As the co-founder of that series, Vegas food critic John Curtas said on Facebook, “Greg never met a roadside diner he didn’t love, or a hike he didn’t want to take. Thilmont was a co-author in the “Eating Las Vegas” books. Thilmont’s brother, Matt, says his friends are discussing a memorial this fall. Early reports are Thilmont died of a heart attack. The dedicated, veteran journalist died in Las Vegas on July 15. The local journalism community, especially its connoisseurs of cuisine, have been shaken to learn of the death of ex-Las Vegas Review-Journal food writer Greg Thilmont. “We like to make sure that we’re doing whatever we can to keep people interested in the show, you know?” Chumlee said. The show has ventured outside of Vegas occasionally, and might return to the road-tour format if these shows are a hit. “Pawn Stars” is on pace to surpass 600 episodes 2023. He just thought it was worth a lot more than that.” “I even offered him full, top-of-the-market value for it because I wanted it for my collection. “I saw a really cool Pokemon (Trading) Card that I was really really trying to buy, but the guy had his value that he wanted,” Chumlee said. That’s the business we’re in.”Ĭhumlee went to the limit on a favorite item during the Denver trip. “So obviously, we’ve got to make a profit. “We tell you what we can pay for it, knowing that we need to sell it,” Chumlee said. They’re giving you these super-high inflated values that you might get an an auction.”īut with “Pawn Stars, the distinction has always been that the value is tied to profit.
‘Antiques Roadshow’ just tells you the estimated value of an item.
“It really is different, because we’re out there hitting the pavement, and people are bringing in their treasures and seeing what we’ll offer them,” Chumlee said last week in phone chat “And that’s the difference. The regular “Pawn Stars” series is between seasons, with its “road trip” version filling the open dates. The series’ long-term vision was to energize the format by taking the scenes away from the familiar, cozy Gold & Silver showroom. This week Team Pawn heads to Seattle and San Francisco. We’ll see Rick Harrison, Austin “Chumlee” Russell and Corey Harrison making deals in Denver Seattle San Francisco Austin, Texas Valley Forge, Pennsylvania Washington Wiston-Salem, North Carolina and Savannah, Georgia. “Pawn Stars,” meantime, has typically seized home-field advantage, set at its Gold & Silver Pawn business in Las Vegas.īut the “Pawn Stars” are crisscrossing the country for its next several episodes of a yet-to-be titled “Pawn Stars” road series premiering this fall. If you live in Billings, Montana, and find an old Philco radio, the “Roadshow” might well swing through give you a ballpark figure. The PBS vehicle “Roadshow,” of course, was a touring show. (John Katsilomets/Las Vegas Review-Journal) the time “Pawn Stars” premiered on the History Channel, the late Richard “Old Man” Harrison, gave the show’s snap synopsis: “It’s like ‘Antiques Roadshow,’ but with skin in the game.” Jaime Lynch with Zowie Bowie is shown during the New Yearճ Eve show and CBS broadcast at Stadium Swim at Circa in downtown Las Vegas Thursday, Dec.
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