kids today are too young to remember when the world's largest blockbuster location covered several states in the western US. that seemed normal back then.
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you could wander the shelves of VHS tapes for days
sometimes you'd come across a few acres of the new releases where they'd all been picked dry, just countless identical empty boxes with no rental tape hidden beneath them, and the knowledge that millions of people were at home watching Independence Day
at the store's peak, it consumed 23% of the world's khaki chino supply and 48% of the blue polos
eventually it became more cost effective to plow under the new release section every week and rebuild rather than remove the old tapes
when the yellowstone caldera finally erupts, millions of double-VHS boxes of Titanic will be hurled into the atmosphere
when the yellowstone caldera finally erupts, millions of double-VHS boxes of Titanic will be hurled into the atmosphere
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