Gold & Silver Pawn Shop

Gold & Silver Pawn Shop: Three Generations of the Harrison Family

Rick Harrison co-founded Gold & Silver Pawn Shop with his father Richard “The Old Man” Harrison in 1989 when Rick was twenty-three, a few miles south of the Las Vegas Strip on Las Vegas Boulevard. The shop ran as a working downtown pawn operation for two decades until Leftfield Pictures producers Brent Montgomery and Colby Gaines visited Las Vegas in 2008, scouted family-run pawn shops near the Strip, and built History Channel’s Pawn Stars around the Harrisons. Pawn Stars premiered July 19, 2009, became History Channel’s highest-rated series, and turned Gold & Silver Pawn Shop into one of the most-visited tourist attractions in the city.

Three generations — Old Man, Rick, and Corey Harrison — all worked the counter together until Old Man’s death in 2018. Corey Harrison continues to run day-to-day operations alongside Rick at the original 713 Las Vegas Boulevard South location. Beyond the show, Gold & Silver Pawn Shop is a working Nevada-licensed pawn dealer handling everything from sports memorabilia and rare coins through luxury watches, jewelry, and historical artifacts brought in by valley residents and visitors.

Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in the Las Vegas Valley

Gold & Silver Pawn Shop sits inside what is now called the Pawn Plaza — a two-story retail center Rick Harrison built next door in 2015 to handle the foot traffic the show generated. The location, two blocks south of the Stratosphere on Las Vegas Boulevard, has become a fixture of the downtown corridor. For better or worse, Gold & Silver Pawn Shop is now part of the cultural shorthand for Las Vegas itself — a working family-run business that became a global media property without losing its operating identity in the Las Vegas Valley.

Trade

Pawn Shop

Owners

Rick Harrison (co-founder); Corey Harrison (3rd gen, current operator)

Founded

1989

Address

713 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89101

Phone

(702) 385-7912

Website

gspawn.com