History has found us

A staffer from the popular TV show American Pickers contacted us about a month ago about some pictures of antique gas pumps we had taken on our first trip to New Mexico in 2010. We sent them a few, and they used them on this week’s show! If you want to watch the episode, it is currently available here:

http://www.history.com/shows/american-pickers/episodes

It’s the episode entitled Like Father, Like Daughter. 

It will also re-air on the History Channel on Oct. 21 at 8:00 pm ET, and later that same night on Oct. 22 at 12:01 am ET, so set your DVR to record it.

In the show, the stars Mike and Frank are interested in purchasing a Frontier Oil sign. As they negotiate, Mike has a voiceover with our pictures onscreen, talking about the history of Frontier.

The pictures only appear for a few seconds, but it was fun to see them on a TV show. 

We sent them color photos, and the editors at AP changed them to sepia and added other treatments.

Here’s one that we sent…

and what they did with it….

Some others….

They asked us how we wanted to be credited, and we just told them “just put copyright Todd Hakala” and “copyright Rozanne Hakala”, thinking that they would use the © symbol. But no, they did exactly what they were told!