Feel good Joe, you gave it all you had to give! Forty years is quite an accomplishment! Hope you enjoy your retirement. Be blessed...

i mean dude stayed in the game for 40 years. Dude had lived the best years of video rental store life.

@silaakkidumma

Жыл бұрын

what are the chances it used to front for money laundering?! run the business in loss out of "passion" just saying 🤷‍♂

@danielbrown7535

Жыл бұрын

😂...yup, the successful days of bay area opportunities....now regulated and owned by bay area politics.

Growing up in 80s and 90s i loved going to video store. I spent hours just looking at video boxes peaking into that room with beads 😅

@JustDontPls

Жыл бұрын

Good Times those rooms with the beads

@Thunderdunker

Жыл бұрын

That was such a great experience that kids now won’t ever get to know about..GameStop kinda feels the same but not quite

@dersturmerofjewery6038

Жыл бұрын

Everything is online today why rent a vid? It's free online

@MrLivewire1970

Жыл бұрын

We always called it, dad's room.

@ClarkKent-tg6ls

Жыл бұрын

The older single Gentleman's room.😭

If you are seriously into film, you still need to be DVD- and Blu-ray-based. Streaming services, with very few exceptions, just serve blockbusters which miss 95% of the films out there.

Probably the only store in Oakland that hasn’t been robbed

@dtsh4451

Жыл бұрын

store selling books and working boots are still safe😂

@bearmerica6668

Жыл бұрын

And mugged and beaten.

@jojothetasmaniansassmonkey8866

Жыл бұрын

the crime is bad but its not THAT bad.

@JamminClemmons

Жыл бұрын

@@jojothetasmaniansassmonkey8866 Diz iz political yah. Close da borders yah an diz shitz crazy yo. You trust everyone in Cali and dats stupid. We wuz in dat hood and days surround me ands tooks mah wallet and I hadda walk alls dah way home, and nobody help me tah get there!!!

@Westcoastguy

Жыл бұрын

@@dtsh4451 🤣🤣

man i nearly lost it when Joe talked about the neon sign going out and that would indicate it was time

I was the night manager at Captain Video on Grand Ave in Oakland. Great customers and neighborhood. It was fun while it lasted.

Pretty crazy that it lasted this long

I got my collection of 8,000 dvds/blu rays, i've been collecting since i was 11 years old still got my vhs collection

@SpclOps20

Жыл бұрын

@Jesse Brizuela - Been looking for someone who can help me identify some old movies that I saw when I was younger. Any chance you’d be up for the challenge?

@jessebrizuela

Жыл бұрын

@@SpclOps20 How far back are we talking about?

@SpclOps20

Жыл бұрын

@Jesse Brizuela - Maybe late 70’s to early 90’s. Some movies feel like they might have been made for TV or straight to video. Ex: Late 70’s feel, full color. Movie about a woman who kills her husband. Then she finds a black moth lingering around her house. Her husbands face is on the back of said moth. She seeks help from a woman who aided her in killing her husband. The lady tells her that she can’t help her, and that “The Black Moth will stop at nothing to get its revenge”. Later on, the moth scares the wife and she ends up stabbing her head on a coat hanger attached to her wall. The movie ends with the black moth returning with the face of the wife on its back. That one has been bugging me for years!

Digital Streaming, even if you buy it, can be edited even AFTER purchase anytime someone comes up with a socially acceptable reason to complain. This has already happened in video and music. If you want an original version, you MUST purchase a hard copy.

"Be kind rewind" ... end of an era. Sorry you're closing before your time but 40 years ... ! You had a good run Joe!

I used to work here back in the 90s when I was in college. The memories.

There's still a guy in San Mateo who rents, buys and sells VHS, DVD and Blu Ray's and still makes a decent living. This story is sad nonetheless.

Oakland was once a city to be somewhat proud of.. now not so much. The Bay Area is on a continual decline overall

@apophis93

Жыл бұрын

Overcrowded, Overpriced and now full of crime. You will get robbed eventually.

This was a monthly tradition for me during the 90s. Going to the video rental stores. I still remember those stores with the black curtains at the back corner with a sign noting 18+ adults only

My neighborhood movie store closed down during Covid. I'd been going there since the early eighties when they had CED disc and betamax tapes. It's been kind of a shock losing all these places I grew up with. No movie stores, bowling alleys, malls or arcades. There's just nothing to do in most towns. The internet and social media really changed our lives more than anything.

Well, there are movies that can't be streamed in the US due to licensing.

Even though streaming more convenient, There was something about picking out and renting VHS then DVD movies more enjoyable!

@SpclOps20

Жыл бұрын

Holy shit! Remember when a new VHS movie cost upwards of $100 bucks?

You could move the store to a small town without internet. There’s still a few places. You would not get rich. But could still keep renting them out.

@mkhanman12345

Жыл бұрын

and serve 2 customers a day?

There were so many little video stores like this in the East Bay crammed with DVDs in 2006 when I left Oakland. I imagine the next few years were not kind to them because that's when the Netflix subscription service started taking off. There was one on College Avenue in Elmwood that I remember fondly. They had a popcorn machine in the window. I can't remember the name of it. I remember walking up there one rainy night maybe November 2005 and the popcorn machine drew steam on the window in the neon light. One of my favorite places

Joe seems like a guy everyone loves. Happy retirement man!

I remember when petaluma lost our last rental store a couple years back. Times are changing.

Oakland?? I'm surprised he hasn't been robbed and set on fire yet 🤔😐😐

This guy didn't do it for the money. He did it because he actually loved what he did. It's rare you find someone that does that these days since inflation is skyrocketing. He got in when it was a different time. Now I do believe he'll have to switch to eBay and flip items online if he wanted to keep this going because otherwise, I hope he enjoys his retirement and passes away peacefully.

I remember going to video rental in the early 90s and renting kungfu movies. Much different world back than.

This guy is awesome. I bought some Laserdisc off of him.

I love these stores, we don’t have any of these left where I live.nostaligic

Elizabeth is so kind insider

Is the last video store now the one in San Mateo on el Camino, I cant remember the name of the place its by Hillsdale mall

Bad timing because Netflix is discontinuing their disc service in 6 months or so.

All these news anchors have smirks on their face while telling sad stories

@ClarkKent-tg6ls

Жыл бұрын

It's freakin Ridiculous.

Crazy wish him the best 🙏

Every video rental store there's the adult section----man it's embarrassing asking for a vid from that section up at the cashier with another customer standing behind you and the clerk says "It's out..we don't have it" then you have to go back and look for another porn vid to rent...and usually it's always the creepy dude asking for it at 1am in the morning---I've been there.

@bitemyshinnymetalass1569

Жыл бұрын

I did that once and the clerk made me go back to place the video cover inside a black baggie so other people wouldn't see the graphic nude women on the dvd or vhs cover. 😂

@infini.tesimo

Жыл бұрын

And then porn became free on the internet so now it's just depression our society deals with not being able to talk to women.

Are they selling DVD?

Too bad. I was a long time loyal customer during the nineties when the store specialized in laserdisc rentals. It was a great place for movie buffs and film nerds. So sad.

Im amazed he stayed open so long, pandemic or no. I cant remember the last time I saw a video rental place still open around here. many years ago thats for sure.

WOW, 40 years on the DVD rental business is admirable and impressive! But with our level of computers, high speed internet, online streaming, torrent websites, VPN's, and large external hard drives available to purchase. DVD's went the way of eight track tapes and VHS tapes back in about 2010, about the same time smartphones came out. I mean as long as you know how to log into a computer, download and activate a VPN, and download the right torrent software and use it in conjunction with the right website, you can be downloading entire TV series, music albums, and DVD's in no time at all and all you need to be paying for is your monthly internet and your yearly or monthly VPN subscription. My 8 TB external hard drive is nearly full of these things and I don't think I've wasted money on buying or renting a DVD since about Spring 2013. Even when I was once a Timeshare owner and they would offer me a few coupons to rent some DVD's from there front desk and they only had like 100-200 to choose from and I was like that's cute, I have a laptop and a 6 TB external hard drive with a HDMI cable to connect my laptop to any flat screen TV in my resort rooms and with one external hard drive the size of one VHS tape, I have access to several hundred movies and over hundred completed TV series all on one device and I no longer have to waste time, money, and space to purchase and store DVD's!

@tylerwestover234

8 ай бұрын

So an admitted thief? 😂

I used to rent VCDs here.

The good news is that Joe is going to open a floppy disk store.

Right when mybfamily and i were starting to build up our DVD collection😢

Will he sell his collection.

Goddammit!!!

The end of an era. Technology moves on and dvds and blurays won't be around.

Best memory of video store: in late 90s my ex boyfriend and I went into the adults only room, got dirty video in brown paper bag, then accidentally slammed that door loudly. Of course the store was crowded on a Friday night so all eyes 👀 on us. Customers all knew That room 😂😂😂😂

Don’t know Joe but I’m for sure he a real one

U can’t even rent a dvd from Netflix now!😮

If I were a billionaire I would fund this store so the dude could keep running it :) What a cool store!

Don’t go Joe!

Blockbuster did the sprint.. joe did the marathon

@valerieneal2747

Жыл бұрын

JOE CERTAINLY DID.

Library will take the donation of all those videos.

@mhaas281

Жыл бұрын

I think the news said he's selling and trading. Didn't hear anything about donating

@ClarkKent-tg6ls

Жыл бұрын

Asian ran businesses Don't Donate.

The guy is running an outdated video store. Not much of a surprise.

@jasontomica8938

Жыл бұрын

That's not just the only reason the internet is the only reason period

That's messed up

I remember being a kid seeing video game rental stores with console rentals Getting coupons in the mail for rentals Calling in to check its availability and reserving it for 1 hr that how serious it was back then,now peoplw just donate to watch other people play the game thru streaming platforms libraries provide games movies cds for free rental

VHS alert

Just another consequence of the computer age that is now.

@violent_bebop9687

Жыл бұрын

It's mostly the pandemic that killed off small businesses. Evil government

Spit it out

📼

Jah bless Joe bro

Don't get robbed.

I remember Blockbuster here in town baddass i would buy video games n rent out movies read the comics they had not alot but some good times 😂

About time

Are you kidding this has nothing to do with the pandemic? Nothing at all it has to do with the Internet. That's been going on for years look. What happened to blockbuster and gamestop's even going under

The collapse of Oakland continues. Soon it will be the Detroit of the west. I feel sorry for the citizens who have to put up with that city’s ridiculous jawn! Enough is enough! - Gary.

@armoredghost6180

Жыл бұрын

Collapse from what? When was Oakland ever considered good or nice?

@dtsh4451

Жыл бұрын

The residents vote for all the insanity 😏

@drm6007

Жыл бұрын

At least Detroit has professional sports teams, unlike Oakland. Detroit is a step up.

@codyswartz945

Жыл бұрын

Even Detroit is safer than most of the west coast now…

He's Asian, he's lucky he didn't get robbed and mugged by the gangs.

@deedle6073

Жыл бұрын

Not gangs, blacks.

buy physical copies of the movies and shows you really love because streaming services are unreliable in providing classic content- the majority of the new content streaming services make are all propaganda and cringe

Joe got dat free Covid cash from Biden and he out ! 😮😮😂

Too many Amish stealing and robbing!

So sad. I think it's terrible that all the documentaries well be able to get a hold of now will have to be approved by big tech.

Shame he's a victim of Oakland.

@Whitehorse_crimefighter

Жыл бұрын

Oakland? It's a video rental place. Why would anyone rent videos unless for nostalgic purposes? You can find it all online for free if you wanted to. Also most every library you can rent videos if you really want to. People don't steal dvds because they have no resale value. It's actually amazing that he lasted longer than blockbuster

@valerieneal2747

Жыл бұрын

SHAME THAT YOU ARE SO OBTUSE.

@jasontomica8938

Жыл бұрын

​​@@Whitehorse_crimefighter Finally somebody here with some common sense the internet is what killed him not the pandemic period

Hmmm, will close due to the slowdown and blames the pandemic..heller, videos and CD went out with the etch and sketch😂😂😂

lol...i am bit interested to see his tax audits and is it some front for Money laundering? especially the ones which takes only "cash" and charges extra for credit card

@tylerwestover234

8 ай бұрын

Business get charged for credit cards little buddy.

The pandemic didn’t make it worse. It was government mandated lockdowns that destroyed his business.

@jaymoose4337

Жыл бұрын

That's also a pandemic

@VQ.Family

Жыл бұрын

Plandemic

Outgoing Small Business Owner farewell goodbye 🫂