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God I miss the fucking 'Video Shop'


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Visiting every 20 minutes to see if the cunt who was "due back Today" brought Robocop back on time before he got fined

 

Playing street fighter with me mates on the arcade machine for 3 hours and smoking Lucy's indoors when it was pissing down outside

 

Trying to figure out we're id left the membership card because I could never remember my phone number as proof of id

 

Kids today have it to easy man,sadly they've missed out on the community hub for teenagers,potheads and birds once known as the Video Shop

 

Nothing more beautiful than the site of curtain net wire strapping in row after row of video cases

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Visiting every 20 minutes to see if the cunt who was "due back Today" brought Robocop back on time before he got fined

 

Playing street fighter with me mates on the arcade machine for 3 hours and smoking Lucy's indoors when it was pissing down outside

 

Trying to figure out we're id left the membership card because I could never remember my phone number as proof of id

 

Kids today have it to easy man,sadly they've missed out on the community hub for teenagers,potheads and birds once known as the Video Shop

 

Nothing more beautiful than the site of curtain net wire strapping in row after row of video cases

 

Funny you mention that. Ours is just closing down after being part of our town for as long as I can remember. It even had the Street Fighter arcade game. Final Fight was great too.

 

To add to the membership card thing, as Mum always had our family card, I just started giving the home phone number to get it sorted. That was until Dad was 3 days overdue with a new rental, costing me about $20 extra for the flick I was after. Cheeky bastard! 

 

Anyway, I'd been making my way through all the budget horror flicks of yesteryear to find the odd good one in order to prove a point to my wife that old movies can be good movies too! Now I'll have to resort to ebay or something. Sad times. 

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my mate owned one. One day while I was in a girl who's phone number I had come in making herself a member.

 

couple of days later me and another mate rang her at 3 in morning pissed pretending be the mate who owned the video shop and inviting her for steak. She said no so we told her if she didn't come on a date we would put a fine of one million quid on her account for bringing raging bull back late.

 

rang back an hour later and her mum got on saying "do your parents know you try to blackmail girls into going out with you?"

 

"yeah they don't give a shit, i'm ugly so they say it's my best chance"

 

we told him about two years ago, he didn't see the funny side.

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Miss video shops

 

Part of Saturday mornings were spent down our local independent one back in the day, sneaking glances at the 18 section when no one was looking. Renting out the latest to find you had to wind some back before you could watch it.

 

Must have rented out Back to The Future 2 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles about 1,000 times each.

 

Slight exaggeration on numbers, was probably less than ten times

each, but you get my drift.

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Dad used to work in one a good few years back. Spent all of my summer holidays working with him. I fucking loved it. I remember carlitos way and Mrs doubtfire were booked up weeks in advance (mustve been 94/95) and had a massive waiting list for all 13 copies we had in. Used to have murder though when someone didn't return a tape that was booked for the next day. Owner used to go round the house of the person who had it to threaten into giving it back.

 

It was great, used to sit there all day eating soleros and watching whatever film took our fancy. Until someone would come in and want to watch what you were watching.

 

Getting a cheap early teenage thrill of looking at the back of the blueys case to see some tits that hadn't been covered in stars like on the front cover. Those were the days.

 

 

 

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Where horrors just better in the 80's because I was  kid and kids are scared more easily or generally regardless of age we have all become more desensitised to nightmarish imagery and stories. No film now ever scares me, the only form of entertainment that has frequently still made me shit my lungs are computer games, Alien isolation had me knock a cup of tea onto a plug adapter and trip the electrics. I fall asleep during horrors now. 

 

I used to go to a video shop in Kenny right next to a hardware store. Shithole.

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Where horrors just better in the 80's because I was kid and kids are scared more easily or generally regardless of age we have all become more desensitised to nightmarish imagery and stories. No film now ever scares me, the only form of entertainment that has frequently still made me shit my lungs are computer games, Alien isolation had me knock a cup of tea onto a plug adapter and trip the electrics. I fall asleep during horrors now.

 

I used to go to a video shop in Kenny right next to a hardware store. Shithole.

Just looking at the cover on the box use to make me shit my kecks.

 

Also, you reminded me about having a remote, which had a wire, which then connected to the VCR.

 

Seems batshit mental now.

 

My mum worked in a video shop too. I got dragged along a fair bit but she loaded me up with 50p's to play Street Fighter & Royal rumble for hours on end.

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My uncles owned Aquarius Videos in Kirkby Town Centre in the 80's and I'd spend every summer holidays there, playing either Super Mario, R-Type or watch my uncle play the Big Break quiz arcade. I'd get there about 8am and they'd load the arcades with loads of credits for me before they opened at 9.

 

When it got busy I'd sit in the back and play Spectrum games or watch films. I also got to take home loads of movie posters. Great days.

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There used to be about five within a 10 minute walk of my house.  Four of them were part of chains, the fifth was run by some bloke who used to have a newsagents but jumped head first into the video boom when it happened and used to have loads random movies.  Amongst other things I can thank him for getting me into Troma movies via The Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke 'Em High, suggesting I watch a no-budget Mexican movie called El Mariachi (years before Robert Rodriguez got the funding to make Desperado) and for turning me on to Kevin Smith by refusing to rent me anything other than Clerks one night, again way before there was any kind of buzz about it.

 

He also had an outrageous amount of porn, much of it being shady copies of proper hardcore stuff back in the days when you couldn't even buy that uncensored in sex shops.  If ever you rented any porn you had to be double sure to get it back on time because he was a cunt for phoning you as a reminder.  I was in the shop one night when he phoned a lad I knew and got his dad, he was like 'Yeah, Phil's still got a video out. What is it?  Err hang on... Back Door Bitches 6.  You'll drop it off at 8?  Yeah that's fine.'  I don't think Phil rented a video for about 4 years after that.

 

I always assumed the reason he recommended Clerks so strongly is that he saw a kindred spirit in Randal:

 

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My uncle had 2, one in Kenny and one on Priory Road. Gave me a Saturday job there and worked the summer I left school there. Used to love it, watching videos all day. Used to get good posters for my room, found a load in mum and dad loft when they moved recently.

 

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I worked at the Cabin Video Library in Claughton Village when I was at school. Was a great part time job. We always had kids coming in and asking for posters, or other film promotional items, so they could decorate their bedroom. Watched films all day on Saturday, and then it got busy for the last couple of hours as everyone decided to rent a film to go along with the Saturday night takeaway.

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