Jamie i am jamie colby, i am driving through the Mojave Desert on the way to baker, california. It is half way between los angeles, and las vegas. A tiny dot on the map, 800 people. It am bodied weirdness of both those cities and largest attraction is tallest. As we com has become one familis rather strange inheritance. I am lore a har guess, my father William Haren set out to build the worlds tallest thermometer. It is big. It is the worlds tallest thermometer. Jamie if someone figured this roadside attract would get you to stop, it worked on me. How are you, i am jamie. Today, they run a gift shop in the shadow of the tower. They sell thermometer tshirts, and hot sauce, and even thermometer, thermometers, this is really the worlds tallest. It would be streufpblg enough to strange enough to inherit it in middle of desert. What is remarkable is the mission they took on after their father died in 2007. I tell her husband bill, i am ready for a challenge. Ive been training to climb to th
Im jamie colby, and today im driving along the jersey shore, on a sliver of Barrier Island that took a beating from Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Im here to meet a family rebuilding from the disaster, and their strange inheritance may in up being their lifesaver. Im brick wenzel. Our Family Business has been here in lavallette, new jersey, for generations. I found something in the attic thats gonna help us save our business. The wenzel family is a fixture in this tiny Beach Community. Theyre best known for an old ice cream shop and restaurant called saltys that, like so much of the jersey shore, got pummeled by sandy. Now, saltys was not your average neighborhood ice cream parlor. We were the largest bulk ice cream distributor for hersheys ice cream. Every year they would come and give us a golden scoop. Youre talking 200,000 gallons of ice cream every summer. What was the traffic like here on a good day, summertime . Saltys was the place to come. There would be a line out the door, someti
america. jamie: in 2015, brick and britta wenzel are scrambling for cash including to revamp salty s, the ice cream parlor that has been in the family for centuries. brick discovers a strange inheritance, comic books, going back to his grandpa that may be a treasure trove. he had him in the attic. jamie: how many are we talking about? we had over 1100 comic books. that is amazing. jamie: what s more is that grandpa gustav kept his comic books in pristine shape. there were no wrinkles, they were in great shape and someday