Video rental store

video rental store

Video Stop

Tower video rental store, 1986.

No exhibition about the 1990s would be complete without mentioning Blockbuster, a single-home video rental shop. The first store in the UK opened in March 1989 and at its height in 2002, Blockbuster UK operated out of over 800 stores.

Videodrome, the roughly 2,000-square-foot shop at the corner of North Highland and North avenues, is the last video store standing in Atlanta that is not of the XXX variety. It is an oasis for film buffs (and the occasional visiting celebrity) who are suckers for special features, director’s cuts, or not letting Netflix’s algorithms ration out their media diets.

With video-rental stores consigned to recent history, British artist and movie enthusiast Andrew Glazebrook decided to open his own, armed with little more...

Contrary to common belief, the video store isn't quite dead. And if you're regularly tuned in to Lunchmeat Land, you'll know this to be VHSolid fact. But if not, we welcome you to our VHS-obsessed domain with a few choice examples to support our notion: The classic chain of Family Video is still alive and finding ways to thrive out in the mid-west, Scarecrow Video has become a marvelous mecca of movies, indie start-up Old Skool Video is defying the odds in Nebraska and a hardy army of video…