History Of The Video Rental Store 

Hey, enjoyed the vid! Had me reaching around the back of my phone, searching for the tracking control. :) I sure do miss the video store era. Subbed to your channel.

I shopped at all the major chains and I also worked at Blockbuster, Video King, Hollywood Video, and I was a store manager at my own Movie Gallery.

I actually had the privilege of working at Family Video until we closed in 2020! Was a cool and interesting video! Video stores will be missed!

Man what a throwback. Good stuff FanZcene. Growing up most spots we visited were local little mom & pop type spots. They would have 1 or 2 copies of any given movie and if it was out, then you waited and waited or maybe put yourself on the list and got it sooner. But when we'd try older stuff while waiting for the 'new movies' we always ended discovering great movies. Eventually Blockbuster came along, wasn't the same but even that had a charm.

You are so good at these... Love it!! what a great job!! Very nice!

Ah, those commercials were like mainlining nostalgia! I loved going to the video rental store, especially the independent mom and pop ones. They always had the best selection. As a kid, the horror section was always cool to explore as I really wasn't allowed to watch them so I would just read the back covers and imagine what the movie was like.

I really miss the video rental store there are hardly any that exist anymore the video rental store was a big part of my childhood

Hi, I enjoyed your video on the history of video rental shops. It was forty years (1982) ago that I got my first video cassette recorder. At the time my family and I were members of three video rental shops. They located in the South of England, which is were I live. They were Video Scene in Cove, Vantage Video in Fleet and Flicks Video in Farnborough. Every weekend we would always get a video to watch, if there was nothing good on television to watch. These three video rental shops were in business for about ten years, until Blockbuster Video came to Farnborough in 1992. It finished these three small outlets, because the Blockbuster in Farnborough was massive, and now that has closed down.

1 video rental store appeared in my city. It's the only one in my city that exists. I went the other day and the selection was small. It had other things to buy to make the money it needed to survive. It had a copy machine like at the library. It wasn't organized at all. They charge $2.50 for rent for 2 days. No new releases. They had a special $5 for 3 rentals at once for 2 days. The store person talked to the 1 customer ahead of me for a loooong time. After 12 minutes in line my niece finally gave up and we put the DVDs and Blu Ray back and her ice cream back. She was more patient than me as I wanted to leave after 8 minutes. She insisted we stay cuz she really wanted the ice cream. I wanted her to have the fun experience of renting at a video rental store. But that was a horrible experience. Especially not a good impression for a first time customer.

Idk what you’re talking about but I go to The Lobby, and that still rents out movies, so it’s my favourite place to go

great vid

Good video man :)

I want these days back again! It was so much fun to go an pick out videos and make a night of it with your friends ! Good Journey 🍀

I worked at a National Video Store in Denver. I thought they were a big chain, but disappeared quickly.

She seems nice.

Oh my uncle is coming about a movie store that is still up the store is called movie world and the film is called the last movie rental place

The greatest memory I have is the new video store we had near us the owner had bootleg videos. I think they were Betamax. They were movies that were recorded.

There are still some stores out there.

I’m surprised to learn that 20th Century-Fox was in financial difficulty in the fall of 1977. Star Wars was a few months into its first run and the money should have been pouring in.

greg, Looking at some of these commercials for some of these video stores is quite fascinating lately, i have been Looking at some youtube videos where people have been trying to Recreate the video store But inside their Home apparently it is in their Basements one notable example, is Cinemassacre's when he attempted to basically have a video store in his home that has Multiple formats that does have a element quite similar to Blockbuster where apparently the vhs's are on the shelf and same can be said with a lot of other people too as james explains in another video he did about the movie room he made, he basically wanted to Recreate a video store

$9.99? I want a movie made player for my TV!

Happy were in a world of online rentals and apps. Much easier. No late fee's and no travel. 😅

📺📼 I went to yes a small big and I guess it won't go once and then back in the day and cooling when I was a kid and then we're going to some you accidentally before he had these giant ones like Blockbuster, Major video and Hollywood video and market and Super markets too

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$10 a day?!!! Im well aware the vhs movies were crazy expensive and would remain so right until the advent of dvds (for reasons that escape me) but that just seems greedy. I guess he knew what he was doing

Did you find the photos & edit the video? Or did you subcontract & just read from Wikipedia?

just 1 less cool place to go to now a days. all we have now is banks and resturants