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Post by jason88cubs on Apr 4, 2021 20:05:59 GMT -5
Excuse me while I sit and cry
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Post by jason88cubs on Apr 4, 2021 20:07:14 GMT -5
man i miss those days
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Post by MKSavage on Apr 4, 2021 21:24:51 GMT -5
A thing of beauty
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Post by The Brain on Apr 4, 2021 21:44:08 GMT -5
Nothing like walking in and seeing those on the shelves.
Also reminds me of the Coliseum ad''If you dont see it in your local video store....ask for it!!''
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Post by LA Times on Apr 4, 2021 21:46:36 GMT -5
I wish neighborhood video stores were still around  |
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Apr 5, 2021 0:53:56 GMT -5
I was just talking about this with my girlfriend a week or so ago.
She asked me what I did last night and I said, "I was watching wrestling on the WWE Network." It then brought up me telling her how it's kind of funny that in 1990 when I was 9 years old, I would have loved to have had the WWE Network then. To have had so much wrestling at my finger tips anytime I wanted. How back then I was so excited to see a new WWF Coliseum Video in my local variety store to rent on a Friday night.
Now... we have hours and hours and hours of endless wrestling at our finger tips and it's just not that exciting like it was 30 years ago to rent a Coliseum Video tape.
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Post by hbkjason on Apr 5, 2021 0:57:10 GMT -5
That looks great man  Only one of my video stores as a kid had WWF tapes, but they only had a handful of them and then never got new ones and they had them on the shelves until they day they closed their store! I have great memories of the video store, I had a couple in the place I lived, but a short drive away we had a Blockbuster, Global Video and this awesome one called Good News Video which also had A Street Fighter II arcade machine. This was in a small town called Cupar which was about 10 minutes from where I lived. If my dad took me and my sister, I knew it would take forever for her to pick a video. So I would go in with a plan and already have an idea of what video I wanted, that way my dad would throw me some change so I could play Street Fighter while my sister picked her video. While I did love going to the video store, it was usually a Friday or Saturday thing for us and I would get either a game or a movie. I must admit that I do prefer things the way they are now with streaming. I also just had a memory come back and I do not know if this was just a Scottish thing, but where I grew up we also had a video van and a video bus! A dud would drive around with a van and rent videos out of the back of it. We also had a refinished mini bus that was converted into a moveable video store and the guy would pull up a few times a week like the ice cream van! Now that I think back to it, this was super freaking weird! |
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Post by TKO Propagandist on Apr 5, 2021 1:29:23 GMT -5
I remember visting one of the last video stores I ever seen, it was in 2003. I visited it weekly whenever I went to my grandparents house. I would rent a VHS, watch it that day then buy a different one to take home. They were very cheap and it was all stuff from 1999-2002. Unforgettable memories watching them.
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Post by K5 on Apr 5, 2021 8:30:56 GMT -5
there was an old video rental place I discovered in the mid 90s that had a plethora of coliseum videos, was like finding the holy grail.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2021 8:35:45 GMT -5
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Post by wolfpac on Apr 5, 2021 8:49:04 GMT -5
I really miss video stores - even with streaming.
My old rental place used to have wrestling tapes then after a few years to free up space they would sell them dirt cheap. It was amazing, I still have the plastic boxes with the wrestling cover inserted as the video case for a few of mine,
this also was my first taste of ever seeing WCW was renting it, I still remember not knowing where the real Diesel went as a kid and my mind being blown seeing Nash on a cover of a WCW PPV and just being so excited that he was still around lol.
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Post by LA Times on Apr 5, 2021 9:49:21 GMT -5
I was just talking about this with my girlfriend a week or so ago. She asked me what I did last night and I said, "I was watching wrestling on the WWE Network." It then brought up me telling her how it's kind of funny that in 1990 when I was 9 years old, I would have loved to have had the WWE Network then. To have had so much wrestling at my finger tips anytime I wanted. How back then I was so excited to see a new WWF Coliseum Video in my local variety store to rent on a Friday night. Now... we have hours and hours and hours of endless wrestling at our finger tips and it's just not that exciting like it was 30 years ago to rent a Coliseum Video tape. And whats uploaded to the Network is only 10% of the WWE's entire video library. |
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Post by The Brain on Apr 5, 2021 10:06:35 GMT -5
This thread wont be complete without this....
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Post by jason88cubs on Apr 5, 2021 10:51:10 GMT -5
The Covers are so cool looking. Thats what sucks aboit Streaming, you dont get sucked in by covers
Those Royal Rumble covers from late 80s early 90s were so freaking cool
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Post by cordless2016 on Apr 5, 2021 12:41:42 GMT -5
I just shed a tear looking at those pictures. I miss the good old days of popping in a VHS.
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Post by rkmo: Autonomous Meat Shield on Apr 5, 2021 13:13:04 GMT -5
A thing of beauty...
A tad too young to enjoy the joy of VHS days, if that was a thing around me. But the purity of walking into a store and seeing a huge display of wrestling media, or going hunting in pawn shops and finding some used events or bios at great values. Those moments we'll never get back.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2021 14:15:29 GMT -5
i used to love popping into mom n pop video stores when traveling or when id see one i hadnt been in. the excitement getting oer to the wrestling section to see what they had was priceless!
Ended up finding one on my work route and crapmy pants as they had like every coliseum video out there. (this was year 2001). Man i rented so much from that place!
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Post by PJ on Apr 5, 2021 16:14:53 GMT -5
The first VHS I ever bought was the first WrestleMania from East Coast Video in Verona NJ.
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Post by The Brain on Apr 5, 2021 16:55:10 GMT -5
The first VHS I ever bought was the first WrestleMania from East Coast Video in Verona NJ. The clamshells were the best |
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Post by jason88cubs on Apr 5, 2021 19:30:36 GMT -5
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