The Vegas Vacation Part VIII: Pawn Stars!

For those of you that haven’t heard of it, Pawn Stars is a popular cable TV show on the History Channel about the goings on at the “World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop” in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The show’s popularity is based, in part, on the unusual things that people will part with at a pawn shop when looking for some quick cash in Vegas.  As a result, some pretty interesting items pass through the store.

With a couple of hours to kill, Shannon and I drove downtown to check the place out.

As clichéd as it sounds, the place looks bigger inside on TV.  The lack of space didn’t stop us from having a great time, though.  When we were there, we had a lot fun checking out some fairly nifty items.  They had vintage soda machines:

Cool bikes:

And a ton of “Pawn Stars” merchandise.

That’s right! T-shirts, mugs, shot glasses and more.  SOMEONE PAWNED ALL OF IT THERE FOR YOU TO BUY! </sarcasm>

With that said, yes – I bought a t-shirt.

I also spotted a cool late 70′s/early 80′s employee handbook for working at the now defunct Playboy Resort.  Troy, a friend of mine, collects vintage items from the Hugh Hefner empire and after a couple of texts and emailed photos I picked it up for him.  (Maybe he’ll blog about it at some point; the thing’s pretty cool.)

We did come close to dropping some cash on some really nice Batman animation art, but we decided to pass on doing so.

For now.