What did yours turn into?

>>86198025
a Little Caesars

Seasonal Halloween store then CVS

chase bank branch

A Chipotle type restaurant but it has Italian food instead of Mexican food. I prefer it to Blockbuster desu.

>>86198025
Domino's pizza

>>86198025
Is OP in Jumanji?

credit union

Sneeds feed n seed

I went to Hollywood video (the patrician's choice)

It's now a starbucks

a subway

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>>86198025
Its still empty.

Idk but I remember walking into one back in like 2012 and they were literally trying to sell me their lights and shelves for 80% off

one of those emergency medical practices

>>86198025
>>86198025
A bed/mattress place.

>>86198230
lol, no.

shakeys pizza.
then that closed

>>86198025
a Goodwill

Panera Bread

One is still vacant and one turned into a Papa Johns.

I was pretty glad when they closed, actually. Blockbuster was pretty terrible, or at least the ones near me were. A local place (which is still open somehow) was much better to rent from.

virou uma firma daquelas que ninguem entra e tem uma secretaria que nao faz nada hauahuah

One is an advance auto and the other is a uniform store.

some

it turned into a bulk barn, if you arent from canada its basically a place where you buy shit for baking purposes but they also have candy/chocolate that you cant really find anywhere.
>>86198555
yeah i have to agree with this. its funny how my family and friends would always shit on blockbuster because of how cancerous it was and now those same people are talking about how they miss blockbuster and video rental stores in general.

>>86198025
Amscot

Sherwin Williams

The other is like half Chipotle half AT&T.

>tfw my internet is so bad i still rent movies

>>86198725
Yeah, I noticed the same thing. Everyone hated Blockbuster (maybe unless there was no local alternative) back in the day. There was even a website specifically dedicated to Blockbuster hate. My guess is that all of the nostalgia is coming from people who can't remember how terrible they were, or who were too young to deal with their bullshit.

>>86198025
It only very recently became a medical office.

Auto parts store

>>86198025
Original Joe's restaurant

>>86198866
Blockbusters were community cornerstones where you could chat up local town folk. When BB died its almost like a part of the community died with it.

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>mfw I see people lined up at the redbox machine

>>86198025
a dialysis clinic

>>86198025
Mattress store.

One is an Indian restaurant, the other is some kind of school

A mattress store now, I didn't really care for the movie selection even as a kid though. What was impressive was the video game collection, I probably played my first PS2 game from a blockbuster and it took me for a ride ever since.

>>86198269
Mine too

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>>86198025
They tore it down and extended the parking lot of Walmart

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>>86198025
Nothing. It's been derelict ever since and has never changed, this photo is old but i've been in that area recently and it's still just an empty, dark, sad blockbuster.

A pizzeria rape dungeon

>>86198025
is that the blockbuster across the street from the hillside mall?

>>86198025

That's actually pretty beautiful, where is that?

>mine was abandoned for years and then it turned into a dollar store :(

>>86198025
i think a verizon store. i miss it, i remember taking like 5 out every 2 days and watching everything that won oscars for the past 40 years. i can never be that into movies like i was before.

My old Blockbuster is now a beetus clinic. The one independent place I used to go to is vacant. JDIMSA.

you guys do realize video rental stores still exist, right?

Aaron's

>>86198025
A shitposting hall

>>86198025
They eventually bulldozed the one near me.

>>86198025
Sherwin-Williams Paint Store

>>86199425
You were in the last thread a month ago

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>>86199461
doubt it.

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>>86199350
it's not the same

A burger king

It was a small hardware store for a while, but now it's abandoned again. I squatted in there for a couple weeks shortly after it first closed down. Shit still had power and water.

>>86198025
Pancho Villas. Never ate there before. I might just look up their food menu online.

>>86199303
The Video Station I went to in the NES Genesis days is now a fucking women's health clinic.
The Video Update I went to in the PS1 days is now a vet clinic and a doctors office
Hollywood video is now some indian grocery store.
Rogers Video is now a Subway and a Donair place.

A small grocery store. Movie Gallery was much closer and now it's a Boba Tea.

>>86198025
a wells fargo bank

>>86198216
lol

An Imo's pizza.

>>86199508
Don't lie to me faggot
We're not in a relationship

One half is a party supply chain & the other is a knife store.

>>86198269
I live in a country with third world internet (Australia) and mine's still chugging along because of it. Just.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elan_Media_Partners

>>86204185
Where do you live? Mine became a Woolies.

>>86198025
A pharmacy with a doctors office.

Autozone

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>>86198025
My secret lair.

>>86198025
A Subway and a pasta place

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>>86198025
Nothing, because we never had one, lol.

There's still an active video rental place in town, at least. Plus they sell fudge!

Subway

Hollywood Video > Blockbuster

>>86204316
Lonnie.

Verizon Wireless

Tower Records

>>86204724
>Hollywood Video
We're not all numale liberal cucks living in our parent's second homes, buddy.

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Speaking of Blockbuster, how did you guys feel when early 2000s TV shows and culture concluded in 2006? Sad? Bittersweet?

>>86198025
One is a shop mart type place and the other is a restaurant I believe.

mine is still open for business. ya'll jelly?

Buddy's Home Furnishings

>>86205131
No because that means u live in Alaska or Mexico

Most of them turned into phone stores and other stupid retail spots. One turned into a bad ass bar/billiards place that I go to quite a bit.

>>86205193
Or Texas, or Kentucky, or Oregon, or Florida, or North Dakota, or South Dakota, or Michigan, or...a whole lot of places.

blockbuster.com/franchise.html

>>86205468
Thats 3 years old pal

>>86205615
And? They're in areas with poor internet quality and/or penetration, and are removed from the portion of the company that closed down. They're franchises, individually owned, and in areas where the owners would still be making money.

With the exception of a few from the list, all of those are still open.

Hastings was the dominant video store in my area. The one closest to me is now a gym.

>>86198948
this always makes me laugh

>>86198948
>tfw no Blockbuster
>tfw no video rental
>tfw no Redbox
>tfw garbage internet
Somebody save Canada, please.

A mattress store, a liquor store and demolished. On a similar note, I wonder what will happen to all of the Macy's and JC Penny's and Sears and Best Buys when they are wiped out.

>>86205699
Dude there are exactly 12 still open in USA as of 6 months ago. 9 in Alaska, 3 in Texas.

>>86199350
I loved them back in they day, but why in gods name would i go rent video. In fact, why would I even bother paying for a streaming service when there are zillions of free streaming sites and torrents.

>>86204900
right in the feels

>>86205975
>posts no source
Sorry, but no.

>>86198025
Kelly moore paints.

>>86198025
Absolute Dental.

All the ones near me turned into Verizon stores

None of the big chains survived

The small mom and pops ran by spics are still alive. One of them still has a super faded out Superstar bus shelter poster proudly on display by the entrance

>>86198025
It's now a locally owned BedBathandBeyond-ish mom and pop shop.

>>86206002
>posts a source from 2014
Yea, I don't think so squirt

>>86198025
A gym and insurance company.

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I don't understand why it still hasnt been bought yet.
It's been years.

>>86200229
What's squatting like?

A used game and movie store

>>86206375
>Gatineau
There's your problem, tabarnouche. Or maybe if it was in the parking lot at a Super C it'd sell faster.

One became a cd exchange, then when the hollywood video went out of business across the street the cd exchange moved there then it became a comic book/gaming store. One became an emergency room/clinic.

What about Radioshacks? At&t store at mine.

>>86204900
My school had bubbly computers in 2011.

>>86199136
>to let
what?

>>86206548
>Radioshack
Didn't they get bought out by The Source and converted? I might be misremembering.

>>86206587
For lease, you brain-dead Yank.

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who here /rogersvideo/

non-leafs need not reply

>>86198025
Wells Fargo bank

>>86206384
I hated it. There wasn't a second that went by I wasn't afraid some vagrant was going to barge in and rape/stab me.

>>86205852
This.
Just looked on google for rental places in Edmonton and there's only like one or two, and they're far away or an adult video store. Checked redbox and they are all "permanently closed".
We did have a Best Buy kiosk at my Mac's, but it's been gone for a few years.

>>86198025

A gym in later years up until they knocked it down earlier this year.

>>86198025
Hillbilly themed sports bar

>>86198025

Mattress store.

>>86198025
It's a Panera but I think they tore the old building down

>>86199350
I'm not driving hundreds of miles into the middle of the nowhere just to find a video store, anon

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>>86206642
Had one up the street from my house, now its a pet store

>>86206613
To let rent? I still don't get it.

An abandoned shitfuck in an otherwise happening stripmall.

>>86198025
Pharmacy

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>>86198945

Family video felt more local. Hollywood Video was the best though.

>>86199015

Was it near a Wal-Mart?

>>86206768
Its a British thing I guess, that place Costa next to it is some shitty coffee joint.

>>86206593
All of the non-franchised stores in the US are virtually extinct. Every one here closed for good just a couple months ago. I can't say I'll miss them because they had been outpaced by other electronic stores due to their own stubborn ineptitude for years.

>>86206642
Dad used to let me rent one game a week.

Good times.

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A gun range.

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>tfw wanna go see one of the last Blockbusters while they're still around but they're all in backwater towns in Alaska

Am I crazy to think that if Dish or whoever owns the rights now opened a few locations in major cities, they would probably do okay? Nostalgia culture is huge right now and there's tons of interest online in old Blockbusters. They could even sell stuff like Surge and Dunkeroos and shit there to establish it as a nostalgia trip store.

I'd probably visit one

>>86207075
They might go see it like you want to, but wouldnt regularly spend money there

A walk in clinic.

>>86206642
I still have Superclub Videotron in Quebec

>>86207075
Its not been long enough yet, mines still there but empty inside

>>86198175
The jungle has reclaimed her land

>>86206642
Mine was turned into a Rogers Plus. Basically a phone and internet place

Pharmacy

An admissions office for the private school that was right next to it

Mine turned into a Disneyland

>>86206679
>squatter
>worried about the vagrants
bitch youre the vagrant

>>86198025
Didn't have Blockbuster, but we had a West Coast Video which turned into a Movie Gallery which turned into additional parking space for a Weis Market.

Got a great haul when the store closed, best get was Blue Velvet for like $2.

>>86207517
This just hurts my feelings.

It's either a bank or a china wok can't remember.

>>86204900
The Yu Yu Hakousho thing still burns me.They had 2 or 3 episodes left in the Sensui Arc but they pulled the show from the Saturday Night slot and supposedly dumped those episodes in an early morning slot without telling anyone just to finish it off. This has haunted me ever since and I've yet to watch those episodes let alone finish the series.

>>86198025
cosmetic laser surgeory place

Mine turned into planned parenthood where they murder little babies

Libertarian national headquarters

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>>86198269

Same. Big "FOR RENT" sign out front. You can still see the sunburned outline of the old logo.

>>86198025

Mine's still around.

http://www.videodromeatl.com/

>>86208036
>I've yet to watch those episodes let alone finish the series.
Are you fucking serious? How hard is it to download a few episodes? Go finish the series, you idiot. And then go watch Hunter x Hunter (the 2011 version) which is by the same author and is even better.

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The building is shared by a Cheeseburger Bobby's and a Bojangle's. There's a Five Guys down the street though so I don't even go to in there.

>>86198025
Verizon Wireless Store

>>86209632
I figured it'd be a walk away from little five points

>>86198659
BODY

>>86198025
That's actually a cool picture

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>>86198025
Nothing.

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>>86204900
Expand your pic

>>86198025
A beauty supply store

>>86198025
It became a Halloween costume and props store but because nobody buys that kind of stuff eleven months out of the year it quickly went out of business. Then for like four years it was an urgent care center that was always under construction and never actually opened. Now it's some kind of Dollar General or something.

It became a title max now it's a pawn shop

>>86198186

Same here.

>>86198746
So even worse people hang out there now.

Mine became a PetSmart

I swear the same summer I shipped off for college (2011) was when Blockbuster and our town's favorite hangout joint (hotdog place) closed down, it's like my childhood died in a quick period.

>>86198025

seeing Blockbuster return to the earth is a beautiful sight.

>>86199608
When you roll a d20 in yo girl and it lands on 1

>>86204185
Yep mine is still going I never see anybody in it but it's still there.

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>>86198347
Holy fuck, Redmond?

>>86205975
Read the same click bait as you a few days ago.
Trucker here,seen one in Louisiana, Indiana(could be wrong),and Texas.
Pretty sure I know I saw one in Oklahoma,but not sure if it was operational,I looked open,but an empty lot the several times I drove past it. Put out a weird vibe.

>>86206613
:)

>>86206993
"To let"isn't British,just that guy is a kid,needs all info spoon fed.
Anybody interested in starting a business would know exactly what that means.

>>86207075
>Nostalgia
I remember being told that because I handed my return instead of dropping it in the return slot that I would be charged an $8 late fee. That's my nostalgic moment,odd that that's about what a month of Netflix (mail) cost.
Rest in piss Blockbuster.

sushi place

>>86207345
Tiny Disneyland or massive blockbuster?

demolished, and then condos

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>>86198025
A Jimmy John's

>>86198025
Pawn shop

>>86198230
Same mine is dollar general now

Walgreens with, ironically, a redbox out back.

The entire row of shops where mine used to be were torn down and a supermaket/shopping centre was built there. Unless you knew it used to be there, there is literally no evidence of one ever existing.

>>86211482
How many lot lizards do you fuck a week and how many of them don't have teeth? Also are you a meth head or a crackhead? I know one guy who went from west coast to east coast in one day. Got arrested when he locked himself out of his truck and called the cops for help. When he couldn't show them his log, they searched his truck and found meth, lad, ecstasy, and crack.

>>86210942
Reading all of this made me sad...
>tfw watched Crocodile Hunter all the time and was even Irwin for halloween one year

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Bought mine out and turned it into a sex club

>mfw I live in Anchorage and the Blockbuster is within walking distance of my house

Amazing.

>>86198025
a place for car parts and oils
but it must not sell very well

>>86198025
A Radio Shack.

>>86198025
Nothing the entire mini mall is Dieing out.

>>86198025

Polski sklep

>>86204185

Lucky man. My local one only just started their closing down sale today being the last one in Sydney. Grabbed a couple rare films that are nigh on impossible to buy anymore, I'll miss the place.

>>86198025
a Subway. I've never been in there since

>>86199350
in the 3rd world maybe

>>86198025
Meet up spot for gays

>>86216210
Nah, we pirate everything here

Turned into a dental office, I think. I don't really remember where mine was located, but I do remember renting Gameboy games.

Blockbuster night was comfy.

>>86211844
Not that bad of an exchange, really. I love me some JJ.

>>86198025
One turned into a gym, the other a military recruitment center

>>86207158
>>86207075

Yeah, nostalgia would entice probably a bit of people for the first week or so, but after the hype wears down people would realize that renting physical videos really kinda sucks when it is so much easier to just use the internet.

Outside of a hipster or two, I doubt anyone wants the trouble of returning DVDs anymore. I don't know how Redbox is still a thing, either.

a fucking sex shop.

>>86206642
Rogers were such niggers with their rental prices and late fees

Convenience store.

>>86198025
A restaurant that has now also been closed

>>86198216
I don't get it....

>>86198025
Sleep Country Canada

>>86198216
FORMALLY

Split into two. One half is a dentist, the other is a Chipotle clone.

>>86198025
A now closed Sears retail. The corner remains empty again

There were two in the same drive time from my house growing one:

Mattress Firm and Verizon Wireless

>>86221773
>Why buy a mattress anywhere else *ding*

>>86198945
>Blockbusters were community cornerstones

Lel what kind of hick city do you live in?

>>86216210

Germany here. My town still has one left because jews basically outlawed torrenting

>>86206384

Hurts you knees after some time

>>86204632
>ontario

Not even surprised

>>86207517

hi Walter

>>86198025
Ours is half a Verizon store and half a mattress store. The Verizon half was a vape shop earlier.

>>86199425

Stephenville?

Bagel cafe. I loved renting just like every other anon as a kid, but damn those bagels and scones are good.

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St. Vinnies op shop.

Picked up a few now out of print DVDs cheap when they were closing down. Got a DVD buffer/repairer machine thing worth about a grand that works really well for nothing 'cause they were just gonna throw it out.

>>86198025

A crab leg kino shop.

So many mattress stores and phone stores. Why do they pop up like urban plight mushrooms?

I would go to the hood/redneck part of town sometimes with friends and there's a small shop owned by a Chinese guy where you can rent movies. Has snacks and a gumball machine. Doesn't feel the same though, especially with the Chinese music in the background.

>>86204900
Never had an attachment to 2000s shows. Shit's hokey as fuck. The only quality movie I can think of from that decade was Inglourious Basterds.

One of those shops where you can buy old people mobility scooters :/

Squatters haven

>>86198230
Mine has been closed since about 2009. Right after they closed they were a temporary sporting goods store that lasted 2 months. Just recently though ive noticed that they've moved in some equiptment and are ripping up the walls. Dont know what the future plans are

>>86198025
Mattress Firm

>>86198104
>Seasonal Halloween store
This, And after Halloween they get some new doomed business in and fail and it reverts to a halloween store 6 months later.

Family Video, they even keep the store layout the same, it's very nostalgic. I still rent video games from there.

It was split into two; a pet store and a bank.

>>86198081
Same here what the fuck

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A Sainsbury's. Just went past it.

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>>86216210

These niggers are thriving in the US, somehow. Something to do with sly real estate management plus really low prices.

A 7/11. Random story but I was actually in the blockbuster when I found out Michael Jackson died. The clerk was losing his shit