One of the network's most adored original series for the greater part of the last 12 years or so has been
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History's thrill-of-the-hunt reality show "American Pickers." The merry road show has somehow
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managed to make the world of antiques both exciting to watch for audiences all around the world and, perhaps
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more impossibly, sort of stylish. A significant part of that is the contagious enthusiasm of "American Pickers"
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star and creator Mike Wolfe, whose unbridled joy for selecting has been prominent in each and every
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episode of the popular show. Of fact, such zeal goes back far further than the show's premiere in 2010. Wolfe had
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been attempting to pitch the "American Pickers" idea to a network for five years before History finally took
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up the show, as was mentioned in a 2020 "CBS Sunday Morning" interview. Prior to the catastrophic TV agreement,
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Wolfe acknowledged in the same interview that he had actually been picking for a few decades.
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In fact, Wolfe asserted that at the age of just 4, he made his first legitimate pick. Here's what happened
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to the object that helped the "American Pickers" celebrity get started on the path to become the most well-known
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picker in the antiques industry. Yes, Mike Wolfe has a lengthy history of "picking."
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