Berkovits began opening some bare-bones cash-for-gold storefronts.
From the time it opened, Gerstel stationed a couple of sandwich-board men at the corner to steer people away from Easy Cash for Gold, a few storefronts away.
By Kelefa Sanneh Clockwise from top left: Eric B. & Rakim; customers from New Haven, with Dapper Dan at right; the drug dealer Alberto (Alpo) Martinez; the Olympic gold medallist Diane Dixon Mike Tysonn; the storefront in 1983.
The gray face of Beijing was highlighted by an occasional burst of color--a red door here, a skyscraper there, a storefront of gold.
Ms. Walker and Jessica Sales, another student from the college's fashion and merchandising department, have dressed Mr. Cobbinah's storefront window with gold-colored curtains, and increased the range of merchandise on display.
A storefront cash-for-gold operation has an obvious attraction for someone who wants both and is carrying a weapon; there is normally a double-door system that keeps a potential customer in a small holding pen until his intentions can be ascertained.
She decorated this sliver of a brick-walled storefront in Little Italy with gold-toned tables, banquettes upholstered in gold and a shiny golden swath of countertop (actually brass).
But as my taxi drove through town, past concrete-and-neon monoliths like Trump Taj Mahal, there were ample signs of the old Atlantic City — run-down motels, storefronts advertising "Cash for Gold," row houses pinched in tight.
Being a brick and mortar company with gold ATMs, gold minting factories and storefronts, PureGold also offers many offline ways to provide instant transactions for consumers.
In downtown Geneva, where a phalanx of regal storefronts glitter with diamonds and gold, Jean Loichot said his business from Americans and Europeans had slowed to a trickle.
