Business
People are timid about pawnshops.
Nov. 19, 1992
If you’re a Briton short of a few pounds to pay the gas bill or a few thousand to fund your latest stock purchase and the bank manager won’t listen, chances are that a pawnbroker will.
Feb. 16, 1992
California
The penniless and the rich come to see retired dentist Paul Kilgore. Mostly the penniless.
Jan. 19, 1996
Guidelines regulating pawnbrokers and secondhand sales were adopted by the California Legislature in 1982.
Glendale pawnbroker Phil O’Dening can always tell just by the look on Gerry Richardson’s face whether he has come to pay off a loan, or take out a new one.
June 10, 1993
Pawnbrokers’ business booms. ‘If it weren’t for me, by the 15th of the month the whole town would go dark.’
July 14, 2008
June 3, 1993
Paul Trietsch is no economist, but if the ledger book at his Reseda pawnshop is any indication, he said, the country is headed for a deep recession.
Dec. 25, 1990
It is the era of the pawnshop as pariah.
Nov. 30, 1993
Pawnbrokers throughout California were in a state of shock Thursday after a shooting at the posh Beverly Hills offices of the Beverly Loan Co., known in industry circles as the “Rolls-Royce” of pawnbrokers, which left the elderly co-owner dead and his son critically wounded.
April 8, 1988