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re: Drove By The Old "Blockbuster" Building :0(
Posted on 10/15/18 at 4:28 pm to dallastiger55
Posted on 10/15/18 at 4:28 pm to dallastiger55
Man. Vintage Blockbuster nights as a kid. We'd load up on video games, while Mom picked a bunch of new releases.
We'd watch them all, and then play video games 'til we damn near went blind. Return them Monday and start over again.
The best feeling ever at Blockbuster was noticing your video game/movie was out of stock, only to discover that it had just been returned and was waiting at the front desk to be reshelved. That could make or break a weekend.
We'd watch them all, and then play video games 'til we damn near went blind. Return them Monday and start over again.
The best feeling ever at Blockbuster was noticing your video game/movie was out of stock, only to discover that it had just been returned and was waiting at the front desk to be reshelved. That could make or break a weekend.
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Posted on 10/15/18 at 7:39 pm to Starchild
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We used to go seems like every Friday afternoon to get a movie and/or video game for Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, or N64. During Lent we’d then grab the most delish shrimp poboy from down the street. Simpler times.
Very similar to my childhood but judging by system I bet I was 2-3 years older.
Loved me some major video, video plus, Hollywood , and blockbuster.
I posted in a nostalgic thread on OT a few months ago that it sucks that today’s kids won’t get that feeling of running into the video store and seeing that there was a copy in of that new movie or game that you really wanted to rent.
Everything may be at their fingers but I just feel that there was something just a bit more satisfying about the payoff from waiting.
This post was edited on 10/17/18 at 10:22 pm
Posted on 10/15/18 at 7:49 pm to ExArmyVetIRISHFan
May be TMI, but two of my best friends literally showed me their "tricks" of hooking up with girls when we were 15 and had walked to the Blockbuster down the street. That was like 17 years ago and I remember that convo, and laughing my arse off all night because of the shite they were saying. Great times in the BB
Posted on 10/15/18 at 7:58 pm to FalseProphet
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The best feeling ever at Blockbuster was noticing your video game/movie was out of stock, only to discover that it had just been returned and was waiting at the front desk to be reshelved. That could make or break a weekend.
Yeah, you might get lucky and have the "cool" clerk who would actually grab it out of the return box for you, or you might get the dick who said they had to be rewound and reshelved. We had a Blockbuster on the nicer end of my neighborhood. On the run down side, we had the independent little store that was full of obscure straight to video action and horror movies. And of course, the little store had the little room in the back that you'd always try to peak into.
Posted on 10/15/18 at 8:14 pm to PowerTool
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On the run down side, we had the independent little store that was full of obscure straight to video action and horror movies. And of course, the little store had the little room in the back that you'd always try to peak into.
Little stores were the best for the unintentional comedy.
Our local actually had a T&A section...it was written on cardboard and actually labeled T&A.
There was no back room. Just a section for Porkys and that ilk.
Action was also divided?
Action
Action-War
Posted on 10/15/18 at 9:12 pm to Upperdecker
Totally disagree. The selection process was like foreplay. The girl would indirectly tell you how the night was goi g to go based on what she picked. Some dumb movie no one wanted to see = fun night about to happen.
Posted on 10/15/18 at 9:31 pm to BARNEYSTINSON
I'm glad I wasnt the one paying for the rentals bc I dont think we ever returned a movie on time.
I remember one time at checkout our bill was like $75 in late fees for just a couple of movies. My dad would get so pissed.
I remember one time at checkout our bill was like $75 in late fees for just a couple of movies. My dad would get so pissed.
Posted on 10/15/18 at 9:48 pm to boxcarbarney
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I was an assistant manager at the Blockbuster on Clearview and W. Esplanade
We likely know one another. I worked at 22043, 22073, 22081, and I can't remember Cleary and Vets #.
Stories from the other side of the counter include the realization that the public is everything Randal Graves says they are: idiots.
"Its too bad you have to work today(xmas, new years, thanksgiving, Mardi gras, you name it, open 365)" "Well, I wouldn't be here if people didn't come in."
"Ummm, is today two for Tuesday?" "Well sir, its Wednesday. So……"
"You're full of shite. I returned those movies, ON TIME! They're here, you're lying."
"Ma'am, are you sure you returned them to this location? You have to return them to the Blockbuster you rented from."
"I know that! You think I'm stupid? Whats your district manager's #?"
:picking up ours from/and dropping off Hollywood's videos that end up in the return bin: Thinking, she's stupid alright.
At the time, many nights I despised working there. Looking back, and having a career now, it was a pretty good gig.
Posted on 10/15/18 at 10:33 pm to 3en
There is still one really good video rental place left in Atlanta called Videodrome.
Posted on 10/15/18 at 10:38 pm to dallastiger55
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Mom would grab a Little Ceasers buy one get one on the way home. It came in a 3 foot long paper bag. Lol
Everyone of a certain age remembers those pizza pizza boxes/paper sleeves. Good times.
This post was edited on 10/15/18 at 10:39 pm
Posted on 10/15/18 at 11:13 pm to FalseProphet
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The best feeling ever at Blockbuster was noticing your video game/movie was out of stock, only to discover that it had just been returned and was waiting at the front desk to be reshelved. That could make or break a weekend.
this
Posted on 10/15/18 at 11:28 pm to St Augustine
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Loved me some major video
Posted on 10/16/18 at 12:39 am to ExArmyVetIRISHFan
Renting video games from movie gallery were some great memories
This post was edited on 10/16/18 at 12:40 am
Posted on 10/16/18 at 12:47 am to GeauxTigerTM
When video stores were at their peak in the mid-80s you had to make a list of about 15 movies because most of them would’ve been rented out
Posted on 10/16/18 at 1:06 am to rich4pres
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miss the old independent video rental stores, but not Blockbuster.
Same here. I never loved blockbuster. I loved the local places that preceded blockbuster.
It was always exciting getting home from school on a Friday and then heading to the video store to rent a Nintendo game. Was like $1 for a one night rental.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 2:01 am to Starchild
I remember renting a PlayStation over a weekend as my reward for good report card grades. I loved the VHS cover art in the horror section.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 7:36 am to GeauxTigerTM
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Worked at Alfalfa Video in Time Plaza in Lafayette
We’ve 100% interacted at some point. My family was in there more than any other customers I’d imagine
No mention of West Coast Video on Burbank so far in this thread??
5 day rentals in the same parking lot as Winn Dixie for booze and right across from Popeyes or Bailey’s for some chicken (yeah I was team Baileys
) 
Posted on 10/16/18 at 7:56 am to beebefootballfan
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I can still drive around town and point out where every one of them were.
The ones where I am have been successfully divided into multiple new stores. I thought for sure those buildings would sit abandoned.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 8:05 am to ExArmyVetIRISHFan
Grew up in the 80's and we had one of the first VCR's in the hood, so our house was pretty popular on the weekends. There was only one video store in town and they only carried around 100 movies. I guess licensing was still catching up because to outright buy a VHS copy of a movie was around $100. That was a lot of money in 1981 and 1982. It was around 84 or 85 when the inventory got up to snuff. We didn't get a Blockbuster until the early 90's I think. We had a few Movie Galleries, which I think was just an Alabama chain.
I remember we had to rent Seems Like Old Times 3 straight weekends because it was the only decent movie in stock.
I remember we had to rent Seems Like Old Times 3 straight weekends because it was the only decent movie in stock.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 8:25 am to 3en
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Stories from the other side of the counter include the realization that the public is everything Randal Graves says they are: idiots.
"Its too bad you have to work today(xmas, new years, thanksgiving, Mardi gras, you name it, open 365)" "Well, I wouldn't be here if people didn't come in."
"Ummm, is today two for Tuesday?" "Well sir, its Wednesday. So……"
"You're full of shite. I returned those movies, ON TIME! They're here, you're lying."
"Ma'am, are you sure you returned them to this location? You have to return them to the Blockbuster you rented from."
"I know that! You think I'm stupid? Whats your district manager's #?"
:picking up ours from/and dropping off Hollywood's videos that end up in the return bin: Thinking, she's stupid alright.
At the time, many nights I despised working there. Looking back, and having a career now, it was a pretty good gig.
100%!!!
Mine was when someone would come in and ask for the location of a movie while I was busy at the counter doing something else and they'd go, "Where can I find (fill in the blank)?" And I'd look up and say, "That's in Drama...on that wall over there in alphabetical order."
Blank stare...
Me..."Like the song...A, B, C, D..."
Or when you'd have a giant arse stack of tapes in your arm and you're heading onto the floor to put them up and they're all in order and some a-hole would walk up and say, "Can I look through those?" Or, "Can I take that tape right there...you know, the one in the middle of this stack of 18 tapes?"
"No...but you're welcome to follow me around as I put them up and take it then..."
Sometimes I think Kevin Smith modeled Randall after me...
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