Pawn Tapestries
Description: This one is for those who are into the really obscure stuff, so hang on to your hats… in the 2017 movie adaptation of S. King’s IT, this rather cryptic logo appears briefly in a single scene on a truck hat worn by Bower’s Gang member, Reginald “Belch” Huggins. On his walk home from school, Ben Hanscom is attacked by the Bowers Gang on the Kissing Bridge. Henry starts carving his name into Ben’s stomach, but Ben escapes to the Barrens. Not that any of this is important, but give a little context to the design which appears on screen to say ‘ERAD’ beneath a pawn symbol, but actually says FRATI with some funky underscore/line stuff obscuring the letters.
Description: Ray's Music Exchange is a fictional Chicago pawn shop that specialized in musical instruments in the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers. It's where the guys go to procure new instruments and equipment as they get the band back together, and end up in a performance of “Shake A Tail Feather” that spills into the streets filled with dancers. The actual location of the store was a pawn shop located in the Bronzeville neighborhood at 300 E. 47th St., though the interior shots were all done on a soundstage. The mural on the side of Ray's celebrating black musicians remained for 40 years until vandals set fire to the building in 2020.
