Taped closed: 15 More Closed & amp Abandoned video retailers

Since you can not rewind time, sit these 15 abandoned video retailers in retail limbo waiting Hipster, stopped an unlikely VHS Revival Funke.

Now you do not see it, now you ... a sentence which hired equally to video shops and film cassettes it applies. Tape Ribbon Headz Video in Washington DC, who seemed to be a thriving concern when Flickr user JM3 grabbed his vibrant head outer shield in Might 2005. Fast forward to July 2006 and, courtesy of Flickr user Daniel Lobo (Daquella manera) , we note that Tape Headz Video has joined countless other video shops in retail limbo. Hope you returned, that the band ... effectively, in no way thoughts.

25 hours

Looks like it finally ran for 24 hours of video, a picturesque yellow painted videotape Sales & amp Rental store in gorgeous Brooklyn, NYC. Flickr user TIA (This is awkward), grabbed the sad but somehow calming scene on September two, 2013, shortly following the official announcement of the lease termination was taped (ironic that) to the front door of the shop.

Video Empty

Video MD in Passaic, NJ seem to a organic death died: Netflix and Redbox, to be exact. Talk about yer Prognosis Unfavorable. Flickr user Jeffs4653 grabbed the storefront (complete with abandoned cart and overflowing trash - remain classy, ​​New Jersey). On six August 2010 nevertheless no cure for Snookie

want to run

Superbly name " A Video Shop Named Desire " made a wonderful impression on tape-rental Angelenos, even though, if the impression was optimistic or damaging in its own handling of hung considerably Mike, frequently encrusted owner of Santa Monica Blvd shop is. The vast majority of Yelp evaluations complain closure of the branch in the summer time of 2015, even so, and note the loss of a beloved nearby film culture icon.

Pats Pass

We are not confident how extended Pats Video in Carrollton, Kentucky was in organization, but the character is not produced be available a century ago ... except for the "video" part, of course. Flickr user Joey Harrison captured the lonely state of these abandoned video store in November of 2011.

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