Union Recorder 200 Years | Page 56

Quality Pawn the area’s go-to source for buying and selling looms, Quality Pawn is a bonafide repository of some of Milledgeville’s most intriguing items. “Quality Pawn opened in January 1984,” says the business’s owner, Patricia Waddell Purvis. “We buy, sell, and trade jewelry, guns, musical instruments, electronics, tools, dolls, computers, coins, and much more.” While Quality Pawn trades plenty of items one might expect to find in a pawn shop, after 35 years, the shop has seen nearly every type of item under the sun. Over the years, Purvis and her staff have seen everything from false teeth and a prosthetic arm (pawned and re-pawned several times by the same customer) to the stuffed rear end of a deer, and even still serve some of the same customers they had in 1984. Recently, the shop took out a page on buya.com where customers can digitally browse the shop’s inventory, and the store’s staff buys and sells new items every day. After 35 years in the Pawn business, it’s this unpredictability that keeps Purvis coming in to work. “Every day is different — that’s why I have en- joyed it so much,” says Purvis. A s the chill of winter gives way to the warm days of spring, Milledgeville residents will be cleaning out their attics to clear some space, or simply to make some extra cash. As it happens, there’s a business in town that can help with all three of these endeavors and may even pay local residents back for some of their un- wanted items. For much of the past four decades, Quality Pawn and Sales, LLC has been Milledgeville’s go-to source for the buying and selling of gently used items. From obscure albums and movies to valuable musical instruments and heir- Come see the real PAWN STARS of Milledgeville Charlie Andy Patricia Cindy Serving you for over 35 YEARS Connie family owned and operated Largest selection of new and used jewelry in the area! We Buy Gold & Jewelry • We Offer a Quality selection of Electronics, Guns, Instruments & Tools Holly 905 S. Wayne St. •Town & Country Shopping Center Michelle 56 l 200th 478-452-5201 Becky Quality Pawn & Sales