Map of the Rise and Fall of Blockbuster Video
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2020
- Between 1985 and 2010, Blockbuster Video opened thousands of stores across the US. This map shows the locations of US Blockbuster Video stores over time.
The store counts also include Alaska and Hawaii which aren't shown on the map.
Sources: The per-state store numbers came from archive copies of Blockbuster Inc’s annual 10-K filings with the SEC between 1999 and 2011. The numbers outside of these years were collected from various business news articles with linear extrapolation for the dates in between. Archived 10-K filings are available here: www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-ed...
“The Rise and Fall of Blockbuster” - A Netflix Original
Yeah that was the joke😂
In the 2000's BlockBuster almost bought NetFlix.
@@s.s.99 You’re a mook😒
@SkibidiRizz-gz1dx You’re a mook😒
Oh shut up ya mook😒
the last one should stay forever as a museum
There Is still one
I believe it actually is
Yes
Yeah I live in bend where the last one is and can confirm it ain't going anywhere.
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The last remaining Blockbuster was also the first Blockbuster in Oregon. Opened in 1988
Thanks Dad, for making me notice.
That is false, the first Blockbuster was opened in Dallas Texas. This one in Bend, Oregon has been open since 2004
@@yngcini Read again. If you'd rather have the words put like that: he noticed that "The first to ever open in Oregon is also the last remaining one".
@@BloodyCaesar is right, I dont remember going to Blockbuster but I did
Ironic
It looks like Blockbuster's decline began in January 2005. The highest number of stores they ever reached (in the Contiguous United States) was 5,734.
And from that number it only went down. Never grew again.
2005 was a curse
Yeah when the internet began improving. Many other stores began to go out of business and dvd sales began to drop as well.
@@deanhassan1753 The internet was not there yet, but it was Netflix that help usher its demise thanks to its DVD-by-mail service.
RUclips started cooking in 2005.
If there was ever a store closing that makes me sad, it would be Blockbuster. There are so many memories with movies, games, and taking my son there each week.
What about toys r us
@@diaryofawimpykidfan3 what cause blockbuster to go out of business ?
@@franksandoval6046 Netflix
@@franksandoval6046internet
@@franksandoval6046internet
5,734 Blockbuster stores in January 2005… at its peak…
That was just in the US. They had about 10,000 total worldwide.
@@ralphvelthuis2359 I still remember when in my beloved Mexico, Blockbuster had been replaced by The B Store, which also proved to be unsuccessful at the same style of store
I rember I could not go too the porn side lol
@@ralphvelthuis2359 I have question how the VHS 📼 was discontinued
@@franksandoval6046 Blu-ray/DVD and then streaming
For reference, there’s currently about 13,449 McDonalds in the US. And Blockbuster peaked at 5,734. So for every Blockbuster, there are 2 and a half McDonalds.
As a Gen Z kid, this makes me sad. I actually have been to the very last Blockbuster store before, it’s in Bend Oregon and they actually have merch about it there. Ironically, I think it being the last one is what’s keeping it open because it’s like a tourist attraction now
I’m also Gen Z. I wish I could go there…
I wish I could go there but I live on the other side of the country
@@Grassplant2012 same…
Don't be that sad. Blockbuster drove mom and pop stores out of business.
@@archieames1968 heh.
I hated it when Blockbuster closed. It wasn't just a store, it was an experience.
It is kind of cool being able to pick stuff up, look at the box and make a roll of the dice in the absence of easily accessible internet reviews.
I loved getting to choose a movie every Friday night as a kid.
It's unfortunate they failed to adapt
Were the excessive late fees part of the experience too?
they missed the boat... They could've been the netflix of today.
It's because they turned down buying Netflix for a couple million
Ya, it was a "Kodak" moment. >.
@@daveroy1066 hey kodak stock is actually tripling right now while the Government basically gave it a loan and re-purposed the company for making pharmaceuticals.
Don’t worry I’m gonna start a petition to raise money to buy it from dish and make it good again
@@Enchurito I think it was 50 mil
Does anyone remember the ten or so small video rental stores for every Blockbuster store throughout the 80s and early 90s that Blockbuster ran out of business? Many of them lost everything on account of Blockbuster.
I remember having a Blockbuster card but only going to a Blockbuster store a handful of times. I'm guessing I preferred watching movies in theaters? LOL. I really don't remember them being central to my life..
West Coast Video
@@CoreLabRat2 That sounds like a chain.
In my town, we had small mom and pop video stores in the 80s and early 90s. Stores like:
- Video Concepts 2000
- Video Mania
- Interstate Video
- Whitt's Video
- Video and Pizza on Wheels
- Video Express
And others.
Blockbuster came in sometime around 1994 near my house, then around 1997-1999 a few other large, but smaller than Blockbuster chains opened like Hollywood Video.
@@willp.8120 In the early 90's we used to go to West Coast Videos.. it was a super retro store lmao... memories yikes
My town never had a Blockbuster. It had VHS 3 rental shops in the 90s, 2 of which were right next to each other. All closed now.
One of them is now an independent games store that survives by doing card gaming such as Magic. He's been going over 20 years. It's a community hub for nerds.
Girls: Omg you didn’t cry during Titanic. Do you even have emotions.
Boys:
Ah yes I too expand into a multiple billion dollar movie rental company that depleted so fast that we didn’t notice it even happened until a year later
I haven't seen the titanic movie, it may be sort of sad but this is sadder to me in a way.
I feel no pain
I have the last one in my state
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Yes
I was born in 1985 so I got to see and experience all of the 90’s from age 5-15. I am so grateful for those times
That sounds nice actually. I was born in 91 so I only vaguely remember the late 90s.
I was born in '85 too. Growing up in the 90s was wonderful but also bittersweet in retrospect because we really had the illusion of being a charmed generation born into a new golden age. The Cold War was over, the economy was booming, fascinating new technologies like the internet were becoming widespread, and America seemed invincible between the fall of the Soviet Union and 9/11. Then the other shoe dropped just as we were reaching adulthood and the world started going to shit.
I feel bad for the younger generations because they never knew a time of genuine optimism and prosperity, but in a way they're better prepared for it psychologically because they've never known anything besides cynicism and pessimism. A lot of us older millennials are still deluded enough to think we'll fix the world once we take over from the boomers but it will be far too late by then.
@@bobsnow6242 I was born in '02 and honestly I feel like most of my generation is either overly-cynical or overly-optimistic.
That said, I never understood all this crap about fixing the world. The world's way too large and complex for one generation in one country to magically fix everything, especially without creating any new problems in the process. The best we can do is fix the problems we find ourselves able to, and hope our solutions don't end up creating any worse problems later on. That's just the way things are and always have been.
@@bobsnow6242Same as you. It was intriguing, yet weird seeing the world turn digital. It’s nice and convenient but sometimes I miss the pre-retailpocolypse times when people went out into the world and their faces weren’t shoved into their phones on social media.
Blockbuster was presented with the opportunity to buy Netflix for $60MM and turned it down. Netflix initially was not a streaming service. It was mailing DVDs back and forth.
Yes, Blockbuster also had a dvd by mail program.
Blockbuster peaked at 5,734 stores, if you were wondering.
In america yes they had more stores in other countries as well
February 2005. Damn I was in HS
in america
Yep, right in January. Sad to see. lol
Since alaska had 2 of the last 3 stores, It probably would've been cool to include us
Ah, that makes more sense. I was trying to figure out how come it said there were 3 stores open in 2018, but there was only 1 icon on the map! But that's really cool how Alaska had 2 of the last stores :) Do you remember which cities the Blockbusters were in?
@@VideoReviewChris there were 2 i remember in anchorage that both closed a few years ago.
@Rick Volcano what did alaska do to you? we are an amazing state
@@alaskancabin7506 Indeed! Alaska is beautiful. Lots of wildlife and amazing nature :)
Also Hawaii
I have visited the Bend, OR store as of this year. It's going strong and has a healthy number of loyal customers to keep it afloat for years to come. A 2020 Netflix Documentary called 'The Last Blockbuster' (kinda Ironic that Netflix is what made this thing so popular as a tourist destination, given they were once major rivals) has given rise to a major Tourist interest in the store. As of July 26th, 2021 the store is around and is going well.
Good for you. I've seen almost everything I have an interest in seeing in the US. The Bend Blockbuster is still on the bucket list.
@@royrowland5763 Hope there's a hotel nearby, I'd like to spend a few days really immersing myself in all things Blockbuster, maybe arrange an after hours behind-the-scenes tour and meet n greet with the staff...cancelled my Caribbean getaway, can't wait!
@@royrowland5763 I recommend it, I picked up a hat and every now and then I get complimented on my blockbuster hat.
*Casually walks to my local blockbuster because I live in bend Oregon*
same
*Casually only drives 3 hours to the last BLOCKBUSTER becasue I live in Salem*
Casually drives 6 minutes to a movie rental store in Wapato.
I live in Portland. I went to Blockbuster last summer.
Your so Lucky. I miss Blockbuster
Blockbuster: I used to own this country
Now, you’re in Bend, Oregon
Stores would open when I gave the word
i used to ruuuuule the woooorld
@@SupersuMCNow in the country, I stand alone.
The Fall of The Blockbuster is Far More Significant than the Fall Of the Roman Empire..
It certainly feels that way! Teachers, take note.
The last one should just stay open regardless of profits and should be funded by the government or private investors for it's historical significance.
"bail out"
@@pap-fr Exactly!
Não mesmo!
We don’t need the government funding anything else.
In 2005 this video would have been possible to rent in a Blockbuster™️ store
Blockbuster's failure is entirely the fault of Blockbuster for not being forward thinking. They were offered to buy Netflix for $50 million in 2000 and laughed Netflix "out of the room."
Buying Netflix would not have saved them. Netflix wasn't worth the price they were asking for in 2000. They could have very easily built the business Netflix was in 2000 for less money. The roots of their downfall are far deeper than that.
By January 2014 all they had left was 100 Blockbuster stores. Just sad what happened to them when only a few years prior they had over 5,000 stores. By 2019 all they had left was 1 single store, really tragic.
That was just in the US. They had around 10,000 worldwide.
It was like a ride on Top Thrill Dragster; straight to the top until 2005; then a straight plummet down. Digital streaming wasn't what began Blockbuster's downfall, it was Netflix and Redbox. Now it's all digital, and the Redbox machines that used to be on every street corner have now become scarce.
There are still a good amount of Redbox vending machines in my area, but they mostly have older movies. I still rent from them & libraries once in a while so I don’t need 10 streaming services. I also cancel streaming services and subscribe to different ones once in a while.
@@jeremyf9124 I would still be a loyal Blockbuster customer if they still existed. You can find a Redbox machine at any Walgreens in my area but other than that they are few and far between; and just as you said, they're mostly older movies. The one at the Walgreens nearest me hasn't been flipped in over a year. It's all decked out in Barbie gear lol.
@@jeremyf9124 I have Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max and Peacock. Only reason I have Peacock is because of football.
Also ironic considering 2005 was the year Ka stole the height record from TTD.
@@phantomhourglass13 And 2024 was the year TTD took it back.
People have no idea what the death of the video store really meant for all of us.
Its was our only adventure that we would possibly have in a modern world in most places.
I want my video stores back.... :( :( :(
Imagine having this much nostalgia for a corporation lmao.
“Our last possible adventure”
Wtf???? Go take a walk in the woods lmaooo
@@sneedwashere For your information there would be no life without businesses.Why dont you go out and take a walk in the woods if you prefer that over the internet (which is run by business and corporations)
@@lazarusblackwell6988 “there would be no life without businesses”
Show me some businesses in the Sea Sponge community. Surely if they’re alive they must be running giant megacorporations right?
@@sneedwasherehey, let people have nostalgia over things. Definitely don’t over-romanticize capitalism. & I mean, maybe dude was being dramatic with the adventure comment but come on man.
@@sneedwashereratio
So 2005 was their peak huh? I thought it would've been 2007 or 08.
It was 2004, around 2005 they started declining
How? Video streaming was the reason of the decline?
Yup, the rise of RUclips/social media basically stripped Blcokbuster from the general public who wanted to watch videos.
@@lukelodeon7750 It was both, technically very early 2005 was their max peak
Streaming didn’t get big until about 2010. What killed video rental stores was Netflix DVD-by-mail and Redbox DVD vending machines and digital cable & satellite TV which allowed for hundreds of channels, including dozens of movie channels, combined with DVRs. Also, people got used to buying & selling games (GameStop mainly) rather than renting. Netflix DVD by mail had better selection than anyone, and you didn’t have to go to the stores, and no late fees. People also bought a lot of DVDs due to the extra content.
Imagine goingn through the process of opening a store in 2004, only to have a front row seat to seeing it all slide down hill.
The last one is just an independent store that licenses the Blockbuster name.
But it still is amazing that the Franchise Name is still kept around at one store at least. At as said in the 2020 Netflix Documentary 'The Last Blockbuster' it is licensed under Fox Entertainment who bought the Franchise in the early 2010s, so therefore technically it's still an official store. It has no plans of closing down as a large amount of Loyal customers in Bend keep the store afloat and the Tourism is has received from the Documentary is helping as well. I went there yesterday on July 26th, 2021, and the store is going strong. I hope it's around long enough for me to bring my kids to it in the future.
I keep rewatching this video. It's captivating and nostalgic and tragic. What shocks me is that they continued to grow way past what I would have thought. That they continued growing until 2005 is amazing in retrospect. My first job was Rent-A-FLICK (neon sign at night looked like something very different) for $3.35/hour. The first Blockbuster in Michigan stoke me away for a whopping $4.25/hr. I still miss working and going there as a customer. Netflix didn't kill blockbuster. Blockbuster killed Blockbuster by abandoning movies and focusing on games & toys.
If you play the history of Blockbuster in reverse, it starts off as a small business then rises.
Cool vid. Defintely provides an example of a very quick rise and decline based off of how fast technology was moving at the time. Blockbuster was a staple for me and my friends in my teens, but i could talk to somebody 4 years younger than me that had never heard of or been to a blockbuster. So wild!
This video is both happy, sad, and satisfying.
I miss Blockbuster so much, too bad I wasn't old enough to work there when they were still open, I'd love to know the closing dates of the ones in Delaware, I searched everywhere, I found a list of the locations and business hours but not closure, the one in New Castle was practically right outside my neighborhood across the street from my Middle School, after school before it closed on Friday my family would always head there pick up popcorn, candy, and rent a few movies. It kinda sucks that nobody in Delaware has photos of the inside of the store itself. Also the building remained for sale until like 2014-2015 where it was finally taken over by a clothing store called "Rainbow", the large Blockbuster logo street sign and post are still there, now with a tarp for an ad for an available building space for somewhere else in the small shopping center. I miss it so much that I now own an Employee uniform, including nametag, training pins, lanyard with name, an Excellence Awards Key Pin, and a Blockbuster manager store key and keychain from a California location. Plus an unused sheet of Blockbuster case stickers and Regular and Gold Membership Rewards cards and easy laminate sleeves. And I also own a Blockbuster Shopping basket and also the In-Store Blockbuster Promo DVDs, the DVDs are the ones that the employees would bring up on the TVs, type in the DVD pin and click on the promos, trailers, and releases for that month on that day, and depending on what day you click, the dates for the trailers and such will change like "releases tomorrow", then click the next day and it says "releases today". I currently have 2-3 DVDs per year from 2003-2010.
I checked Google Maps and saw that it was still there by 2007 with a photo of the outside. Unfortunately the only photos of it are from 2007 and 2017 and by 2017 it was already replaced so I don’t really know other than it was after September 2007
Hell yeah Delaware
I worked at Blockbuster in 1996-97. Most of the day was spent dusting shelves, pacing around pretending to be busy. You didn't miss anything.
Don’t forget please VHS rewind tape! Cost you fee! Remember that
Believe it or not, here in Brazil there were more than 300 Blockbusters, all of them were sold to Lojas Americanas (Brazilian store chain)
This just reminds me his old I am & how I’ll never get my childhood back
If the last one stands enjoy it much as you can. If it closes it should turned into an museum.
As someone who used to live in Bend, as a kid, we actually went to the last remaining one quite a bit. My grandma had an old VHS player and we used it a TON. We later moved away but still have the old VHS. When we go back to bend every now and then, we still stop by.
Surprised this awesome video does not have more views
Thanks for rewinding!
I grew to hate who owns Hollywood. I watch movies with different eyes today. It's all about programming the people....not entertainment.
schizo anon, hollywood is not making people trans
Well it's both; you wont be as subconsciously open to programming if you aren't entertained
always has been
@@crtm1274 Imagine a movie industry that gave 100% of it's attention to pure entertainment. It would be wonderful. But instead, they build scripts and plots to match an agenda.
based
It peaked at around 5,732 stores... (1:44) It's so sad that their only one store left. I kinda wish that instead of GME Stocks we invested in Blockbuster...
the exact number is 5734
the gamestop surge was january 2021. bend’s been all alone since september 2018, corporate closed their last stores in january 2014, only leaving franchises, and they were pretty much at the point of no return by 2010/2011
I know that streaming is much more convenient, but I miss going to a physical video rental place. There was something special about it.
Crazy how much history/memories/experiences were going down during this time lapse demonstration
Hope you can do Kmart next. Kmart only have 4 stores left in the U.S. (2 in NJ, 1 in NY, and 1 in FL) with 6 stores in the U.S. territories (1 in Guam, 1 in PR, and 4 in USVI).
@DJLovesSonicNow 2
@@KLR2007 with 4 in the territories
i miss the late 80s - early 90s time… Blockbuster was awesome to go to as a kid
This is exacly what happens to a business that doesnt change with the times.
So many memories going to Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and the mom pop rental store we had in town. It was an era for sure. It’s a blessing and a curse having so much access.
January 2005 was really the peak for Blockbuster
I was born in 1996 so I didn’t experience the whole era but even the late 2000s blockbuster was a Friday night ritual. Game stop and blockbuster were my favorite stores
Yes great job on pullling together the data for this and making it. Depicts a real piece of history. Surprising not more views and likes.
0:09 si se fijan verán q en ese segundo nace el único Blockbuster q aún existe :)
This store was my happy place when I was four and my dad took me there every now and then so we were both devastated when they went out of business but I was able to purchase some of the movies that were still available when they were going out of business and I still have them to this day and I keep passing the building it use to be in and I always feel a tear go down my face.
this makes me cry
Blockbuster was offered to buy Netflix, but turned them down lol
It makes 200% sense now that the decline starting in 2005. The smart phone was exploding, RUclips and the internet itself started taking over 🤦♂️ I miss the world prior to 2005
Even in the late 2000s blockbuster was still a big deal
Best story I heard was at a veterinary conference. Blockbuster found the town of Susanville, California which had a large population but no video stores nearby. So they put a store there to service the underserved populace. One problem - the population was mostly the inmates in the Susanville prison.
Everything changed when the Netflix nation attack.. Blockbuster the last movie bender
Dudddeewe you should have put movie vendor it fits so perfectly
Ha get it cause the last one is in Bend, Oregon
@@ARandomDonut ah yea very smart
Didn't realize till now my town's Blockbuster was among the first 200 to built in the middle of June 1988, and then was among the last 150 to be closed around December 2013. Our location was one of the most popular places in town to go even in its last few years. I remember going there in the summer of 2013 and the place was packed!
From Dallas to Oregon with love. The Vhs era, and even the DVD era
That’s sad in January 2005 that when Blockbuster Video is just starting to shut down
For a brief period of time in the 2010s up until the pandemic hit, Family Video had more locations than Blockbuster...
I saw the rise and fall of Blockbuster Video. I still get memories of renting out N64 game from Blockbuster from 1996 to 2007 (age 10 to 21). Netflix and Amazon Prime changed everything. 😢
Sometimes I wonder what the heck happened to them, and why they couldn't still be in business today (except for the 1 in Oregon)
Netflix
They Requested an Offer to buy Netflix, but they Didn't Buy it. Then Netflix Rised up to be an Empire, and no one went to Blockbuster. The Fall of an Empire
they failed to adapt to changing technology and trends
@@luigi7834 I know, it’s sad.
@@luigi7834family video outlasted blockbuster and was less popular
Do you have any information regarding what cities the specific blockbusters were in on specific years ?
2:33 That blockbuster up by the great lakes in Minnesota, I remember passing through the area in 2013 and being really surprised that there was still a blockbuster there. I hadn't seen on in years by that point.
Wow. I was surprised to see that one of the last 10 stores was in my hometown.
Netflix happened. Then streaming. People got sick of late fees, and going to Blockbuster just to find the movie they have been hoping to pick up was all rented out. Blockbuster tried to do the delivery thing, but it was too late, everyone already jumped ship.
i like how someone posted this video on twitter without linking to the original video or crediting you and got 719k views in a day while your own video only has 88k over the course of a year
The last movie I rented from BB was Happy Feet 2.
2011
did u return it ?
According to that map it says my hometown got a blockbuster in the late 80s, we actually got one around 2003, and it closed in 2007. Also it shows many surrounding communities that have a population of way less than 10,000 getting blockbusters, which isn't feasible. They had either a locally owned video rental store or attached with a community gas station.
Good video.
Way back in the past, I used to have 2 Blockbusters in Kingston, NY.
I remember there were so many Blockbusters in Chicago that there were 2 a few blocks from each other. I laughed that they were competing with each other. For those in Chicago, these 2 were by Lane Tech High School. One was by the Mariano's, and the other was by the Party City.
The last blockbuster feels like a Clone Wars Separatist Stronghold forgotten by time but still secretly operative, awaiting for further orders that will never arrive...
Want to see this with gas stations.
In due time...
Gas stations will evolve into electric charging stations in the future
Cumberland Farms, 7/11, Circle K Irving, Nouria, Seasons, Hess, Speedway, and Citgo!
it will save thousands from food poisoning
I visited the last Blockbuster in Bend last summer.
I love how the whole time, Maine was like, “meh… this is just a fad. We only need 1.”
movie gallery and hollywood video were more popular here
The one where I live in the Hudson Valley region of southern New York closed in April 2011, though from the looks of this, it wasn't the last one in that part of the state.
Texas (and surprisingly DFW) held out way longer than I expected
Headquarters were based in downtown Dallas. Could be a factor.
What software do you use to made this video?
Damn man. So depressing. :(
Why? No business is immortal.
Probably a long shot, but is there anyway you could do a rise and fall of KB Toys?
theres actually a blockbuster near where i live that i didnt even remember until i noticed the imprint on the wall, turns out it lasted until october, 2013. one of the last 250 of them
My local one was the last one in the county near my school sadly I never went in now it's AT&T
In a random instant from the Big Bang through an endless future. At an arbitrary location in the eternal vastness of space. We found ourselves blessed to be in that fleeting moment I call, THE AGE OF BUSTER.
Interesting that 2005 when RUclips came out, the Blockbuster stores started to disappear.
WOW! What a difference!
LOL
WOW! Out of business!
1:45 and this is where the figures fall
I can watch free movies on RUclips. Thank goodness video stores are no longer in existence
I’m a younger of the range Gen X kid, and I’ve dealt with a lot of depression in recent years with so many physical stores and places going away. From places like Blockbuster, to malls, and just on and on. But even ones that still exist seem to have made efforts to just have you be in and out as fast as possible, to maximize profits. For instance, Starbucks used to have nice comfy upholstered or leather armchairs, softer lighting, and some even had a few books and board games by me. Now it’s limited seating, hard surfaces, and all of the chairs are wood. I used to love going in and just relaxing for 30 minutes with some coffee and a good book or my laptop. Now I don’t even like that there anymore. Barnes & Noble is kind of the same way. Most of the seating areas have been removed. At least by my remaining stores. What’s happened to our world?
I thought Blockbuster's peak years were 1998-2001. Then started to decline/decrease in 2002.
I don't think this one is accurate. My hometown is in an unmistakable location, and according to this video the Wenatchee Blockbuster opened 3 years before it actually did.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change.”
-Charles Darwin
This quote is kinda relevant in the fact that Blockbuster fell because it failed to adapt to the changing world of entertainment 🤷♂️
I remember my parents going on about how Blockbuster was coming to our town a year before it opened. They just kept going on and on like it was something special. And then it opened. And it was indeed special. I remember the first movie we rented. Jumanji, Starring Robin Williams. And from there it was all magic. Bare in mind I'm from a small town all the way in New Zealand. This was the reach of Blockbusters magic. Boy I miss it. The smell. The yellow cases. The candy section. The adult section 😂
I am a lot like many on here. I really miss the atmosphere of going to Blockbuster on a Saturday night. Whether it be with your mom and dad, girlfriend, mates or even alone. It was something cool to do. It gave you a chance to peruse and soak up the smell of popcorn and you had to put in a bit of effort to find something..even if it was crap. I would often choose a big hitter and then a crap movie I had never heard of. Amazing how often the unheard of one topped the pricey one. People talk about how good netflix / disney is. But I for one would be happy to have to go to Blockbuster just to get the brand new movies out......leaving the tv shows and slightly older movies to the streaming channels of course.
As soon as the internet made its way….blockbuster was history.
There was a Family Video near me until only a few years ago. I always loved going to physically rent movies. Honestly I never had streaming until that finally went out. Sort of forced my hand.
Good vid
Some of the first ones seemed pretty resilient.
breaks my heart.
any chance of getting the dataset?