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Rep. Shelley Berkley meets with members of “Pawn Stars” on Monday.
Monday, April 12, 2010 | 5:35 p.m.
"Pawn Stars": Behind the Scenes
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Austin "Chumlee" Russell gives us a behind-the-scenes tour of the wacky collection in the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop, where History Channel's hit TV show "Pawn Stars" takes place. While business is booming, Rick and The Old Man tell us why they're better than the competition and how they're dealing with their new-found fame.
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Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley made a visit today to that most Las Vegas of Vegas attractions – the celebrity pawn shop.
Perhaps only in Vegas would a place where those seeking to make a buck hawking their precious junk make such compelling television.
Here, several nights a week on the History Channel, the state of the Las Vegas economy can be seen in 30-minute segments. The autographed baseball jerseys, sculptures, an old car – all being sold or pawned for cash.
On a recent episode, a landlord pawns a broken glider tenants left to pay the rent on their house in the desert.
“Pawn Stars” is based on the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in the heart of Berkley’s Las Vegas district. Berkley stopped by Monday afternoon to celebrate Gold and Silver’s popularity and thank the Harrisons, the owner-operators, “for helping to promote Las Vegas tourism through the success of the program which is seen by millions of History Channel viewers.”
The show is so popular, wrote the Sun's John Katsilometes, that it at times seems to be more stage setting than a shop these days, with up to 1,000 visitors every 24 hours. Velvet ropes keep the crowds at bay.
When times are tough, as they are in Las Vegas, leave it to a pawn shop to bring out the hometown pride.
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Ya OK.. But doesn't she have more important things to do???
i'll never set foot in their shop after they let her in.
democrats hate people.
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So Shelley Berkley went to the store to recognize them for promoting Las Vegas. The show isn't about Las Vegas. It is about their business which happens to be in Las Vegas so it looks more like Berkley was instead really promoting herself under this fake premise. Shelley Berkley primarily concerned about promoting herself. How can that be?
I'm glad Shell stopped by to say hello to the boys, I love ALL of them!
Is EVERYTHING political with you people? Come on.
jdsummerlin, I'm glad you're glad that Berkley could say hello to these boys. But why couldn't she stop by Henderson on Sunday and say hello/goodbye to the troops who were shipping out? See the Sun story about 48 Henderson National Guard being deployed. She, along with other notable elected officials including Reid and Gibbons, sent representatives to speak on their behalf instead of being there personally.
i was just looking at the picture.I actually watch pawn stars,think it's great.But a thought came to me.It's the first capture I've seen where these guys actually look very intelligent when considering their present company.
How many versions of this article are there in today's paper?
Is this the Antiques Road Show for Vegas?
"Is EVERYTHING political with you people? Come on."
yes. when it's so blatant as this photo-op, yes it is political because SHE is political. same thing with oprah. i'll never watch her show or see any move that a star goes on her show to promote after SHE got poltical in praising obamao, who stands against everything that made this country great:
working hard, killing our enemies, and personal responsibility.
steve7952, the removed comments weren't even bad, in terms or language, attacks, etc. In fact, the last one removed was mine that read:
"Really? Oh really?!?"
I posted that when I came back and saw the mass deletions. The post of mine before that was essentially identical to the one that is present now.
I think the nite crew was bored or something because no other story had comments castrated like this.
The "Reality TV" shows are all scripted. It's so obvious that I can't even watch them. This one is especially bad.
For the life of me I can't understand how people actually believe these shows.
The Sun zapped me for saying that thanks to the Shelly's spending spree in DC that we would all be in the pawn shop. Constituent relations.
What is so offensive about these remarks?
A politician goes into a pawn shop for free publicity and the unwashed masses cannot comment on the politics of it?