Comments on: Goodbye, Formative Years http://www.virtualfools.com/culture/goodbye-formative-years/ A humorous look at media, technology, and culture. Fri, 16 May 2008 10:37:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: John Muir http://www.virtualfools.com/culture/goodbye-formative-years/#comment-4903 John Muir Sat, 03 May 2008 18:54:07 +0000 http://www.virtualfools.com/?p=157#comment-4903 Hey Kevin, Enjoyed your tribute (obit?) to Hollywood Video. That store made the difference to me in the late 1990s while writing several books. This was before DVD box sets, and the store near me (in Charlotte NC) offered the entire series of Twin Peaks on VHS, not to mention selected episodes of Monsters and Tales from the Darkside. I would not have been able to write Terror Television so completely and authoritatively without Hollywood Video. Ditto Horror Films of the 1970s. I couldn't believe it, but HV had such films as "And Soon the Darkness" and other rarities on the shelf. Indeed, some element of fun research has disappeared from my job as film/tv writer now that every TV series and film is so readily (and remotely) available thru easy services like Netflix. There's still nothing that compares with the thrill of going into a "new" video store and discovering a title you hadn't expected to see. Anyway, nice piece... Hey Kevin,

Enjoyed your tribute (obit?) to Hollywood Video. That store made the difference to me in the late 1990s while writing several books. This was before DVD box sets, and the store near me (in Charlotte NC) offered the entire series of Twin Peaks on VHS, not to mention selected episodes of Monsters and Tales from the Darkside. I would not have been able to write Terror Television so completely and authoritatively without Hollywood Video. Ditto Horror Films of the 1970s. I couldn’t believe it, but HV had such films as “And Soon the Darkness” and other rarities on the shelf. Indeed, some element of fun research has disappeared from my job as film/tv writer now that every TV series and film is so readily (and remotely) available thru easy services like Netflix. There’s still nothing that compares with the thrill of going into a “new” video store and discovering a title you hadn’t expected to see. Anyway, nice piece…

]]> By: Steph http://www.virtualfools.com/culture/goodbye-formative-years/#comment-4850 Steph Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:50:15 +0000 http://www.virtualfools.com/?p=157#comment-4850 Hey Kevin! I don't have much to say about Hollywood Video. I *do* however remember the "$1.99 a pop for five days" deal and I remember my first trip to one. I came from Rochester so it was up there, and it was on the other side of the city so I never really went to it that much. They were huge and I didn't really think about it, as I didn't rent much, but their selection really was huge. A Blockbuster's nice, but I recall Hollywood being brighter inside...brighter and bigger...somehow. Eh, maybe they just had higher ceilings in this store. This was a nice memory. I miss my Delta Sonic...even if it kinda sucked at times. Hey Kevin! I don’t have much to say about Hollywood Video. I *do* however remember the “$1.99 a pop for five days” deal and I remember my first trip to one. I came from Rochester so it was up there, and it was on the other side of the city so I never really went to it that much. They were huge and I didn’t really think about it, as I didn’t rent much, but their selection really was huge. A Blockbuster’s nice, but I recall Hollywood being brighter inside…brighter and bigger…somehow. Eh, maybe they just had higher ceilings in this store.

This was a nice memory. I miss my Delta Sonic…even if it kinda sucked at times.

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