You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. David Cook opened the first Blockbuster in 1985. After working in computer software, founder David ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last Blockbuster video store in the world has developed a following on social media and in its community. Some fans are ...

Blockbuster Video was the biggest, brightest of video rental options throughout the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s. However, all that remains today is a lone store that sells nostalgic merch in Bend, ...

Before streaming entered the scene, Friday nights were the prime time to head to Blockbuster. Families and friends wandered the aisles looking for the perfect movie, often picking up a box of candy or ...

Alaska's last two Blockbuster video stores are calling it quits, leaving just one store open in the U.S. The stores in Anchorage and Fairbanks will close for rentals after Sunday night and reopen ...

Long before Netflix, there was Blockbuster Video. The very first Blockbuster Video Store opened on October 19, 1985, in Dallas, Texas. It was opened by David Cook as a lone video rental store, but the ...

BEND, Ore. — And then there was one. One Blockbuster video store in the United States, that is. It’s located in bend, Oregon. Two locations in Alaska will close next week. At its peak in 2004, there ...

The curtain is coming down on the Blockbuster store on South Main Street. The Rutland video store at 173 South Main St. will close in mid-April, a store employee said Friday, declining further comment ...

The end is nigh for the remaining Blockbuster video locations, as well as its DVD-by-mail business. In a press release Wednesday, Blockbuster owner DISH Network said the company will close about 300 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Week In history: The first Blockbuster video rental store opened on Oct. 19, 1985, in Dallas, Texas. Pictured here is the ...