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Rick's autobiography License To Pawn: My Life At The Gold & Silver Pawn Shop contains a lot of interesting background information, too.if something wasn't in the database, they referred the seller to a non-company pawn shop, and Rick's was the only one of those around. For example, the reason it has so many insanely antique and valuable items instead of just the usual collection of TVs and cameras and whatnot? Every other pawn shop in the area was bought by a single company that used a database for its offers. All There in the Manual: A number of interviews Rick has given, both before and after the show began, give some insight into why the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop runs and functions the way it does.After remarking how much he loves Disney, Chumlee asked if she had any of Bugs Bunny.
All Animation Is Disney: A lady came in to sell a set of frosted glass Disney figurines.Acquired Situational Narcissism: Whenever Chumlee gets to fire a gun at the shooting range, he quickly adapts to whatever character and/or situation described to him pertaining to the gun.Actually Pretty Funny: The Old Man tries to start in on a "walking two miles to school" story, and Corey teases him about needing to occasionally kill a raccoon and wear it on his feet since he probably didn't have shoes.Now has a game show spin-off called Pawnography. Rick took so much old stuff to be restored to another guy named Rick, Rick Dale, who runs a Las Vegas antique restoration company, that another spin off, American Restoration was created, which shows them restoring old things like old toys, gas pumps, coke machines and other vending machines, and various other things.
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The series has proven so popular that it's getting its own spin-off series, Cajun Pawn Stars, which is basically Pawn Stars IN THE SOUTH! Rick and Co. Often airs back-to-back on The History Channel with the slightly similar American Pickers. The fourth main character is Chumlee, a long time friend of Corey and the shop Butt Monkey, and is hinted to be smarter than he looks.
Rick's son Corey, known as Big Hoss, also works at the store and is learning the business in order to someday inherit the store - which leads to some father/son conflict. His purpose is to reprimand workers for being lazy, be the butt of old jokes, and tell When I Was Your Age stories. And not all items are brought into the store itself, as they are often asked to look over exceptionally large items or collections.Īlso employed in the shop is Rick's father known as "The Old Man". Anything that is outside of his expertise and/or needs a more proper appraisal he calls upon an assortment of experts who are Proud to Be a Geek, who are usually the ones giving the history lecture.Ī big part of the show, and anyone familiar with basic business would know about, is that Rick is generally not willing to purchase an item unless he can get it for about 60% of its market value, and that's not considering any additional costs such as restoration or cataloging, because otherwise he won't make a profit for himself. As he has been in the business for a long time and has other hobbies of his own, Rick is generally knowledgeable in music and American History (especially firearms). The owner of the shop is Rick Harrison, a shrewd businessman who often finds the most obscure and sometimes bizarre things being brought to his shop to be sold. It features historical and rare objects being bought and sold by a family of characters. Pawn Stars is a reality show on The History Channel about a three generation pawn store called the "Gold & Silver Pawn Shop" operating in Las Vegas (713 Las Vegas Boulevard South, if you're ever in town).
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