Pawnbroker's soliloquy.

From: National Review | Date: March 22, 1985| Author: | Copyright information

PAWNBROKER'S SOLILOQUY

It's dim and cluttered as the bottom of a housing-project airshaft. Bongo drum and engagement ring and ghetto blammer: the scant collateral of existence. Lincoln Square Pawnshop is an overtrafficked, big and frantic joint between 101st and 102nd on Broadway --from it comes small, sudden liquidity for the entire Upper West Side. Mexican maraca and tennis racquet and gold chain: you can window-shop human lives there. Gary Kalter, 36, grandson of the business, has his BA in journalism and a smile so communicable, so uncounterfeit he could hock it for ...

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