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Located at the intersection of U.S. Route 20 and Revere Avenue, the Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon, was opened by Ken and Debbie Tisher in 1992 as the second location of Pacific Video, a small video rental store chain in the state. [6] They previously attempted to negotiate a location by a Shopko near U.S. Route 97. [7]
Blockbuster [5] is an American multimedia brand which was founded by David Cook in 1985 as a single home video rental shop, but later became a public store chain featuring video game rentals, DVD-by-mail, streaming, video on demand, and cinema theater. [6]
Blockbuster Video - video rental (Defunct) Borders - books, music, videos (Defunct) Bricorama - D.Y, gardening; France; Bunnings - Home improvement; Australia and New Zealand (formerly United Kingdom and Ireland) Cabela's - hunting, fishing, camping; historically a US-only chain, but opened its first Canadian location in 2008; Carrefour ...
Four franchisee locations remained open, all of which were owned by Border Entertainment LLC, which is based out of Austin, TX. An awesome look back at Blockbuster's success throughout the years:
Erol's Inc. was a video rental and electronic sales and repair company founded in 1963, which included video rental in 1980. By 1985, Erol's was the country's largest privately owned videocassette rental company. [1] It was sold to Blockbuster Video for $40 million (~$82.5 million in 2023) in 1990. [2]
From the looks of it, Blockbuster's (BBI) days as an independent video rental chain are numbered. The company recently announced plans to shutter 150 stores and conceded it might have to file for ...
It should come as no surprise (unless you live in a hole) that DISH Network recently announced the imminent closure of 300 Blockbuster video-rental stores. That number represents 35% of the entire ...
As part of the acquisition deal, the three received Blockbuster stock valued at $66.4 million. At the time of the acquisition, Blockbuster Video operated 58 company-owned and franchised Blockbuster Video Superstores. Video Library reported $11.9 million (~$27.4 million in 2023) in revenue for the third quarter of Sept. 1987.