Video shop memories

Loved the video shop. First video i rented was Apollo 13.
Started regularly when me mam would start leaving me in on a night when i was old enough and she would go to the bingo with my nana. Used to let me get a video and an asda pizza. Loved it.
Used to get free film posters from local shop when they were finished with them
 


We were the first in our family to get a VCR (circa 1981). So we all sat down to watch a video, mam, dad, aunties, uncles, cousins, nanas, grandad and the first film my dad hired out from the video shop was..... Texas Chainsaw Massacre :eek:. It was before the video nasty ban and we also watched a Cannibal Holocaust film in the same week :eek::lol:
 
Used to work in blockbuster. Abiding memory will always be someone filling some bags up with loads of sweets to nick them. I said are you going to pay for those and he just walked out. Not going to chase down an unpredictable smack head for my minimum wage.
 
We used to own a video shop in john st in early 80s(can't remember what it was called) Grew up watching The Warriors over and over again when i was 5.
Loved all the ninja films too.
 
FIrst video shop we used was Chester road video near the Chesters. Let us hire The Thing when I was about 10. Great. still have the odd thought about hiring Raiders on a saturfay and keeping it until the monday. Harry Parrys was crap. Azad in town was canny and cheap, especially around early 90's. About a quid a go. Also lots of film posters. My brother got a double sized T2 one. Must be worth a bit now. I used to have a few VHS recorders so would hire everything decent and copy them. Global video near the Wavy pub was canny for early dvds or even the town library. Blockbuster was massively overpriced just coz you knew they had a million copies of every film.
 
TheStinger said:
I swear, Netflix will never give me the joy of going into Georges in Silky when I was a kid and getting a video out. What was your local? There was some really good ones in Sunderland.

Also, did anyone ever have a bloke coming around in a car with a load of videos in the back? Good services, that.
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Pissing Party - Thursday?
 
I had a mate whose dad would always like latest tech.

He had two VCRs so used to pirate all the time.. rows and rows of those pretent book type covers on the shelves.. people used to knock on the door and he rented them out at 50p a time.
 
Millfield Video and Flicks Video were my local rentals. Millfield was always a bit cack though, Flicks always seemed to have more in. I remember talking to the lad who worked in Flicks about Beastmaster 2 and how it was awful, I was only about 10 😂.

Where was Ritz Video? Was it a small chain? I remember the video box design/logo but can't remember where the shop was.
 
Whey said:
Millfield Video and Flicks Video were my local rentals. Millfield was always a bit cack though, Flicks always seemed to have more in. I remember talking to the lad who worked in Flicks about Beastmaster 2 and how it was awful, I was only about 10 😂.

Where was Ritz Video? Was it a small chain? I remember the video box design/logo but can't remember where the shop was.
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Flicks was just across the road from the place I lived. Spent hours on there pondering over what movie to hire and if the lad behind the counter was going to ask for ID when we rented an 18+
 
The Great MES said:
We were the first in our family to get a VCR (circa 1981). So we all sat down to watch a video, mam, dad, aunties, uncles, cousins, nanas, grandad and the first film my dad hired out from the video shop was..... Texas Chainsaw Massacre :eek:. It was before the video nasty ban and we also watched a Cannibal Holocaust film in the same week :eek::lol:
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First night we had a video, Friday the 13th followed by American werewolf, think I was 9 or 10
 
For some odd reason, as soon as I saw the thread title, I thought of Basket Case. As low as low can go for a low budget horror film. IMDB says it was 1982 so I’d have been a student. A tisket a tasket, what’s in Duane’s basket.

Those were the days when you chose a film based on the name, the cover and what was left in the shop on a Friday night.
 
Netflix have just sent their last video out or dvd.

Used to pay the fine if I couldn’t be arsed to go up to blockbuster to return it. Quite sad that it’s gone really.
 
Al Bundy said:
There was one on Sea Road at Fulwell , corner of Bower Street, before it changed to Azad. Can’t remember it’s originl name.
When a new release came out they only had about 2 copies of it and you’d have to wait about 8 months to rent it
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My mate booked Rocky 4 from there the day it came out. We all went round his to watch it and his mam put some scran on. We did the same for back to the future. Happy days.
 
Sold my old Betamax vcr and a multitude of tapes including some blueys at a car boot sale for £25 back in the day.

It haunts me to this day that I sold the damn thing knowing it never worked properly, but knowing it was sold to a perv who was swayed to buy it by the blueys let’s me sleep at night.
 
There was, briefly, a video shop in the building that became Sinatra's. A mate went in and asked if they had any porno movies and was given one from under the counter.
He fetched it back to his house and we all sat down eagerly to watch it. Honestly, it was the standard of 'Confessions of a window cleaner' there was hell on. It would've been a PG nowadays. :lol:
 
I used to make a packet off VHS. Linked two players together then covered over the blanks with sellotape so you could record a movie while watching it then returning it to the shop. Used to sell them for a quid a tape.
 
there were 2 in grangetown we used next to the bus station mid 80s. one on the corner one over the road. i dont think ryhope made it to the 80s quick enough to have one.
 
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