Man, I can practically smell the aroma of this place... going to the video rental store as a kid was one of the true joys of being an 80s and 90s kid... back when seeing a movie required you to be social and interact with other humans...
thats because everyone with VHS used to play make believe broadcast... short movies.. full movies.. we did everything.. and of course it was before youtube was a thing these shenanigans with video cameras are why youtube exists lol
@tonypepperoni229 Plus, a lot of cable stations had community access channels. People could shoot dumb little skits or make their own shows or movies with their video cameras and (as long as it didn't have any objectionable content) broadcast it on their local cable station.
@@tonypepperoni229Yes! I remember making a talkshow with my friends around 8th grade - 1994ish. And then making a fake radio show and pretending to be a DJ in 9th grade with a tape recorder. It was so fun. I'd give just about anything to see/ hear those tapes again.
Sometimes I don't even understand how people have fun anymore , everything about our society now Is so sterile , generic , homogenized , void of character , distinct culture , or any sense of diverse adventurous discovery thanks to the Internet , even that has long tapped out of Innovation and no longer feels free or like escaping from the typical toxicities of society. Everybody follows the exact same handful of trends for the most part and frequents the exact same 5 copycat social media platforms , everyone even talks the same no matter where they're from , there's no Individuality anymore we all just mimic what eachother's doing according to social media , and the obsession and misuse of social media absolutely destroyed us beyond repair. 80s and 90s were the pinnacle IIlusory display of the American dream and final nail In the coffin before the 00s began and everyone started waking up to the lie.
@Beef 99 those shows don't exist anymore because they were crap. Nothing to do with feminism. You really think showing "bra and panties" is going to keep a show afloat in the era of hardcore pornography? It's the same reason the Playboy clubs closed down. Sure girls in skimpy bunny suits look cute but they can't exactly compete with a strip joint especially with the admission price difference. Also since when is feminism anti-sex? A lot of feminists are porn stars actually. Feminism is about equal rights for men and women. Yaknow like right to vote, right to work, right to same wage for same job, and not being shamed for having a sex life. Like Amanda Todd was bullied to death for having cam sex. Like wtf. I guarantee every one of her bullies have had cam sex before, they just didn't get screenshotted.
I have some cool old stuff from this era on tape somewhere. Gotta get me another video capture card to convert it so I can post it. I always love seeing this kinda stuff!
I made a video of me and a buddy of mine driving around back in the early 90s. And then the second half of the video was us reacting to whatever was on TV. Sadly the tape was lost a long time ago.
@@mperezmcfinn2511 My dad got me a beta max camcorder from a tag sale when I was kid. It was basically a VCR with a video camera attached. So I couldn't take it anywhere out of the house because it had to be plugged into an outlet. And the cord for the camera, which attached to the recorder, was about 12 feet long. But at least I had a way to record my cartoons while I was at school.
It’s mostly just nostalgia. The 90s honestly sucked and it’s the era I grew up in. The 2000s had better tv shows and pop culture felt better in general.
@@Tommy88- There's more to life than tv. In the 90s there was an actual healthy middle class, young people could move out home and potentially get a decent job. The cold war was over so no longer the fear of nuclear war, it was before the rise of China and 9/11 sparking the next militarisitc phase of the War on Terror. There was far less regulation of people's lives and there was far less obesity as people actually went outside.
I was 19 in 1990, but facebook and social media would have changed things for me. As a shy guy, I hated going up to women in bars, just as bad when they came up to me, but so much easier initially to type. I was also very sexually inexperienced with my first girlfriend, but I could have at least read the theory on the internet had we had it :) I personally would have gone to the future .
Miss these times. Kids nowadays don’t know what they are missing. The gamble of getting a movie and not knowing if it’s good or not it was an event to go to the video store back in the day
Every Friday night in the 90s my dad would bring me and my 2 sisters to the video shop and then collect a pizza or Mc Donald's on the way home,magical memories.
@@finhyland4270 I wish I could go back to those days again, in the early 2000's was still good I used to bring my friends over and watch vhs films or play nintendo 64, now everyone is at home watching online whenever they want. those days you couldn't watch a film whenever you wanted
I frequented video stores every week from 1992 to around 2007. It really started to change when DVD's came out but those times of the 90's I'll never get back. I miss video stores so much. 😔
I wish I had taken videos of more regular stuff like this back then. We really didn’t know how good we had it in the 90s! This is a beautiful look back into a much simpler time.
Ah the golden days of my childhood. I was 13 then and every friday night my family and I would go to the local video store and rent 4+ movies for the weekend. Sometimes I'd rent a game for the super nintendo or something. Good, carefree times. Thanks for the memories!
This brings back nostalgic memories. During my time at boarding school, our house parents would go to our local video store and rent a video for the evening, and bring back posters. The closure of Blockbusters was a big shift in cultural entertainment.
I remember all those VHS covers so well. So many hours spent trying to decide what movie to get and you would become familiar with the covers of movies you'd never even rent.
It's weird hearing people talking about Batman '89 and the Naked Gun as though they were recent movies, now that so much time has passed since their release.
Until about 1992 many stores also had large inventories of Beta tapes, which I preferred over VHS because of the slightly sharper picture. Best of all, I frequented two places that not only were 24 hour, but had large selections of Laser Discs from about 1986 - 1997. Cable at the time had about 325 lines of resolution, where VHS had about 240, Beta had 250, and Laser Disc had 425! When DVD came out around 1995 I did some side by side comparisons and knew it over for the other formats. The good part though was after about 2000, a lot of rental stores had plenty of DVDs for rent as the previous formats were retired. Around 2010, I got into Blu Ray for a while, which reminded me a lot of enjoying the quality difference of Laser Disc over tape. It was a treat. It was also just fun to browse around in those rental stores. Sadly, it's gone now in most cities.
I still have my old Pioneer CLD-704 player and my discs. It was SO gratifying to have friends over who had never seen how much better laserdiscs looks and then hear them rave over the picture.
Total Recall was huge in 90-91. To this day , i can recite that movie word for word. I was 18 when this was filmed. Man, times were very different. I sure miss those days.😢
Yep, and it meaning something. We had less then but somehow had more. I know a ton of it's nostalgia for my youth but I really do believe those days were superior overall. The small things - little points of joy, like renting a VHS - were an actual treat and something worth savouring. Nowadays we're bombarded with various forms of media and are supposedly more connected than ever, and yet human interaction has never felt more hollow imo...
80' was cool. Renting all those betamax/vhs flicks hitting the arcade..riding around with my brand new bmx bike.. listening to new wave on the fm....yup those were the days gone by..✌🤘⚡🤙
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I can still remember the smell of the store I used to go to back in the day.. A mix of stale cigarette smoke, new plastic and popcorn from the popcorn machine. Nostalgia is a weird drug.
Man.. I miss heading to the movie rental stores 😭 There was a sense of excitement and anticipation when looking through the isles. My favorite, the horror section of course! Recently I’ve been buying vhs 📼 movies on eBay and watching them at home with my 4 yr old son! He thinks vhs cassette tapes are pretty cool!
Thats so cool. My kids don't even understand what a DVD player is. Remember renting a movie that had a good cover but it being terrible and watching it anyway because you paid for it.
@@Growingup80s90s That was always the worst. Renting a cool cover but terrible movie. My son loves watching TMNT 1 & 2 and he just worked up enough courage to watch Batman Returns. He said The Penguin (Danny Devito) looks scary lol! Next is Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey and Halloween 4 📼
I was born in 81, and I have such vivid memories of sneaking to the horror section while my parents browsed the classics. I was terrified but thrilled by the scary covers of movies like Sleepaway Camp, Hellraiser, Nightmare on Elmstreet, I was especially intrigued by the cover to a movie called April Fool's Day because it had a picture of a woman who's hair was braided into a noose and I wanted to braid my hair like that. I don't think I knew back then really what a noose was for. It's been fun as an adult and watching all the films I was so drawn to as a child, but too young and scared to watch back then.
In my town we had a pizza place that would bring you a random movie along with your pizza and when you ordered again they'd bring another one and take the first one back. It didn't last long, though, sadly, due to the asshole thieves ruining it for everyone else.
Thats because of Bill Cosby and his sweater craze during the prime of the Cosby show. It just end up transcending into college sweaters and starter sweaters in the 90s when it came to sports wear/athleisure-style
it was a big deal to get anything that wasn't on the big three tv networks or the radio. i really don't think kids understand how limited the media and entertainment landscape was if you didn't live in a big city.
I still remember renting VHS tapes and even DVDs were first coming out, awesome times. You get generations will never know the struggle of wanting to rent a movie and no copies left or newer movies only have a few day rental on it.
T'Pau "Heart and Soul" playing in the background as he starts the interview. Perfectly on point for the era. Spent way too many Friday and Saturday nights in the late 80's and early 90's standing in the local video store (before the chains took over), unable to make a decision about what to see.
Walking in the third weekend in a row. Running to the isle where the movie you want is at. And for the third week in a row it’s still gone. Good times. Back when you actually had to wait to watch something.
It's great to see that the roast beef carving guy moved out of the country buffet and up to the video rental place. Seems like a step in the right direction
Every decade was like that in its beginning, although it seems like the 2000s was probably the last decade where you could see and feel the former decade still being prevalent. That stopped after 2001, post-9/11
@@lavenderllamamusic I always think of past decades having partitions between them. All had their own unique identities. From 2003 through 2023 only significant change I can recall is how much I've aged since then. lol
The hairdos and fashion in particular! We didn’t know what 90s was supposed to be until we were kneedeep into it! I think Grunge killing Hair Metal had a TON to do with moving us into that different aesthetic. Less ‘80s excess’ and more ‘90s don’t give a F!’
Movies are more accessible now, but it's less fun. The fun part was making the trip to the video store and browsing, and seeing all the other movie fans browsing. I would often spend up to an hour looking around.
Now those were the days, anytime you heard of a new movie you didn't get a chance to see in the Theater, and your not sure if you want to buy it, all you had to do was rent it first. Times were so much more simpler.
1980s-1990s was golden era for sci-fi movies, my parents just bought out RoboCop, predator and Terminator VCR tapes so I never had to go to VCR stores and that was all I needed to take me to premed school, life was simple robots, aliens and home cooked meals and the future was happening right there again and again every day....
I loved Bird on a Wire. Saw it so many times. Think I'm gonna have to watch it again. Just like all the other comments here, I miss those days. Things may be more convenient now, but things meant more back then.
LOVE this Nostalgic Video!!!......@ 2:43 The CULT CLASSIC 'Bad Influence' with James Spader and Rob Lowe Directed by Curtis Hanson...EXCELLENT Movie and GREAT SOUNDTRACK!!!
my parents actually used to rent movies at this location, literally asked my mom cause both my mom & dad lived in rochester during this time. Nice footage!
Gosh I would of been a baby then and I miss this store. They need to bring blockbuster back 😂 maybe not exactly block buster but a shop mainly built for aesthetic reasons. The nostalgia lovers will love it 🥰
I was already feeling nostalgia since I was a kid at that time, but when I saw Dawn of the Dead at 2:00 which is one of my favorite films (and rented it in the 90's on VHS), this became one of my favorite videos.
It was an adventure going to the video store on Friday or Saturday nights, hanging out with friends, getting pizza and just enjoying the night…except always not rewinding the tapes before dropping them off.
@@Growingup80s90s Baaahahaha!! I forgot about that!!! We sure did but never really used it. I would just grab the tape & go. I believe Blockbuster had a sticker on theirs but I’m not sure. Oh the memories!!
I graduated high school in 1991. Camcorders were so expensive back then, my parents only allowed me to use theirs once. Wish i couod have recorded some of my high school adventures
@Growing up 80's & 90's Are you the guy in the video? Ha Ha. If so. I meant no offense. In fact, it's a compliment. Lol. At any rate, I really enjoyed the video. My entire life in the 90s revolved around a video store (my cousin owned one). Practically lived there.
If only I could go back in time and tell those kids that they had about 9 years left of good original movies before Hollywood switched to nostalgia farming reboots and superhero movies. 80's and 90's were a golden age of movies and video stores.
It's strange to imagine a world before smart phones or wide-use internet. It's 2023 and it's not even 15 years when the first iPhone came out, or no one was using the internet at home until largely around 20 years ago.. That's not that long ago. Still, hard to remember times without the internet in the palm of your hand. No internet meant the only way you heard about a movie was either by already seeing it when it first came out in theaters, or seeing a trailer for it on tv, reading about it in some movie-review magazine, or someone telling you about it. So it was always a complete surprise as to how much you might like the movie or not -- that's what made it cool to explore the rental stores on a Friday night or whenever. You would usually leave with 3 or 4 movies at a time.
I remember back then a guy owned his own video rental shop near me growing up. He use to have such a amazing line up of movies all the classics spanning VHS, CD's and other forms of movies and I loved that store. Bakck to the future and total Recall are wonderful choices to rent for a day and chill. I also am surprised at 3:02 those adult films are usually behind curtains from what I remember back in the day. I know because I remember many guys and at time women would go there with a warning sign. I love how the guy tries to censor those videos protecting the innocence of the viewers. Cool video. ^_^
Life is convenient now..but thrill and excitement is not so much..now whatever movie i can see on Netflix or OTT...but going to store with yours friends to rent it..that wait for holidays is so exciting..we appreciated life that time more..
better times, when people actually interacted with each other, when renting a movie was exciting and not a choir 80s, 90s killer decades..my dad owned a video shop in the late 80s and used go work with him..i used to rewind all the tapes from customers when returned hahah
