pawnbroker

Vestiges of Reseda’s small-town beginning still survive in block after block of single-story businesses like the Traders pawnbroker and jewelry store at the intersection of Reseda Boulevard and Sherman Way.

She took a variety of wartime jobs including working in a hairdressers, as a hat maker and - finally - in a pawnbroker's shop.

His father, a manager in a jewellery and pawnbroker's business, had progressed sufficiently in life to be buying his own house.

It works with jewelers, miners, pawnbrokers and dealers to “convert materials into marketable, high-purity gold products while ensuring transparency and competitive settlements.”

It was never just about the neon, that Cubist, consumerist razzle-dazzle cantilevered over Hong Kong’s streets announcing pawnbrokers and mooncake bakers, saunas and shark’s fin soup shops.