He ran a pawnshop, and one of the items in the pawnshop that pleased young Eliese most was a toilet seat made of pennies.
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Televisions. Jewelry. Tools. At Blaine Fortner's pawnshop in Billings, Mont.
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Polysilicon, after all, wasn't something they could fence to a shady pawnshop.
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As we enter the pawnshop, someone holds the door open for him.
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Sol's father bought him his first clarinet, for $8, from a pawnshop.
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An address for a pawnshop found scribbled on a piece of paper.
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Nevertheless, Venezuela does not need to take its assets to the pawnshop.
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Instead, the likes of Patreon often act as a pawnshop for internet celebrities.
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GOLD Kenny (Matthew McConaughey) doesn't look like much — just another balding pawnshop customer.
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Across the street, I exchanged dollars for pounds at a pawnshop called Cashbrokers.
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The phone number was A-Hady's, and the address was for a pawnshop.
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At a rest stop, he sees that West Point class ring in a pawnshop.
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Eight handguns were stolen from the pawnshop, six of which have been recovered, Debadie said.
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The quaint diner that figured in the 1974 story line is now a quaint pawnshop.
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If the loan is not repaid, the pawnshop owns the goods, and can sell them.
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He legally purchased a handgun at an Alabama pawnshop in 2014 and ultimately drifted to Louisiana.
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They also recovered six rifles, three handguns, and a shotgun during the search of the pawnshop.
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And then, to really hammer home Treviso's extreme elegance, she showed me the planet's most beautiful pawnshop.
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In September 2012, when she took stolen goods to a pawnshop, she and her accomplice were arrested.
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Unfortunately for him, several other bidders, pawnshop owners and Confederate aficionados begin to seek the sword for themselves.
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Even the process of distributing family treasures is fraught, knowing our son would head straight to a pawnshop.
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He bragged about how he had bought it from a pawnshop, Mr. Goldfarb said, speaking for his son.
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In California, the pawnshop draws in the Hollywood set with actors, producers and screenwriters looking for fast cash.
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"Law enforcement then lawfully searched both the pawnshop and A-Hady's private residence," the US Attorney's Office said.
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A bouncer at a pawnshop here, the man significantly outweighed most of the store's customers and would-be robbers.
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I mean, it was a struggle because when you start a pawnshop, you are loaning out money all the time.
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As complaints mounted, Mr. Stephens and Mr. Carnes sold part of Integrity Advance to a pawnshop-style loan company, Ezcorp.
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One fine July morning, I broke into a relative's home, stole a valuable heirloom, and sold it at a pawnshop.
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The three of us collectively called a half-dozen stores and tracked down a used metal detector from a pawnshop.
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The plot is driven by Reacher's desire to learn how a West Point class ring ended up in a pawnshop.
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When Craig and his brothers stepped into the night, they saw an unfamiliar couple arguing in front of the pawnshop.
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There's one, this very cute restaurant called Beauty & Essex, that you have to walk through a pawnshop to get to.
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"I'm going to make it kind of like a pawnshop, where you'd buy things like mixtapes and gold chains," she says.
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You see all this wonderful stuff walk through the door ... HARRISON: Yes, I have an entire house decorated in pawnshop motif.
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We may not have had this problem if Uncle Sam didn't have credit standards lower than that of a local pawnshop.
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Jacob drives us to the pawnshop, where we pawn Dylan's Xbox for sixty dollars, and to the dealer, to buy heroin.
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WeChat became operational in Hong Kong last year, working with EMQ and other partners including popular Filipino pawnshop chains Cebuana and Palawan.
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She was able to get enough money together only after her daughter sold the family's television set at a pawnshop for $200.
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His father was an interpreter to Indians for the Hudson's Bay Company and later ran a theatrical supply company and a pawnshop.
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To imagine where his father was living, Alex watched American sitcoms and a reality-TV show about a family running a pawnshop.
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After all, beside the pawnshop, this was almost the only place in the city where you could just walk in and sell stuff.
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He and three others, including a 12-year-old arrested on Friday, were believed to have broken into the pawnshop through the roof.
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Rather than attend the grand opening of the new Opryland, he bought a portable radio at a pawnshop and listened from his hotel room.
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The stragglers by the dumpsters, the pawnshop, and the laundromat all said that I'd just missed Brandon; he'd breezed by about seven minutes earlier.
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The sheriff, like a policeman from a children's cartoon, had a change of heart and sent Gravel to the nearest pawnshop to sell it.
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There was a relatively newly opened pawnshop, the kind you now get on every British high street—a Cash Converters, or a version of it.
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The discovery of the plot arose from arrests made in connection with the burglary of a pawnshop early Saturday, federal, state and local officials said.
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Authorities say the shooting occurred after Goode refused Clay&aposs request for a ride to a pawnshop and $36 so he could get his television back.
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I was drinking a lot, my guitar and amps were in the pawnshop, and I had a record that I thought was my gift to God.
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"To me, it's a fix to a problem that doesn't exist," said Jeff Nielsen, standing behind the counter of a pawnshop he manages in Olathe, Kan.
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"We're the last place left besides a pawnshop where you can walk in the door and sell stuff," he told the newspaper The Villager in 22016.
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The modern-day romantics who choose to keep the tradition alive, however, often require a few trips to a pawnshop in a city center like Suva.
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One does not walk to a pawnshop or a jeweler with a Sharpie-scrawled hunk of metal as if it were a ring or a Rolex.
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The latest: A Jersey City pawnshop owner was arrested by the FBI on Saturday for one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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The note, which the police found during their investigation, led them to a pawnshop almost 2012 miles south of Jersey City, the site of the shooting.
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One of these wacky stories, about a high-end pawnshop, constituted the only time one of my columns landed on the front page of The Times.
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This past winter, I watched Aldis teach two classes in Berkeley Springs, an Eastern Panhandle town, at a storefront church between a convenience store and a pawnshop.
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A stolen violin valued at more than $200,000 has been returned to its owner after being sold to a Massachusetts pawnshop for $50, according to the police.
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And you've touched on the main questions here: In patronizing a pawnshop, are you helping sustain a system that exploits the hard up or even abets thievery?
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Then she flew back, intending to remain in Japan, but her brother had sold her designer handbags and her jewelry to a pawnshop, leaving her with little money.
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Politicians speak in parables, and the squeaky-clean details of the pawnshop tale — the friendly cop, the gun that never fires — felt comically estranged from Gravel's progressive platform.
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A couple of smiling skaters sat outside the storefront, and a chubby toddler ambled through the entrance, under ghostly peeling letters that indicated the storefront's former occupants: a pawnshop.
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None of them had seen a Moranbong for some time — although at least they knew what it was — and one directed me to a pawnshop a few streets away.
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The likelihood that you'll get a stolen television varies from place to place, because pawnshop regulations governing stolen goods vary by state and are mostly enforced by local police.
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People who aren't poor — who aren't used to having to think about how to raise $200 — are more likely to go to a pawnshop to buy than to pawn.
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A loyalist, she was raised in Manchester and worked in a pawnshop, call centers, a furniture factory and as a postal worker before eventually studying to become a solicitor.
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In addition, during the searches of the pawnshop and A-Hady's private residence, law enforcement recovered over 400 rounds of ammunition, including a large number of hollow point bullets.
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The only document that came with it was a curious letter from a long-gone Manhattan stamp dealer that Mr. English described as the stamp world's equivalent of a pawnshop.
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He works up the nerve to sell his wedding ring for $278 at "a pawnshop outside of Derry," and separates from his wife on the eve of his 30th birthday.
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While they weren't the only band in the mid-2000s using pawnshop-sourced analog equipment, like Casio keyboards or 35mm film synchronizers, Holy Fuck's gear choices feel remarkably prescient today.
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The scene where the pawnshop owner complains to police about the legally mandated transaction form she'd filed a week earlier, which included Cunanan's full name, is another embarrassing real-life detail.
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This is about the ability of the Bend store, like sturdy links in other dying chains, to live on and avoid being turned into a pawnshop or a fast-food restaurant.
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Still, in storefront windows like at the Possumtrot Traders pawnshop in this deeply conservative town of 6,800, you see it: a large Paulette Jordan sign displayed next to a Trump sign.
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A few floors up from his pawnshop is the Gemological Institute of America, where gems are rated and future gemologists learn the trade, which explains the Fort Knox level of security.
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Get a loan from a pawnshop and you generally won't pay as much in fees, your credit score won't be affected and your losses are limited to the collateral you provided.
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Pawnshop owner Ahmed A-Hady was arrested on a weapons charge after his number and business address was found on one of the shooters of Tuesday&aposs deadly Jersey City attack.
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One of the History Channel's most popular shows returns for its 16th season of following three generations of the Harrison family and the inner workings of their pawnshop in Las Vegas.
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For example, state laws vary on whether they require background checks for private sales — those not at a store or pawnshop, but from friends or family, at a gun show, or online.
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"Pawn Stars," on the History Channel, documents the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, a family-run, twenty-four-hour pawnshop in Las Vegas; the show's fourteenth season aired earlier this year.
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The metal detector from the pawnshop was a jury-rigged piece of junk with duct tape holding the battery in place, an item I would have hauled to the dump days earlier.
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According to a database of pawnshop transactions reviewed by Auburn police, the suspect pawn shops paid more than $4.1 million to sellers who brought them nearly 48,000 items in the past six years.
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If your TV was left as collateral by a person using the pawnshop for a loan, then there's someone out there who wishes he or she had been able to pay the loan off.
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It is a failure so profound that all they have left to throw at it is the value of their own selves, like desperate people taking the last of their possessions to the pawnshop.
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Christopher Reuning, the owner of Reuning & Son Violins, an appraiser and dealer of violins in Boston, said it was not uncommon for stolen violins to be sold to a pawnshop at a very low price.
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They checked the nearest pawnshop first and found a couple of his things, a discovery that inspired hours more of hunting for sign-the-second of a possession and-or sight-the-first of his woman.
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The funeral was unusual in that it was held in the heart of the district Officer Familia patrolled, on a block with a pawnshop and a 99-cent store that has resisted the tides of change.
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Ronnie Even though Andrew had written down Ronnie's room number on his pawnshop form, subjecting his friend to a terrifying encounter with a SWAT team, Ronnie covered for Andrew, claiming not to recognize him in a photo.
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He cited an instance where some of the $53,000 worth of watches taken in a December 2017 gunpoint robbery from the A. Lange & Söhne boutique on Madison Avenue were tracked down to a pawnshop in Amman, Jordan.
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An avid shoe and handbag collector, she took out her cherished chocolate brown Birkin and went across the river to Manhattan, where she had an appointment in the chaotic diamond district at a pawnshop called New York Loan Company.
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But given that the maximum rate of interest is fixed, where you live, by law, the cost of the loan is one that the representatives of your state have deemed reasonable (though doubtless under active lobbying from the pawnshop industry).
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The search on Friday night at Mr. A-Hady's pawnshop and home yielded six rifles, three handguns and one shotgun, in addition to the ammunition rounds, including hollow point bullets, which expand when they hit a target, according to officials.
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There are plenty of memorable scenes with Earn, especially when he's placed in an unfamiliar environment—a pawnshop, for instance, or the loft of a dealer in samurai swords—and he's most interesting when he's as disoriented as he is judgmental.
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A-Hady has been charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun, after investigators found six guns and ammunition while searching his residence and the pawnshop, though his relationship is to the store is not immediately clear.
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The caper on which they embark, with Huck a reluctant fellow conspirator, and two misfit friends, Joe (Matthew Gray Gubler) and Ben (Hannibal Buress), involves the robbery of a pawnshop inside of which Tom believes is stowed a legendary cache of gold.
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It stars Marc Maron — who's garnered raves for his performance in the Netflix series GLOW and is well known for his popular interview podcast WTF with Marc Maron — as Mel, a pawnshop owner in Birmingham with an assistant named Nathaniel (Jon Bass).
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The groom's mother retired as a social worker at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y. His father, also retired, was the chief financial officer for GEM Pawnbrokers, a family-owned pawnshop chain with corporate headquarters in Brooklyn.
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"He was blessed with good fortune, always in the right place at the right time," said Peter Stampfel, who met Mr. Shepard in a pawnshop in the East Village where Mr. Stampfel was retrieving a violin he had pawned to buy amphetamines.
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On West 47th Street, New York Loan Company visitors edge past fast-talking gold hawkers, jewelry hustlers, murmurs of Yiddish slang and ever-present police to enter the gleaming 35-story International Gem Tower, where the pawnshop is on the third floor.
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SWORD OF TRUST After inheriting a sword with a dubious Civil War history from her grandfather, a woman (Jillian Bell) and her friend (Michaela Watkins) try selling it to a pawnshop owner (Marc Maron), who in turn tries his luck on the black market.
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Among a flurry of developments in the case over the weekend, the FBI arrested Ahmed A-Hady, 35, whose phone number was found in one of the shooter's pockets, written beside the address for a pawnshop in Keyport, about 30 miles south of Jersey City.
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The cops said on Tuesday that they had caught a 17-year-old who had stolen guns from a pawnshop and planned with three others to use them to shoot officers; according to officials they were seeking ammunition, but weren't sure when or where they would target police.
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During rehearsals, in a studio not far from Union Square, Nelson mostly sat quietly, observing the action, passing notes to Hughes, and occasionally moonlighting as a part-time production photographer—shooting with a geriatric Nikon he found thirty years ago in a pawnshop in Tulsa, where he grew up.
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Mr. Tabach-Bank said it's not uncommon for people to take their Birkins, or other valuables, in and out of the pawnshop, using them like a credit card, whether it's for an investment opportunity, for paying off business fees or simply because they are hard up for cash.
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Mr. Slager, whom North Charleston fired after the shooting, testified that he had become involved in a physical struggle with Mr. Scott over his Taser device, leaving him in "total fear" and causing him to open fire in a lot behind a pawnshop in the city of about 108,000.
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In order to afford drugs, we must drive to the pawnshop to trade in Dylan's Xbox, so Michelle calls Jacob, who lives in the apartment below mine, and whom we know from our recovery groups; inviting anybody to join our hateful dissolution seems unwise, but she tells me that it's fine.
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If you drove west from the eastern edge of Valparaiso's campus early this spring, you would have passed a pawnshop, a discount cigarette outlet and, intriguingly, a sign announcing "Café available for rent," before reaching the heart of the city's downtown, which includes the county courthouse and a handful of law offices.
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She rented an apartment in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles and returned to work at the Beverly Loan Company, a family-owned "pawnshop to the stars," as it is known, having earned a reputation as a place where the cash-poor rich hock awards statuettes, Super Bowl rings and fancy cars.
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The guitarist Marc Ribot's band will play an original score to the 2005 short "Shadows Choose Their Horrors"; the pianist Kris Davis's combo will accompany Charlie Chaplin's "The Pawnshop"; and a group led by the bassist Reggie Workman and the drummer Andrew Cyrille will score a pair of Superman shorts from 1941.events.newschool.
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In a PEOPLE exclusive first look at the first trailer for IFC Films' Sword of Trust, Maron, 55, plays Mel, a pawnshop owner who is approached by two women, Mary (Michaela Watkins) and Cynthia (Jillian Bell), who attempt to sell him a sword they think is proof that the South won the Civil War against the North.
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Todd Webb was maybe not the most original of the city's photographers, since in many ways his work looks like a continuation of Berenice Abbott's "Changing New York" project of the 1930s, but even more than hers, his pictures present a vividly comestible pedestrian-eye view, one that invites you to walk into that pawnshop, take a seat on that streetcar.
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More on this... WWII veteran who was POW awarded Purple Heart at age 94 World War II veteran posthumously honored with Purple Heart Purple Heart medal found at Arizona pawnshop returned to family The Purple Heart is given to members of the U.S. Armed Forces who have been wounded or killed during battle or an act of terrorism, or those who died in captivity as prisoners of war.
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Over the course of the next week, there were some images I found inscrutable (audio CDs, stamped in red as RESTRICTED, of Bruce Dern doing a "Henry V" monologue at the Actors Studio), some readily intelligible as artifactual Americana (Smith & Wessons in the case of a Badlands pawnshop) and others that attempted sidelong glances at tourist landmarks (not Mount Rushmore itself but a shot of a family selfie in front of it; a photo of the Rocket Motel's neon next to its own identical postcard).
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