Want to visit the Gold and Silver Pawnshop in Las Vegas? Here’s the address:
Gold & Silver Pawn Shop
713 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las vegas, NV 89101
And this was our experience:
We visited a pawnshop in Las Vegas on Saturday. We left our hotel and drove into a decidedly dodgy part of town. The police had arrested someone and he sat on the curb as we drove by. We continued on through the rough streets looking out for our destination: the Gold and Silver Pawnshop.
As we approached the shop, I have to say nervous as to what we would find, we saw a small crowd gathered in the car park. We pulled in, parked the car and smiled at the family who had parked next to us in their minivan, their children as eager as ours to get out and explore the shop.
So why would we all be paying pilgrimage to a pawnshop? It’s the place featured on the History Channel’s programme ‘Pawn Stars’ and my boys love it. The articles people bring in to sell are not your average pawn shop items – documents signed by George Washington, highwaymen guns, old coins, all the items are fascinating. Plus, you get a description of what they are and why they are important. Pawn can be educational.
We weren’t even sure if the boys would be allowed in but the guy on the door gave us a lovely welcome and ushered us into the shop. It wasn’t until afterwards that my husband asked me if I’d noticed the gun on his leg. I hadn’t. There we were with lots of other tourists wandering around, recognising everything from the television.
The boys not only love the history element to the show, but they love the negotiating. They can spot someone who won’t haggle very well, can guess at how much the Pawn Stars will offer for an item and how much they’ll go up to.
They also love the camaraderie amongst the guys. There’s the ‘Old Man’ who moans about everything, his son Rick who seems to be the main one in charge, his son ‘Big Hoss’ who makes mistakes and is still learning the trade. And then there is Chumlee, the village idiot of the show. He never gets anything right and they use him as a guinea pig for firing any old weapons that come into the shop.
We’d just missed the stars of the show, they’d disappeared off filming and my boys were so disappointed. We left the shop and headed onto Utah where we are now staying for a few days skiing. But guess what? We have to drive back through Las Vegas. The boys are already talking about making another stop at the Gold and Silver Pawnshop on the way back through. They know this will increase their chances of seeing one of the Pawn Stars.
My boys are oblivious to the pun used in the show’s title, thankfully. They excitedly tell people ‘we’re going to go and see the Pawn Stars.’ Yet again, my parenting skills are called into question.
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I can see why that might not go down too well….especially if they mention Vegas in the same sentence!
Do you folks still have the cigar store Indian that I saw on last weeks show? I would like to purchase it for my Indian artifact collection. Let me know! Thanks; Kevin Lynch; Mt. Vernon, Iowa
I have been watching the show for so long, that it seems like they are all family. I finally made the trip to the store in Vegas and the shop floor was closed, but the “window” was open. I was told to wait for 10 min cause of “shift change”, I told them that I wanted to buy some shirts and these people that work there that we dont see on the show. If I was Rick, these people would be on the street looking for another job. I was going to get 200.00 worth of shirts, and they didnt do nothing but eat chicken legs at the counter, while them and the lady secretary just stared at me. It was the biggest dissapointmet to me and my 4 friends that came all the way from Illinois to see them and buy things at the store.
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