New article coming this weekend. Highlight of the week has been wrapping a project at work for LEGO and drawing inspiration from Unicron's theme song for the background track. More on this later. The only thing important to me tonight is mourning the loss of Easy Video, the most kickass video store in the world. I paid tribute to it in a roundabout way in this old article, and I'd gone back to it many, many times since then. Stuffed with some of the most memorable but impossible-to-find cassettes known to geek along with piles and piles of old candy, trading card packs and random toys, we jetted over to its former location near the Woodbridge Mall in Jersey tonight to find an empty store in an empty chain mall that seemed dangerously close to being obliterated by a wrecking ball. My heart sank, especially because this means I missed the liquidation sale. Adding to the pain is that the only decent mom & pop video store left in my general area is one I have a massively delinquent account at.
And just down the street from the former Easy Video rests the gloriously old Hostess Bakery as seen in X-E's Choco-Diles article. I assume that'll be next to go, thus eliminating any reason for me to ever visit the city of Woodbridge again. This cannot happen. To be frank, the city of Woodbridge needs me.
Posted by Matt on 01/18/2006. E-mail me!
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I used to rent movies out of the ultimate Mom & Pop video store… a friggin’ caboose. That’s right, it was a little red caboose filled with videotapes and other forgotten items. There also used to be another one down the street, but both of them are long gone now. I think it was replaced by a Chinese take-out place or maybe a Cassano’s pizza joint.
I miss being able to rent a ton of old horror movies and bringing them back a week or so later. The only place where I can do that now is the library, but they don’t really have the same type of selection. You’ll find a few rare gems every once in a while, though.