What did yours turn into? >parking lot :(

Some Pajeet restaurant.
I don't even remember what the other one turned into.Some kind of institution or something.

Playground for autistic children

>>82047749
a realty group head office.
in vancouver everything revolves around housing

>>82047749
I think its a japanese restaurant now. Our Family Video is still going strong though, which is strange

it's a haunted house now

A restaurant called Mt Fuji except the sign was swapped to say Fuji Mt

Their website and menus and everything said Mt Fuji though

>>82048006
so its still open?

dollar store

Furniture store. Although that closed down too as a bigger, chain furniture store opened pretty close to it. Right now it just has a for sale sign.

half of it into a dominos, the other half is vacant

a gym.

a gym

>>82047749
Tim hortons

a jim

>>82047749
First a friendlys, but it shut down because it opened during a period where only junkies hung around the area so no one ever went in

Now is the yuppie renaissance so it's a pet grooming place now.

>>82048142

Best coffee ever desu

>>82047749
i didnt have a blockbuster i had hollywood video

it turned into an auto parts shop

One turned into a liquor store and another turned into a mattress store.

>going to BB
>ever
haha. poorfags

>>82048030
>Family Video is still going strong though, which is strange

Not really, for the most part there is no competition so they kind of have a monopoly. Where I live the only competition there is is the library which will let you take out video games and movies for free.

Dentists office

>>82047749
Mine got turned into a Gamestop, most likely going to be gone in a few years.

>>82048229
>Blockbusters + Liquor Store + Mattress store = everything you need for a fun night with a 90s qt

A Buffalo Wild Wings that quickly turned into the go to hang out for gang members. Guaranteed parking lot fights every Fri-Sun nights and everyone once in awhile someone will get shot

failed dollar store, no a poo in loo grocery bonanza

>>82047749
sex toy shop
then closed down
then half turned into a ups store
>>82047956
furniture store
then dialysis center

A pet store

>>82047749
i had two near me

one was torn down and walgreens built over it
the other was turned into an urgent care

>>82047749
a FedEx Kinko's

Mattress store

>>82047749
one turned into family/kid friendly dentist next to a stop and shop
the other is an empty building, just sitting there with the blockbuster silhouette

>>82047749
First in some kind of mini cinema and now has been just closed for like 5 years.

Advance auto

>>82047749
A pet store that specialises in reptiles

>>82047749
A vape shop.

So it'll be closed again in a few years.

>>82048367
>Mattress store

One of the Blockbusters by me became a mattress firm, and a Sprint store.

There are now 3 different mattress firms and another furniture store at that one intersection.

5 Guys Burgers N Fries

One Video Planet turned into a auto repair shop and the one 300 meter from where I live is still there but they are having sales and I think they are about to close down too.

>>82048487
Mattress stores are a huge fucking scam, anyway. You want to buy direct from a manufacturer.

>>82048479
>A vape shop


Have you ever noticed that even tho "it's only harmless water vapor" vape stores always have the most disgusting, gunked up, filthiest windows I've ever seen.

>>82047749

A sex toy store.

>>82047956
Thats kinda awesome actually

>>82047749
if i had know that bb was going to go under i woulda gotten a job a year before and taken over one of the stores (mine was in a sweet location)
would've turned into an Blockbuster arcade. all games a quarter.

>>82047749
Nandos lel

>>82048579
theyre fucking indians and they dont care

>>82047749
halloween shop and now its a pet store!

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>tfw ausfag and my childhood video rental store is still in business

pet supply store
other one is some imaging center i think
and the local mom n pop one is gamestop

i want to go back

>>82048635
>theyre fucking indians
No, 2 of the stores in thinking of are run by white people. Still filthy as fuck, even cigar shops that let you smoke inside have cleaner windows.

One became a GNC, one became a Papa Murphy's, and another was combined with it's adjacent store to become a movie theater.

>>82048198
that's really sweet

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>>82048579
I don't know what you're implying surely these fine, upstanding gentlemen would never lie about chemicals in vape juice!

>>82047749
Still sitting empty 10 years after it closed.

>>82048635
Indians smoke tobacco, even they have more class then mouth fedoras.

My blockbuster was next to a kmart

The kmart closed and became walmart

Blackbuster became applebees

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Mine turned into a gym

>>82048655
Which is a Network Video, not a Blockbuster.

The local Blockbuster (which we rarely went to because it sucked) building is now divided in 2 and half is a sex shop and the other a gym.

>>82047956
>>82048609
Yeah, that's a perfect way to market a hair salon.

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My town had 2, one turned into a medical supply store in like 2004 then an spa recently. The other turned into a army recruiting center in 2011 then closed down permanently a year latter.

>instead of the usual giant room with yellow and white walls with shelves the BB near me looked like a fancy club on the inside and was mostly painted dark colors with light fixtures everywhere

did anyone else have a "nice" blockbuster in tier town?

>>82047956
Why the models are all black?

>>82047749
A nigger emporium.

Mine turned into an emergency dental office.

>>82048869
It's a black lady hair salon

>>82047749
Jos A Bank

>>82047749
Family Video

Into a convenience store. Not really that bad, they had the movies for rent even when it wasn't a Blockbuster anymore, but I don't know if they still do have those.

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>>82048638
>>82048034

SPIRIT store?

>>82047749
Why do kids today pretend like they remember Blockbuster?

Bread shop

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>>82047749
Coffee Shop and Dominos

>>82047749
Dollar store

>>82048796
HOLLYWOOD HAIR (you will look like a CELEBRITY)

yeah, that would work

Mine's a Netflix now

Isn't this a net gain for the economy?

>more space for other businesses
>cost savings passed onto the consumer who spends money elsewhere

>>82048327
And to top it off, i guarantee that the shooting niggers dont tip

>>82049027
>get shot
>tip paramedic

>>82047749
Five Guys, GameStop, Yogurt Mountain, Farm Bureau Insurance, AT&T Authorized Retailers, and a dry cleaner.

Man Blockbuster was pretty huge.

>>82048906
>It's a black lady hair salon

i.e. the ghetto

>>82047749
An extended lobby for Dominos.


RIP Total Video

>>82048367
Same here.

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Mattress store. Luckily the kino emporium is still in business.

>>82048767
No he's right Indians do tend to own allot of vape shops at the moment. They tend to buy into whatever the latest tend is in the world of franchises, that's why they always own 7-elevens, subways, and such.

Back when cold stone creamery was popular I had to train future franchisees in how to run the store, make the ice cream, and all that good stuff. Easily 80% were Indians with no idea of how to run a business at all, that's why they always opened up 3 blocks from another location. Because they just want to make a quick buck and eat into an already successful stores profits, rather than create an all new market. They buy into the "own a business and magically be successful while everyone else does the work" aspect of the American dream.

>>82047749
drug store, petco, and an advance auto parts (3 different ones i remember)

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As much as I loved renting movies, I really can't complain about a community oriented, non-chain bar opening up in it's place.

>>82047749
A Bank, and another was turned into a car audio store.

>>82049222
what are you drinking there

It was a Verizon store for a while, but now it's a dentist's office

>>82049230
I have a car audio place down the street from me that I swear had to be a money laundering front. I've never seen anyone in the parking lot, and the one time I went there looking for some new speakers they looked at me like was insane for thinking they would carry such things.

>>82047749

A gay strip club

>>82046678
>>82046678

>>82049281
They have a decent craft beer selection that generally features local breweries (Victory being the closest one here). I typically go for the seasonal and then a lager (Yuengling) on the side. Their food is great too, it's styled around different cuisines throughout the US. New Orlean's pasta is one of my favorites.

>>82047749
plumbing supply

Law office

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>>82047749

ghetto hair salon, the neighborhood took a turn for the worse...

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>>82047991
Here's one of them. It's some sort of academy. You can still see the shape of the blockbuster logo on the sign

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Here's the other which is now an indian restaurant

what a time it must have been to be in dental school right when blockbuster was going down the shitter, seems like 3/5 bb's turned into a dentist.

>>82049508
blackbuster

>>82047749
a spin class studio

>>82049562

It's blockbuster academy.

>>82047749
An Aboriginal "art" store

>>82047749
American Mattress

Charity furniture store. I always forget it's gone, feels like it hasn't been that long, although it's been years. Sometimes I'd go in just for a fruit slushy because nowhere else did them.

>>82047749
A hollywood video

They remodeled the building and now half of it is a Starbucks and the other half is Petsmart. The Starbucks has a terrible parkinglot that's impossible to pull out of though, and the Petsmart is one of those walk-in places with fancy "gourmet" food brands that are all way overpriced. Would rather it was still a Blockbuster.

>>82048926
SPIRIT stores are comfy as fuck desu

It became a Hollywood Video, then it became a non-chain video rental store. Somehow it is still in business. It's not like I'm in the middle of nowhere. Internet is fine, the city is above average in wealth for its size and the population is between 10,000 and 100,000. It's probably a money laundering front.

>>82047749
Barber
A really fucking good one, mind you. I mean the guy there does my beard with scissors and a comb.

>>82050436
I love how they are always playing the creepy music and how they have the funny scary animatronics and they let u wear the masks and stuff.

Local halloween stores are shit. Dont put music or put rap. Dont let u try the masks.

>>82047749
Long John Silvers lmao

I am NOT the least bit sad that blockbuster closed, cost four dollars PER movie.... fuck that shit, now i pay 7 dollars per month and have the option of 300+ movies
Or, if you want you can go to red box at 7-11 and pay one dollar per movie.


Four dollars per movie was fucking robbery.

>There will never be PLA calls to blockbusters ever again

state owned liquor store

A church and Pokestop

>>82048016
Your government has fucked over your housing market for Chinks even worse than ours.

t. Australia

>>82048030
Family Video buy the whole block and then build a retail and takeaway hub around the video store and make revenue from renting the property to other tenants. The stores themselves have no overheads outside staff and in terms of similar businesses they have no competition.

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>>82047749

A Jimmy John's

>>82048494
>but they are having sales

Sure fire way to know they're closing up soon

>>82049146
as a beer driver who is forced to merchandise all of my product in their store i can agree

>>82048787
>half is a sex shop

How do these places stay in business? If any business stood to be replaced by the Internet it's one where the clientele would prefer to remain anonymous

>>82052480
Normies don't have any patience or foresight and are degenerate. They want the FUCC they want it RIGHT NOW and if they need a big ol' vibrating pussy dildo thing to get said FUCC they'll go out and buy it right now without any shame.

>>82050436
Are you in FL, or do they have Spirit in other places too?

>>82051664
>Long John Silvers
I'm so jelly right now

We didn't have blockbuster in Scotland.

>>82052993
Spirit is owned by Party City which is a chain store, we have em both here in Illinois.

A tesco express

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>>82053141
We did have global video though.

>>82052993
They have spirit wherever there is SPENCERS stores. New york has a really nice spirit store

>>82047749
expensive chairs for crippled old people

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Sports Bar

>>82048344
Are you from pensacola? Same thing happened here.

>>82053363
>wherever there is SPENCERS stores.

Spencer's is every where, I think it's actually in the Constitution that a Spencer's be inside every mall.

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A massage parlor.
And not the "good" kind that used to be in the combat zone.

>>82050436
I prefer going to my local independent Halloween store.

A Blaze Pizza. It's pretty good

no idea, i moved away like an adult

>>82053645
that sounds like a place for big guys to go

A yogurt/smoothie place, then Bojangles + Cheeseburger Bobby's.

>>82048030
Family Video is the best.
Our Blockbuster got turned into a Lens Crafters, then an empty building.

>>82052656
Are normies really the ones going to sex shops though?

I thought normies were the ones who ridiculed them as "perverts"?

>>82053645
but where did he get the S ?

>>82055086
The same place they got the Y and the '

>>82048479
northern Texas?

>>82048953
Ha! Cerritos!

>>82047749
THEY PAVED PARADISE
AND PUT UP A PARKING LOT

>>82047749
here u go op
http://kdvr.com/2017/04/25/parents-surprise-son-who-has-autism-with-mini-blockbuster-store/

>blockbuster

Turned into one of those delivery-only mini Pizza Huts.

>2 movie galleries

Both became Mexican places. Funny enough there's a Redbox across the street from one of them.

Mine was next to a shoprite, and is now a shoprite liquors

>>82047749
Sleep Country Canada mattress store :(

>>82056077
There's no S in HOLLYWOOD though

A pretty good bar/restaurant

There were 3 rental stores in my area

2 turned into Gyms, one is now a Hobby Shop

>>82048327
I know one nearby bar that has fairly regular parking lot fights. Sometimes I go out with friends and get them to drive past while I throw chicken wings at those dumb fucks.

>>82047956
Wonder if anyone goes in there and accidentally tries to rent videos.

>>82047749
a planet fitness

>>82056150

thrift/consignment shop

silverlake here

>>82048780
holy shit
A N T H E M ?

>>82056528
When you walk in and there's a line of loud black women gettin they hair did you probably realize your mistake pretty quick

>>82056265

some teenager threw a textbook at papa john while he was riding his bike in my hood a while ago

https://www.pizzamarketplace.com/news/schnatter-ceo-of-papa-johns-hospitalized-after-cycling-wreck/

https://www.pizzamarketplace.com/news/schnatter-ceo-of-papa-johns-hospitalized-after-cycling-wreck/

>>82048260
This

Hollywood video was better.

>>82048332
>dialysis center

guessing you're in the south

>>82048635
>>82048688

can confirm. know a white dude that started a shop called wildvape

whole foods.
got that dank mochi ice cream desu. ultimate kino comfy food

>>82053645

clever name. sure this place attracts a classy crowd.

>>82047749
split between a fedex and a papa johns

>>82056692
the kid would've gone down in meme history if he beaned papa with a sodypop

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>>82047749

>>82047749
A Starbucks

>>82048780
>toning

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>>82047749
A pet hospital. It was among the last wave of Blockbusters to close, too (in January 2014).

Federal Credit Union

>>82047749
pawn shop

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Turned into one of these "rip poor people off" stores.

Sad!

>>82047956
2011 flashbacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT-J4zZhQTY

>>82047749
mexican pharmacy

>>82047749
a gym

Sherwin Williams Paints. The Hollywood Video across the street from that became a dental office.

Hot dog restaurant that also closed recently.

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>>82047749

A yoga place

>>82047956
>Arial Black
Disgusting

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>>82048736

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turned into 4 smaller shitty stores
at least the mr. sub is still there

Mine became a paint and home aesthetics supply store, every time I pass by it on the road I can't help but think of the old days.

one turned into a gnc and the other turned into a ross

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Still abandoned. Kinda surprised that Chuck E Cheese's is still open, though

chinese take out joint

>>82051460
you're really cute anon

I've never been to a Blockbuster because there has never been one near my house. I went to mom and pop rental stores.

>>82058464
YEAH...but me and my babby's daddy need a 54' flat screen but we only gets paid like once or twice a month, so its easier to make a $50 payment once a week for 4 years than pay it all at once, otherwise how the fuck is we gonna buy diapers, newports and little ceasers?