Other old video stores:
Video and Sound (downtown at the bottom of centre street - they boasted the largest selection for many years...they also had a location on 16th Avenue and later just around the corner on Centre approaching 16th Ave)
Video Vault in the old Beddington Mall (one of the VERY originals)
Flicks (largely in the NW/NE - in the old mall in Hunterhorn with the bowling alley, and also on 4th Street NW and one at the far north end of Centre Street, by the Co-op in Beddington)
More than Video (in Bowness, on Elbow and the one in Huntington Hills where I worked for many years, later became and still is the Black Bull pub). We later moved the video store down to Edmonton Trail and McKnight and that killed the business
Video HQ
Jumbo Video
Of course that's just a few of them. There were of dozens of other independently owned shops. Video and Sound was one of the last independent ones, but the very last was Bollywood Hollywood in the NE. After he went out of business Blockbuster and Rogers soon followed and that was it. EDIT: Actually this isn't true as Casablanca out-lasted them all of course.
I personally put myself through college working at Rogers Video: at the 14th Street location (the old two story building) then later up at the one by the Hamptons in the NW, then way down in Woodbine, followed by a long stint at the Mt. Royal one on 17th Avenue. I have some stories from that one. My first job out of University was moving to Richmond BC where I worked in Rogers Video marketing department.
But some of my best times were spent working at those stores. Really fond memories.
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