CAN'T AFFORD TO FILL YOU GAS TANK? PAWN YOUR TROMBONE.Byline: CAROL ROCK Staff Writer PALMDALE - With gas prices topping $3 a gallon and climbing, some motorists are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. help from their local pawnbrokers. A few new customers have popped into Rick's Pawn Shop a shop where a pawnbroker does business. - Shak. See also: Pawn and Diamond Exchange in Lancaster asking for help to fill the tank. ``We don't usually ask, but when we engage them in conversation, we've heard people say they're on their way to L.A. and have to have gas money,'' said owner Sylvia Sill sill or sheet In geology, a tabular igneous intrusion emplaced parallel to the bedding of the enclosing rock. Although they may have inclined orientations, nearly horizontal sills are most common. . ``My clerks tell me we have two to three people a day who mention gas.'' Sill said customers are pawning items such as jewelry jewelry, personal adornments worn for ornament or utility, to show rank or wealth, or to follow superstitious custom or fashion. The most universal forms of jewelry are the necklace, bracelet, ring, pin, and earring. , musical instruments and TV sets to fuel their cars. Pawn shops loan money by taking items as collateral and charging an interest rate regulated by the state. Loans can range from 20 to 50 percent of an item's fair market value. Jason Landes at the Palmdale Pawn Shop said his customer base is changing because of the rising gas prices. ``I've had people who have been coming in for years and new people needing $20 or $50 bucks to pay for gas,'' he said. ``Once gas hit about $2.70-$2.75 a gallon, it's been steadily increasing. People are coming in sooner than I might have seen them before.'' Theodore DeVries of Abe's Newhall Pawn Shop and Diamond Exchange is seeing the same thing.``We're starting to hear more that they need gas money,'' DeVries said. ``We're seeing construction workers bringing in their tools to get enough money for gas to get to work.'' DeVries said that a woman driving from Bakersfield to pick up a friend at the airport stopped in when she found herself short on gas. ``She didn't have enough, so she pawned a ring. She and her friend picked it up on the way back.'' According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Auto Club of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , gas prices have increased an average of 11 cents the past week. carol.rock(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5252 |
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