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The chicken tacos were so good there. You're going way back there. I don't think those survived into the 1990s. They were damned good, though. I still remember exactly what they tasted like.

The chicken tacos definitely made the 90’s, at least till md 90’s.
Was truly a sad day when Super Popeye’s closed.

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Posted by Napoleon

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Posted on 12/26/22 at 2:34 pm to boxcarbarney

People miss Blockbuster but to me blockbuster killed the better family video stores. New releases went from being $2 to $5 and blockbuster had 3 year old movies in the new release section.

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Posted by bee Rye

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Posted on 12/26/22 at 4:15 pm to boxcarbarney

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I think the one I worked at, Clearview and W. Esplanade, used to be a ZM Video. We still had tapes that had ZM decals on them.

ZM Video was on Chastant where Austin’s now is

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Posted by Napoleon

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Posted on 12/26/22 at 4:26 pm to GT3324

Yeah they were definitely on the menu up until 94 at least.

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Posted by LSU fan 246

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Posted on 12/26/22 at 4:28 pm to Napoleon

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People miss Blockbuster but to me blockbuster killed the better family video stores. New releases went from being $2 to $5 and blockbuster had 3 year old movies in the new release section.

Major Video ftw.

Outlasted all of them

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Posted by GreenRockTiger

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Posted on 12/26/22 at 4:36 pm to Napoleon

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People miss Blockbuster but to me blockbuster killed the better family video stores.

we used to have a blockbuster on the corner of Bienville & Carrollton - we didn’t go often - but I can’t remember a family owned video store in mid city Nola - well not one with videos kids could rent