What did yours turn into?

An at&t store and a smaller movie rental place. My movie gallery turned into a rib joint

Five Guys

>>83189783
Dutchman Sports Bar or some shit.

There were two I went to.

One got divided in half and is a cell phone store/restaurant

The other got turned into a massive 7/11

One is a Buffalo Wild Wings and the other is a Chase Bank.

Half of it became a 7-11, the other half became a socks store that went out of business

>>83189863
Who the fuck would go to a restaurant that has a cell phone store also inside of it?

>>83189783
papa johns/verizon

Chipotle

>>83189783
Mine is a Nike Outlet

somali restaurant

no joke

>>83189909
>>83189925
lol

Charity shop

>>83189851
this, it was in a plaza and got split. half five guys, half laundromat

Student housing

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>>83189783
Mine sat empty for like 15 years.

;__;

Had to drive by it all the time and see the empty shelves: the PS1 games (because fuck n64 and dreamcast) were right in front of the window so I had to relive all my great memories of standing there and trying to decide which game to rent for 5 days.

The building just recently became a sewing place or some gay ass shit I don't give a fuck about.

Every single fucking Blockbuster here turned into a mattress store. This has got to be some kind of criminal front for something. How often do people actually buy fucking mattresses? The stores are empty all day.

>>83189783
Some that i visited have turned into a pharmacy, a restaurant, part of a store and a Chilis. Independent video rentals still exist?

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Question for those born in 1997(cusp of Millennials and Gen Z): do you associate your childhood more closely with Millennial things like Blockbuster, Jimmy neutron, Yu gi oh, PS1, PS2, N64, Drake and Josh, Pokemon when Misty, possibly May also, was still there, Gorillaz, Discman, Malcolm in the middle, Cyberchase, Pokemon gen 1-3, Tamagotchi, Osmosis Jones, original Ben 10, and Kim Possible?

Or Gen Z things like streaming movies on Netflix, CN Real, Hannah Montana, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360, Bakugan, The Dark knight, Pokemon with Dawn and Iris being the female companions, Justin Bieber, WallE, Diamond and Pearl, Twilight, Chowder, Marvelous misadventures of Flapjack, Adventure Time, and Silly bandz?

Mine's a subway now, and a pretty shit one at that

>>83189783
bakery
book store
religious store or whatever, everything was religion related
protein shakes and supplement store
finally got swallowed by the supermarket next to it

>>83190242
They do where I live. Gets fairly busy during the weekend

One is a Steinhafel's Mattress and another is an Anytime Fitness.

>>83190263
I was born in 96 and honestly more Gen Z shit. It's hard to associate much of my childhood with 90s stuff when I was alive for less than half of it

>>83190263
I was born in 98 and I think both of those came in during two halves of my childhood but I strongly prefer the top one. Feel like I was in middle school when all the bottom one started to catch on

>>83189783
The grocery store next door took it over and made it their liquor section.

1 of them turned into 3 different movie rental places after blockbuster and now it's a Mexican resteraunt and the other turned into a Boston market

Medical clinic

>>83189783
Tesco Express

>>83189783
One became a Bank of America and the other was split into two spaces, a Yogurtland and a Private Karaoke Center.

>>83190405
>born in 98

I graduated undergrad in 1998. God I'm old.

Outdoor furniture showroom. The Hollywood Video got split into a Pizza hut and sushi restaurant

>>83190274
My old one is a Mastermind Toys

>>83189783
Chipotle.

>>83189783
One of them turned into this giant pet store for rich white people, and the other an IHOP.

>>83190471
If it helps I was probably still shit posting here with you when u were my age

Papa john's

a and w. im ok with that

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>>83189783
Eyemart and partially an ATT store

>>83189783
ah man this thread. The property happens to be empty.

Indian grocery store

Became a Petsupermarket

>>83189783
a big chippy

>>83190405
Git out millennial cuck

>>83189783
A gym called "Fitness 4 U"

>>83189783
A title pawn originally. I think it's something else now.

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>all these fags who had 2 blockbusters

>>83190784
You're probably a millennial too dumbass.

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>In 10 years retail store won't exist there will just be abandoned decaying commercial property and a amazon hyper-warehouse located near the airport on some ring highway

>>83189783
Mine's still open

>>83190803
2 blockbusters, 1 Hollywood video and like 4 mom and pop shops. Oddly enough it's one of the mom and pop shops that outlived them all. Same crazy old asshole owns it, but his son is now in charge. Lotta great horror movies there and X-Rated material.

>>83190888
bullshit, where?

>>83189783
mac donalds

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9 years running.

>>83191037
Kids get molested there, don't they?

Blockbuster was always shit. Censored movies. Limited content. Only top 10 shit. I'm very happy they went out of business.

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>>83190835
>2031
>net neutrality is a distant memory
>internet costs $800 dollars a month for a 56k connection
>no one can stream movies or buy things online
>video stores are in a new golden age

>>83190471
Me too. Yeah we should be doing something else right now.

>>83191138
Thanks drumpf.

There's a Family Video five minutes away from me that is STILL to this day in business. Every time I drive by there are cars in the parking lot.

I'm legitimately baffled at how this is possible, I would understand if there's an adult section or gloryholes or something in the back, but it's just a regular video rental store. In 2017.

A discount liquor store. Vast improvement.

One is a pizza patron

Another is a pawn shop

The other two I'd frequent are still empty buildings

>>83189909
Wireless food is the new thing

Urgent care clinic

Sat empty for 5 years before being bought by some local gym chain.

7/11

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I am Australian so I still go to my local Blockbusters since it's right next to Kmart

>>83191037
mmm, all those hot young mommies

>>83189783
>tfw i can still see my blockbuster on the earliest google streetview image

A bit blurry, but it's there. Funny how staples of our childhood can just vanish. Like tears in the rain..

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An honest to God front for the mob.

>>83191037
wait. did they tear up the concrete and put a pull inside?

>>83189783
autozone

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I use to rent sooo many SNES games here. I don't know what the fuck this is now.

>>83189783

Nothing, it's still empty to this day.

>>83190263
>born in 97

Bit of both desu.

>>83190263
Like that other anon said, a bit of both.

Being born in 97 is like being the awkward middle child.

Mine closes pretty recently. Kino store. Rent games and heaps of movies too choose from.

A goodwill, it's like poetry

>>83191483
2001 called and bush did 9/11

>>83189909
kek

>>83189783
Childrens party store, the kind with balloons and party hat hats. Then it turned into a store that sells fleshlights and dildos.

>>83190263
born in 97 here
more than half of the millenial things, and i associate like xbox 360 and the dark night with my early teen years but idk if id consider that my childhood.
this is probably from growing up with my older brother being an actual millenial

One of those normie team fitness studios, really sad.

>>83189783
One's a Tim Hortins and another one's a women fitness gym

>>83189783
Slaughterhouse.

There's 2 still around near me.

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Any of you from Quebec here? How many of you still go to Superclub Videotron?

>>83189783

Mines still alive and kicking. I live in Anchorage, AK. We have two stores, I think one I know for sure, that are doing quite well actually. it's strange.

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Still empty. Family Video almost went under but a pizza place opened beside of it and now it's always busy.

>>83190100
Mine is still empty

chase branch

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>>83192733
Oh boy, I can relive the sadness. Thanks, Google.

Turned into a real estate office

half firestone tires,other half "mr.qwick oil change"

>>83192480
Alaska?

>>83189783
this picture is so sad.

Mine sits empty in a desolate strip mall next to an Acme

>>83189851

r u in london ontario

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Gym

Turned into a beauty supply shop.
Which went out of business.
Then it became a health supplement place.
Also went out of business.

Now it sits there, empty and bleak.
Blockbuster's ghost has cursed that place to share its fate.

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It has been closed for 8 years. Went there every friday night for a good part of my childhood and teenage years.

>>83189783
Of the 2 closest to me, one became an Advance Auto Parts Store, and the other one was split into a Martial Arts Studio, and a Wing Stop Restaurant

chick fil a.

thank you god.

>>83191202
Have a Family Video membership, they're still going strong, and they treat their customers like human beings, always running specials to keep people coming back, and the prices and rental times are pretty reasonable.

>Drive into the most backwater white trash town in Ontario that I grew up in
>The blockbuster building is still there, completely empty
>Not a single person had rented the building since it closed down
>The blockbuster sign is gone but it left a permenant silhouette stain on the building
That town is sad really.

>>83192733
Family Video has a business relationship with a chain called Marco's Pizza, go to Marco's, get a deal for Family Video, go to Family Video, get a deal for Marco's, and its not a bad pizza, better than Papa John's for sure.

>>83191202
>>83193769
This, Family Video is still a thing, and so is this local place that's looked the same since 1998.

I have no idea how they survived when BB fell like a sack of bricks in no time

an emergency room

>>83193889
We have the same thing here in Michigan, except it's a Farmer Jack's.

You can still see the phantom of his smiling face on the wall

When I was a child every single time we went to blockbuster I had to take a shit. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Because of that the workers started calling me Little Dump Dude, as I always said to my mom "I GOTTA TAKE A DUMP!"

>>83189783
piatto, shittest food ive ever had

>>83189783
starbucks

>>83190405
>1998
MODS

Verizon

>>83194379
That's legal now m80.
1998 was 19 years ago.

>>83189783
AT&T one half, mattress store other half.

I said if I ever make it rich I'm going to open a new one since our ISP service in bumfuck nowhere makes streaming full movies in 4k impossible.

>>83189783
A non existent ethnicity that never experienced genocide at the hands of Turks resteraunt.

Mine just died couple months back and now its a discount mattress store.

>>83190441
This

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>>83189783
It was called Chartbusters here. Its become a Boots Pharmacy. So so sad. I remember going in there very often. The smell man... you'll never get that smell again. Having your mam go up and rent the Disney film so you can run up to the Adult sections and try glimpse some tits, or the horror section and see some proper hardcore gore. The games too... the clunky n64 and ps1 boxes. Where did it all go so wrong mates?

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>>83194477
>1998 is legal now

>>83189783
h&r block

>>83190263
>born in 1996 with a sibling born in 1998

i remember almost everything from the first list you made but i also remember most of the second list, either through my own experiences or through my sibling watching or whatever all the time

>>83190263
96, remember a big portion of both lists.

Autozone/T-Mobile duo

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>>83189783
I had a hollywood video that stayed empty and the nearest blockbuster is still open for some reason.

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>>83190263
>that first list

GIVE IT BACK

Pizza Hut

>>83189783

Mosque/Apple Store

So basically cancer.

China wok

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>>83189783
Never had one, but we did have a Movie Gallery. When that died somebody attempted to do an independent movie rental place, but that only lasted a couple years. It died right before we started getting Redbox kiosks.

That place still hasn't reopened, despite two popular restaurants being in the same shopping center.

>>83191604
Nah, they put a pool in.

The main one here in Kingston, Ontario, Canada is STILL just sitting there collecting dust. It basically looks the same sans the signage... even inside nothing has really changed, bare shelves though, of course.

I wonder why too because it is on what I would consider prime real estate. Suppose some kike is holding onto the land until it is worth enough to start a trust fund?

I can't even find a pic of it on Google.

Honestly they're all still vacant except one which is a Mattress Firm.

>>83189783
An empty space still retail stuff inside it.

>blockbuster
A Pizza Hut.
>movie gallery
A mexican restaurant.
>other movie gallery
A mexican restaurant with a Pizza Hut next door.

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>1996 was 21 years ago
>mfw I buy weed from someone born in 2000

>>83190471
if I'm ever 40 and still on 4chan I will become an hero for sure

>>83189783
still vacant

>>83196750
>every single empty piece of real estate in America is turned into a food joint

Kek

>>83197130
Post your butthole first though.

Advance Auto Parts :/

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A Taekwondo dojo kek

>>83190263
97 fag here. I'd say the former list is a more accurate representation

Dollar tree

>>83189783
Mini Pet Mart

I was in there when the staff found out they were closing. They received a bunch of plastic containers that they had to load the movies up in. :(

>>83189783
Subway and a FatBurger

>>83189783
a store with spare parts for cars

Mine turned into a drug store.

a chemist and a bookies split the difference

>>83190835
frog

>>83189783
I never had one. I had a Family Video and it's still in business. They turned half the building into a pizza place though.

Michael's, a craft store

>>83189783
my local one at my old neighbourhood (by the time i moved into my new neighbourhood, blockbuster was no longer a thing) first was empty for a year or two. then it turned into a lcbo (place where canadians buy their booze from, for u americans) and then a few years after taht turned into a rona. im not sure if it was something else before it was a rona, as i havent been to that neighbourhood in a minute

>>83189851
Same here. 5 Guys, and a Chipotle.