I asked the man working there, and he said, yes, it was started by Wyatt
Earp, and that he used to live across the street. That is now a
shopping mall, but the inside of the pawn shop still looks, I imagine,
like it did when it was built.
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Thursday, April 21, 2016
Wyatt Earp's Pawnshop
I recently read and loved the novels Doc and Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell, about Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers. When I was in San Diego on the Old Town Trolley Tour last week, pulling into the Gaslamp District, the guide pointed out a pawnshop that was started by Wyatt Earp when he moved to San Diego after the OK Corral. I had to see it closer, so I got off the trolley and walked back a few blocks. I had never been in a real pawn shop, but I had to go into this one.
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