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🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

How has Blockbuster Video survived against the odds so long in Alaska, and what will its decline mean? Before the world’s last Blockbuster stores disappear forever, we pay them a visit on the last frontier to find out.

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0:00.0

Do you remember those Friday nights going to the video store?

0:04.2

You'd roam around the aisles with your best friend or your dad looking for that perfect

0:08.1

thing to watch at the end of the week.

0:10.6

My video store was really small.

0:12.6

This was a mom and pop kind of place.

0:14.2

It just had one aisle and we'd go around in circles and sometimes we'd find nothing we

0:19.2

wanted to watch.

0:21.0

Then a new place opened a few towns over.

0:24.2

This place had no charm.

0:28.7

It was at the end of a strip mall.

0:30.5

It had bright fluorescent lighting and if you asked someone on staff a question they

0:34.3

just could not be bothered.

0:36.4

There was an aggressive selection of candy near the checkout and it had a lot more movies

0:40.7

than the place I used to go to in town.

0:43.3

And so for a lot of us this is where we ended up going.

0:46.5

There's one near you.

0:48.5

Not by the same video.

0:50.5

Wow, what a difference.

0:52.7

And to be honest I sometimes felt a little guilty about it.

0:55.9

Blockbuster was uninspiring but it was convenient.

0:59.2

And then the local video store in our town shut down a few years later and we felt kind

1:03.4

of complicit.

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