Video Stores That No Longer Exist!

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1. Hollywood videos and Blockbusters were my childhood stories I use to go in them every day as kid to buy Vhs tapes in the early and mid 2000s.

2. I remember renting Ground Hog day and Demolition Man from Block buster in 1995 in Melbourne Australia. Fortunately my vcr worked.

3. The video store I went to most was Video Edge.

4. I loved Hollywood and Family Video, being from Springfield Illinois, home of FV. I also like Hastings. As a young man, I used to get videos from our local IGA. The front wall was all movies.

5. Our town had a store called Video Zone, The owner called himself "Mr. Movie" and even hosted movies on a local tv station called "Mr. Movies Movies"

6. West Coast video was my favorite one in Illinois

7. I remember that sound, when the VHS clicked and slotted into the machine and the feeling of anticipation, knowing that something great is abt to happen 😂
   Good times indeed.

8. In the mid-80s we lived next to a "take it home" video rental Fort Worth

9. I remember there only being mom and pop rental stores in the 80's, me and my friends would always walk over to one on Friday and Saturdays and pick a few to watch at a friends house who had a VCR, 7-Eleven Stores then got into renting videos and VCR's and after a few years that's when Blockbusters started to show up and the mom and pop stores started to disappear, I do miss the early days

10. I remember Hollywood Video and Blockbuster. My family and I would often have to drive to the nearest location. I remember that my brother and I would get The Swan Princess and Pokemon 2000 when they came out to watch.

    My Mom would often get a comedy and/or action movie to watch for her self. VHS tapes were fun to watch and rewind for me lol. We also made sure to get Popcorn, candy, and soda to snack on for our movie nights. As well as pizza.

11. No mention of Video Time?❤️

12. I remember this one video store growing up that was shaped like a barn called Video Loft being the most memorable with it's appearance while the one that always seemed to have what I was looking for being Video King.

13. we got a family video with a marcos in town

14. We only had two rental places when VHS first came out, the first store literally only had about 8 movies, which were mostly Disney movies, the other one opened sometime later on and expanded titles and became more popular. Both were mom and pop shops.

15. 10:13
    My kid asked, "what does he mean by rewind?"….
    😅😂😂😂

16. My favorite video store was Uptown Video. It was a husband and wife run store in Wilkes Barre and Kingston, Pennsylvania. They closed because the couple split up, and neither one of them wanted anything to do with the business😢

17. I remember not only renting movies and games from Blockbuster but I also remember renting movies from my local library. Those are fond memories I'll never forget.

18. Hi Rhetty For History I Hope Those Video Stores Will Come Back In The Future

19. When I moved to
    Exton, PA… one great memory was West Coast Video. It was a vhs, dvd and video game heaven.

20. So nostalgic..going to video rental store was a huge part of my life back then..I remember the transition from VHS to DVD..also you would get a fine if not rewind your VHS tape when hand it back in! I miss not just blockbuster video but even those mom and pop shops😁alot in past that is just that..the past..renting a video and going to real arcade back then was the ultimate thing to me.

21. We had 2 chains where i grew up, Blockbuster & Westcoast. We also had a Ricks type place, 48hr Video. I miss all of them, they were great places to spend some time browsing thru movies and talking to ppl. 🙂

22. Every Saturday or Sunday, my uncle would drive my cousin and me to our local video store called Video Plus. There was something so exciting about going in and seeing all the boxes with interesting cover art. We all loved horror movies so we would usually end up renting something scary. My mom and aunt would protest about my uncle letting us watch a horror movie but my cousin and I both turned out great. He's actually a minister now and when he comes home and visit, we still get together and watch a good horror film. I love streaming but nothing can match the experience of going to a physical video store. THOSE WERE THE DAYS!

23. they always had a poor porn selection

24. I was too young remember going in (around 5 or 6) but i remember when blockbuster was open.

25. In South Florida, there's a family-owned comic and collectibles shop called "Tate's," and they used to have special Friday night deals in which you could rent 3 things (VHS and/DVDs) for $6 for the weekend. They had a collection of old foreign movies, new imports, and even bootlegs. They also sold movies. Unfortunately, they got rid of their rentable section as well as all their movies. I miss those Friday night deals!

26. First, Video killed the radio star.
    Then, Streaming killed the video store.

27. Miss this

28. The mom and pop video stores were the best. I remember a little video shop in my home town that my friends and i went to in the late 80s and we were so excited to rent Faces of Death. What a time. 7-Eleven got into the video rental game in the late 80s they called it movie quick. Didn't last long. Great memories.

29. I miss those days. Spend an hour picking out movies then the rest of the night watching them. Good times

30. You forgot Pik A Flick video They was bought out by Blockbuster

31. I owned J&J Video Zone located in my hometown of Keansburg NJ for 10 years from 1985 to 1995 when I became a police officer in that town it forced me to sell out and go out of business. I met and became friends with some great local people during that time and it was a special part of my life.

32. I miss blockbuster video

33. Hastings Entertainment based in Armarillo Texas went bankrupt & sadly closed all their stores which also sold books, CD's, video games, magazines & comic books. New & used!! 🥰❤️

34. Don't forget Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, California where Quentin Tarantino once worked!!

35. I spent the entire 90s working for either Title Wave Video, or Musicland Inc. I miss the stores, the atmosphere, the ability to hold and purchase actual product. I have no fond memories of online shopping, or streaming a show, but thousands of them from being in physical stores. Both as customer, and employee.

36. We had those larger stores to go to later on in the 80's but it started off with my local Mom, and Pop corner store, buy snacks, and rent a movie. I supported the the small store because well, they were the corner store of the neighborhood, and the larger stores when they finally arrived were always trying to push them out. I also remember renting a VCR because at that time they were far to expensive, and you had to have a credit card to rent it. All in all it worked out great. Sure they didn't have the latest greatest but if you were patient they would get them in, and they normally only had one or two copies so you had to make a mad dash to the store to be the first one.

    My first two rentals at the store was Fiddler on the Roof, and Legend (original theatrical version which you cannot find online anymore). This was way back in 1982 to 1984 before I moved to Halifax.

37. My favorite video store was Video Vern's in Holladay, Utah. They had the best selection. And though they've been closed for twenty+ years now, I still have my membership card.

38. I had no idea that Family Video originated in Springfeild,Il.

39. I miss the days of the video store. I remember going to the store and renting a VCR and movies. The VCR used to be encased in hard plastic to protect the machine during rental from damage. Made it heavy. That was before we got a VCR of our own. Loved to go to the video store and spent an hour just looking for movies to rent. Sadly the last local video store closed in my home town about 5 years ago. I miss those days that are gone forever. Love the videos you put out reminding those who remember those days you highlight.

40. Do you remember a video store called Hastings Entertainment???
    I miss that place .

41. I can't get a decent TV set 📺 to play discs anymore. The last time I rented a disc was from a Red Box. I don't like that new technology replaces old. Sometimes it's for the better. In this case, why get rid of discs? I don't livestream

42. I once rented a ps1 system with final fantasy 7 at block buster. I kept turning the PlayStation on and off because i thought it was broken. Turns out the game was loading. First time i experienced a game that needed to load.

43. It was a pain in the a** to have to rewind VHS tapes after you watched them. ☹️

44. This brought back so many memories. So many memories of my childhood Blockbuster & Movie Gallery. But, the biggest memories were of our local Kroger, it had a small movie & game rental space at the front of the store, almost like a little nook and it was 80's & 90's tastic with neon light wrapping around the top and black walls. It was amazing. I would spend every minute in there while my mom shopped for food.

    We also had a local store called Captain Video, I remember having a ton of Super Nintendo games rented for me there. I also remember seeing movies like Half Baked and Friday there and being amazed by the box art, for some reason.

    I also remember wanting to rent WWF Raw from Movie Gallery and every time I went, it was gone and eventually the workers there told us that some kid had rented it and never returned it and the store was gonna get legal action taken against the kids parents.

    I also remember Blockbuster having a huge Pokemon game station for some tournament game, it was trippy.

    Oh yeah, how could I forget Hastings Entertainment. I did ALL my game renting there during the PS3/360 days because Blockbuster required a credit card along with membership accounts to rent those games, whereas Hastings didn't. I loved Hastings, until the end when they had the nerve to open ALL new sealed games and sell them as new, even though most, if not all, games were NOT in new condition anymore.

    Anyway……I've rambled too much. I miss the days of movie rental stores.

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