A rainbow of… power tools?
Wanna see something brilliant today?
Check out this headline, on a story about the economic outlook for South Carolina:
Sure, it’s raining now. But experts see potential rainbows in the future.
The lead art shows a variety of bright primary colors: yellow, blue, red, green. Um.. what are those, anyway?
They’re power tools, hocked by out-of-work construction workers. Click for a larger view:
The cutline:
Tools have been piling up at West Columbia Pawn & Jewelry, shown in these photographs, a sure sign of hard times. But now, many construction workers are buying them back, a hopeful sign.
The photo is by Tim Dominick. The paper is The State of Columbia, S.C., circulation 83,923.
The lede of the story by Jeff Wilkinson and Kristy Eppley Rupon:
For pawn shop operator Donovan Tenney, the economic cycle is written in saws.
For more than two years, Tenney has had shelves of them - miter saws, circular saws, jigsaws - piled up by construction workers pawning them to pay the bills during The Great Recession.
“For awhile, we had to almost give them away to get them out the door,” said Tenney of West Columbia Pawn & Jewelry.
“But now, they’re selling.”
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:24 am
People are finding out that it is cheaper to repair a power tool than to buy one. It’s a message we have tried to deliver for years here at http://www.eReplacementParts.com - so we are glad to see that it has taken an affect here.