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Post by nucleusofswarm on Aug 31, 2018 23:31:25 GMT
Now that these are borderline extinct, what's a fond or funny memory from the VHS and early DVD days, when 'be kind rewind' was a thing?
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Post by glutamodo on Sept 1, 2018 0:10:39 GMT
Hell, back in the early/mid 80s when I first did this sort of thing, our family did not yet own a VCR, so you had to rent one along with the tape!
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Post by aemiliapaula on Sept 1, 2018 7:23:44 GMT
One time we rented a tape and it got stuck in the VCR. We could not return it and the video store wanted $99 to replace the tape. So my dad returned the tape by bringing the whole VCR with the tape inside and just left it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2018 7:27:07 GMT
One time we rented a tape and it got stuck in the VCR. We could not return it and the video store wanted $99 to replace the tape. So my dad returned the tape by bringing the whole VCR with the tape inside and just left it. Love that story |
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Post by Timelord007 on Sept 1, 2018 7:57:38 GMT
I used to work at Blockbuster UK 6 months in 2000, i was like Randy from Scream sharing my knowledge of movie trivia & popular with customers.........we until i told the boss to stick the job up his ar.e.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Sept 1, 2018 14:05:44 GMT
Some of the random films we found in Blockbuster, but my big memory was every couple of weeks, my dad would go down to the Rental store on the corner (yeah we had a tiny one in a village until the early 90's when it became a corner shop. it was good while it lasted) and rent Transformers The Movie and Asterix The Gaul  |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Sept 1, 2018 14:06:07 GMT
One time we rented a tape and it got stuck in the VCR. We could not return it and the video store wanted $99 to replace the tape. So my dad returned the tape by bringing the whole VCR with the tape inside and just left it. HA, stick it to the man lol |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2018 22:29:45 GMT
I used to work at Blockbuster UK 6 months in 2000, i was like Randy from Scream sharing my knowledge of movie trivia & popular with customers.........we until i told the boss to stick the job up his ar.e. I always wanted to work in one . |
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Sept 1, 2018 23:16:48 GMT
I remember we rented "Goonies" for $2 on our 10th birthday at the local video shop around the corner from our house- co incidentally that was exactly 33 years ago to the day LOL!
We got in "good" with the owner and he used to lend us video tapes of new release movies before they were allowed to legally rent out to the public. (Pre the internet LOL)
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Sept 2, 2018 0:51:36 GMT
I have a friend who used to own his own video store. His parents owned the convenience store next door and they opened it up and all four members of the family were listed as partners (for tax reasons) for both stores. He only closed it down a few years back after being in business for over twenty years. I mention it because he was the first person I knew who bought a car off the showroom floor... when we were in Year 12.
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Post by Timelord007 on Sept 2, 2018 6:40:25 GMT
I used to work at Blockbuster UK 6 months in 2000, i was like Randy from Scream sharing my knowledge of movie trivia & popular with customers.........we until i told the boss to stick the job up his ar.e. I always wanted to work in one . Wages weren't the best but i got on well with the staff barring the boss who felt threatened by me, the days before Netflix & live streaming when a person actually had leave the house to rent a movie. |
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Post by Digi on Sept 3, 2018 15:28:19 GMT
Growing up, my local video store was called Jumbo Video, a place with a grey elephant for a logo. In retrospect, I think maybe it was meant to be a play on Dumbo?
Anyway I have three standout memories:
1. The popcorn machine they had in the middle of the store. It was free for anyone to use while they were in the store, with free paper bags to fill up while you browsed the store. As a child they seemed like they were the perfect size, big but not too big to eat most or all of it. Thinking back, I think maybe the bags must've been quite small and just seemed large to me as a kid. It must also have been a pain for the staff to constantly be cleaning it up.
2. In the back corner was a separate room built, with a black curtain instead of a door....you can probably guess what this section was for. I snuck in there only one time that I can remember, before what it contained meant anything to me. By the time I was old enough to have been interested in its contents, a) DVDs had begun to replace VHS; b) the internet had started to become a thing; and c) the store was replaced by a Blockbuster that didn't keep the section.
3. The store's horror section. It was the only part of the store they 'dressed up,' which they did with the fake cobwebs you get around Halloween, blinking red lights, plastic skulls, and those cheap little plastic 'stone' walls and 'iron' fences along the top.
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Post by Ela on Sept 3, 2018 17:38:34 GMT
My spouse and I rented videos on a regular basis when our kids were babies, as it was too hard to get out to the movies most of the time. We just waited till things came out on DVD.
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