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Old 07-14-2018, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Schaumburger View Post
At one time there were 3 Blockbuster stores within 3 miles of my home in Schaumburg. One by one they went away. The last one closed probably around 2011 or 2012.

Hopefully I don't have any Blockbuster DVD's or VHS tapes hiding somewhere in my house that I forgot to return. By now I will have accumulated a lot of late fees.
I walked to a Mom and Pop video store in Itasca, IL in the autumn of 1994 when I was there taking care of my Uncle Bill before he could get in the nursing home a few hundred feet away from their house.

We went to a few movies in Schaumburg as well as to a few of the restaurants in that mall.