By 2005, Harrison and his father were loaning out about $3 million annually, which brought them about $700,000 in interest income. That year Harrison and his father opened the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop at 713 Las Vegas Boulevard South, less than two miles from the Las Vegas Strip. By 1989 the city's population reached that number and after some legal struggles, the Harrisons obtained their pawn license. Harrison relates in his autobiography that he and his father had long-sought to convert the store into a pawn shop, calling it a "logical progression." Because of a 1955 Las Vegas law requiring the issuing of new pawn licenses to be limited on the basis of the city's population, which by 1988 was over 200,000 and rapidly growing, Harrison called the city statistician every week, so that they could apply for a rare and much-coveted pawn license as soon as the city's population reached 250,000. They subsequently moved into a new building in a commercial neighborhood on Las Vegas Boulevard. After two years at that location the Harrisons lost their lease. After five years the store moved to a larger location on Fremont Street. Harrison worked for his father in the store in the daytime while repossessing cars at night. In 1981 Harrison's father opened his first 300-square-foot secondhand store, the Gold & Silver Coin Shop, on Las Vegas Boulevard South. After dating for six months they moved in together, and eight months after this they married, and assumed the responsibility of raising Corey and Adam. Nine months later Harrison met the woman who would become his second wife, Tracy, on a blind double date. Soon after Adam's birth, Harrison and Kim separated. Within two years, their second child, Adam, was born. Their first child, Corey, was born on April 27, 1983. Despite a subsequent miscarriage, the couple decided to marry. When Harrison was 17, his girlfriend Kim became pregnant. The Harrison family relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada, in April 1981 after the collapse of his parents' real estate business. Harrison attended Taft Middle School, which is part of the San Diego Unified School District, but dropped out during tenth grade to pursue his "$2,000-a-week business of selling fake Gucci bags". Harrison was also fascinated with physics and history, his favorite area of historical study being the Royal Navy from the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Fitzgerald with the ability to conjure up money-making schemes, greatly influenced Harrison. Fitzgerald called The Great Brain, whose main character, a ten-year-old Utah con artist named Tom D. He became particularly enamored of a series of books by John D. As a result, he spent much of his time in bed which led to a lifelong love of books and reading in general. As a child, Harrison began having epileptic seizures at age eight. In 1967, when Harrison was two years old, his father was transferred to San Diego, California, where the family relocated. Harrison has indicated that he does not give much credence to this idea, although Harrison's father stated the family is distantly related to Benjamin Harrison, a grandson of William Henry Harrison. According to Harrison's son Corey, his grandfather stated that they are related to U.S. Harrison is the younger brother of Sherry Joanne Harrison (died at age 6), and Joseph Kent Harrison, and the older brother of Chris Harrison. Rick Harrison was born on March 22, 1965, in Lexington, North Carolina, the son of Richard Benjamin Harrison Jr., a U.S. Harrison and his father, Richard Benjamin Harrison, opened the shop in 1989, which they co-owned until his father's death in 2018. Richard Kevin Harrison (born March 22, 1965) is an American businessman, reality television personality, and owner of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop which is featured on the History series Pawn Stars.
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