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63. The Last Blockbuster

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Thu Dec 17, 2020, 02:06 AM

Dec 2020

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I'm old enough to remember renting videos from the video rental store. [View all] Yavin4 Dec 2020 OP

Did we have to walk barefoot in the snow... 3catwoman3 Dec 2020 #1

Had to use bread sacks. calguy Dec 2020 #5

Uphill, both ways. Enterstageleft Dec 2020 #6

Uphill jpak Dec 2020 #7

great minds think...I think? Enterstageleft Dec 2020 #9

Yup and Jinks jpak Dec 2020 #20

Back in my day there wasn't even color tv. calguy Dec 2020 #2

My parents are very frugal, depression era kids. Kittycow Dec 2020 #25

OMG....Romper Room, with her "magic mirror ". pdxflyboy Dec 2020 #51

Oh how well I remember that Magic Mirror Kittycow Dec 2020 #64

I remember both of those! And of course Captain Kangaroo Rhiannon12866 Dec 2020 #71

So funny! Kittycow Dec 2020 #75

As a preschooler, I thought it was great Rhiannon12866 Dec 2020 #78

I was a Los Angeles Romper Room kid. I flunked out of Hollywood. hunter Dec 2020 #101

I wonder if any of your siblings made it onto Kittycow Dec 2020 #103

I'm old enough to remember not having video stores. yankeepants Dec 2020 #3

I'm old enough to remember... Enterstageleft Dec 2020 #4

I'm old enough to remember when we had nothing to watch one on if they had existed. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2020 #24

You're about the same age I am. Jeebo Dec 2020 #44

Exactly! The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2020 #49

I remember the first time Peter Pan was on TV. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2020 #60

So did we! murielm99 Dec 2020 #65

I remember buying my first BetaMax video player/recorder csziggy Dec 2020 #57

I still have two functioning Beta VCRs. Jeebo Dec 2020 #68

Yeah, I got rid of pretty much all our video tapes a long time ago csziggy Dec 2020 #85

The hours were limited... RainCaster Dec 2020 #8

I'm pretty sure my blue & yellow Blockbuster card is still around here somewhere..... FM123 Dec 2020 #10

I'm old enough to remember playing 1/4 inch thick LPs my dad and I found at NRaleighLiberal Dec 2020 #11

I remember sitting around the radio with family Arne Dec 2020 #16

Geez you are old. Kittycow Dec 2020 #26

I'm retired Arne Dec 2020 #27

Never a dull moment down there! Kittycow Dec 2020 #30

We listened to "One Man's Family" every night during supper. Arkansas Granny Dec 2020 #38

West coast, had to look it up. Arne Dec 2020 #41

I never knew it was on tv. We listened on my Dad's big old Silvertone radio. Arkansas Granny Dec 2020 #47

Some of the old radio's were pieces of art. Arne Dec 2020 #77

Yes, the old ones were important pieces of furniture. Ours had a drawer for a pull out phonograph. Arkansas Granny Dec 2020 #82

RCA Victor, His Master's Voice. always stuck with me. Arne Dec 2020 #83

There's an old-time radio classics channel on Sirius/XM satellite radio. Jeebo Dec 2020 #50

WHAT??? PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2020 #61

We didn't get The Shadow where I grew up soldierant Dec 2020 #66

A lot of people know what evil lurks in the heart of man. Arne Dec 2020 #74

True . But not the ones in whose hearts the evil lurks. They are blind to it. soldierant Dec 2020 #92

I also remember watching the Wizard of Oz each year on TV. In black and white. Staph Dec 2020 #43

That is the first movie I remember ever watching. Jeebo Dec 2020 #46

First movie I remember was The Day the Earth Stood Still. Arne Dec 2020 #81

I remember TV tube testing machines in the grocery store JDC Dec 2020 #12

Kids these days will never know the joy of having to replace tubes. PoliticAverse Dec 2020 #32

When the Beatles came on Ed Sullivan Arne Dec 2020 #34

Wild, radical, rocknrollers - in a coat and tie. keithbvadu2 Dec 2020 #52

When I tune in to a one-time UHF channel today, I still somehow expect bad reception. n/t trackfan Dec 2020 #58

In 2020 I've gone back to the antenna on the roof thing. Arne Dec 2020 #76

I was one of the kids in my grade school that could run the movie projector captain queeg Dec 2020 #13

Me too Captain dweller Dec 2020 #17

What about those big round burn marks when it jammed? Arne Dec 2020 #29

Speaking of grade school... Marie Marie Dec 2020 #42

When I was teaching our school had a Xerox machine. Access to it was jealously guarded... hunter Dec 2020 #88

Once upon a time some wild and crazy high school kids Wicked Blue Dec 2020 #98

I remember b&w only tv with 3 channels (on a good day with rabbit ear antenna on top)... wcmagumba Dec 2020 #14

And you had to be 18 to get in the room in the back with the good stuff. bluedigger Dec 2020 #15

Our back room was the shoe repair shop. Arne Dec 2020 #22

I'm old enough to, uh, what were we talking about? flamin lib Dec 2020 #18

I forget. n/t Yavin4 Dec 2020 #19

I remember those stores. grumpyduck Dec 2020 #21

And don't forget True Dough Dec 2020 #23

I'm old enough to remember using slide rules--in fact..... lastlib Dec 2020 #28

My dad between 7th and 8th grade I think exboyfil Dec 2020 #36

I just missed slide rules. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2020 #62

I only had a pen with a built in clock. Arne Dec 2020 #86

My junior year in high school, I competed in an interscholastic math competition.... lastlib Dec 2020 #80

Yes, but did you have a SCABBARD for your slide rule? Paladin Dec 2020 #87

I have a slide rule collection, short and long. hunter Dec 2020 #97

That's how little I know about slide rules: Paladin Dec 2020 #100

Were you kind? Did you rewind?? n/t PoliticAverse Dec 2020 #31

Yes, even the DVD's. Marie Marie Dec 2020 #40

... PoliticAverse Dec 2020 #56

I remember renting 8mm stag films for our beer parties. Chipper Chat Dec 2020 #33

My kids are old enough to remember video rental stores frazzled Dec 2020 #35

The Last Blockbuster PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2020 #63

I remember when Redbox started exboyfil Dec 2020 #37

Boy it was exciting when they started renting DVDs too. Kablooie Dec 2020 #39

I remember the first TV shows I watched, I Love Lucy..1951 or 1952 maybe earlier. Stuart G Dec 2020 #45

That's not a long time ago. Jeebo Dec 2020 #48

Some of the video rental stores had lifetime memberships. keithbvadu2 Dec 2020 #53

I remember renting The Sopranos from Blockbuster... IcyPeas Dec 2020 #54

It was a long time before I realized The Sopranos wasn't about opera singers. Jeebo Dec 2020 #93

I remember cigarette commercials. Jeebo Dec 2020 #55

I never entered a video rental store - and I'm 61. trackfan Dec 2020 #59

I remember when televisions were a brand new thing lunatica Dec 2020 #67

must have been an amazing thing to see Demovictory9 Dec 2020 #105

I bought a color TV when I was 19. We never had one growing up so when I got out on my own captain queeg Dec 2020 #69

I'm old enough to remember when sarge43 Dec 2020 #70

Thats nothing gladium et scutum Dec 2020 #72

how was the butt naked walk to school in the snow? pstokely Dec 2020 #73

Back in my day, we carved movies into stone tablets. n/t. NNadir Dec 2020 #79

Porno at the local Blockbuster. Paladin Dec 2020 #84

Our neighborhood Blockbuster video is still empty, with "For Lease" signs in the windows. hunter Dec 2020 #89

My first binge watch was from Blockbuster VHS. Hotler Dec 2020 #90

Wow, that sure dates you!! Not! Fla Dem Dec 2020 #91

Wow, 12 inch screen and no color, even Fred had color. Arne Dec 2020 #95

LOL, if you had watched beyond the commercial, the show was in B&W. Fla Dem Dec 2020 #96

and they had a back room with the "adult" videos LNM Dec 2020 #94

Yes. Watching porn in shame. Yavin4 Dec 2020 #102

I'm old enough to remember watching the television test pattern for twenty minutes..... Brother Buzz Dec 2020 #99

or you stood around waiting until someone returned the vid you wanted Demovictory9 Dec 2020 #104