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Post by theravenking on Nov 7, 2020 13:32:12 GMT
Up until a couple of years ago there was still a video store that also sold used books. They had two floors, one was reserved for dvd, the other for books. I only went there to buy antiquarian books for cheap. But then they moved to another part of town. They gave me a card with the new adress on it, but I had almost forgotten about it, until I recently found the card in one of my pockets. I thought I would check out the new location, but as it turns out, it has already gone out of business.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Nov 8, 2020 13:02:16 GMT
Any still exist around where you live? The last one closed here about 3 years ago. Explained to my kid such places and he was baffled at the concept, especially when renting a video game. The last one, that I can remember, still were alive and "kicking". Burned down years ago, while the closest to where I live ended its business back in spring of 2004. I still miss a few of these nostalgic places, probably most the feeling of never knowing what to find or end up with, but also just to browse around, especially in the horror and action, but also be sure of taking a sneak peak into the adult section as well. I remember when some started to shift towards DVDs and video game, but by then, it took only a few years (or less) before most of them were out of business. There also used to be a few rental DVD/video game machines, outside different subway stations, shopping malls and so on, but where one only could get a hold of the disc inside a plastic sleeve, no cover, but I guess the variety in those machines was not all that much, and did not last very long until they were removed. Probably a lot to do with people damaging them or never returning the films or games they rented. Next up, I think it was that you could rent movies (DVDs in plastic sleeves) over the internet, but that also did not last for very long, or so I remembered it. Still, there are probably a few places left, most likely outside the bigger cities, where one could rent a few films through some gas station or junk-food stores, which seemed to always favorize (with huge posters all over) the usual euro-DTV trash (back in 2001-06) of that of Seagal, Van Damme, Lundgren, Lambert, Snipes, Kilmer, Cage, Gooding Jr. and so on.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Nov 8, 2020 20:15:33 GMT
The first one I remember was this little sore on a side street. maybe 100 tapes tops. They even rented VCR's. But wow, you could watch The Godfather at home. Pause it when you had to go take a leak. Rewind it so Vito falls up from the tomatoes. Freeze it to see Appolonia's breasts! The store didn't last long. It was a smaller chain then went out of business completely.
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 8, 2020 20:47:52 GMT
I recall laserdisks selling alongside VHS and beta--the laserdisks were like record albums in size so it was cool to see something like a MASH for sale and realizing you could take it home and watch it.
One negative with them was you had to wait sometimes for someone to return a movie before you could rent it.
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Nov 8, 2020 20:53:44 GMT
A "Family Video"store near my house closed last year. Was it next to a Little Caesar's Pizza that also closed? |
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Post by ck100 on Nov 8, 2020 22:30:12 GMT
A "Family Video"store near my house closed last year. Was it next to a Little Caesar's Pizza that also closed? No. No Little Caesar's near it. There is a liquor store though that's still running.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Nov 8, 2020 22:51:42 GMT
We have a 'Family Video' store just a stone's throw away. I should go by sometime just for nostalgia's sake.
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