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5. The rise and fall of the real Blockbuster

Mon Sep 21, 2020, 11:58 AM

Sep 2020

This is quite the video. They hit their peak in January 2005, with over 5,734 stores. Then they lost one or two. The one or two became four or five.

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Blockbuster comes to Alexandria ... sort of [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 OP

That's neat soothsayer Sep 2020 #1

I texted a friend who lives in Arlington and asked him if he had seen any. mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 #2

Yeah I live in Arlington. I'll keep an eye out too soothsayer Sep 2020 #3

The Blockbuster "torn ticket" logo is still a registered trademark... CaptainTruth Sep 2020 #4

I don't know. Good observation. Maybe the color combination too. NT mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 #6

The rise and fall of the real Blockbuster mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 #5