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re: Blockbuster Video down to one remaining store in Bend, OR
Posted on 8/10/18 at 5:36 pm to TejasHorn
Posted on 8/10/18 at 5:36 pm to TejasHorn
I was reading their tweets. I lol'd at the one that saids something like "you cant come here the day before Easter and piss your shite because Passion of the Christ is all rented out".
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Posted on 8/10/18 at 6:09 pm to OweO
Does anyone know what their actual twitter feed link?
Posted on 8/10/18 at 6:16 pm to FLTech
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Does anyone know what their actual twitter feed link?
@loneblockbuster. It's on the tweets.
Posted on 8/10/18 at 7:54 pm to TejasHorn
Getting out with the wife and browsing the selections at Major Video after eating out was a nice time for us and many others we came across. Sad to see that place go.
Not long after it closed we found ourselves browsing the selections at a Redbox outside of a CVS on a cold rainy evening.
It wasn't just seeing the movie but all the fun of browsing titles and being able to hold the cases and get ice cream sandwiches at the checkout.
Not long after it closed we found ourselves browsing the selections at a Redbox outside of a CVS on a cold rainy evening.
It wasn't just seeing the movie but all the fun of browsing titles and being able to hold the cases and get ice cream sandwiches at the checkout.
Posted on 8/10/18 at 7:56 pm to TejasHorn
We laugh at Blockbuster but those damn Redbox kiosks are always busy in 2018.
Posted on 8/10/18 at 8:03 pm to PearlJam
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Didn't they turn down an offer to buy Netflix fairly cheaply?
Before Netflix was a streaming service.
very cheaply, like for a coke and a smile.
$50m in the early 2000s
Posted on 8/10/18 at 8:15 pm to jcole4lsu
one of my dreams was to work at Blockbuster. born too late tho 
Posted on 8/10/18 at 8:18 pm to TejasHorn
Man, I couldn't imagine being a kid in living in a world with no Blockbuster (and no sitdown Pizza Huts).
Posted on 8/10/18 at 8:20 pm to northshorebamaman
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@loneblockbuster
Great Twitter account
This post was edited on 8/10/18 at 8:24 pm
Posted on 8/10/18 at 8:25 pm to TejasHorn
Oh man i freaking loves going to blockbuster
Posted on 8/10/18 at 8:58 pm to Boo Krewe
quote:At the time it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Looking back now, like the nostalgia everyone is having because there is one left, it wasn't a bad gig.
one of my dreams was to work at Blockbuster
Posted on 8/10/18 at 9:54 pm to Stiles
These places still exsit in the the Midwest. Every time I go back I’m blown away they are still there.
Family video
Family video
Posted on 8/10/18 at 9:57 pm to SECdragonmaster
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How are they still open? They must rent porn.
LINK
In 2017 78 million Americas still had no broadband internet access.
Posted on 8/11/18 at 9:09 am to Stiles
any stories of working there?
Posted on 8/11/18 at 9:12 am to Boo Krewe
this is gold. When you are the last of your species, you have nothing to lose.
Posted on 8/11/18 at 10:30 am to seeinspots
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Major Video
Goat movie store
Posted on 8/11/18 at 10:51 am to LSUJML
That Twitter feed is brilliant.
Posted on 8/11/18 at 11:56 am to TejasHorn
Stupid that they did not adjust with the changing times. They could have currently owned Redbox and Netflix. They don’t have anyone to blame except for themselves.
Posted on 8/11/18 at 12:08 pm to ctiger69
“But that’s what could have happened multiple times throughout the early 2000s when Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings courted a deal with Blockbuster-chief John Antioco to purchase the then DVD-by-mail rental company for $50 million (the company now has a market cap of $19.7 billion).”
“Barry McCarthy, Netflix’s former chief financial officer, said in an interview with the Unofficial Stanford blog in 2008, “I remembered getting on a plane, I think sometime in 2000, with Reed [Hastings] and [Netflix co-founder] Marc Randolph and flying down to Dallas, Texas and meeting with John Antioco. Reed had the chutzpah to propose to them that we run their brand online and that they run [our] brand in the stores and they just about laughed us out of their office.”
“Barry McCarthy, Netflix’s former chief financial officer, said in an interview with the Unofficial Stanford blog in 2008, “I remembered getting on a plane, I think sometime in 2000, with Reed [Hastings] and [Netflix co-founder] Marc Randolph and flying down to Dallas, Texas and meeting with John Antioco. Reed had the chutzpah to propose to them that we run their brand online and that they run [our] brand in the stores and they just about laughed us out of their office.”
Posted on 8/11/18 at 12:14 pm to ctiger69
As a kid I always loved Friday’s because I knew Friday night my dad was going to take me to get a movie and a sega genesis game. I remember when I was 12 I took one of the movie cases and swapped out the tapes with a playboy movie tape. The good ole days. I feel like since all the blockbusters started closing down is when they stopped making good movies.
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