March 12
...serving up your daily dish.
Everyone's been writing in to tell us that West Coast Video, the video store in Watchung Plaza, is going out of business. According to the latest tip-mail, people were waiting in line for up to an hour yesterday to buy out some of the store's stock of 10,000 videos, DVD's and games being offered in a liquidation sale.
West Coast is just the latest in a series of fallen video stores, including Palmer and Montclair Home Video in Montclair and Curry in Bloomfield.
(I used to have a bucket-of-bolts car that had an 8-track. Oh, those were the days...)
Posted by: walleroo | Mar 12, 2006 10:23:38 AM
too bad it is raining today.
Although my spanish is a bit rusty, it looks like high pressure and some heat are around the corner.
Posted by: Right of Center™ | Mar 12, 2006 10:36:06 AM
If the store is closing, I hope another eatery will not appear.
Posted by: Franklin | Mar 12, 2006 10:54:46 AM
Yeah, a bank would be much preferable. Or a dry-cleaning joint.
Posted by: walleroo | Mar 12, 2006 11:05:30 AM
walleroo:
Not another bank.
There is one reportedly going to open at the soon to close gas station.
Perhaps Barista should poll it readership on this one?
Posted by: Franklin | Mar 12, 2006 11:26:25 AM
How about a DVD store where the people who work there actually know something about movies? A novel thought.
Posted by: Miss Martta | Mar 12, 2006 11:31:06 AM
"Buy a Season Pass and get a whole season of a TV show, past or present, at a discount. You can rate the shows just like albums. And you can sync them to your video-enabled iPod and watch them on the go. Just try that with your big-screen TV."
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I really don't understand this fascination with watching stuff on a crappy little screen while you're on the subway or whatever. (Or, with increasing likelihood these days, driving.) What's the attraction?
I read somewhere that 75% of porn downloads go to cellphones these days. That's even more peculiar. Small wonder people keep bumping into you on the sidewalk as they gaze at their cells.
Posted by: crank | Mar 12, 2006 1:15:46 PM
Crank,
It's is just the begining.
Things like tivo, ipods and apple stores will converge in a few years a more and more programing will be purchased on-demand.
It's already happening.
Posted by: Right of Center™ | Mar 12, 2006 2:09:58 PM
Hey Right of Center,
I've tried to contact you on your e-mail whoof.whoof. without success. Do you have another e-mail I can contact you on. It's a private matter.
Posted by: St Patrick | Mar 12, 2006 3:13:10 PM
