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Blockbuster [5] (formerly called Blockbuster Video) is a video rental store in Bend, Oregon and former American multimedia brand. The business 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 ...
Video rental took off in the early 1980s, with mom and pops cobbling together an industry out of nothing. Not long after David Cook opened the first Blockbuster in 1985, investor Wayne Huizenga...
On October 19, 1985, the first Blockbuster video-rental store opens, in Dallas, Texas. At a time when most video stores were small-scale operations featuring a limited selection of titles...
What happened to Blockbuster? Before Netflix and Amazon Prime, Blockbuster was the easiest way to watch a movie. Today, just one store remains open.
Emerging from a single Dallas video store in 1985, Blockbuster was the brainchild of David Cook. As technology shifted and VCRs became household fixtures, Cook envisioned a new approach to...
How did Blockbuster Video go from the king of movie rental night to one store left in the country? Read more about the history of the brand to discover why
1992 — Blockbuster is the undisputed video rental leader, with over 2,800 stores worldwide. The company’s growth is driven by acquisitions of other retailers such as Britain’s Ritz and US chains...
Blockbuster was founded by David Cook, a software supplier in the oil and gas industry. After studying the potential of a video-store business for a friend, he realized that a well-franchised...
The very first Blockbuster Video store opened on Oct. 19, 1985, in Dallas, Texas. With just one store left and over $1 billion in late fees, we take a look back at the rise and fall of the...
History of Blockbuster. Blockbuster Entertainment Company began as Blockbuster Video in Dallas, Texas when it opened its first store on October 19, 1985. The founder of the company was a 29-year-old named David P. Cook.