History Of The Video Rental Store

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  • čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
  • The video rental store era was a magical time, let's go over the history of the Video Rental Store. Enjoy, like, comment, share, and subscribe. Thanks for watching, links below.
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Komentáře • 46

  • @popretro1
    @popretro1 Před 2 lety +6

    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.

    • @FanZceneVids
      @FanZceneVids  Před 2 lety +1

      Thank you that's awesome! Now that takes me back, the tracking control 📼 I miss the video store era myself, still hoping for a comeback. Hope you enjoy the content 👊🤘

  • @bradleyelmore4231
    @bradleyelmore4231 Před 7 měsíci +2

    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!

    • @samsong24
      @samsong24 Před 21 dnem

      Ah that's awesome that your store survived right up until 2020! Was it still popular for rentals or did you just sell the DVD's off for the last couple years?

  • @erikzod637
    @erikzod637 Před 2 lety +7

    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.

    • @FanZceneVids
      @FanZceneVids  Před 2 lety +1

      Dude that's so cool! I bet you had a blast at all those video rental stores?

    • @erikzod637
      @erikzod637 Před 2 lety +1

      @@FanZceneVids yes it was pretty cool getting free movies. I got to watch everything and definitely saw more movies than I do nowadays.

    • @FanZceneVids
      @FanZceneVids  Před 2 lety

      @@erikzod637 Now that's some good times. Movies were way better back then too.

  • @williammatthews693
    @williammatthews693 Před 2 lety +2

    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.

    • @FanZceneVids
      @FanZceneVids  Před 2 lety +1

      The nostalgia flowed over me when putting this together. Mom and Pop stores and Blockbuster is where I lived. The horror section was the best for sure, hope you got to see some of the movies later. Did your imagination match the movies?

    • @williammatthews693
      @williammatthews693 Před 2 lety +1

      @@FanZceneVids Well I'm a horror fan at heart for sure, ESPCIALLY since they were forbidden to me as a kid. Most of them were never quite as scary as I imagined they would be , especially the slashers, but I also have a special place in my heart for slashers since I longed to see those as a kid. I mostly look at them now as harmless fun. Great docu-short friend!

    • @FanZceneVids
      @FanZceneVids  Před 2 lety +1

      @@williammatthews693 Thanks, very appreciative. Same here I a huge 80s horror and slasher fan, just great fun movies. The video store was like a second home to me.

  • @Molega54
    @Molega54 Před 7 měsíci

    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

  • @darkenergy410
    @darkenergy410 Před 11 měsíci +1

    great vid

  • @jacksong8131
    @jacksong8131 Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @BEAVISKORNHOLIO69
    @BEAVISKORNHOLIO69 Před 2 lety +2

    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

    • @FanZceneVids
      @FanZceneVids  Před 2 lety +1

      Same here, so many great memories of looking for the right movie to get. I wish they'd make a come back 📼

    • @BEAVISKORNHOLIO69
      @BEAVISKORNHOLIO69 Před 2 lety +1

      @@FanZceneVids yeah I wish they would make a comeback to

  • @FeverDreamlandTheater
    @FeverDreamlandTheater Před 2 lety +2

    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.

    • @FanZceneVids
      @FanZceneVids  Před 2 lety +1

      Thank you Dreamland 🤘 I too remember going and having to wait for movies but finding older movies, specifically the Universal Monsters, love them. Blockbuster definitely changed the game, good times 📼

  • @TeaTellyWMaria
    @TeaTellyWMaria Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @FanZceneVids
      @FanZceneVids  Před 2 lety

      Thank you Maria ❤ you're to kind! Very appreciative.

  • @patrick39432
    @patrick39432 Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @duncanbrown8150
    @duncanbrown8150 Před 2 lety +1

    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.

    • @FanZceneVids
      @FanZceneVids  Před 2 lety +1

      Hi Duncan, thank you for the kind words and the great comments. I miss the video store so many great times to be had. It's ashame that Blockbuster put out your local ones. I wish all of them big and small could still be open.

  • @ladytauriel4186
    @ladytauriel4186 Před 2 lety +3

    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 🍀

    • @FanZceneVids
      @FanZceneVids  Před 2 lety +1

      Some of the best times, I could spend hours in a video store. I wish those day could come back too 🤘📼

  • @eugenerawls4985
    @eugenerawls4985 Před 2 lety +2

    Good video man :)

  • @destinycaptain247
    @destinycaptain247 Před 2 lety +3

    She seems nice.

  • @T3AtheTherian
    @T3AtheTherian Před 5 měsíci +1

    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

  • @kevinkelley3906
    @kevinkelley3906 Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @beckyzwhite
    @beckyzwhite Před 10 měsíci

    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.

  • @ScarecrowVideoSEA
    @ScarecrowVideoSEA Před 9 měsíci +1

    There are still some stores out there.

    • @FanZceneVids
      @FanZceneVids  Před 9 měsíci

      Yup, and so awesome you guys are still going strong 🤘📼📀💿

  • @AaronJohnson-mo8rf
    @AaronJohnson-mo8rf Před rokem +1

    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

  • @arthurwatt5162
    @arthurwatt5162 Před 2 měsíci

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

  • @bezerker99
    @bezerker99 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @ChannelWackadoo
    @ChannelWackadoo Před měsícem

    📼

  • @londonwerewolves
    @londonwerewolves Před rokem

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

  • @Luigitime2015
    @Luigitime2015 Před 3 měsíci

    📺📼 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

  • @stvinney
    @stvinney Před 2 měsíci

    $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

  • @davidl1329
    @davidl1329 Před měsícem

    I managed a Blockbuster Video store long ago. I say good riddance. I've had it with bad customers, local gangs, bad upper management. Video on demand is so much better.

  • @poopiepants1564
    @poopiepants1564 Před rokem +4

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