Get DVDs Shipped to Your Door: Help Save the Last Great Video Store

Remember the magic of video stores? You can still rent movies—and have them shipped to your door. Help a local store keep that magic alive!

Halvorson Times
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Apparently, #JennifersBody is a #Cultclassic, now.

I'm happy for it, but I wonder what good is being a cult classic when there are NO #videostores anymore...

@stefan Or ………… rent from great #film preserving institutes like #Seattle's Scarecrow Video (🐌 mail and in person)!

They currently have a whopping 149,060 titles in their catalogue 👉 https://scarecrowvideo.org/library

https://scarecrowvideo.org/rent-by-mail

#cinemastodon #ScarecrowVideo #movie #movies #VideoStores #PhysicalMedia

Library Landing Page | Scarecrow Video

The other night I joined Dave Mclennan & Casey Cumming on their podcast Dave’s Video Graveyard. I’ve been a fan ever since I stumbled upon their old show on Adelaide’s WOW FM in the car many years ago.

We talked about childhood video stores, Hungry Jack’s, ice creams, our best drive-in double features and go through my 10 favourite films of all time.

A couple of corrections: I had to double check the map and the Video Mania / Civic Video / Movieland video store I was thinking of was actually on Sturt Road in Warradale (I’m pretty sure it was on the corner of Eucla Avenue – long since knocked down and turned into houses).

Also the 1979 film ‘Being There’ wasn’t actually mentioned in that famous scene in ‘Tropic Thunder’. It was ‘Rainman’ and ‘Forrest Gump’ but you could absolutely put it in that same category.

Listen here:
https://davesvideograveyard.buzzsprout.com/186739/13311697-david-m-green-guest-s-choice-special

#vhs #videostores #vhsrevue #podcast #davesvideograveyard

DAVID M GREEN - GUEST'S CHOICE SPECIAL - Dave's Video Graveyard

This week on DVG Casey and Dave settle in for their first Guest's Choice Special since their return along with Comedian/writer and all round nice guy; David M Green.you may David as a writer for comedy series Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell and game ...

Buzzsprout
My twenty-something students and video stores like the one in Anne Carson’s “Autobiography of Red” (1998). #111Words #AnneCarson #AutobiographyOfRed #VideoStores https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/03/my-twenty-something-students-and-video.html
My twenty-something students and video stores like the one in Anne Carson’s “Autobiography of Red” (1998)

Regarding the mention of a "video store" in Anne Carson's 1998 verse novel "Autobiography of Red" (which I wrote about two days ago on Monda...

Well, this is interesting. Dead or near-dead brand attempting a comeback on a small scale now. Who knows what's next?

#retail #brandrevival #videostores #videoretailers #videorental #Belleville #OnBiz #business #Ontario

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/article-jumbo-video-store-belleville/

A Jumbo Video store reopens in small-town Ontario. Why?

In Belleville, Ont., a pair of film-industry veterans have reached back into the past to resurrect one of the last remaining Jumbo Video stores in Canada

The Globe and Mail
Tonight’s Feature: AT THE VIDEO STORE (2019), a documentary by James Westby that features talking-head footage of John Waters, Gus Van Zandt and people of a similar ilk (I dunno, I haven’t seen it yet). I wish Lunchmeat VHS would set up shop over here and not The Other Place - I dig their VHS editions of modern movies. #LunchmeatVHS #Movies #VideoStores #VHS
Random: Anyone else an old North Coast Video customer? We’re talkin’ Wicker Park. I was there a lot around 2002-2005.
#northcoastvideo #chicago #wickerpark #videostores #vhsrental

Local Video Rental Store Memories of the 80s & 90s | Let's Backpedal

https://tilvids.com/w/3HePk8aibcnbSWhYdacZEp

Local Video Rental Store Memories of the 80s & 90s | Let's Backpedal

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