So if they need $500 in a family emergency, where do they go? We become, really, people’s bank.” “People don’t realize how many people use a pawn shop because there’s the unbankable, the folks that just have bad credit or they’re from foreign countries that don’t trust their banking system so they’re in the cash (market). “Pawn shops have always been a basic staple in every community,” Mack said. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) you think of pawn shops in Las Vegas, chances are you’re thinking of the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop - the setting of the History Channel’s “Pawn Stars” reality show.īut pawn shops are nearly ubiquitous around other parts of the Las Vegas Valley with roughly 60 pawn shops in the region, according to Michael Mack, a long-time pawnbroker and owner of Max Pawn Luxury. Owner Michael Mack talks about designer handbags at his Max Pawn Luxury location on South Decatur Boulevard in Las Vegas, Friday, Oct.
