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25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

No '80s or '90s childhood was complete without the video store experience.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Published 6 months ago in Wow

Picture this:


It's the early '90s, you just got done with high school for the week, and you're looking for something fun to do with your friends. It's too cold to be outside, but you don't want to go home just yet. Where do you go? The video store of course!


No '80s or '90s childhood was complete without the video store experience, and there is something uniquely nostalgic about the essential, but short-lived business model. 


Here are 25 photos to remind you of the golden age of video stores. 

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    Tower Video store, New York City, 1986.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

  • 2

    Renting movies at "MovieQuik," a short-lived video rental venture of 7-Eleven, circa 1985.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

  • 4

    Video rental ads at ShopRight, 1991.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

  • 5

    Blockbuster video store in Lexington, 1999.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    VideoConcepts was eventually sold to Radio Shack, before they all went under.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

  • 8

    Store in 1988.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

  • 9

    Quentin Tarantino working at a video rental store in California during the 80's.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

  • 10

    Hollywood video store in 1999 with Sega Dreamcast console.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

  • 11

    A selection of Atari video games at a Gold Circle discount department store, 1983.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

  • 12

    Ad for an early 80s store.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    Video store in Cincinnati, OH, 1988.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    A Chicago Blockbuster in 1991.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    “My Aunt running her own video store in the late 80s.”

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    Wegmans "Video Rental Store" in the 90's. This was a store within a store at Wegmans supermarkets.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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    A video rental store in Spain, mid to late 80s.

    25 Photos Remembering the Golden Age of Video Stores When the Dirty Stuff Was Behind a Curtain

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