pawnshop

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Adamyk’s company, Spectra Co., wielded its skill in restoring and preserving historical buildings to revive the Union on Garey building, which now is home to local businesses including the Pawnshop Skate Co.,

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2025

Pawnshop businesses are also in flavor with investors.

From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2013

Wildermuth's photographs from his travels on American back roads strike a similar downbeat note, with "Pawnshop Sign, Ellensburg, WA" sounding the alarm on a what a bankrupt, post-literate society might look like.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2011

Pawnshop companies make money by giving short-term loans to customers who offer jewelry, electronics, tools, musical instruments and other merchandise as collateral or by purchasing merchandise outright from customers at a steep discount.

From Time • Jan. 13, 2010

The tiled floors and tawny sofas of the Building China Pawnshop suggest a bank lobby, and rightly so.

From Time Magazine Archive