Started by Lou Tremblay (@liminal_lou) ·
there's one Blockbuster left, in Bend, Oregon
Blockbuster had thousands of stores. One franchise in Oregon outlasted all of them and now runs on nostalgia, tourism, and people renting movies to keep it alive.
6 sources · 26 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “last blockbuster store open”
- Ended at
- Hollywood Video
The Trail
- “last blockbuster store open” (google.com)
- Blockbuster (retailer) (en.wikipedia.org)
bankrupt in 2010, last company-owned stores gone by 2014
- The Last Blockbuster (en.wikipedia.org)
- Bend, Oregon (en.wikipedia.org)
- Netflix (en.wikipedia.org)
netflix only stopped mailing DVDs in 2023
- Hollywood Video (en.wikipedia.org)
Keep going
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