Inside One of the Last VHS Rental Stores in America
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- Опубликовано: 5 апр 2019
- Nestled in the quiet town of Chatham, New York, is Video Visions, one of the last-remaining video stories in America. Steven Campbell opened Video Visions in 1984 with Jim Donovan. At the time, they had just 200 titles. Now, they have over 26,000 that customers can rent for a few bucks a day. In addition to a plethora of DVDs, the store still stocks VHS tapes, as well as VCRs to play them. #InsideEdition
Renting movies used to be AN EXPERIENCE! I miss those days.
I kind of miss browsing the videos in the store, but I do not miss the poor quality of VHS tapes
Theres a couple in The EU
AMEN
I don’t
I miss those days too.Im praying that they come back.
As we grow as a society, things become more convenient, but in doing so we loose something.
Jonathan Roe
Connection of interaction
*Lose*
just like your spelling skills
We lose intimacy. A personal connection, and the comfort that comes from familiarity.
Get a belt?
This made me cry a little knowing we can never go back to how social the 90's was.
Who says we cant go back?Yes you can.You just need to pray for it and believe.
@Jack the Gestapo I bet you didn't know how right you were and how quick this would come true when you wrote it.
@Jack the Gestapo 2010's was alright up until woke snow flake commies with 20 000 genders ruined it with cultural Marxism. 2020's is only going to get worse.
Never say never.
80s too
That dudes inventory of movies probably 10 times bigger then Netflix's streaming selection
Thats why i miss blockbuster
That's why we don't have a netflix account anymore.
That’s exactly what I’m sayin
@@hemiboy9860 same
i love torrents
And don‘t forget to rewind it before you return it!
Please be kind...rewind XD
They may not have a rewinder
balalunga1 I forgot about that
In Sweden we had to pay about 5 dollars if it was not rewind.
MR Entrémattor Can‘t remember what we had to pay here in Luxemburg. I was a kid back then. My parents always rented them for me.
It's weird when you realize how fast time really goes on after watching stuff like this.
My VCR's rewind sounded like a jet preparing for take off.
Haha. Yeah. I bought a VCR from bestbuy back in 2005. It had a feature called fast rewind. The whole thing shakes when you rewind a tape.
I had the machine that would just rewind the tapes, so you did not wear out your vcr.
Remember when that’s what we complained about? Lol damn, dude didn’t rewind it what a jackass lol
@TheIron Smith Especially the smell of a brand new VHS tape box after ripping off the plastic..
Lol....
This Man Is a Legend! He Kept His Video Rental Store Up And Running Since 1984 And Didn't Close It When DVD Shifted To Streaming! That's An Incredible Thing To Do!
Oh yeah,hope so he never closes,VHS is a nice format.
I wish this was in my town. I would go all the time just to show him support. And for the nostalgia.
I remember date nights... looking at Blockbuster for a movie, grabbing snacks, and flying home to watch our movie. It was a completely different experience than Netflix.
Flying home? How far away was blockbuster? Ha ha just kidding man.
@@vxrdrummer He smoked a joint at Blockbuster and flew home on a magic carpet.Joking!!
Your arms must have really been tired from all the flying
so true the fun of goig thru the stor looking at all the diff movies... netflix just steals that and u cant find half of what netflix has to offer without extensive searching (putting in the exact title in search). i miss the days of oh whats this lets get it
It was better
My local public library actually still has a stock of VHS movies to this day.
Nerds 😐
T RopE sorry to hear that , every city needs one
I envy you
I was at a resort that had VHS movies I'm thinking man I don't even own a VCR anymore. I actually still used one long after I stop renting VHS movies to record my shows.
Good
Horror films will always be better on VHS. It’s part of the nostalgia of that era of filmography. Glad to see this guy keeping it alive.
I can smell the inside of that store.
As a young 13 year old boy I would like to know what it smells like in there
@@SysKeyJS same omg 13 too
I miss going to Blockbuster with my pops on a Friday after school to rent a VHS, n64 game.
Lil Mikey Myers who woulda thought we’d be so nostalgic for renting a movie
I feel you bros
Me too.
Me too! I hate redbox.
The good life, right there. ♡
I loved VHS growing up :( I want my childhood back
No worries at around 90 years old you'll be wearing diapers again
@@MichelLinschoten 💀
I hope he gets an apprentice or something, someone that can take over and keep it going once he retires
I wondered the same thing. He’s not going to live forever. I hope he plans to pass it on to a worthy younger person, either at retirement or by means of inheritance.
I'LL DO IT! LOVE VHS!
Renting videos sure brings back a lot of memories. So cool!
Wish we still had places like this where I live. Nothing can ever match the experience of going into a video store and renting a couple of movies and a nintendo game. Stopping on the way home to grab a couple of pizzas, that was a weekend tradition when I was a kid. Technology has taken so many great things away from us
I worked at a video store back in high school and the owner of the store won the store in a poker game. He only kept it because he thought it was going to be a tax write off but it made a lot of money for him.
@LoganTheLionheart Not fake at all, I could write an entire book about my experience working at that video store. In our little strip mall there was a rivalry between our video store, the comic book store, and the Chinese restaurant.
There was an abortion clinic directly across the street from us and the local Baptist Church would take turns protesting the abortion clinic and our video store because we rented adult movies. I hope you understand the irony of that comment?
I have so many stories that I have from my experience from working at that video store that I can make one hell of dark-comedy about working at a video store.
@LoganTheLionheart It doesn't matter if you think it's fake, it actually happened. Fact is Stranger Than Fiction.
@César Rabbit Me too. Keep us posted.
Things that didn’t happen for 500 Alex
Fake news!
man when you see this you can tell how we're losing our humanity little by little and we don't even realize it. I love technology but when technology means losing the human touch its all a bit sad. Hope this store never closes, and this type of man never disappears.
I agree
it is how it is, no one even buys music anymore technology has changed
@@pulledtrigger Remember Warehouse?
@@TechnicalBarbarity im not that old and neither did i came from the united states, i havent seen much warehouses yet and i hope i do soon because history is always fun
@Straight out of Syria ain't that the sad truth
This was my first job at 14, Steve was the best boss I ever had, to this day.
I was born in the middle ground where DVDs were introduced and VHS were still around. Honestly tapes were better, more durable and the glitch effect gave it personality.
I agree..that glitch did have that effect
Yeah me too
Yes just like vinyl records, the static and popping sounds
I have Toy Story VHS, in Spanish, and probably it's sequel, this time in English, and I'm unsure if the clutching can be fixed. I haven't watched them for several years.
@@notinmyworld8239
I have old movies to I'm scared the vcr will tear them up if I decide to watch any.
Yes I still have a vcr.
I have a blue ray player to lol.
I haven't seen a VHS tape in years. That is so awesome.
You can still find them pretty regularly at thrift store. 😬
@@123RADIOactive really? That's cool.
Silux Khan yup. Well..... popular large thrift stores is likely gonna have them. The local small ones might not have them.
@@123RADIOactive I don't know if I still have a VCR.
Silux Khan thrift stores has them if you want them. Functional or not is a totally different matter. 🤷♂️
I adore this, hope this man keeps it up for a long time to come :)
I'm 29 now, when i was 18 i worked a video store for 2 years and although it was 95% dvds the store still had the warmth and social aspect, glad i got to experience that :)!
I just saw 3 ninjas on your shelf.... im comin over
dude i'm from canada and making the trip next week
We don’t wanna hurt you dudes... we just wanna kidnap youuuuu
Rocky loves Emily!
Star Wars without ugly cgi animals
@@yagskie1984 *Rocky loves Emily, Rocky loves Emily*
I'm starting to like Inside Edition's weekend uploads, Some great videos to watch for people who don't have time on a weekday. Makes for some interesting weekend viewing
Glad you're enjoying!
@@RandomNameLastName811 Oh yeah i add them in Watch Later and catch up on the weekends
Imagine Bohemian Rhapsody or Bird Box on VHS...
Pr1m0N what About Mid90s
Why
That sounds like one fine weekend in the 90s
Not that hard to but atleast make us imagine good movies
BORHAP ON VHS? YEAH, BABY!😁
Oh, who doesnt´remember those great movies : Pulp Friction, Saturday night beaver, Ass Ventura crack detective, The Da Vinci Load, Forrest Hump, Missionary Impossible, and my all time favourite Shaving Ryans Privates.
Don't forget Assablanca, The Sperminator, Wenner and the Poo Hole, Good Will Humping, InspectHer Gadget, Bone Alone, and King Dong
Time to dust off my red Corvette tape rewinder.
HAHA!!
I did that! Went back to dvd
Had a red one it was a Lamborghini
@@mr.cifuentes1779 It probably cost five times more than my Chevy :p
The entire vhs rental process was so cool. I remember as a kid It was cool because of the video covers. Looking at the artwork then turning them around. I would spend sometimes an hour or more going to different sections in the vhs video stores going through all the covers. So fun. Then you see the secret adult section and wonder whats in there.
The process was really great. The covers definitely sold movies sometimes they had more effort put into them than the movies themselves lol. I also loved all the little tricks like movies that came in bigger boxes so they grabbed your attention. And the low budget movies were "Exclusive to VHS/Home Video" instead of "straight to video" so they didn't sound cheap but limited edition.
All of the technology that's been coming out for the past 25 years is making everyone more isolated and introverted.. Everything is non physical; just software.
@@QuantumEffectResidue this is true. Esp social media where people r addicted to making friends and relationships virtually. I cant tell you how many times i want to call someone to talk via phone but they reject and say only text. No one wants to have any true interactions anymore its all thru computer technology etc. Who knows maybe computer ai is secretly learning from us and how we operate then will have all the info they need to attack. Lol
I'd always go to the Horror section first!!
@@lilykst3530 ya me too. the horror covers were the best! often however, youd judge a book by its cover but then be left disappointed when you realized you just rented a B movie.
I was saddened when my local video store closed up. They had a huge selection, and a lot of it was older movies...which were better than the new ones!
There was a Blockbuster near my childhood house that went out of business in 2009. Was a bummer
I love the sounds associated with vhs too. Not just the sound of an old 80’s clamshell opening and closing, but just the sound a vcr makes while a tape is playing a movie, adds this nostalgic, comforting hum to the background of a movie i always remember accompanying movies as a kid.
So cool. It brings a tear of nostalgia to my eyes. 😥
I grew up with my mom working in a movie rental store and this made me tear up I wanna go there so bad this is like my childhood encapsulated
Guys, you're right . I'm almost in tears too
yep, same here 😓 great memories.
I truly miss doing this
I bought a vcr on eBay this week after over 15 years without one. Now I’m building a collection up and loving the nostalgia, pushing the first tape into the machine was like being a kid again ! And then came the dreaded rewind 😂
Should've bought a rewinder and fast forward machine too lol.
The video-version of the vinyl record shops.
Except that vinyl record shops get quite many customers, whereas any remaining VHS is a tiny niche.
When you're excited to watch a movie you rented but you see the tape isn't rewinded.
This video made me tear up honestly. I miss my childhood so much. VHS was everything ughhhh
Winter Dreams that’s what I think as well.
Yes, it started to get emotional for me as well, video killed the radio star, and internet killed the malls and video rental stores.
The humanity of this is so touching. Great.
A beautiful piece, Worked at a Video Store and it was the greatest experience of my life, it was like not working at all ..LOVED IT! Miss all the stores
💛Love it. I'm a huge Movie collector. Yes I still have a VCR as well. Long live the classics!
I still watch movies on VHS.Love 'em..
Char Blinn I collect old console and computers.....
Char Blinn 💯💯💯
I have one VCR 1990s
it's a Dolby Stereo NR, HiFi unit
Those were pretty rare units it was one of those inbetween HIFI and 2 channel linear audio
when they switch from Linear Stereo to HiFi Stereo
It's pretty cool you could edit the audio after a tape was reordered.
Char Blinn some movies just look better on vhs.
"Be Kind. Please Rewind". Use to hate renting a VHS and the people who rented it before me, never rewound the bloody thing! LOL. Ahhh...memories.
LOL!! It seemed to take forever to rewind them.
you know they made machines that only rewound tapes, right?
I remember when my dad brought home a VHS fast rewinder it was an absolute game changer.
OMGosh, This Man is Awesome for keeping VHS tapes & VCRs alive n' well. ( I still have an old 'working' TV with the VCR built in. ) Would love to have a store like that here in my city. ; )
Going to the video store to rent a movie is one of the fondest memories I have as a kid. Good for this guy. I hope he has business for many more years.
Imagine in 10 years we'll see the last DVD rental store and everything will then be purely digital
Netflix will swallow your bank account, but a DVD or a VHS or RUclips won't. Unless you want to record a and to a brand new VHS, IF they still make them
Yeah and watch the next best thing come around and digitally buying movies will become a thing of the past.
In 35 years, Netflix probably won't be a thing. We'll probably be watching things on holograms or have a inserted chip in our heads that let's us watch whatever we want.
@@oscarmorales8979 wanted that the 1st time I watched futurama....
@@oscarmorales8979 Or maybe Netflix will become the platform that brings us holograms and such? I think they'll probably evolve with the times, like many other companies.
I remember being a kid and my parents driving me and my siblings to a Blockbuster. I remember getting excited every Friday to rent two or three movies that we would watch over the weekend. I'm glad I was able to live through that experience.
This man is preserving an era, I wish we had more of this, I miss Blockbuster stores
Much like how '50s diners preserved the 1950s back in the 1970s and 1980s.
I remember being very little and my parents taking me to video club stores, I would loss It in there, huge fan of that style of watching films. I love all styles, but VHS, has a special warm place in my heart where It feel homie. This men that runs this store is Iconic. Thank you
eRaness I used to love looking at the backs of the boxes. Also remember the trailers before the film started!
What's amazing for me is that this store is not only still running but people still have working VHS Players to play such movies on that's what's truly amazing to me
agreed, i went through several vhs players back in the day as they didn't last more than a few years.
When I was young, a guy in a van used to come around every Thursday to rent VHS videos from. He would pull up jump out and open the side sliding door where there was a shelf stocked with vhs tapes. We sat in there and went through them until we found one we liked.
One time we asked him what was the worst condition he ever got them back in, his reply "I got one with a burger in it and another I opened to find that someone had puked in it!"
I remember renting The Dark Crystal off of him, one of my favourite childhood films.
He just drove around renting. No license no nothing. Ahh simpler times.
Great video. I’m lucky, cuz where I live (BC Canada), my city still has a movie rental store called Leo’s Video.
Evidence please
@@Saifullah.Q the police took all the evidence
I miss these days! Nostalgia overload! 😁
Bless this man for this shop
Just browsing the VHS rental stores was fun. Always found an old movie that can rent and watch over again. Can't rent old movies anymore, not even on digital. Many blessings to Mr. Campbell for doing what he enjoys for a living.
I miss the smells, picking up movie snacks, buying movie novelties, talking about films and games. I just miss it so much. We rented until the stores all closed.
This place is better than the last blockbuster and Netflix
Its better than blockbuster but like not netflix
I made a video about both those topics on my channel
Yaaaaaaaa no
Last Netflix? R u special?
No the last blockbuster and the hole Netflix
Seeing this video makes me wanna go back to the past and read The Goosebumps book series.
I would love to watch Rambo on VHS again.
Well I got a VHS player for £20 and the star wars original trilogy for £5 so I'm sure you have enough money
This makes me teary eyed. I miss going to video stores
My 2 favorite movies on VHS were Dunstin Checks In and Ace Ventura Pet Detective When Nature Calls
I think if he added a video game section it’d bring some more customers
yes, older cartridge based games like N64, SNES or Sega Genesis. they could take a beating and still work fine with at worst a cleaning of he contacts.
ATARI 2600!!!
David Canelas would collectors steal them if their credit card was on file?
@@markinnes4264 Agreed even to rent them out if possible. I have a N64.
@@410kane I did that for Witcher 3 when it came out for gamefly. Lmfao. They never sent it to collections bcuz I had no credit line at all. I was like 18 lol.
We have lost our way really with streaming services. It’s colder and so detached and sometimes he harder to choose. I used to keep going back to my local video shop and rent the mask repeatedly. The excitement I used to get :)
This brings back so many memories of my childhood..... I miss those days of going to a rental store and renting vhs tapes and later buying used dvds at Blockbuster Video. I'm relieved Half Price Books is still around, and still selling DVDs, Blu-rays and even VHS, but it's something else entirely to go to a store like this. I still own a VHS player as well as a handful of old VHS tapes; but I would pay just to get a chance to visit this particular store. The owner seems super friendly with a great community. And not to mention renting out old vhs players. You don't find that anywhere nowadays. How do I miss the 80s and 90s sometimes.
Dammit I cried. VHS was my childhood...
Get over yourself
@Yellow Jacket that's good get under yourself I like that lol nah I'm just a very angry man I hop on the tube and comment angry stuff at ppl for an outlet
Sad childhood
I'm a guy. Be honest with your emotions. If not you're lying to yourself.
yeah...me too
Memories ❤️ i bet this man has a lot of old WWF PPV’s 🔥🔥🔥💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
He did have a wrestling video playing during the parts of the interview he was behind the counter
Woooow How well this VHS format exists and people appreciate it still remains the longest-lived video format of bravo man history and continued success
My daughter saw blair witch on netflix or whatever, laughed her ass off. Showed it to her on VHS and an old ass CRT TV, completely different experience!
I just hope the customers don't ruin any VHS cassettes.
mrmacross sounds like he has a solid and devoted customer base. Most probably take the extra effort to ensure they respect his property
Love that old boy is keeping this alive!🙏🏼🤘🏼
Bless your hart, Signed out of work vcr repair guy.
We have had the same VHS player for 16 years and still works great
They were made well back then. JVC VCR units were made in Japan, and were heavy and very high quality. So was Sony.
@@QuantumEffectResidue I didn´t go very well with JVC,better Sony.
this might be my favorite video I have ever watched online.
I miss going to blockbuster with my mom and dad when i was little and begging them to let me rent an extra movie. Honestly if a video store opened up near me I'd probably go every week just for the nostalgia. I want blockbuster.
Long live the VHS store and the old fashioned customer service! Talk about a hidden gem....
This should be treated like a museum
I worked in a video store so i know the feeling inside those stores
If he rented Nintendo & Sega games, it would be lines around the block.
Me too man. Only thing that sucked were people trying to get out of their late fees
I worked at one in highschool. Great job for the time, owners daughter nuked my corndog a few times. I got free rentals and bjs
@@MrDannyboyFL you meet a Lot of girls in that job jejejejejeje
It is easier to rewind or fast-forward on a VHS tape than it is on a CD
vhs is a family thing back then. An action movie for dad. Drama for Mom, romantic movie for my sister and ofcourse sci fi or comedy for me
Remind me of my brothers rental store. Now it's long gone.
3 Ninjas! Rocky loves Emily!
I remember the days when workers/owners would actually smoke inside the store and the tapes would wreak of cigarette smoke when you brought them home 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Never seen anyone smoke inside a video store
Gil Terrero in the 80’s they did...at least where i lived in nyc. They would be behind the counter. It would usually be the workers or owners
That's probably something that contributed to their downfall
@@truthbetold9806 I don't know anyone who's gone to a video store more than me, Maybe your video store owner was a smoker.
Gil Terrero yea i here you but lets not forget that back then you could pretty much smoke anywhere and it was ok.
Really loved this thanks for taking the time and sharing this 🥇
This is awesome. So many Friday nights spent browsing movie rental stores with my Dad. Brings back a lot of memories
I DJ in my area and have dual SL1200GR's turntables and these couple of teenagers came up and looked at my set up and I herd one say too the other what's that pointing at a 45 single and his friend said that's what they make "CD" from. Thires no hope for the younger generation.
@Beau Littzen that girls seem libtards
VHS horror covers, Double Dragon, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion and Zoobaly Zoo=my childhood in a nutshell :)
Love it…❤… i miss the old days. Streaming destroyed those loving places where people meet and have a nice time to rent a movie and talk about it. 😢
Yea but then you couldn’t screen d’s
From a kid who grew up across the street from a West Coast Video, this is excellent
Got me in my feels of nostalgia!
Every Friday night after work , my girl and i would pick up a pizza , candy & junk food and rent 3 movies . our apartment was our sanctuary and it was a warm safe feeling and a great way to unwind after a hard week at work .
These were great times, VHS and DVDS were such classics until sadly in the late 2010s Netflix started getting more recognition and all the movie rental stores like Hollywood Video and Blockbuster started to cease their operations being defunct, it's sad that kids today will never get to experience the joy it was selecting movies to rent in person instead of online.
I can imagine going to the video store and rent a movie and when you leave and go home it's like going back to the future. Because everything at home is modern I'm watching this video on my phone. Awesome dude I wish him lots of success.
I remember always buying butter popcorn whenever my mom and I would rent a movie in the evening...the good old days, eh? 😊
I believe there is still a vhs rental place in a town about 20 miles from where I live. A couple years ago I got stopped for a tail light and pulled in to the parking lot of this liquor store and after the cop left I decided I wanted to go in and get something to drink and to my astonishment I saw that they had all these vhs movies set out just like an old rental place and I asked if they were for sale and they said no for rent. So a liquor store and vhs rental place in one. The liquor store is still there but I don't know for sure if they still rent vhs but I bet it's still going.
I felt nostalgia just watching people go through the aisles and browsing lol. What a nice, warm, comforting, feeling lol.
I hope that place gets turned into a museum after all is said and done.
THANK YOU INSIDE EDITION. LOVE YOU GUYS. 😁
Blockbuster horror section Friday night Bucket of popcorn 🔥🔥🔥
Damn this video made me cry tears of joy the nostalgia 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿🇺🇸🎥❤️
2006 marks the end of the VHS era with the release of A History of Violence, the last VHS release for a major Hollywood film.
The film was released on DVD and VHS formats on March 14, 2006, and was reported by the Los Angeles Times as being the last major Hollywood film to be released on VHS.
100+ miles to see your store. What charm and joy such a store must bring :)