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re: Would you say the video rental business had about a 25 yr run?
Posted on 6/2/25 at 10:25 am to ChestRockwell
Posted on 6/2/25 at 10:25 am to ChestRockwell
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es? Jim Hawthorne may be interested
Ole Jim tried to rent them from Video Co-op back in the day. His membership was denied by check fax flagged him.
To date one of the best jobs I ever had and still buddies with the people I worked with. Fun times.
As for the Gorilla, people would try to steal that MF every week. It was actually a clown under the gorilla suit.
This post was edited on 6/2/25 at 10:32 am
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Posted on 6/2/25 at 10:28 am to themetalreb
Blockbuster had a program that was $7.00 a month, you could get a PS ( whatever at the time) game on rental, once you brought it back you could just grab another one so on and so on.
My kid was around 7-8 and would make 3-4 trips daily swapping them back and forth, it was a pain in the arse
My kid was around 7-8 and would make 3-4 trips daily swapping them back and forth, it was a pain in the arse
Posted on 6/2/25 at 11:41 am to UnluckyTiger
I remember once my brother watching some porn tape on a VHS (in the family house) and it getting stuck. All of the claw and dent marks on it made it look like Wolverine was trying to crack into a safe.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 5:50 pm to BillF
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My first VCR cost about $1,200
Early adopters paid quite a premium; early helical scanning heads were precision technology. A big reason why we made that big purchase was having our baby. Nights at home with a tape replaced pre-kid nights at the movies.
Re: VCR vs Betamax. The latter developed by Sony was even more sophisticated and expensive. After it flopped as a consumer product, it filled a high-quality broadcast niche until digital tapes came in.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 10:33 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
quote:Yeah, if you lived in a trailer park.
Smoking a bowl with your buddies after high school on a Friday afternoon and being all red-faced and way too stoned to be in public and then working up the courage to go inside Blockbuster Video is a great memory.
Posted on 6/3/25 at 10:49 pm to ChiTownBammer
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can remember spending a few Saturday and Sunday afternoons with my grandparents at a shitty flea market trying to sell off the inventory. Needless to say the porn was all bought up in a weekend or two.
If this doesn’t say Roll Tide I don’t know what does, sitting around selling John Holmes frick tapes with Memaw and pawpaw at a flea market
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