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Blockbuster departs Alaska, leaving 1 store left in U.S.
A.P. ^ | July 12, 2018

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: alaska; anchorage; bend; blockbuster; blockbustervideo; clickbait; dinosaur; fairbanks; oregon; videos; wob
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To: SpaceBar

I’m old enough to remember when The Onion was funny.


61 posted on 07/12/2018 10:53:44 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: roadcat

I’ll let them know! Thanks.


62 posted on 07/12/2018 11:10:57 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: Rebelbase

Moved to cal in 1959. Paid my WV library 25 cents 10 years later. no interest.


63 posted on 07/12/2018 11:12:39 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: HamiltonJay

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.


64 posted on 07/12/2018 11:21:00 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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....


65 posted on 07/12/2018 11:21:13 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


66 posted on 07/13/2018 1:02:21 AM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: JustaTech

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!”)


67 posted on 07/13/2018 1:19:50 AM PDT by 21twelve
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To: ConservativeStatement

leaves the Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon, as the sole holdout.


68 posted on 07/13/2018 1:24:33 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: 21twelve

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.


69 posted on 07/13/2018 1:53:34 AM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: Phillyred

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.


70 posted on 07/13/2018 4:31:35 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: ConservativeStatement

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.


71 posted on 07/13/2018 4:58:26 AM PDT by albie
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To: Phillyred
“Netflix selection sucks in my opinion.”

Actually, there are a lot of movies at Netflix that are only available by having them send you the disk.

72 posted on 07/13/2018 5:08:52 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: ConservativeStatement

I still owe them about $70 in late charges ...


73 posted on 07/13/2018 5:21:50 AM PDT by 11th_VA (ItÂ’s the Enforcement Stupid)
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To: minnesota_bound

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.


74 posted on 07/13/2018 5:37:21 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: HamiltonJay

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.


75 posted on 07/13/2018 6:34:27 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Get off my lawn and GTFO of my country.)
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To: morphing libertarian

My Blockbuster actually GAVE me their copy of I Spit On Your Grave.

I wondered why until I sat down and watched it...


76 posted on 07/13/2018 6:36:18 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Get off my lawn and GTFO of my country.)
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To: JustaTech

There is an old school drive-in theater in Parma, Idaho. The double feature lets out around 2 am.


77 posted on 07/13/2018 6:44:51 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: JustaTech; 21twelve
"...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..."

And now you've made me sad.

78 posted on 07/13/2018 6:45:52 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Get off my lawn and GTFO of my country.)
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To: Phillyred

It may have been Movie Gallery.


79 posted on 07/13/2018 6:48:30 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: JustaTech
Here in SW Pennsylvania there are two drive-ins still open. One is the Brownsville Drive-in.
80 posted on 07/13/2018 6:49:18 AM PDT by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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