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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]
On September 28, 2009, Wilsonville, Oregon based Movie Gallery, which owned GameCrazy, announced it would close 200 of its 680 stores by the end of October 2009 due to financial problems brought on from the failing video stores. [6] Movie Gallery's stock price fell from $1.25 at close in October 2009 to $.05 at close in December 2009, and many ...
Lightroom is non-destructive editing software that keeps the original image separate from its edits, saving the edited image as a new file. While Photoshop includes doctoring functions like adding, removing or altering the appearance of individual image items, rendering text or 3D objects on images, or modifying individual video frames, Lightroom is a library and development software.
On this day in 1985, the first Blockbuster video store rental opened in Dallas, Texas. Blockbuster was founded by David Cook, who at the time had owned a computer software business.
Movie Gallery was formed in 1985 by Joe Malugen and Harrison Parrish in Dothan, Alabama. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, M.G.A., the company's founders began operating video specialty stores in southern Alabama and the Florida panhandle, and franchising the Movie Gallery store concept. By June 1987 the company owned five stores and had a ...
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The first Suncoast store opened in Roseville, Minnesota, in 1986 as Paramount Pictures. This was a joint venture between the Paramount movie studio and Musicland, which at the time was one of the largest music and video retailers in the United States. Once Paramount pulled out of the joint venture, Musicland changed the store’s name to ...
Scarecrow Video is an independently owned, non-profit video sales and rental store in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded in 1988 and is based in the University District neighborhood. The store has a library of over 148,000 titles—among the largest in the United States—and is the last remaining video store in Seattle.