Labosco Jewelry & Pawn Castle

Labosco Jewelry & Pawn Castle has operated on South Ridgewood Avenue in Port Orange since 1970, making it one of the longest running independent jewelry businesses in this part of Volusia County. Known locally simply as the Castle, the shop is run by the Cappiello family, including general manager Mike Cappiello along with Lynda LaBosco and Natalie Cappiello, continuing a business built across multiple generations of the same family.

The shop’s dual identity as both a jewelry store and a pawn shop makes it somewhat unusual, but that combination has clearly worked for over five decades. On the jewelry side, the store sells fine jewelry and watches, and its staff includes two Master Jewelers along with a GIA trained gemologist, which is a notable level of in house expertise for an independent retailer of this size. Services include jewelry repair and restoration such as chain repair, ring sizing, and stone setting, along with formal appraisals and even authentication services for luxury handbags, a niche offering that reflects how the shop has adapted over the years to what customers actually bring through the door.

On the pawn side, the business offers loans against jewelry, gold, silver, electronics, tools, firearms, and other valuables, along with outright purchases of the same categories, serving a segment of the community that a pure jewelry retailer would not touch. That combination of retail jewelry sales and pawn lending under one name is a business model that has largely disappeared from newer strip mall developments in favor of either pure jewelry chains or pure pawn chains, so a family run shop doing both, with real gemological credentials on staff, stands out.

Labosco operates a second location, Labosco’s II, in South Daytona, but the Port Orange address on South Ridgewood remains the original Castle location and the anchor of the family business. The company maintains an active Facebook page and an Instagram account where it posts about inventory, repairs, and community involvement.

For Port Orange residents who need a same day chain repair, want a professional appraisal before insuring a piece of jewelry, or are simply looking to sell or pawn something of value without driving into Daytona Beach, Labosco Jewelry & Pawn Castle offers a level of institutional knowledge that is hard to find outside a business with over fifty years of continuous local operation. It is a genuine Port Orange institution, and the fact that multiple generations of the same family still run it day to day says something about how the business has been passed down rather than sold off to a larger operator.