http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/20 ... at-77.html
Won't be the same without old cranky.

I saw that earlier today. RIP "Old Man" Harrison, may you have fair winds Sailor.

RIP Old man.

RIP sir.

Always liked his style. Dressed in a suit every day and drove classic cars. Cool guy. Left his family quite a good inheritance with the shop too.

A life lived well.

The Old Man started the actual pawn shop as an equal partner with his bald son Rick.
It was his son Rick's idea to start the show, that Rick had been trying to sell as a TV show pilot for years.
The vast majority of their income came from doing the show, with Rick getting most of it as star and creator.
Chumlee makes well over a $Million/year from his acting role in the show.
As shown by his arrest for meth, rape, and firearm charges in his Vegas 'party house', Rick intervened and got him a hard hitting defense attorney because the network was going to drop the show if Chumlee was convicted.

There is a real pawn shop owned by The Harrison's in Vegas, but they deal mainly in toaster ovens, drills, rings, lawn mowers, and usual pawn shop shit.

What you see on TV has been filmed on a sound stage for several years, where people meet outside with segment producers and assistants before hand and hawk their stories and stuff to "sell".

RIP Old Man

I've been to the actual Pawn Shop in Vegas and it is disappointing to say the least. They have a bunch of handlers outside managing the parking lot who I did my best to avoid - they want you fill out a sheet for some sort of "drawing" - I just wrote down fake information. They have a Disney style rope line out front - I got there early and walked right in, but by the time I left, the line was going down the sidewalk and the parking lot was full.

I was expecting to see a ton of cool stuff like he buys on the show. It wasn't there. About a third of the store had some sort of art show going on with a guy I'd never heard of signing books, another third was Pawn Stars merchandising (bought my mom a shirt because she loves the show), and the remainder is a dismal pawn shop. Had about 5 broken looking firearms that I couldn't get close too because a couple of "experts" were going over them. So I bought a couple of uncirculated coin sets for my kids - they give you "pawn stars" certificate of authenticity with them (which I think the kids tossed). Most of the merchandise was jewelry, glassware, and coins/gold/silver.

If you're Vegas, yeah I wouldn't bother going back.