VCRs for rent: Shoddy Goods 087
3We definitely rented a VCR at least once in the 80s. I remember steep fees if you didn’t rewind the movie—unfortunately we didn’t realize you should hit stop and then rewind. So we sat there, holding the rewind button down on our first rental, Yentl, watching as a reversing young Barbra Streisand travels to Easten Europe and starts dressing as a boy.
Do you remember your first home movie rental? How early was your family on getting new tech and electronics? Let’s hear about it in this week’s Shoddy Goods chat.
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My mom owned a video store with my uncle in the 80s. I don’t remember my first video, because we saw all of the new stuff as it came out.
I don’t remember our first VHS rental, but our first Laserdisc rental was Close Encounters of the Third Kind. We never took it back for some reason; my uncle ended up with it and still has it in storage.
Somewhere in the house is an early 1980s RCA VCR that my folks bought from Sears.
I don’t remember our first rental movie. I do remember browsing in the rental store to pick out something to watch.
I am currently looking for a player to buy or borrow to watch some old family recordings. I had one but it broke beyond my ability to repair. I have the setup to make a digital copy so the plan is to share the choice clips next family get together.