Brooks said:

I miss video rental stores. It was kind of fun browsing, looking for some old unknown treasure.

I still dream about Dave's Video: The Laser Place. It was probably the best Laserdisc shop in Los Angeles back in the day. I was often overwhelmed by all the movies they had, and would forget what I originally went in there to find!

In short, it was movie geek heaven. I "borrowed" my Dad's credit card to rent the Japanese CAV letterboxed Star Wars from them in 1988. (After they were featured in an newspaper article about letterboxed movies.) Good times!

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Their previous location was cooler looking, with a giant LD painted on the facade. Celebrities were said to do their movie shopping there, but I never bumped into any.

Unfortunately, they didn't adapt with the times when other stores established an online presence in the 90's, and were gone by the new century.

I still have some of their old catalogs stashed away somewhere.