Tales from a Pawn Shop

Catching up with Rick Harrison

America's most famous pawnbroker now has a bartender's card, to go along with his saloon and other businesses opening in…

10 years ago

Java jive

Well, excuuuse us, but $3 cups of coffee do not indicate gentrification. A strange little story in the L.A. Eastsider…

10 years ago

Image v. reality

Almost since the Kamaaina Loan blog began, we have been writing about how “Pawn Stars” and other reality programs have…

10 years ago

Gun shy

This is just too silly not to pass on. In Florida, a man tried to shoplift a firearm from a…

11 years ago

We get calls

But the callers don't always appreciate an honest answer. Caller to Kamaaina Loan pawnshop: Do you buy jewelry if it…

11 years ago

What’s a GG? Why should you care?

Last week, a young man came into Kamaaina Loan with a "diamond" in his hand, and another one in his…

11 years ago

A pawnbroker with a heart of platinum

Most of our customers don't have even one gold album, let alone 5 platinum ones, so this incident from the…

11 years ago

What will pawnbrokers think of next?

On little Maui, we refer to our retail store at 96 N. Market as "our big store," because it's about…

11 years ago

How pawn shops get stuff

On the Kamaaina Loan webcast from First Friday in Wailuku, Jason Schwartz and I tried to explain how pawn shops…

11 years ago

‘Getting the chair,’ but in a good way

From Norwich, Conn., we learn of a pawnbroker who took the old advice and made lemonade from his lemons. According…

11 years ago