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I agree.Part of an interview with Doris, Gerald and Marcy Welt on November 30, 2014. In this clip, the Welts talk about why Doris' father came to Las Vegas in the 1940s, and opened Stoney's Pawn Shop.
I want to know more about...your father came for a divorce and he loved it. What kept him here? He just loved the whole area. He loved what he was doing. He started in a jewelry store and then went into the pawnshop. He loved it. He loved the whole atmosphere. J: He was a cowboy. M: He was a cow?that's what I was just going to say, he was a cowboy at heart. He was a legend to us. D: He was definitely a character that fit right into Las Vegas in those days. There was no other place for him as far as he was concerned. Was he a jeweler back in Michigan? D: He did a lot of things. He worked in a factory, but he did sell jewelry on the side. So I guess he always had that in him. When he first came out here that was the only job he could get while he was getting the divorce. So he worked in the jewelry store. What jewelry store was that? Does it still exist? J: I never heard it because he went into Stoney's so quickly after that. D: Yes. I don't know. So some unknown jeweler. J: Who knows if he even had a store? D: That's a good answer. I don't know. But then he went into the pawnshop, which was Stoney's. Stoney's Pawnshop. J: Henry Kronberg bought from my grandfather. So that's that connection.