Month: January 2019

We all love Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It became an instant classic. Guys wanted to be like him and the girls swooned over him. Matthew Broderick played Ferris perfectly, but there are parts to this storyline that still bothers me after all these years.

I have tried countless times to explain to my children how important the video store was to growing up in my era.  They love movies as much as I do, but to them the video store is as relevant as a sock hop is to me. 

Back in 1980, I was an eleven-year-old kid growing up in suburban North Florida when video stores began to emerge. It’s odd thinking back on them; a part of life that came, dominated, and went, as I hope I will be able to say about Facebook before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

I still remember going with my dad to the electronics store to get our first VCR on a Saturday morning sometime in the early 1980’s when I was around 7 or so. My dad was set on a top loader before we left, but the salesman talked him into a front loader and assured him that these are the latest models and work well. It was a very huge GE model and was still not even cable ready.