#video store

Movie Madness in De Motte, Indiana. I like the little windows on the room. The eventually moved to another spot in the strip mall but like most of the subjects, are very closed now.

Video Visions in Goshen, IN is now a Dutch bakery. My friend grew up in Goshen and said he would loiter inside the Video Visions before or after visiting the local movie theater and/or ice cream shop.

Gary’s T.V. & Video apparently hung in there for a while but is now closed. 
A nice person on Youtube took some video of the exterior. 

Another Bloomington (home base) one. I’m assuming this is accurate. 

A contribution fromUnclesporkums who said this:

I traced the sticker to a location where the store name is still present on Google Earth! Is it still going, also, yet another one with a tanning connection!

So the building is still there and the lights are on. But is it open?

Unclesporkums has a Youtube channel where they upload lots of old commercials. Check it out. 

We just went to this location because it was really close to where we live. A nice non-profit place called New Leaf New Life now takes up Suite G and H. Notice how a plant now blocks the entrance of where you would go into Video Express. 

Gotta give Video Express credit for getting that phone number before any of the other Bloomington video stores swiped it. 

Silver Screen video was open in San Anselmo for a while. From what I gathered, there used to be a couple of them. But I can only find listing for one on  Sir Fances Drake BLVD. They had to move into a smaller location a few doors down to make room for a Chase bank. It does not look like open now. It looks like it’s a hamburger place now. We can assume they were still open in 2013 with Nebraska and Saving Mr. Banks posters up. 

Quick little moving article

Yelp page

My pal Prather grew up in Deputy IN and went to this store. His take on it was that the Whitsitt’s had two businesses in this building. Mrs. Whitsitt ran the video store downstairs while Mr. Whitsitt ran the gym upstairs. 

Clever name. 

This absolutely can’t be the same place. But I’m glad it exists. 

End of an era
(Polaroid 600)

newwavearch90:

American Home Video - Granada Hills, CA (1988)

Designed by Bryon B Savage II 

Scanned from Interiors Magazine (Feb. 1989)