What did yours get turned into?
A Boston Market maybe? I honestly don't even remember where it was all that well.
All-you-can-eat China place.
a mattress store
Tim Hortins, other one is a women fitness gym
>>69130584
Oh, and forgot to add: they put up a Redbox in front of it.
supplement store
>>69130615
GNC?
I don't know what is was immediately after, but most recently it was a restaurant called, I shit you not, "brave troops buffet"
The weirdest part is I don't even live in the south
>>69130655
Midwest? That's basically the south of the north.
>>69130682
Massachusetts lol
And not even western mass it's 20 minutes outside Boston
Shits crazy
A Thai noodle take away place
They razed it and built an A&W in the place.
a trap house
we don't have blockbusters but our rental stores were turned into apartments and a kebab place
illegal marihuana dispensary. then a shoe city.
>>69130513
an organic sjw restaurant called "Flower Child" in Phoenix
Two were near me
One is half empty, one side got turned into a subway
The other turned into a 24/7 gym place. I think its closed now too lel. Barren grounds or indian burial grounds make the buildings unable to find businesses
>>69130588
Same in my town
>>69130513
A donut shop for the small one. The big one is empty still. I think because it's just too weird of a size to justify any business leasing it. The best fit I could think of would be maybe a Walgreens or some other small drugstore, but there's already one like a block away.
>>69130955
I had a huge one near me that got subdivided into 4 stores
mine's still open
they aren't entirely defunct yet in Australia, though I'd assume most locations have closed down by now
Currently a refugee center full of north africans and middle easterners
>>69131422
isn't that because the average internet speed in aussieland is only enough to come online and complain about how slow the connection is?
>>69130513
Curves21st century fat farm
>burgerland
>>69131467
WELCOME TO THE NEW AGE TO THE NEW AGE
>>69131524
it's adequate enough for downloadingYIFY
>>69130513
a greek restaurant
>>69130513
I'm pretty sure it's a gym now. It's funny though, the giant ticket stub sign or whatever it was is still there, or at least the shell of it the Blockbuster logo is gone. It must cost too much to remove and putting a new sign in the there would be confusing and ugly. In any event it's kind of funny.
>>69130513
Real Estate Agency
>>69130882
This is a real phenomnnm
>>69131524
No it's because oldies still use them.
There's one near me in oz but I never see anyone in it
>>69131467
Fucking hell
A 7/11
Starbucks and a medical care place.
A mattress store
>>69130513
A dollar store; luckily we still have an independent one left.
>>69130513
nothing. it's been vacant for over a decade.
payday loans
Sherwin Williams Paint store and a Sprint store.
A Game-stop....
I think it's a pub or a wing place now
Mine has since been occupied by THREE different small local chain video stores, and now it's vacant.
Like, who the fuck says to themselves, "Well, the last few video stores here have failed, we should probably put in another video store."
I literally can't even.
A singles only cinema theatre
It's a Five Guys, Gamestop, Farm Bureau, and something else. Crazy that this one little spot that holds all of those used to just have a bunch of movies.
A fucking poo in loo restaurant.
Starbucks and Jamba Juice
The abandoned building I go behind to get my dick sucked by your mother.
It's still empty. Too much square footage for any business to rent the space. It was a sporting goods store for a little but that went out of business
All the ones around me are still vacant.
It's like failure is radioactive or something. Those buildings will probably have to be condemned Superfund sites.
>>69130513
Ours is still vacant.
a Forever 21 and a shitty BBQ restaurant
lol theyre still in denmark, but they closed alot of stores
>>69130513
it's still empty, but another local one got turned into a gym.
First into a laundry, then into a bank.
first a tanning salon, then closed for a few years opening only briefly for seasonal rushes (christmas/halloween shit in winter, beach/camping shit in summer etc), and now its a locksmiths
carpet store/panera
the part I circled is where the n64 games used to be displayed. I liked walking by and looking at all of them :(
Nothing. Buildings been empty since 08
i know of two that were within a few miles of each other
one became a walgreens, the other is a yoga place
>>69130513
Carpet store
>>69130513
An independent vintage store, so it seems
>>69133761
Sad, famalam
It was torn down and now there's a gas station in it's place.
I hate commuter towns
>>69134514
This is what it did look like, surprised it survived as long as 2011 really
>>69130760
What do they serve? Lawn supplments?
>>69130513
the one here is now a goodwill and an armed forces recruiting center
lel
>>69130882
>you'll never workout in a haunted gym for spooky gains
major improvement 2bh
We still have 3 of them open in El Paso, TX. My guess is that all of the Mexicans come over for the weekend, rent movies that aren't available in cartel-land, then return the movies the following weekend.
It's the only theory that makes sense
>>69134872
RIP
http://elpaso411.com/2016/03/sadness-blockbuster-closing-all-el-paso-locations/
Looks like El Paso was Blockbuster's last stronghold. Please go into one and take pictures before they get closed for good
Literally my gym.
There's even still a big Blockbuster-shaped sign outfront. Now the store says "American Bodyworks" though. Here's a picture from Google.
Before you ask, yes, it's a crappy gym. Doesn't even have a locker room.
>>69134514
>>69134582
god london is so pretty
>>69135092
Wasn't going to ask
>>69132770
Young normies (white people mostly) use those DVD rental vending machines often. I don't get it, it's 2016.
>>69135171
I forgot this was /tv/ and not /fit/
My bad
>>69135181
I feel like I'd either pirate a movie I don't feel like buying, or I'd buy a movie I liked enough to keep in my collection.
>>69130513
A liquor store.
>>69130513
an asian supermarket
>>69130513
A Verizon store
>>69130513
A barber trade school here in Vegas
They even shut down the pizzeria next to it for a smoke shop
I miss going to the video store in my neighbourhood and renting N64 games, trying to rent porno and scoring free movie posters.
>>69130513
A Wells Fargo bank
Rivers outlet store
Taco Bell
stocks are one cent
Good deal?
>>69130513
A halal restaurant.
I wish I was joking.
>>69135181
>>69135228
In California people of all races use them often.
My wife was about to start using them before she found out that I could get her movies for free. My ISP gives no fucks
An Aroma expresso bar.
Blockbuster turned into a career center. Hollywood Video turned into a medium-scale Italian restaurant.
Block buster still thrives here cause some sweet ass vydia deals.
>>69135139
Why the fuck do you think it's London? It's South England you cocksucker
>>69134698
Would it be weird for me to go to Chuck E Cheese's by myself just to get pizza and maybe play a few games?
>>69137351
Yea, not enough Pakis walking around for it to be Londontown.
>>69130655
what does brave troops buffet have to do with the south? It sounds like the people who run it are war vets or really respect war vets
>>69134872
Ayyy a fellow EPfag. I don't know a single person who's gone there in the last seven years at least. Once Netflux cane along it was pretty much a death knell for all video stores.
>>69135040
Think I might go and do that. Maybe when one closes down and pick myself up a piece of memorabilia.
>>69130513
Party City
>>69130513
Not a Blockbuster, but my West Coast Video is now a dental office.
>>69137411
This may be a "No Singles Policy"-tier rumor, but I've heard adults are not allowed in without a child.
24 hour gym
>>69130513
One guy turned into a hipster book store and the other a Snap fitness.
I live above one.
They're doing work to it and it's noisy as fuck. I'm trying to sleep at 1pm, shut the fuck up.
The place got flattened and is now a gathering point for people who might feature in a classic Cher song.
>>69140305
They aren't. Every adult gets their hand stamped with the kid they're with, it's this invisible security ink, and it has to match or the security system on the door won't let you in or out. It makes trying to go outside and do a couple lines of blow at your nephew's birthday party a pain in the fucking ass.
>>69130513
A physical therapy place
Iowa Blockbuster turned into a Gym. Old independent rental store got torn down and the Mr. Movies turned into a chinese buffet
Beaner restaurant for beaners
Library/Liquor store
Odd that they have a place for reading kids and such next to this nice fancy store of drinks
>>69130955
Are you me?
/SoCal/ here
>>69141191
>chinese buffet
I cant believe some people eat at places like this
Gun/Hunting equipment store that also sells beer. Like two months ago I bought a couple hundred rounds of 7.62, a couple pounds of tannerite, and a couple thirty packs in the same trip there before a bachelor party.
>>69130513
Auto shop
>>69130513
Not a Blockbuster, but the local Hollywood Video became a Halloween store (costumes, decorations, etc.) that was only open during the fall, before the store in question moved to a different location last year. Now it's vacant again.
>>69130513
A bar called The National. It's shit and allows kids so me and my friends left after 1 drink.
The 3 that I can remember in my city got turned into a Halloween costume shop, a gym and a convenience store/gas station respectively.
We don't have blockbusters, but the video rental store here got turned into a muslim kebab place.
whatever this is
>>69142013
>he doesn't enjoy the experience of consuming more than a day's worth of calories in a single sitting for less then 10 dollars
Chinese buffets are legit the best. I don't do it anymore because I'm trying to leave humanity behind, but God do I miss them.
We didn't have a blockbuster around us but our Hollywood Video which I went to a lot as a kid sat empty for at least 3 years before being turned into one of those extremely cheap internet casino places.
>>69142329
O shit are you in Cali? That happened to mine as well.
>>69130513
A hollywood video
>>69130513
it was a matress store, that closed down
now it's a pediatrician and dentist office
Starbucks.
a vacant blue building that looks like it used to be a blockbuster video store.
>Ashland, MA
>>69130513
It got spilt up into two stores.
One is a Chinese nail salon and the other is a AT&T phone store I think.
>>69130513
The Blockbuster I worked at in high school. It's still empty apparently.
It doesn't look like it from the outside (since it was a Blockbuster obviously), but it's now a really nice and really good burger place with lots of great beer on tap.
>>69134514
>>69134582
I never expected any haylingfags here. Whats your name?
>>69142686
>perfectly useful building
>sitting empty for decades
efficient economics
>>69142745
My name is Roberta Paulson
Petco
I miss the smell man
>>69142771
>decades
I quit in like 2006 or 2007, and it closed a few years after that. You're right though. I'll never understand this. Property owners must have a reason for charging too much rent as to prohibit people from renting, but I don't understand it.
>>69142771
In the US you have to climb a figurative fucking mountain to start a business, and you can't just turn it into a residential dwelling, so it's not unusual to see vacant commercial properties in burgerland.
1 is still vacant. I don't know why, it's in a good location for a business.
2nd one is now an urgent care clinic. Those are popping up everywhere
>>69142686
>>69142839
Ayyy, I've been to Chester
>>69142775
riiiiight
A Mid Florida Credit Union branch.
And the other one turned into an Aarons Rental Store
I had four.
I drove by them all recently.
They're all empty. The shopping centers where they were located are all half-derelict.
>>69142909
RIP America
A bank
The other one into a gas station.
The gas station one is where my dad took me to rent out the pierce brosnan 007 flicks and all the die hards until 3.
>>69135181
Redbox is the nig's movie service of choice, I don't know where you live. They don't have the 7.99 a month to throw around on bullshit like netflix or cable.
>>69142933
More like RIP shitty municipality
Some are more conducive to enterprise, some are not.
Furniture rental place...Aaron's I think it was called.
It went under too.
My local one was connected to a McDOnald's, it's been empty since 2010. You can look in the windows and see old McDonald's cups just sitting there. I dunno what else you could put there since it's connected to the McD's except maybe a small gym, though the irony would be off the charts
>>69142997
>paying for cable
If I'm at the grocery store, and I notice the Redbox I'll take a look at what they have. If it's a new release I didn't see in theaters I might get it. That shit is almost never gonna show up on Netflix.
>>69143098
Netflix is for television, cable is for movies and sports. Anything not available to me through these means is getting pirated. Get with the times
>>69143081
pic sadly related
>>69143232
>paying for incomplete services
If you have to pirate (or pay for another service) to fill in the gaps in anything, its not worth money
>>69143650
>not having disposable income to the point where you don't give a shit
Its like $50 a month for those services and I use them daily, cry more
>>69130513
>Bulldozed and turned into a parking lot for a Safeway.
They sell Christmas trees there now.
>>69143702
>disposable income
No such thing. You're basically throwing away what you could use to buy your freedom.
>>69143795
>buy your freedom
What? Are you worried about being indicted or something?
>>69130513
>tfw blockbuster finally closed its door
mexico blockbuster stronk ;_;
>>69130513
pawn shop
an amscot like this, color scheme is so similar
>>69130513
county jail
>>69130513
h&r block expanded into part of it and I think the rest is still empty
>>69144372
nevermind. looks like h&r closed too and now its this. the hollywood video is now a bank.
The liquor store from 2 buildings over moved in because more space.
The old liquor store turned into a convenience store form the next building over because more space.
The old convenience store is now a dental office.
Domino's Pizza
Blockbuster is still abandoned. Hollywood video is now a five guys and dickys bbq.
>>69130584
Sounds like a good replacement senpai.
>>69134684
>you'll never have a chill ghostbro spot you
>>69135092
It's not planet Fitness, so it can't be all that bad.
It got split and made into a Chipotle and something else I can't remember.
A Matress Firm with a Chipotle next to it.
Became a place called Zoe's kitchen, I think it's a chain restaurant. My Hollywood video's been abandoned since a decade ago.
A big ass 99 cents store. Like the 34th in my area too.
A Halloween store
>>69130513
Healthy food convenience store.
Improved the community desu. BIX NOODS
>>69130588
mattress firm?
I don't know about the other ones in town but the one I would go to turned to that
>>69130513
A local gym
The nail salon next to it expanded and knocked down the walls.
an insurance place, now it's a Verizon store I think
the local Hollywood Video was my favorite as a kid, but now it's a Sears outlet warehouse thing ;_;
>>69130513
It turned into a Goodwill
>>69145886
Why is it that Asians are the only ones who seem to be able to do the small-business thing well?
A Mighty Taco of all things.
It and the nearby Walmart were turned into a large shopping district.
The place the blockbuster was is half open lot and half bestbuy.
The entire area looks 100% different then it did 8 years ago.
An Internet cafe.
>hmmm video rental is outdated... I know!
Idiots.
>>69130513
adult toy store
Half party store half knife store. Welcome to the south
A butcher shop.
The meat there is overpriced.
>>69130513
This looks like the Blockbuster in Superior, CO.
>>69144923
>you will never swallow his spooky ectoplasm for gains
>>69145999
Because they actually work and put all their time into their business instead of being lazy, greedy retards.
>>69130513
They split mine up into three different storefronts. It's a Verizon store, a Panda Express, and a locally-owned vidya store called Gameware that I visit frequently. Everything turned out fine.
usa is so depresing
im too happy i dont live in stupid america
its like a tax place now, I did buy some sweet posters and stuff in the weeks before it closed down.
Turned into a massage parlor. Got my dick sucked by one of the cute pinoys.
