{"id":81855,"date":"2018-06-26T09:20:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T16:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=81855"},"modified":"2018-06-26T10:56:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T17:56:38","slug":"pawn-stars-richard-harrison-dead-reality-show-shop-a-tourist-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/pawn-stars-richard-harrison-dead-reality-show-shop-a-tourist-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pawn Stars’ Old Man Richard Harrison Dead at 77, Reality Series Made Las Vegas Staple Hip"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pawn Stars<\/em> patriarch Richard Harrison — the always-crusty curmudgeon affectionately known as “The Old Man” — has died at the age of 77 following a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. The long-running Las Vegas-based reality series, now in its ninth year, has become History Channel’s highest-rated program ever, and has turned the pawn shop at the center of the series into a legitimate tourist attraction of its own.<\/p>\n