One of the great local losses of recent years is the loss of the Milwaukee PBS Great TV Auction. A hypnotically watchable and delightfully homegrown staple since 1969, the Great TV Auction was put out to pasture by Milwaukee PBS in 2019. No more overbids. No more table captains. No more handsomely framed photos of Brett Favre and Bart Starr. Boo.
Happily, old auctions in all their live-local-TV glory can be found on YouTube. One recently caught our eye: Behold, a Great TV Auction from 1987, featuring the usual assortment of donated goodies (Summerfest stuff, Wisconsin Dells stuff, a handsomely framed photo of Gorman Thomas and Pete Vuckovich), plus a Waukesha “dream home”!
And brace yourselves, because that brand-new, custom-built, three-bedroom, 2,100-square-foot home, located in Waukesha’s Seitz Estates neighborhood and donated by the Metropolitan Builders Association, ends up going for…$131,234.
Hahahahahahahaha [cries, dies].
Here’s more info on the house:
And here’s the big moment when the house goes for [sigh] $131,234:
Also, congrats to the guy who won a new toilet for $231.
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