@jumbome7420 that's funny ... yeah we had: top ten, blockbuster, Hollywood and Prime video stores in Chicago near Northeastern university growing up then, living in Tarpon Springs, FL (on the gulf) we had a huge Blockbuster on U.S. 19 that we were still renting movies in the early 80's. 1982 was the first time I rented from a vidro store and was directly across the street from my apartment in Chicago, that was Top ten, which was owned by the coolest Hindus. We rented Animal house on Betamax (first rental ever), before we bought a Vhs and It was awesome ... being ten years old and my parents had no idea what I was renting. We were renting First blood, dawn of the dead, Texas chainsaw Massacre and so almost daily.... It was so cool and so new, which all my best friends were into movies like me, especially horror and of course 80 boobie movies. They had a xxx rated room with a curtain covering it that looked so inviting and he knew us and would never let us get close to that room being a little kid, buy I remember us hovering around waiting to get a glimpse of some nudity when a customer would go in or out....awww great times and fond memories of a time long gone. I'm 51 now, and I wish I could go back to those times for just a week (that would be glorious). God bless all of you CHH members and older guys like me....
Judging by people comments on social media these days ,more people want to go back to physical movies instead of streaming services. I would support a video store if it opened up near me again. 😊
I knew that in the 1990s people would go to these stores but I kept trying to warn the people who ran them not to support the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war or the war in Iran. They ignored that and that is why their businesses collapsed.
The streaming services offered you the opportunity to download educational content for free. Hostility by politicians and tech giants to that, is opening up the return of the video blockbuster store. If the companies can not see any reason for people to play their files, let them rent them instead.
I miss the video rental stores. I'm old enough to remember having a top-load VCR and having 5 different video rental stores in town. I rented The Slumber Party Massacre so much that my folks finally bought it for me. I still ride around with my kids and point out the locations. One was called Gem Stone video. We used to buy our concert tickets there and buy horror merchandise too. Man we need Doc Brown and a DeLorean ASAP.
There's also a third version of Saw III which is the Director's Cut, it runs a little over 2 hrs. I highly recommend getting that one as well and its DVD only.
It is so cool you still have a retro video store open in your town! Video stores were a very important part of my childhood so to see one still open is just awesome. That place kinds reminded me of a Hollywood Video by just how the shelves were set up!
I love everything about this video! I wish I had a place like that near me. I was surprised to see some rentals with slipcovers haha those weren't around in the hay day. Great video Christian, this really hit close home and in the heart.
Awesome, I remember when I was younger a place in Winter Park FL that i used to go to called 16,000 movies that had free popcorn i used to eat popcorn and look at all the horror and sci fi covers. I love Godzilla movies and older horror. I have always loved older movies covers.
So jealous, ours closed in 2020 during lockdown’s, if it still existed I would cancel my streaming service right away. Still thinking to cancel it anyway 🤔. The rental store really got my in my Friday or Saturday night mode for some movie time. They had theatre snacks, you could buy and collector items on display that you also could buy. It really made me in the mood for a movie.
That brought back such wonderful memories.... Thanks, Christian! That carpet was just fantastic. I have SO many great memories growing up in the 90's video stores, and going down the horror section with all the great VHS covers..... I am so incredibly grateful that I was able to experience that as a kid!
OMG!!! This is amazing!!! This is like taking a time machine back to the 90s (well, except for the blu rays...you get the idea). That horror section is nothing to sneeze at!
They got the fly for rent!? Total win, man I really miss these stores, I remember going to blockbuster with my family back in the US, I currently live in Mexico but when I came here, they also had three rental stores called video centro I believe, I didn't go too often but usually I went to ask if they had anything for sale, I bought some movies, even posters, and then one by one they started to go away, they started to sell their whole stock at very cheap prices but at the time I had no money, but what hurt me the most was indeed the stores going away, movies always confort me and to see these places go away just hurt me bad, I still have those movies and posters I bought and they're now my only pieces of evidence that these stores existed
This was a great video. The video store was literally my introduction to horror. I’d go in and look around when my mom was at the laundromat next door. I knew all about Jason Lives for years before I’d ever saw it, thanks to reading the back of the VHS case. When I was 18 I was able to create my own account and the first movie I rented was Halloween: H20.
WOW this is amazing wish the Dvd Rental store would return around the south wales of the uk. Where is this dvd rental store Awesome video in fact brilliant i absolutely love this Fantastic 📀
I miss video stores so much, there’s none left by me 😢 That’s definitely an old Hollywood Video (I used to be a manager there back in the day) very cool you have one nearby & that you support them (I would too if there was one near me) thanks for the nostalgic video!
Sometimes I wish say a couple of friends that had huge movie collections could get together and rent the movies to people. The problem is them either never coming back, or coming back destroyed.
If one of the landlords hadn't forced a five year lease on my neighborhood Jumbo Video, they might still be around today. However, all my local stores were gone by early 2017. You should start a series where you rent a few titles every couple of weeks. I feel like it would get lots of views. Also, I would love a slower glimpse around those new release aisles...but I know it can be awkward shooting in public. Seems like nobody else in the store and not many rented, but I am so glad they are staying business as usual. Shudder and Netflix titles on the shelves is epic, too.
Awesome video planet CHH hope you're well my awesome friend . unfortunately the last video rental store in my area close its door early last year . Rip centre Alabama's Video hut . it lived renting old Wresting snd horror Vhs tapes . I bought a lot of them went they switch to only renting DVDs . Unfortunately i lost most of the video tapes when i lost my old house in a bad storm . my video tape collection was almost completely destroyed only s few horror movies survived .
I looks like 1995 because they've got DVDs but if it was VHS it would be 1985. Man I miss videoclubs and the variety they had among them. The only place around like that is the public library. Thanks for sharing this time capsule Christian!👉🙂👈
@@timothys3119 I bought my first Sony DVD player in 2005. I only remember seeing them a couple of years before for sale. I'm not sure they were available in P.R. in the 90s. But Fangoria mentioned them in the 90s.
Looked more like 2005 than 1995, pretty much what Hollywood Video used to look like inside. That's crazy they still have their CRTs hanging from the walls, haven't seen that in ages. I saw some classics there but most of their horror section looks like D grade straight to DVD stuff (not necessarily a bad thing though).....oh well, better than nothin' I guess. How can they have 3 copies of Phantasm Ravager and not one copy of Phantasm 2? Blasphemy lol!
If you manage a video rental store, you can choose who can enter the store - say, if a politician has made a law to prevent you from enjoying your basic privacy rights, the store can say no if that politician wants to rent an item there.
Nothing like that around here. I used Redbox fairly often until they got sold. It's still here at our $Gen but it hasn't been restocked since. They always had discounts and I miss them 😢😢 💔
I honestly think there is a good market for video stores today with how many subscription services and pirating there is going on, if somebody made affordable rentals it might be doable for a lot of people.
I recently discovered the library in my city has thousands of DVDs and VHS available for free rental. All the video stores are gone so this was cool to find.
Oh man this is legit, just like the old days the newer movies get more prominent places and more numerous copies. Are these all blu rays? I never saw a rental store with majority blu rays as when those came out rental stores were already well on their way out. I did see stores with majority dvds however and also still remember the days when it was exclusively vhs. Born in 1980.
video stores are a thing of the past i havent had a video store in my state in over 12 years now cool some people still feel to own one but i bet they dont make the money they did 15 years ago
I love this, rental stores popping up in 2024, but i have to ask, is this really viable today?? I mean i hope so of course, i hope they succeed but i dont know if there's enough potential here. I hope their hard work pays off for them...
I’ve got experience a video rental store but it felt sketchy. It closed own years ago. I used to live an apartment where the exact same location was used to be a Hollywood video. I wish I got to experience blockbuster.
This will become more important to that area for people who want to physically rent movies - Redbox is in hot water and barely adds new titles any more. If I didn't see something in the theater, I could wait for Redbox to rent it for $1 or $2. If I wanted to own the movie I could wait until the Blu-ray went on sale for $10 or less.
I 🤔 thought you were going to say I go to this awesome rental place to support them not try to buy movies from them because you think they are probably going to close pretty soon.
That brings so many memories i started to work in a video store in 1998 it was so much fun great people kids happy to rent games and movies at Fridays and lets not forget the xxx rated sectionso many times i had to tell the 15 yo you cant be in here lol but netflix killed video stores with the dvd rentals
I know National video I think this is the very last one in the United States I rented at the original Gresham Oregon location 83 84 not sure if you knew but there was also another national chain that came from Portland in fact that carpet reminds me of the carpet from Hollywood Video which was a real big national chain in fact it was the second biggest chain next to Blockbuster but if I'm not mistaken National video came before all of them the original video store National video
i use to work for Hollywood video and blockbusters and blockbuster was more of a family store alot of crap and the last block is not worth the trip !!! now tower video had the best movies and hard to find movies and no one else had them
That’s so cool. As an 80’s kid I’m glad I got to experience this on a regular basis
I miss those days....
@@DinoJazz13 me to man. Plus that yellow popcorn that was so salty it burned if you ate a lot
@jumbome7420 that's funny ... yeah we had: top ten, blockbuster, Hollywood and Prime video stores in Chicago near Northeastern university growing up then, living in Tarpon Springs, FL (on the gulf) we had a huge Blockbuster on U.S. 19 that we were still renting movies in the early 80's. 1982 was the first time I rented from a vidro store and was directly across the street from my apartment in Chicago, that was Top ten, which was owned by the coolest Hindus. We rented Animal house on Betamax (first rental ever), before we bought a Vhs and It was awesome ... being ten years old and my parents had no idea what I was renting. We were renting First blood, dawn of the dead, Texas chainsaw Massacre and so almost daily.... It was so cool and so new, which all my best friends were into movies like me, especially horror and of course 80 boobie movies. They had a xxx rated room with a curtain covering it that looked so inviting and he knew us and would never let us get close to that room being a little kid, buy I remember us hovering around waiting to get a glimpse of some nudity when a customer would go in or out....awww great times and fond memories of a time long gone. I'm 51 now, and I wish I could go back to those times for just a week (that would be glorious). God bless all of you CHH members and older guys like me....
Judging by people comments on social media these days ,more people want to go back to physical movies instead of streaming services. I would support a video store if it opened up near me again. 😊
@@firefly8471 hell I would to. Nothing beats it
Looks like an old Hollywood video store. Great memories. I think there's a resurgence of movie fans who would love those stores to come back!
Me included
I’m so unbelievably jealous of you right now.
Music stores and video stores were the good ol days
Never thought I’d live to see the day when video stores were looked at in awe as historic relics from a former era long past. So surreal.
I knew that in the 1990s people would go to these stores but I kept trying to warn the people who ran them not to support the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war or the war in Iran. They ignored that and that is why their businesses collapsed.
Streaming services are so barren that I long for these days!
I would gladly go back to this instead of streaming 😊
And rack up rental fees if you Forget to return your movie.
Public libraries still let you rent movies.😊
The streaming services offered you the opportunity to download educational content for free. Hostility by politicians and tech giants to that, is opening up the return of the video blockbuster store. If the companies can not see any reason for people to play their files, let them rent them instead.
I miss the video rental stores. I'm old enough to remember having a top-load VCR and having 5 different video rental stores in town. I rented The Slumber Party Massacre so much that my folks finally bought it for me.
I still ride around with my kids and point out the locations. One was called Gem Stone video. We used to buy our concert tickets there and buy horror merchandise too. Man we need Doc Brown and a DeLorean ASAP.
Where are you?
@@jwgreek8606 Lancaster, Ohio.
That movie was great. So great it got two sequels: I mean two part 2's. One of them is called "Sorority House Massacre 2."
There's also a third version of Saw III which is the Director's Cut, it runs a little over 2 hrs. I highly recommend getting that one as well and its DVD only.
great video bro that is awesome we need to bring back video rental
It is so cool you still have a retro video store open in your town! Video stores were a very important part of my childhood so to see one still open is just awesome. That place kinds reminded me of a Hollywood Video by just how the shelves were set up!
Great video, I'm glad to see that video stores are still around.
Awesome rental store man 📼 🎥 🍿
I love everything about this video! I wish I had a place like that near me. I was surprised to see some rentals with slipcovers haha those weren't around in the hay day. Great video Christian, this really hit close home and in the heart.
Awesome, I remember when I was younger a place in Winter Park FL that i used to go to called 16,000 movies that had free popcorn i used to eat popcorn and look at all the horror and sci fi covers. I love Godzilla movies and older horror. I have always loved older movies covers.
They were all over Orlando
There were better than blockbuster
That’s awesome. I live in southeast Michigan and there hasn’t been a video store around in some years. Only Redbox kiosks.
So nice!! I so wish they'll never go out of business ♥
So jealous, ours closed in 2020 during lockdown’s, if it still existed I would cancel my streaming service right away. Still thinking to cancel it anyway 🤔. The rental store really got my in my Friday or Saturday night mode for some movie time. They had theatre snacks, you could buy and collector items on display that you also could buy. It really made me in the mood for a movie.
I miss Family Video. There were about 5 in my city, but Covid killed them. I would love to support a place like you're in
That brought back such wonderful memories.... Thanks, Christian! That carpet was just fantastic. I have SO many great memories growing up in the 90's video stores, and going down the horror section with all the great VHS covers..... I am so incredibly grateful that I was able to experience that as a kid!
Awesome you have that still.
Wowwwwwwwww u are blessed to see this❤❤❤❤❤ video rental stores are making a comeback 😅😅
Man, does this bring back memories. It's funny I tried to remember the last time I was in a rental place, and I can't remember. 😢 its been too long
So awesome! I used to work at a Movie Gallery in my hometown, and man, seeing this brings back memories. Where is this place?
I am forever glad my hometown still has a Hollywood video
Where is your town?
@@thrashpuppy2010 kentucky
@@thrashpuppy2010 Kentucky
We have the last Blockbuster here. Didn't know Hollywood Video was still out there. That's great.@@RedRider763
That is awesome. The last rental store in my area went out of business 8 years ago.
OMG!!! This is amazing!!! This is like taking a time machine back to the 90s (well, except for the blu rays...you get the idea). That horror section is nothing to sneeze at!
I worked at a family video all through college. I miss it, and this video was a great walk down memory lane.
3:12 turistas!!!! ive had turistas on dvd since its release in 2007 and never got a blu ray release!! love that movie
Awesome video... That place reminds me of a "Hollywood Video" I use to go to back in the day...
They got the fly for rent!? Total win, man I really miss these stores, I remember going to blockbuster with my family back in the US, I currently live in Mexico but when I came here, they also had three rental stores called video centro I believe, I didn't go too often but usually I went to ask if they had anything for sale, I bought some movies, even posters, and then one by one they started to go away, they started to sell their whole stock at very cheap prices but at the time I had no money, but what hurt me the most was indeed the stores going away, movies always confort me and to see these places go away just hurt me bad, I still have those movies and posters I bought and they're now my only pieces of evidence that these stores existed
That place has an amazing selection, I’d be renting from there as well if I was anywhere near there!
This was a great video. The video store was literally my introduction to horror. I’d go in and look around when my mom was at the laundromat next door. I knew all about Jason Lives for years before I’d ever saw it, thanks to reading the back of the VHS case. When I was 18 I was able to create my own account and the first movie I rented was Halloween: H20.
WOW this is amazing wish the Dvd Rental store would return around the south wales of the uk. Where is this dvd rental store Awesome video in fact brilliant i absolutely love this Fantastic 📀
Miss Friday nights walking around video stores.. awesome this still exists
That’s awesome! Wish i had video store in my area . That was my fav thing to do as a kid!
I miss video stores so much, there’s none left by me 😢 That’s definitely an old Hollywood Video (I used to be a manager there back in the day) very cool you have one nearby & that you support them (I would too if there was one near me) thanks for the nostalgic video!
Wish I had a store like that near me
I miss going into those stores. Very rare to find one still around.
So so cool 📼❤
That place is literally a five minute drive from my house. I haven't been in there in a while. Im going to have to go.
What town is this? I would love to visit this store sometime while I’m traveling.
@@timothys3119 west monroe louisiana
I am in Lakeland, FL now and that is only 15 hrs away
But I am not driving that far now...but for blockbuster I have done 6 hours one way while working a shift...hahaha
I'm jealous as hell that you still have one of these.
In love ❤️
That's so awesome
Sometimes I wish say a couple of friends that had huge movie collections could get together and rent the movies to people. The problem is them either never coming back, or coming back destroyed.
Huge cool video rental store.
If one of the landlords hadn't forced a five year lease on my neighborhood Jumbo Video, they might still be around today. However, all my local stores were gone by early 2017. You should start a series where you rent a few titles every couple of weeks. I feel like it would get lots of views. Also, I would love a slower glimpse around those new release aisles...but I know it can be awkward shooting in public. Seems like nobody else in the store and not many rented, but I am so glad they are staying business as usual. Shudder and Netflix titles on the shelves is epic, too.
Your lucky that you get to buy and rent movies from a video store. Awesome!
I have a smaller store like that but it’s all old ones like collectibles. Christian has more horror movies than they do lol
Awesome video planet CHH hope you're well my awesome friend . unfortunately the last video rental store in my area close its door early last year . Rip centre Alabama's Video hut . it lived renting old Wresting snd horror Vhs tapes . I bought a lot of them went they switch to only renting DVDs . Unfortunately i lost most of the video tapes when i lost my old house in a bad storm . my video tape collection was almost completely destroyed only s few horror movies survived .
I looks like 1995 because they've got DVDs but if it was VHS it would be 1985. Man I miss videoclubs and the variety they had among them. The only place around like that is the public library. Thanks for sharing this time capsule Christian!👉🙂👈
DVD’s didn’t come out until ‘96 and didn’t start selling big until ‘98. They made VHS all the way to 2008.
@@timothys3119 I bought my first Sony DVD player in 2005. I only remember seeing them a couple of years before for sale. I'm not sure they were available in P.R. in the 90s. But Fangoria mentioned them in the 90s.
Looked more like 2005 than 1995, pretty much what Hollywood Video used to look like inside. That's crazy they still have their CRTs hanging from the walls, haven't seen that in ages. I saw some classics there but most of their horror section looks like D grade straight to DVD stuff (not necessarily a bad thing though).....oh well, better than nothin' I guess. How can they have 3 copies of Phantasm Ravager and not one copy of Phantasm 2? Blasphemy lol!
Love it. How do they stay in business??
Loyal fans who miss this stores I guess
The real question is does it have that movie store smell like they all had
yea it does
That is so awesome!!
Amazing that this wonderful place still exists!!! What is the name of the store and which city is it located?
Man, I miss video stores, I haven't had one near me since 2012.
You need to bring expand to Miami Beach fl. You would make a fortune $$$
much better than streaming
If you manage a video rental store, you can choose who can enter the store - say, if a politician has made a law to prevent you from enjoying your basic privacy rights, the store can say no if that politician wants to rent an item there.
The last Blockbuster is located in the town I live. I can tell National Video has a much better selection of movies just by watching your footage.
Nothing like that around here. I used Redbox fairly often until they got sold. It's still here at our $Gen but it hasn't been restocked since. They always had discounts and I miss them 😢😢 💔
I honestly think there is a good market for video stores today with how many subscription services and pirating there is going on, if somebody made affordable rentals it might be doable for a lot of people.
I really miss these, i often buy movies nownsinply because i can't watch then
I miss my days of working at Movie Gallery and getting first dibs on discounted blu rays!
What is the address of this place?
That's about as rare as finding Bigfoot or a Unicorn these days.
That's cool
The store inside decor reminds so much of Blockbuster
I recently discovered the library in my city has thousands of DVDs and VHS available for free rental. All the video stores are gone so this was cool to find.
Mom used to take us to blockbuster, grabbbed pizza next door. Great times.
For a fun video store recky check out the beginning of Winding Refn's 'Bleeder'.... ;)
Oh man this is legit, just like the old days the newer movies get more prominent places and more numerous copies. Are these all blu rays? I never saw a rental store with majority blu rays as when those came out rental stores were already well on their way out. I did see stores with majority dvds however and also still remember the days when it was exclusively vhs. Born in 1980.
Did that video rental store had a "Adult Section" in the back like they always do? They usually have a separate room for those adult movies.
What’s a pirate’s favourite way to watch a movie. You may think is DVD but it’s VCRRRR
video stores are a thing of the past i havent had a video store in my state in over 12 years now cool some people still feel to own one but i bet they dont make the money they did 15 years ago
so cool
That’s awesome, where was this located st
Monroe Louisiana
I miss this.
I love this, rental stores popping up in 2024, but i have to ask, is this really viable today?? I mean i hope so of course, i hope they succeed but i dont know if there's enough potential here. I hope their hard work pays off for them...
I’ve got experience a video rental store but it felt sketchy. It closed own years ago. I used to live an apartment where the exact same location was used to be a Hollywood video. I wish I got to experience blockbuster.
how did they do this ?
This will become more important to that area for people who want to physically rent movies - Redbox is in hot water and barely adds new titles any more. If I didn't see something in the theater, I could wait for Redbox to rent it for $1 or $2. If I wanted to own the movie I could wait until the Blu-ray went on sale for $10 or less.
You haven’t seen the new(est) Firestarter?
I 🤔 thought you were going to say I go to this awesome rental place to support them not try to buy movies from them because you think they are probably going to close pretty soon.
You still buy DVDs CHH ❓
DVDs out sell bluray and 4k.
@@brianmelendy1194 DVD is certainly cheaper but wish we could buy a really good player to make them look like Blu-ray at least.
Do they have a website? I want to see how I can support them if possible.
Not really
I heard screaming in the backround lol
They had a great horror movie section..
That brings so many memories i started to work in a video store in 1998 it was so much fun great people kids happy to rent games and movies at Fridays and lets not forget the xxx rated sectionso many times i had to tell the 15 yo you cant be in here lol but netflix killed video stores with the dvd rentals
They should bring these back
The Mcpoyles really did corner that dying market.
A machine that reshrinkwraps this stuff. 😆 Yeah, it's called saran wrap and a hair dryer.
Is it a Family Video? All the Family Video’s around here have closed
It's a National Video.
I like it
I want one in my town.
Where are the vhs tapes
I know National video I think this is the very last one in the United States I rented at the original Gresham Oregon location 83 84 not sure if you knew but there was also another national chain that came from Portland in fact that carpet reminds me of the carpet from Hollywood Video which was a real big national chain in fact it was the second biggest chain next to Blockbuster but if I'm not mistaken National video came before all of them the original video store National video
I never used streaming and I hope it fails, cause I miss video stores!!!!
I'm so jeally!!!!
i use to work for Hollywood video and blockbusters and blockbuster was more of a family store alot of crap and the last block is not worth the trip !!!
now tower video had the best movies and hard to find movies and no one else had them