Streaming beat late fees, but it never replicated the magic of the neighborhood video store.

Pop culture fans rewind to the '90s to debate if the rental store experience was truly magical, or if it was just a hassle we’ve conveniently forgotten.

With the swift and merciless rise of digital streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and countless others, video stores have become vintage. From the early 1980s up until the late 2000s, ...

Long before Netflix, there was Blockbuster Video. The very first Blockbuster Video Store opened on October 19, 1985, in Dallas, Texas. It was opened by David Cook as a lone video rental store, but the ...

The space features a hidden VCR, working TV, movie displays and a Blockbuster sign activated by pressing a VHS tape After sharing the project on TikTok, Martino says viewers flooded him with memories ...

Alaska's last two Blockbuster video stores are calling it quits, leaving just one store open in the U.S. The stores in Anchorage and Fairbanks will close for rentals after Sunday night and reopen ...

The Blockbuster video store in Bend will be bringing back the ’80s during a block party celebration of four decades of renting videos. Think big hair. Lots of jewelry. And movie and music icons. It ...

BEND, Ore. — And then there was one. One Blockbuster video store in the United States, that is. It’s located in bend, Oregon. Two locations in Alaska will close next week. At its peak in 2004, there ...

One of the surest signs of the passing of one epoch to another is that ordinary features of the earlier era come to be regarded, in the later era, as quaint or novel. Blockbuster employee Mat Wangrow ...

After running out of room for his growing VHS collection, John Martino transformed a tiny bedroom closet into a fully ...