just and just lived there, Like if you're not
in the bad areas at night, it's okay, right bottom
of it, Like you wouldn't want to be over there at.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Night, right it's a bad point.

Speaker 13 (45:09):
Yeah, I think it does.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
But reality, like when I when I first went into
where my establishment, I was like, great, this is where
I wanted to be were for the riots you gave yourself,
but you know that it became a new flavor, like
you said, And to be honest, there's great people such
as my wife was such a herd for she. We've
met a lot of great owners in there. They're family

(45:31):
and people just like us and that want to grow
in our communities and help other people out.

Speaker 13 (45:36):
How many business owners is in that.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
I counted actually, which is oddly this morning, not because
of the show, but I counted almost seventy in that
building itself.

Speaker 13 (45:46):
And would you say that the number has gone up down?

Speaker 3 (45:49):
And how how is the last Yeah, it's gone up.
And their occupancy level right now I think is that
like eighty.

Speaker 13 (45:58):
Percent repetitive business are all single like unique.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
So you can get your clothing. I actually had shirts
made there, believe it or not, and these are some
really good quality shirts.

Speaker 13 (46:11):
So there's a lot of unique businesses. Like can they
let anyone go in there? Or they look did they
especially look for certain businesses to that will fit there.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
We've had the when when what was that? What was
the one place that shut down in Rialita? 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 have a jewelry store.

Speaker 13 (46:36):
It was the night Market.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Yeah, there was another jewelry store that came from that area.
And she and her sister have done was it costume
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.

Speaker 13 (46:51):
So this is a place for you to in team.
It's like, uh, it's just subdivided km art.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Yeah right, yeah that look if you want to if
you look, if you want to grow in sandburn d
you know, get your get yourself, go go through the
proper steps like you said google it Google is a
really good source. Okay, but don't go to eBay please
license doesn't it? Go to the city hall here and
I mean down the city Hall area and go to

(47:19):
the business business place and just start filling out you know,
I know the names. But yeah, you actually can do
it on our website website and create yourself there's a
can't where's the camera? Create yourself a business and get
to the Waterman Discount mall as a way of wanting
to pay your six hundred, eight hundred or twelve hundred dollars, right,
you know what.

Speaker 13 (47:37):
My next question is, Yes, well, which does it cost
to space?

Speaker 3 (47:42):
I just said it like so that if that tier
you just said, is chops in there that are paying?

Speaker 13 (47:48):
And oh so so there is ire like like maybe
the twenty five or more, there's some spots.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
In there that 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 lines such as Air Blue Jay
everywhere actually.

Speaker 11 (48:13):
And we dressed very well up there.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
Yeah, I mean people have just shop.

Speaker 13 (48:19):
It's just just a it's just like a little bizarre.
It really is.

Speaker 14 (48:23):
It's like a like a.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
This is a good topic too, because we got the inlet.
All we have left here is the Inland center, and
to go anywhere we lose those, we don't have anything in.

Speaker 13 (48:38):
Local and we got to go into these es. That's
what I did. Then that mark you had just bought,
like a very expensive penny, I did, Yeah, well, what
was that variety you found?

Speaker 3 (48:55):
Wheat Sense? So I'm gonna clarify something to on your
wheat sense guys when you bring them in to the shop.
Just know that when I tell you it's two cents
I'm not making twenty five dollars on your wheat sent Okay,
I'm a penny and a half or two cents.

Speaker 13 (49:10):
To sell first one.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
When you get by the thousands and the bags, that's
basically how you know, we I like prefer to buy them.
But we got 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 two strong back, you know, but

(49:36):
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 inside the Waterman Discount mall. But
I just graded for clients all nineteen o nine, nineteen
o nine s is nineteen nine vvds. I mean I've
basically got them all.

Speaker 13 (49:54):
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, which called uncirculated, or inside of
a case called a proof correct. And sometimes proofs are
even taken out and put in by themselves and all

(50:15):
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 about and some of
the craziest stuff I've seen, like literal they take like
something like a nickel or a quarter and they'll ship
off the of it. I have one of these and like,

(50:35):
so there it's thinner than a right, But if it
is one that hasn't been printed on one, so I
like that it is worth a lot of money right
because there because mistakes don't make it past the lasers anymore.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Yeah, the mint that you've got, we do have actual
air coins in the shop that you guys can come
look at and in the cases the other thing too. Please,
you're your Seca, Julia's your Susan b. Anthony's your Kennedy.
Kennedy half dollars that are from the bank, isn't well
Eisenhower is oh yeah, but that's a little bit different.
But you're right. You're reminded me on that one. We

(51:13):
don't want them listen nose train station and get all
the coins I want. Please, I don't wan. I'm not
being rude. I like you guys, but it floods.

Speaker 13 (51:27):
Well, the comments about a truth. What about a eighteen
seventy six Eisenhower that's forty percent claud silver.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Okay, that is another story that depends on the silver
market goes from about seven dollars to about almost ten
depending on So that's.

Speaker 13 (51:43):
Why it's any team. It's the metal it's made out of. Now,
you did give a gift here made up copper. I
so yes, you can buy fine copper nowadays. I out
can I have one hundred ounce bar of silver myself,
but not one of gold.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
And you locked up in a safety departments locked yeah.

Speaker 13 (52:05):
Yeah, so like yeah, basically when you keep things, uh,
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 and you've seen it
in a book, you can keep those in your collection
at home. Uh. People don't know this about me, but uh,

(52:26):
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 the
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 mint in a different area. Or

(52:48):
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.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
I mean, I get that, 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

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then you ask us who my my ultimate suggestion would
be sell it privately. Yeah, and I hear it a lot.
Sorry about that, I just who's gonna?

Speaker 13 (53:34):
But yeah, who's gonna? Because even but even when there's
like seriously like, the only reason it's worth anything is
because someone says, hey, I want.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
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

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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 13 (54:19):
The other thing with coins is of my collections. Because
you can collect a lot of different things. Oh yeah,
life right, And with my 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
that ever can just drop right, But coins didn't do that.

(54:43):
Why do you think that was because they already knew
the circulation levels that.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
That was I was gonna mention that too.

Speaker 11 (54:48):
It is it is due to that.

Speaker 13 (54:50):
And but did they but they did learn a certain
coins there was more an existence.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
Oh yeah, well yeah, like for example, you've got your obsoletes,
which will be your two cents, your three cents, your
twenty cents, and those type of coins, especially the twenty cents,
they were only made for two years.

Speaker 13 (55:07):
Yeah, you have a twenty cent piece, yes, I do
have one. How much those usually run?

Speaker 3 (55:10):
The one that I have currently right now is about
one fifty one sixty something. I got it on the
little paper.

Speaker 13 (55:17):
Coin collecting is not cheap.

Speaker 11 (55:19):
Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
Mean I don't mean to, like, you know, blast it
out there in public.

Speaker 8 (55:25):
But.

Speaker 14 (55:30):
Lasted out.

Speaker 13 (55:32):
Yeah, it's a treasure.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
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.

Speaker 13 (55:41):
So if your sideways.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
The gold is literally up off the coin and it
has n GC and it's one of one n GC
elas grading.

Speaker 11 (55:50):
And yeah it's not in the shop. That's in a
safety positive.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Yeah it's not in the shop. No, it's no, no, no,
it really is not in the shop.

Speaker 13 (55:56):
But I absolutely well no, yeah you and you wouldn't
want to. That's so it's the water and discount. Well,
it's pretty heavily goun well, like a four knots. It's
so bad.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Look, there are people there. You'll always have people that
are wanting to do something bad.

Speaker 13 (56:12):
But you know what, and that's why we have insurance, right, yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
Not even that too, but it's just look, hey, everyone's
down their luck. Everyone's down and I and look I'm
very I've been there before myself.

Speaker 13 (56:24):
You know.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
I know what it's like to not have nothing. We
lost our house in a walldfire and I started. I
started from Zebra in the Wolzy fire two thousand and eight.
I came home to like go thinking I had something,
and I'm trying to search for something I hate. So
it's so sad, but I'm telling you, yeah, I got
my collection.

Speaker 13 (56:45):
Yeah, so my cousin yeah. He was in the goldfire
and his his coin collection burned in his fire safe right, yes,
and his coin's literally melted to his gun.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (56:57):
Yeah, do you still have them?

Speaker 15 (56:59):
Like, what did you do?

Speaker 13 (56:59):
Like I've wondering, Well, I tried to.

Speaker 3 (57:01):
Look, it was so hot for the Wolfy Fire in
two thousand that the goal leached about two feet into
the ground. It didn't cool because the ground was so
hot as well, and so did you. I was trying
to I was shocked. I was in the state truck.
I didn't know how to recover from me. She's got vidovideo.

Speaker 13 (57:22):
Did you pan that? Like, did you think about panning it?

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Or they?

Speaker 3 (57:25):
The deputy was pretty much oh okay. He 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 13 (57:45):
It's a sad situation and it happened with so many
and that, but that's also a good situation for collecting coins.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
It brought me to it brought me closer to my
wife well.

Speaker 13 (57:56):
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 if you disappear, it actually
raises the value of the rest. So any if they
want to find out more information on the coins, where
do they come and visit you?

Speaker 3 (58:17):
You can go on our website at americancoin Collection Shop
dot com. You can send me go down to the
very bottom, reach out to us there. You can 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, right.

Speaker 13 (58:32):
In the chamber of commerce, do you have a red days?

Speaker 11 (58:34):
Did you see American coin dot com?

Speaker 13 (58:37):
Really quick?

Speaker 11 (58:41):
And if you're if you're if you're sick of the
hundred degree weather down here, come on, come up to
the eighty degree weather up there, oh, which is really big.
It's gorgeous. It's gorgeous. To be a fantastic day.

Speaker 13 (58:54):
I want to thank my lady Amy for coming on
the show today, hiding over in the corner.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
Wonderful you rock, Eric, We miss you on me.

Speaker 13 (59:00):
We'll see you next in two weeks. Team, And this
is right with I Love Sammondio County readers.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
Show, Oh you have one more thing you want to Saberno.
I thank you for the two years of support for
helping American Quaint Collection Shop grow, and we will be
here for next year for you again and we are.

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