Dick's Pawn Shop

Myrtle Beach is full of all kinds of random things you would have seen in the seedy part of an 80's movie.  We have an entire street dedicated to strip clubs and tattoo parlors.  When we drive down that particular street, we roll up the windows and lock the doors; it evokes that kind of response.  There is a key 80's underworld element missing though...the pawn shop.  Luckily, Myrtle Beach has those too, but Dick's Pawn Shop isn't quite what you would expect.

I want my pawn shop to have a man behind a gate, armed with a sawed off shotgun.  Instead, Dick's Pawn Shop is populated by friendly employees wearing matching polo shirts.  There is a security guard, but he I didn't notice if he had a gun.  If he did, it definitely wasn't a shotgun.

The store was extremely clean, with pop music from the last twenty years playing.  Everything was neatly displayed and cost too much.  The neatest thing I found was a copy of Yar's Revenge and a Roomba that just went in circles.  There were quite a few musical instruments, a ton of DVDs, and some tools.  We're pretty sure most of the nail guns were stolen from constructions sites, while Mark assures me everything else was stolen from Sam's Club.

There is an entire room dedicated to tasteful jewelry display.  Aside from the weird decorations, it looked fancier than the jewelry case in Wal-Mart.  Most of the jewelry looked quite nice.  I didn't see any diamond encrusted false teeth or giant blinged out necklaces.  Frankly, it was disappointing.

I have no real reason to enter a pawn shop, but when I do, I want it to be like the ones in the movies.  Dick's Pawn Shop is more like a Myrtle Beach tourist attraction than a real pawn shop.  As a matter of fact, there is a scary pawn shop downtown.  If you want to live life on the edge, I encourage you to seek it out.  If you want to pretend you're adventurous, you can go to Dick's Pawn Shop.  If you're bragging to someone who wasn't with you, you can paint it as seedy as you like.