Movie rental store

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picking out movies at the rental store

video rental store

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.

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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.