Posted on 07/12/2018 7:11:51 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
ANCHORAGE, Alaska >> Alaska’s last two Blockbuster video stores are calling it quits, leaving just one store open in the United States.
The stores in Anchorage and Fairbanks will close for rentals after Sunday night and reopen Tuesday for video liquidation sales through the end of August, said Kevin Daymude, general manager of Blockbuster Alaska.
(Excerpt) Read more at staradvertiser.com ...
I’m old enough to remember when The Onion was funny.
I’ll let them know! Thanks.
Moved to cal in 1959. Paid my WV library 25 cents 10 years later. no interest.
Occasionally there’s a good series on Netflix that gets me hooked. Like Black Mirror. That was great! Took me a week to finish it. Then I’m like “now what?” Haha.
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....
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.
We used a pick-up truck with our kids. Piles with blankets and pillows and stuffed animals. Good times. I see the two that we went to are gone - but there are still five of them “near” us - on the west side of Puget Sound. Although I’m not sure my wife would be up for such a late night. (And I don’t really care for the movies anymore!”)
leaves the Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon, as the sole holdout.
I didn’t know there are still ANY drive-in theaters open. Glad to hear otherwise! I had really assumed none remain, because none of those I grew up with survived past the early 1980’s.
If I use Google satellite maps and Streetview I can find faint traces of them in the landscape, pieces of the old signs still sticking out of the ground or something like that. Stuff that would never be noticed by anyone not specifically looking for it.
Online selection sucks if you want an older movie. But most people forget there’s still a delivery option at Netflix that has the full library available.
I miss going to a video store. Huge selections and a classic movie section. Redbox is only new movies. Seems to me that now that’s there’s more...there’s less.
Actually, there are a lot of movies at Netflix that are only available by having them send you the disk.
I still owe them about $70 in late charges ...
I have an Android TV box with Neptune Rising and CCLoud TV on Kodi.
I can get anything you can get including live streaming cable channels for free.
I still miss video stores.
I don’t like Redbox because I must leave the safety of my vehicle in a somewhat sketchy area full of hostile black people who may or may not want to kill me.
My Blockbuster actually GAVE me their copy of I Spit On Your Grave.
I wondered why until I sat down and watched it...
There is an old school drive-in theater in Parma, Idaho. The double feature lets out around 2 am.
And now you've made me sad.
It may have been Movie Gallery.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.