Comments on: Video Store Memories

By: Uncle Sporkums

Uncle Sporkums — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 02:27:08 +0000

In reply to pyoobez. I remember the rental shelf of my local Circle K growing up, as well as grocery stores like Albertson's having a rental section. There was also a Movie Gallery chain in my local Wal-Mart.

By: Lance Pelissier

Lance Pelissier — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:22:11 +0000

Never been to an TLA but I wound fell an as hole asking for an PBJ and fish gumbo to rent an movie rented below R.

By: Lance Pelissier

Lance Pelissier — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:45:31 +0000

Man I sure do miss those days I loved walking to Blockbuster renting some NES or SNES games and VHS tapes then later DVDs.
I never got into Netflix do mostly for wanting the DVD or Blu-ray versions. Netficks, YouTube and Hulu are badly in need of help do to the newer 4K videos could only be passes on read only BD-XL disks do thing’s like 1GB per minute of video. Bad if like me if had AT&T’s funking 150GB Internet cap.

By: wolfrider

wolfrider — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 01:41:23 +0000

The first time I ever watched a laserdisc was The Abyss, which was the extended cut, back in 1991. That was the first time I saw the extended cut of that film too.

By: Raul Aguilar

Raul Aguilar — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 02:38:12 +0000

I didn’t miss the late fees.

By: Gator1987

Gator1987 — Mon, 12 May 2014 06:26:08 +0000

In reply to Gator1987. nevermind, apparently they don't sell vhs as I thought

By: nammm3

nammm3 — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 03:15:17 +0000

Totally did not expect Kyle in this but man, great video you guys! I’m glad you guys touched base on basically every aspect about video stores

By: pyoobez

pyoobez — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:57:00 +0000

I still have a West Coast Video in my town, I believe there are three in this area that are still operating. I’m not positive since a few stores still have the sign out front and shelves but are closed with no movies when you get off the road and into the strip mall.

I still stop in from time to time, just to buy as they have good to great prices on used DVDs and video games as they buy and resell.

By: pyoobez

pyoobez — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:48:34 +0000

In reply to hammerhorrortexas. While not straight up grocery, I had two general stores in our area that carried VHS tapes and basically what your average convience store carries as well as a food area where you could get hoagies, ice cream, pizza, etc. When we moved when I was 14, the one was within walking distance and I could rent older movies for 99 cents so it was great. I spent a lot of weekends buying bottles of Moxie soda and renting 99 cent Miramax movies. I still remember renting Pulp Fiction when I was 14. Noone in there seemed to care about renting me Rated R movies compared to Blockbuster.

By: lance2011

lance2011 — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:09:41 +0000

For me hid the hardest was The Blockbuster by mail shunt down. 1st of all I loved that their 4 to 5 DVDs plans costs less the Netficks and Gamefly and 2nd I loved getting movies 28 Days faster.