[E. Pluribus Unum]

I actually miss video stores.

[ConservativeStatement]

I preferred music to movies but I guess it had the same application. Going into independent stores was fun but the Peaches to Tower Records was something awesome for the young music fan.

[21twelve]

Me too - we had one a couple miles away. Browse through them with my wife and/or kids. Of course I always hated it when they wouldn’t get returned in time!

[max americana]

“I actually miss video stores.”

me too dude. Even the small video stores during the late 90’s when i was a kid, and all these “people” would go to the back of the video store and I had to ask my uncle what they were doing there, he kept telling me to shut up..while he goes in afterwards lol

[BBell]

I get pretty nostalgic when I go past the old blockbuster. It reminds me of the trips there with my kids to pick out movies and what it was like before the kids became butthead teenagers.

My boy always wanted the scary blood and gore movies and my girl? Depended on her mood of course.

[LukeL]

I was born in 85 and remember the explosion of video stores. In my small town of 3,000 we had a bunch. Gas stations, grocery stores, liquor stores and pharmacies all had a small section of movies and video games to rent. This was in addition to the stand alone independent stores. Being from a family that didn’t travel or dine out, our fun was renting movies and video games on Friday night. If you were lucky one of the stores also did VCR repair and cleaning.

[Phillyred]

I miss them too sometimes. Cheaper, got you out of the house, and the stores had much better selection. Don’t miss not being able to rent a movie because someone else had it out, but it made you try ones you might not have seen otherwise.

[Larry Lucido]

I miss the Gene picks.

[Seruzawa]

I do too. But not Blockbuster. The b@st@rds purposefully targeted and destroyed myriad mom and pop stores.

[minnesota_bound]

You can get more movies from many sources now. I have a Roku 4 box ($99 one time)and they have over 3,000 apps that have movies and tv shows. Most for free. Then there is Sling tv from $25/30 a month that is cable tv but has many more shows to watch. No need for the backroom to view other er... titles. There is the internet for that....

[JustaTech]

I’m still mourning the drive-in movie screens of my youth. The little playgrounds under the screens, the in-car speakers, the mosquito coils burning like incense, the neighbor girls in their pajamas in back of a station wagon, the concession stands and the cheesy ads for same. Experiences most now living will NEVER have. It’s just wrong.