Not to be dramatic, but video stores were some of the greatest places on earth, and our society is worse off without them.
If you agree, perhaps to a slightly less deranged extent, you’re not the only one. Eric Knobel hears it from folks all the time: “If you were around for video stores, I think you’re definitely missing video stores at this point,” he says.
Wouldn’t it be fun if you could rent from one again? Knobel thinks so. He’s the founder and executive director of The Video Store MPLS, a nonprofit that’ll soon start fundraising to open a brick-and-mortar shop in Minneapolis…