Blockbuster Friday Night
Blue and yellow, popcorn by the till, and the new release wall picked clean.
The ritual of choosing a film as a family, which took forty minutes and ended in a compromise nobody wanted.
The membership card, the plastic case, the security tag, and the cardboard box on the shelf that meant they had it in stock.
Late fees were the entire business model and it is genuinely why Netflix exists. One man's Apollo 13 fine started an industry.
Cost back then
£3.50 for a new release
Goes for now
Blockbuster membership cards sell as memorabilia
