Years ago I went to the SBA bankruptcy auction of the New York Bakery in Boulder Colorado. In the real world it was the business next door to the New York Delliticession which was featured in the show. Both real place in a make believe Mork and Mindy world.
Boulder Colorado Is my home town. That refrigeration gear was moved to South Western Colorado where I was in business at that time.
I bought all of the bakeries refrigeration systems for almost nothing. I then stripped out the refrigeration piping and systems fixtures that following night and then drove away from there in a two ton truck filled clear full. I got the condensing systems, piping, boxes, and control systems. I was even able to pump down and save the freon gas.
I worked all night long following that auction. I loaded two objects which weighed a ton on my truck with just myself and my hand tools. It was a good day and night in that day and age. I had a lot of good days back then.
That gear was then reinstalled in several restaurants, and bakeries in Colorado, for which I made a hansom profit.
Almost nothing means I paid $35 for a two ton truck load of what was worth $15,000 dollars at worst. Bankruptcy auctions are great.