Here in Seattle we have Scarecrow Video. 133,000 titles and growing. Many not available on DVD (15,000 VHS and laserdics). They also rent VCRs as well as region-free DVD players.
Video Rental Stores
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MOvieStop here in the south--along with Gamestop.
I loved to go inside Blockbusters, to browse.
It is how I first saw this:
https://www.amazon.com/Planetary-Traveler-Nathan-House/dp/157252152X
I loved to go inside Blockbusters, to browse.
It is how I first saw this:
https://www.amazon.com/Planetary-Traveler-Nathan-House/dp/157252152X
The only rental options around here these days are Redbox, though the public libraries have limited options.
The last time I rented a movie was from Hasting's Books Music and Video in Nacogdoches, but they closed a few years ago. The store is now a Dirt Cheap retail outlet. The space used by Hasting's in Tyler is still empty.
The last time I rented a movie was from Hasting's Books Music and Video in Nacogdoches, but they closed a few years ago. The store is now a Dirt Cheap retail outlet. The space used by Hasting's in Tyler is still empty.
Scarecrow is awesome although I live an hour away and can't get in there very often.
Blockbuster didn't impress me, particularly in their later years because they had nothing but new or recent releases. I really preferred the smaller or indie stores that kept a decent selection of older stuff and didn't just jump on the bandwagon of whatever was latest and hottest. In the 1990s my favorite Tacoma-area favorite was Movies To Go. North of Seattle it was Crazy Mike's Video. Out on Bothell-Everett Highway there used to be a cool place called 75-Cent Video.
Darren, (totally off-topic and not related to videos), I happened to be in Bothell yesterday to visit Country Village during their last weekend of operation. My wife is very upset to lose that place.
I'll be equally upset whenever the day comes for Scarecrow.
Still a good amount of Family Video stores here in Michigan, I have one a couple of miles away. I've never stopped renting movies even if my frequency is less than before. It's usually half the price of digital rentals and I like to support a brick-and-mortar where I can so if I'll go up there to get a movie I might've missed. I think the last one I got was the recent Halloween movie a month or two ago. I wouldn't mind checking out Fantastic Beasts and Mortal Engines and will probably get Glass in a couple of weeks.
they're also in the process of going under (not quite there yet, but you know)
Hello fellow Michigander! *waves*
