Watches and rings and people and things Pawning, generally, is something other than a lopsided contest between loansharks and the destitute. Most of Smith’s customers, he says ninety percent of them, come back to redeem …
August 19, 2018
Posted October 6, 1988
Watches and rings and people and things Pawning, generally, is something other than a lopsided contest between loansharks and the destitute. Most of Smith’s customers, he says ninety percent of them, come back to redeem …
"I used to look at myself as the worker," he told me over coffee at a truck stop off Interstate 8 in La Mesa. “I was proud of being in the construction trades. When I …