The town I lived in about a decade ago had a closed down blockbuster that turned into a sex store, then that closed down, and a dude opened, I shit you not, a video/game rental place that lasted like a year. Then it closed down, too, and then a bunch of us used to go there and smoke weed and occasionally have sex inside, because they just didn't bother to lock the back door when they took away all the movies.

I don't know why I'm tell y'all this, it's just what I think of when I see the old blockbusters.

"And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away

I wonder if one day we'll see abandoned amazon warehouses

I remember when the first video store opened in my town. It was so early on, that they also rented the actual vcr machines too, since they were too expensive for the average family to buy.

Then I remember 20 years later going to the blockbuster to buy up their discounted tapes since dvds had displaced them.

And now there's only one rental place in my city, has stayed alive as a retro cool comeback, and also sells micro brews in growlers.

It turns out, in the end, it was the blocks that busted them

Hey, I used to work there. AMA

And watching what streaming is turning into, eventually these titans may come roaring back.

It's interesting to try to get into the minds of corporate executives. I wonder how many of them actually thought they'd company was going to last for decades. Or if they were just seeing themselves up a golden parachute for the inevitable.

"Don't worry, Princess Caroline; as long as people will need answering machine tape you will be taken care of!"

Oh, Blockbuster? I went to one last month!. It's the last one in existence.