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Historian Alan Govenar has overseen a series of new exhibits that recenter the history of Deep Ellum as one of the city's most important cultural and entrepreneurial hubs.
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Where one man’s trash became another man’s treasure: Pawnshops lined Elm Street in Deep Ellum for decades The stores played an important role in the neighborhood from the 1920s through the 1980s. Honest Joe's Pawn Shop in Deep Ellum(Staff Photo) “Watch those bear traps when you walk through here,” pawnbroker Rubin Goldstein of Honest Joe’s warned Dallas Morning News staff writer Larry Grove in 1964, while he threaded his way through “the clutter of a million valuable items that bear a striking resemblance to junk.” This scene was common along Elm Street in Deep Ellum from the 1...