There was a legendary pawnshop here for decades, guitars and tools, cameras and knives, that was about it, but they were always more about guitars than anything else, lots of guitars, walls of guitars and amplifiers. I bought my 1st electric guitar there, a Sears Silvertone amp in case for $75.
This happened between visits, as I was told while trying some guitars out "You missed all the excitement" by one of the clerks maybe watching the guitars more closely than before ;]
Some dude came in, tried some guitars and amps, and when he found one he liked, he tried to run out the door with it.
Remember that study on pot they just did? It's ok if you don't ;]
This idjit forgot to unplug the guitar from the cord and when he headed for the door he toppled a wall of amplifiers, lolololol
I don't know exactly what happened after that but I do know he never made it out the door with the guitar, and that he was lucky the cops got there quickly before they strung him up with guitar cords. The pawnshop eventually closed, the owner becoming more irascible, died suddenly in his sleep one night although he looked quite well - not to self treat your wife well - no one could step in his shoes and take over the business and it closed.
At that point it was a full fledged music store with rentals with a full repair dept, the best in town actually, the tech there plays/built lutes and had the best Hickok mil grade tubes testers available, could fix anything from a Strad to a '53 Princeton, we became somewhat friends even went out for coffee, I miss those days, you'd walk in, and there was always something.
That was where I bought my 1st Guild, '70 D35 - they didn't actually know what year it was and I never did either - hanging next to $3000 guitars because it was as good at $600, a no brainer, an a looker to boot. Eventually I sold it and sent it to someone recording with Dave Davies in England.
There is my little 100W Carvin test amp on the floor ;]