Guarding the Gold& Silver Scam of the 80's and working for the Sheriffs son

All the Gold and Silver buying places you see are nothing new it happen back in 80's to as the economy went into the shiter during the carter administration.

After leaving Holmes Protection out of total and complete disgust I still worked as a guard till I got married and was making enough with the business I could run it full time .'
I saw an add one day for a Commonwealth Security who had offices in Mckeesport  who are no longer in business and had me go up to this old Tailor shop which believe it or not is still in business to get my uniforms.
this was an armed assignment .
I would work several of these set up over-nite gone the next Gold and Silver exchanges this was back when the Hunt Brothers where trying to corner the market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Bunker_Hunt

 I even had one of these places the now closed Eagle Gold & Silver exchange  in Dormont  on W. Liberty ave. the building was demolished while back for car dealer lot. One of the guys who worked for him and rented his back room space was busted for child pornography.   The guy is still in business as a jeweler in south hills his son runs the place for him now .He got stung by the IRS for not paying taxes I found everyone this guy knew or worked with just slimmy and I dropped him as a customer who needs this kind of work . I first meet him with a partner when they  re opened a long closed  coin laundry in carrick and I put an alarm in for him.  .

My first assignment was at the Sheratan Hotel on Fort couch Road in Upper St Clair   making sure the man who was collecting and weighing the jewelry was safe because he had a large amount of cash with him. We never had a problem other than couple mouthy people upset they where not offered more. After talking to this guy who was nothing more than a fraud making money off unfortunate people hawking there jewelery I decided I wanted nothing to do with this other than guard it.
I would do a couple more places one in a store front in carrick on Brownsville road where I knew the guy I grew up with him  Farrel was his last name. He explained the whole deal and who you could or could not trust in the industry what an eye full it was next to the now closed Ravittas Market  he was there until the bust in prices all of 1  1/2 years.
The next place I guarded was a store front in north hills same outfit which set up in the hotel.
It was on McKnight road in the shopping plaza where the new bottom dollar store is now.  I decided enough of guarding people who where unethical in my eyes and quit this company after this was all they had in the way of contracts and I was having severe knee problems.

At the time I carried an old German 25 caliber  semi automatic hand gun my grandfather gave me  very quick fast effective gun  not realizing  that 38 caliber was the minimum you needed to carry on job.  I stopped doing armed work  shortly after this. Because I got married.

But before quitting for good I did one ,more guard job for another outfit run by the sheriffs son but think his dad was one with license.
who was an arrogant SOB  and had the contract at one time for big mall thats how I meet him at a scouting event there. I was assigned to a shop n save store in shopping center along route 51 next to the mall. I liked the owner but his wife was a total bitch . One day when my knee went out I had to sit down for a minute and rub it and she told me I was not a real man. I told her to go fuck off  and the owner and told the owner of the company no more of his horse shit either if he was not going to back me up and left .
His dad would leave office a drunken disgrace and make news over it several times because of his drinking and the super market closed after the owners father gambled away all kinds of money and went bankrupt and lost all kinds of property. the guard company no longer in business either. Yes I ran across some real losers as a guard.
The market has re opened  but under new owners and management.

 Let me tell you something had the ADA and OSHA codes been in effect back then there would have been several people in serous trouble because  of what I had run into in my Career as a guard  I got married couple weeks later and gave all my guard stuff to a dearly departed friend Grizzly who worked as a guard in his retirement.