Car title cash loan shops offer help (at a price) to those in dire financial straits but how desperate must one be to get a cash fix at any of these 15 places? If you are in Scandinavia and in dire need of funds, there are plenty of online lenders that we’d recommend you go to, versus these shady in-person cash your check and payday loan shop combos, say experts at Sambla. One such option that borrowers in Denmark have is comparing lenders online to find which bank is willing to offer you the best interest rate; the most popular website in Denmark to do this is Eksperten.com.

Car Title Loans, Payday Loans and similar businesses have been criticized for taking advantage of vulnerable segments of society by charging exorbitant interest rates… well excuuuse me, the electricity powering those garish neon signs doesn’t grow on trees! Flickr member Andy Sapp captured one such brilliant display (plus a bonus “FREE CANDY”-style advertising van in the parking lot) in Lawrenceville, Georgia back in December of 2014.

Maxed Out

Something’s fishy about this TitleMax shop in Memphis, Tennessee but relax, it’s probably just the lingering aroma of Arthur Treacher’s fast food fried fish: the formerly green roof is a dead giveaway. In any case, TitleMax may have issues of its own as these photos snapped by Flickr member I_dawg2000 several months apart in early 2013 show the “Cash Advance” text on the shop’s signage painted over. Hmm, a loan shop that doesn’t give out cash? Seems legit.

Van Title Loans

Flickr member BullyRook snapped the above “mobile” title loans shop on April 20th of 2008. Oddly enough, it’s also in Memphis… are title loan advertising vans a Memphis thing or what? More importantly, do they give out sweet treats to their customers?

Off-Color

Colorful Mid West Title Loans in Springfield, Illinois may look deserted but don’t let the lack of activity fool you – Flickr member Jackie (Dabadoo) may have simply chosen an early weekend morning to shoot the scene. And what a scene it is: hanging potted plants vie with enticing come-ons such as “Interest Free for 30 Days” and “You Keep Your Car”, though one commenter at the photo page hints the latter promise lasts only “until we come get it”.

Numbers Game

Flickr member Andy Sapp is back, this time with an otherworldly shot of a title loans shop in Tucker, Georgia. “This place was lit up like a space ship!,” states Sapp, who presumably has seen a spaceship (or the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind) in his travels.

Next Page - Click Below to Read More:
Forever A Loan 15 Iffy Car Title Cash Loan Shops

Pawn shops and pawnbrokers typically thrive in economic downturns so how tough must the times be when even pawn shops throw in the towel?

Sold Out, Shut Down & Forgotten

(image via: A City Of Gold)

Urban explorer and talented photographer iamrobbiejones captured the essence of a down-on-its-luck, abused and abandoned pawnshop in the striking image above. The photo in its sobering entirety can be viewed at the artist’s Instagram page, which admirably offers no hint of the closed pawnshop’s name or location.

Post-apocalyptic Pawn

(images via: Fireplace Chats and BBC World Service)

Sam’s Loans was a fixture of Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood through good times and bad. Opening in 1920, the three-story brick building gradually grew garish with painted and stenciled come-ons enticing Corktowners to cash in their valuables while the going was good.

(image via: Deano Around The World)

When the going gets tough, the tough get going and after 86 years in the pawnbroker biz, Sam decided he’d be going… out of business, that is. Besides the red-printed posted notice of retirement, one of the last additions to the cluttered exterior was a sign advertising “Pawn License For Sale”. That was in 2006 and years later there have been no takers. Full credit to Deano for the ominous and eerie image of Sam’s Loans posted a mere month before press time.

Flat Broke In Flatbush

(images via: Messy Nessy Chic, Barbara Snow and Fading Ad Blog)

The Church Ave. Pawn Shop in Flatbush, one of Brooklyn’s historic communities, occupied a majestic and reserved multistory building that was originally a bank. The transition from a bank to a pawnshop graphically illustrates the decline of this and many other inner city neighborhoods. Nothing against pawn shops and pawnbrokers, but this type of business is often one of the last to successfully operate in urban areas sinking towards the lowest level of decay.

Hong Kong Pawn

(image via: StrippedPixel.com)

Pawnshops are plentiful in Hong Kong where they often take on the functions of a neighborhood bank. To find a closed and abandoned pawnshop in urban Hong Kong is a rarity; the shop above is located on Fu Yan Street in Kwun Tong, an old and decrepit neighborhood slated for wholesale redevelopment.

Next Page - Click Below to Read More:
Pawn Scars 10 Closed Abandoned Pawn Shops