6120 Bellfort St. – Houston TX (build date unknown; also Mr. Money Pawn, Cash America Pawn, Hancock Fabrics, Robert Hall Cloths)

Originally a fabric store, this building was most well known as Ted Kipperman’s Pawn Shop and Wedding Chapel. He became a chaplain in 1984 and owned the only pawn shop/wedding chapel, where couple could “walk in sad and walk out glad.”

More information and an interview is available from this 1993 Sound Portraits interview: https://storycorps.org/stories/kippermans-pawnshop/

Images c. 2000