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If you need quick cash, a pawnshop could be a good option for you. Find out which items are in high demand and what you can pawn for $50, $100 or $500.
Jack Daugherty founded Cash America in 1983 (possibly 1984), [3] after prior experience running a pawn shop and a failed venture hunting for oil. [4] He reinvested his earnings into acquiring more pawn shops, growing his business to 36 locations by 1987 and 101 at the end of 1988. [ 4 ]
Previously, Check Into Cash was a founding member of the Community Financial Services Association of America, which sets best practices standards for its members in the payday advance industry. [8] The firm has affiliate companies that operate under these brand names: [9] U.S. Money Shops; U.S. Money Title Loan; U.S. Money Shops Pawn
Gold, his family, and his pawn shops are central to the truTV series Hardcore Pawn. In 1998, independent producer Richard Dominick saw Gold's TV ads which ran during the local commercial breaks of The Jerry Springer Show, which Dominick was working on at the time. He saw potential in Les and his business as a reality TV show and approached the ...
Cash America Completes Acquisition of 41 Pawn Lending Locations in Texas FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cash America International, Inc. (NYS: CSH) today announced that it has completed the ...
Vintage Modell's tag from the original store in New York City before it specialized exclusively in sporting goods. The chain was founded as a single store by Morris A. Modell in 1889 in the Manhattan borough of New York City, making it possibly the third-oldest sporting goods store in North America (after James F. Brine's in Massachusetts and Milwaukee's Burghardt Sporting Goods).
A pawnshop business in Munich, Germany in 2014 Helsingin Pantti's pawnbroker in Helsinki, Finland in 2023 A London shop displays the traditional pawnbroker's sign. A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral.
Hardcore Pawn has generated two spinoffs: Combat Pawn, a series about the employees and customers at Guns Plus, a gun shop located near the Fort Bragg military installation in North Carolina. Originally developed under the title Hardcore Pawn: Fort Bragg, Combat Pawn debuted on truTV on Sunday, July 15, 2012, at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT. [21]