Life on Maui

Feel like Chinese tonight?

  So, we were talking about places to eat on Maui, and one among us said, “Do you realize that…

11 years ago

Ain’t nothin’ like the real thing

As Smokey Robinson so wisely taught us long ago. It appears that the magic of "Pawn Stars" is limited to…

12 years ago

Boston pawnbrokers save the day

Imaging-resource.com, a website for serious photographers, alerts us to this heartwarming story that will resonate with many, many visitors to…

12 years ago

Big cat fight on Maui

There's a hot cat fight going on here on Maui. But ours is just the local edition of a cat…

12 years ago

Pawn shops take over the Big Apple

According to an article in Crain's New York Business, there are now 493 pawnshops in New York, up by 50 percent (when you…

12 years ago

Big surf

Yesterday, I drove out to Hookipa to look at the surf. From Baldwin Avenue around the old men's home, you…

12 years ago

One place pawnshops get respect

Pawnbrokers -- including Kamaaina Loan blog -- often lament that the image of pawnshops with the public is generally low.…

12 years ago

Luxury asset lending

One thing Kamaaina Loan blog hasn't covered much is how pawnbrokers do business with small businesses.  Usually, the actual transaction…

12 years ago

We see this happen, too

From  a summary of a new episode of "Hardcore Pawn," set on a day when gold has taken a big…

12 years ago

Exploiting Native Hawaiians

Ian Lind (at ilind.net) has a good report from the trial of the Hawaiiloa Foundation  (which is on Oahu although…

12 years ago