In Portland, we have a huge video store called Movie Madness. $3 rent for almost any movie in existence. With an actual museum of Hollywood costumes, models and props around you. And you can sip a draft beer while you browse. It’s always humorous when cable news portrays Portland as being some uncivilized hellhole.
It’s always humorous when cable news portrays Portland as being some uncivilized hellhole.
I don’t think anyone portrays it that way except folks trying to claim the entire city was burned to cinders in 2020. At least, I don’t get that impression from anyone else.
I think the general reputation is that it’s lefty and weird (in a good way).
I have had to assure my dad a few times that Portland is, in fact, still there.
That sounds so awesome. I’d love to go there someday
I went to a blockbuster once while tripping on LSD. That was such a crazy time. Aladdin was playing on the TV’s. Thankfully my buddy was sober and enjoying my silliness. He told me nobody would have known but I was fuckin tripin balls. I remember walking back to his car and saying something like " idk who’s who right now but I hope your Jason my friend" lol we laughed about that for years
This meme hits me right in the ♥️
I always joke with my friends who tell stories like this about tripping acid or some hallucinogenic.
I tell them they’re still on the trip and that it hasn’t stopped yet.
It’s still 1998 and you’re living on the street out of your mind thinking you’re on the internet in 2023.
‘But how do you really know though?’
Rose colored glasses?
Bro a rental was $4 for three days and a late fee was $10. In 1999 money, that would be $7.39 today, and the late fee would be $18.50.
Blockbuster deserved to die.
Definitely correct with regards to Blockbuster.
I think more specifically this brings back feelings of the social side of video stores and being a kid and doing everything with a group. Usually we’d have friends over (mine or my siblings) to watch the movies with us. I’m an adult now and still happy but I miss all the social things I used to do with my friend group. I still see them but not as often and almost never all at the same time. Youth is an interesting time of life.
It’s pretty dope when ur not the one paying lol
Not rose coloured for me. I made VHS copies of the ones I loved with masking tape on the front as a label. Got great use out of those copies. And all for a low, low price!
I still have my membership card in my wallet.
Damn remember me and my bro scrolling through the ilses and then peeking into the adult section … inconspicuously
When the “good old days” were so long ago they were before you were even born.
